for what its worth, waymos are endemic in my area, and ive certainly seen them misbehave a little and get into janky situations, but i am generally impressed with them overall. i see them doing things good defensive drivers do, for example, slowing down in ambiguous/tricky situations, etc. they seem to be generally working. however i also read somewhere that they have sweatshops full of people tending to them…

i saw a cyber cab tooting along today with a brodude behind the wheel. pathetic. they lost the self driving race and utterly failed to catch up, listen to anyone in the company competent to solve the problem, or simply pivot.

when you need to see in the darkest dark, let your eyes also be a flashlight?

edit: videos linked above explained that it’s fluorescent. theory is that it’s a side-effect of having a fluorescent-filtering layer to the eye, which would help finding prey that use bioluminescence to blend in with the dim sunlight coming from above them

https://youtu.be/SZq9sDyb8wQ

well this seems as good an opportunity as any to promote one of my very favorite films, at least tangentially related. https://youtu.be/KkuheYVbU3Q

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yeah maybe hides away three straight-through splices?

i feel that visually it doesnt work that well because the tether is short in the first frame and long in the second

i find a lot of music i used to think was hot shit back in my heyday is Very Dated now, would not generally recommend

dont get tricked into thinking an LLM can encode “anticipation of a potential issue”

i randomly did the worldle today. i thought of this word and said nah they wouldnt have some french word in there…

he doesnt owe the world anything, and it does his reputation worse service to output garbage than to move slowly

what about the devastating finality of a serious convo ending with the faintest intentional cl-lmp followed by the deadly electric all-but-silence

i read this attributed to Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

the only thing wrong with this is that they should have reversed the signs

doesn’t it get steamy in there?

if you’re not supposed to use it for math, maybe it shouldn’t produce numbers/formulas.

looks like an unattributed pmjv

hooyah navy

i submit that phở is the final boss of water beef