Midnight Wolf

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Yes.

Wait, what are we talking about again?

So there’s a lot of assumptions in this thread, but this specifically is just wrong. The cars do not need to have a constant connection with camera feeds and logic flowing to and from hq. They do nearly all processing on the vehicle, and comms to hq is used for location, status, etc but absolutely does not require the logic sent remotely to actually drive the vehicle.

I can’t list sources because of an NDA (I am the source, nobody else is going to back me up), but I’ve seen the systems, I’ve been inside the AZ waymo hq, seem how hq interacts with the vehicles, the location and size of the compute system that does all the logic, I’ve seen how it works way beyond what the media has seen. I’ve rode in one of their test mules, with techs answering a slew of questions that I posed, and asked about the hardware and debug/test software that the public simply can’t see.

I’m not sure why this happened - most people spouting this or that are just wrong. As of a decade ago, the cars were capable of handling failed stoplight and situations like that. They are also capable of being remotely controlled - someone above claimed otherwise, but they absolutely can be. Only in situations where the car is stuck or acting erratically (you call the hq via a button in the car, and they can pull up the vehicle and see everything about it, and if necessary, take control).

Either someone broke something regarding this situation (handling failed lights, etc) that was previously working, and this is the first time the issue has shown itself… or the power outage hit their ca hq, and when the cars couldn’t stay connected for X amount of time, they went to failsafe mode. I’m leaning heavily towards the latter - there is very little data flowing between vehicles and hq (unless remotely diagnosing or controlling), but there is a bit (location, speed, status…), and maybe when hq went offline for a few minutes, it’s a safety thing (think about someone trying to steal a Waymo car, for example, by trying to sever the connection, physically blocking it in, etc). That’s just speculation though, but it’s all I can think of.

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“nom” 😼

“MEOW?!?” on fire🙀

Yeah. I wanted to play Midtown Madness 3, after loving and modding the first two. But it was Xbox exclusive. I refused to save up for one, or ask for one as a gift. I was eventually gifted one, with MM3, and it is the only game I have for the Xbox.

When Halo 2 for Vista dropped, and they tried to force players to Live Gold bullshit for voice chat, but we were all using Xfire. Eat shit, I’m not paying $10 a month to do something I can for free that my friends all have already. And I wouldn’t play another Halo title until the MCC dropped on steam - fuck locked down hardware and arbitrary limitations on the software and os. And they want money for that shit? Lmfao.

My deep… ‘loathing’? For the dumbass decisions ms made regarding gaming for windows from 00 to 16, arguably longer. With ms driven by greed, and most folded for the games and series they loved… but I’m an absolute pain in the ass, never forget, never forgive kinda guy. I have a couple series of ms titles I like and buy, but they can fuck off with trying to get another red cent from me. Their slow sinking into stagnation and failure is… closure, for all the debates and arguments about how fucking stupid it is to pay for the ability to play with others, after already buying their box, and after already paying for internet. And then they can kill the servers at any time, and nobody seems to bat at eye. Yet I have games that are 20+ years old that I can run a server for and boom, me and friends can play. No money, no limitations, no bullshit.

They fucked themselves. I’m just watching the ship sink. 🍿

I’ve had 7 accidents in my own car (and 2 as a passenger in other vehicles), but only 1 where I was at fault… I may be in this advertisement. Go hard or go home.

Have the system do something intensive and see how much the temps climb. Let it work for a few minutes and see - that will tell you if your system is thermal throttling or not.

Yeah, that all looks okay. Did you put the system under heavy load while checking/monitoring?

You called?

You literally ‘print’ to pdf. Instead of a physical page appearing from the demon box, it will give you a prompt of where to ‘print’ your file. Windows has it too, though I always use the pdf export and not the print. But in a pinch it’s good.

penis? No wait, that doesn’t sound right…

This halo lore is getting wild

What’s the concept/name/model?

Unsure if joke or not, ha. I don’t even remember what I set in my bio for FL, its been a couple years since I set that account up…

This grinds my gears any time that a product is touted as lasting X time. Did you put it through a typical use case or scenario for that X time? No? Then you cannot definitively say that it will last that long.

Based on their bullshit statement, I can last 7 years pounding someone’s ass relentlessly without pause for any reason. Trust me bro.

Thermal throttling is when the system (usually the cpu) becomes so hot from the lack of cooling provided to it, that it limits its performance to save itself from certain death - going so far as performing a hard shutdown if the situation doesn’t improve or stabilize. AMD chips usually throttle at 80C, Intel chips 100C, but it could be a few different components. You need to run software that can properly read and report the temperature of various parts in your system to see if you might be hitting the throttling threshold.

I know software to do this for windows, but not any for *nix.

Don’t kinkshame

I was 110% a Google fan until about 9 years ago, when Project Fi was headed towards public release, and devices purchased from them (effectively through the Google Store with a different sticker on the box) kept mysteriously going missing in transit, and the customer got an empty box/a brick/whatever. This is annoying on its own, but G/Fi cs response to these instances were awful. As I was a Fi user (woo closed beta gang), and I bought my devices thru Fi, I became concerned that this might happen to me. That thought quickly snowballed, and I started migrating out of the G ecosystem because the realization that their cs is useless and if I ever have a dispute or situation, they can just delete my account without giving a single fuck.

To pay a company money and not receive some assurances that my data won’t be wiped out of the blue while I am asleep, is - in my opinion - fucking stupid as hell. I don’t know how the apple situation is, but until proven otherwise, fuck both of them for anything you care about.

If you play your cards right, you can do that with your therapist too

I will not elaborate further