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- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 1 day ago:
You’d still have to stop so what’s the difference?
It would be illegal to pee while driving round these parts I’m pretty sure. Distracted driving and all that
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 1 day ago:
… Why did I think they were made of metal lmao
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 days ago:
Do we know yet what the energy loss is?
I think if it’s like <= 10%, it’s fine. If we’re talking about 50%, this is beyond unacceptable.
This article claims 90% efficiency has been achieved for moving vehicles, but it should likely be taken with some grains of salt. On the other hand, with phones it’s unimportant on the level of the individual using it, so perhaps the phone wireless chargers aren’t particularly optimized and it’s possible to do better?
Or you know; trains for long haul freight…
Lovely idea and I’m very much in support of trains, but in a lot of countries the railroad infra just isn’t there and can’t be built on all routes. In my country, the 2nd, 4th and 6th largest cities by population likely can’t be connected by rail. It’d be a popular route for passengers for sure, and likely useful for cargo too given that I’ve for sure seen plenty of trucks driving between those cities, but there’s TWO large areas of wetlands in between. Super simple on a map, just draw a line east to west pretty much, but just isn’t happening in real life. Easiest way to take a train is to go through the capital. So 4-5 hours by train vs 1-2.5 hours of driving depending on what route you’re doing (actually one of the train routes to the capital is closed too right now, for a number of years already, but it’ll be replaced by Rail Baltica eventually at least so that’s nice). And that’s despite the trains being faster than cars (speaking passenger cars and trains here - I wouldn’t know about cargo)
It’s not a super long route end to end, but you could save on weight of batteries, which in turns increases maximum weight of cargo, since the total weight is limited. And charging would be a pain for long haul truckers in Europe because of the regulations on driving hours. E.g if because of a charge, your allowed 9 hours of daily driving time ends at midnight, well now you can’t start driving again before 9 AM and that’s if you haven’t used up your weekly allowance of 3 9+3 hour split rests yet - otherwise you’d have to wait 11 hours. I’ve heard tales of long haul truckers in Europe skipping their piss breaks just so they could make it to a good rest station in time instead of having to stop at a random roadside parking lot. The system sucks in some ways and truckers hate it, but it prevents their employers from coercing them into driving dangerous hours (and “hero” truckers can’t willingly do it either).
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 2 days ago:
Well, it sorta makes sense in hindsight, it’d be even longer otherwise + this way you can clear lower obstacles on curves… But holy shit does it look like it shouldn’t be possible. I mean they’re super heavy, right? Right?
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 3 weeks ago:
That would be an Epic fail on his part though
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
I just wait till it gets hot when cold because I’m a furnace. Mostly it’s hot though. That problem hasn’t been solved.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
That’s definitely true, I just explained why the mattress has tech inside it in the first place. Or the mattress cover, really.
It’d easily be accomplished with a couple of buttons too.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 month ago:
It adjusts temperature (can heat OR cool and in some versions it can heat one side and cool the other) and I think the even more expensive version can morph a bit to your liking, and according to them, reduce snoring.
What they don’t mention is that regardless of whether you get the 3600 euro option or the 5800 euro option, you still have to SUPPLY YOUR OWN MATTRESS. It’s also a subscription service.
If you didn’t hate it enough, it’s also advertised as being “powered by AI”. Which almost certainly is just some temperature adjustment algorithm, maybe even a deterministic one.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3's Native Linux Port Is A Huge Improvement For Steam Deck 2 months ago:
I feel very overpowered in dialogues for one, too many boosts to my rolls at times.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
Theoretically, now that Microsoft owns half the AAA studios, you could expect Gamepass to have a lot of day 1 AAA games.
Unfortunately, they just bought all the studios and… ordered them to stop making games or something.
I’d cancel if I hadn’t done it several years ago. Oh well.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
Can already confirm they are doing that.
Well yeah, I guess I meant more that this trend is increasing.
We marked ourselves as “AI powered” . Nobody is using our AI tools after they go live. We can see the logs.
Did using the buzzword help at all with shareholders or customers though?
The executives are building dog shit unrealizable tools right now that nobody uses
Don’t even need to build them sometimes IMO. Friend pointed out that the excellent notetaking app she was using claimed to use AI and then she found this comment on reddit from one of the people behind it:
While FlowSavvy’s auto-scheduling is considered AI in the broad sense that it performs complex tasks that mimic human intelligence (and is exactly what people are looking for when they’re looking for “AI scheduling”), it does not ML/DL. Instead, FlowSavvy uses a carefully-designed deterministic algorithm to schedule tasks predictably, reliably, and quickly.
Everyone seems to be super happy with it as an AI auto-scheduler lol
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
I predict that for a while, corporations will lie about using AI more than they actually do, just because it’s still being hyped. But then everyone will stop giving a fuck.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 5 months ago:
In cash, but it was always risky. Couriers get intercepted, etc.
That said, I don’t think BTC is the best for CIA. It’s publicly traceable and that’s always been known. Of course if they have untraceable bank accounts and used those to buy the BTC, then it’s not particularly relevant. The spies can use their own tactics to hide their income.