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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • I do agree with that completely and I’d like to add to it with an additional point.

    When things break it sucks, but this does present you with an opportunity. If it’s already not working, there’s no harm in taking it apart and taking a look around. Maybe you’ll see something obviously at fault, maybe you won’t. But there’s literally no harm in trying to fix it, especially if otherwise you were planning to toss it out.

    And I really can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen a device stop working, and apon closer inspection the entire problem was something very simple, like an old wire broke at the solder point, and with it disconnected, the power switch doesn’t work. When I was a kid and didn’t know how to solder, I would fix issues like that with some aluminum foil, and often it worked. Just start with a screwdriver, open things up, take a look around. We owe it to ourselves and to the planet to just give it a shot.





  • Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band? There’s tons of shit out there!

    Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.

    And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).

    All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).











  • That’s almost like a “three strikes” rule for drunk drivers.

    Oh man, that would be amazing. If after 3 strikes, all drunk driving could be eliminated… If only we could be so lucky.

    He’s not talking about a per-vehicle points system, he’s talking about a global points system for Tesla inc. If after a few incidents, essentially Tesla FSD had it’s license revoked across the whole fleet, I mean, that’s pretty strict accountability I’d say. That’s definitely not handing out free passes, it’s more like you get a few warnings and a chance to fix issues before the entire program is ended nation wide.





  • Man, I cannot figure out why that vehicle was turning. What is it trying to avoid? Why does it think there could be road there? Why doesn’t it try to correct its action mid way?

    I’m really concerned about that last question. I have to assume that at some point prior to impact, the system realized it made a mistake. Surely. So why didn’t it try to recover from the situation? Does it have a system for recovering from errors, or does it just continue and say “well I’ll get it next time, now on with the fetal crash”?