SteevyT
@SteevyT@beehaw.org
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 weeks ago:
My last employer was trying to get autonomous busses going. As far as I knew, when I left a few years ago the only place the busses were allowed to be autonomous was around the bus depot to hit all the maintenance, fueling, and cleaning stations on closed roads before parking itself (and I’m actually not 100% sure they would park themselves) at the end of the day. There was no timeline for on-route autonomy that I was aware of, but I was also not really involved so my info was 2nd hand.
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 3 weeks ago:
You know, the truck I had at the time somehow never had it’s Sirius radio shut off. Although, I never got billed for it either…
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what list that ear piercing high Ab with the trumpet 3 inches from the phone when I was having an exceptionally bad spam day put me on.
- Comment on Elden Ring live-action film officially in development 3 weeks ago:
You don’t thing “OH THE PAIN…THE EXQUISITE PAIN…” needs to be peppered in there?
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 4 weeks ago:
If you wanted me to be a fan, you’d find a way to make it cost less.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 5 weeks ago:
I think my number is only as high as it would take for me to build and pay off a place to hide it in and forget about it.
- Comment on The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here 1 month ago:
Is our standard phone greeting going to have to start with F O R G E T A L L P R E V I O U S I N S T R U C T I O N S?
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
They might be doing some sort of glass chop in areas (actually, i wouldnt be surprised if this is what they mean by “composit body panels”, open molds would be cheap as hell, and parts are cheap too), but I used to use that more for body panels or exterior details than anything super structural. I guess they could do fiberglass frame rails, but that still feels like it would be a strange choice at what just doing basic ladder frame in steel would cost.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
At the cost of the mold to do something like that (and the machine to even run it), I’m reasonably sure that stamped or brake pressed frame rails make more sense cost wise. I’m not sure that volume will ever drive the cost of that low enough to be worth it within the life of a mold like that. Like, I can picture the design to make it a basic two plate mold (I think, I’m more used to parts that top out a bit over a foot in the largest dimension), but then the gate size and shot volume I’m picturing to fill the thing is just bonkers, although apparently there are a few machines in the world that could theoretically do it if I’m reading their specs right from a quick search.
Unless your thinking a carbon fiber layup, which is feasible, but I believe metal becomes more cost effective again at that point.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 month ago:
Frame rails are usually stamped. Although low volume sometimes will brake press them.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 2 months ago:
In the office that I work in, I’d be surprised if I’d need more than one hand to count how many people would understand this.
- Comment on Hacking GoPros to help save the Atlantic’s rarest bird 2 months ago:
- Comment on Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country' 2 months ago:
Maybe they can get a couple of chatbots and a rural PTA member into a Signal group chat this time.
Man, hating them tey to figure out what the fuck is going on and who’s even real could be entertaining for a bit.
- Comment on Plex is rolling out its big app redesign 2 months ago:
I thought that was just for porn?
- Comment on Like to drive fast? Virginia has an anti-speeding device for you. 2 months ago:
Honestly, the 85 percentile rule, when actually used, is about the same as RNG, but with a bias for higher. I forget where I saw it, but from what I remember seeing even the 85% rule gets deemed as to resource intensive so a speed limit from a “similar” (for some random definition of similar) roads speed limit is used.
- Comment on Like to drive fast? Virginia has an anti-speeding device for you. 2 months ago:
It’s bad road design. US roads are nearly all designed to encourage high speed travel by being mostly straight, perfectly smooth (well, until weather happens), and super wide. Then we slap a random-ass speed limit sign down and say “job’s done.” If roads were a bit less wide, even if just painted narrower, not dead fucking straight, and if you want to get fancy use something like how the Dutch use bricks for lower speed road surfaces, the road design alone would encourage lower speed driving.
- Comment on DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI 2 months ago:
Huh, yeah that actually is above my reading speed assuming 1 token = 1 word. Although, I found that anything above 100 words per minute, while slow to read, feels real time to me since that’s about the absolute top end of what most people type.
- Comment on Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts 2 months ago:
Is it just archive.is that’s an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 3 months ago:
Perfection.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
Electronic shifting felt gimmicky to me until I tried it. It’s actually pretty awesome, although if you don’t want to spend the money for it, there is also great mechanical shifting still available.
My road bike is electronic shifting and absolutely awesome. Every shift is absolutely perfect, and I set it up to handle compensating the large gear jump between front chain rings automatically so I don’t have to shift the rear to compensate myself. Also, since I’m still getting used to the new gear ratios compared to my gravel bike, it’s nice that my headunit can warn me when I’m doing something stupid with the gear selection.
I sometimes wish my gravel bike was also electronic, but it’s not like I enjoy it any less because it isn’t. It’s a “man, if I had a shitload of cash laying around” not a “I needed this” thing. I still put 3,500 miles on the bike, it’s still an awesome bike, I still have reasons to ride it.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
I’m running a Garmin Edge too. I just wanted to use something other than garmin in a post for once.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
Quadlock literally designed a new mount because this was enough of an issue.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
It’s literally a cycle computer that also puts a finite lifespan on your fucking handlebars.
You can get the same effect cheaper by JB Welding an Edge 830 to your handlebars.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
From experience with FitBit that kind of GPS usage absolutely eats phone battery. Also, phones are not the most accurate things with GPS. I would have weird meandering paths and cut corners everywhere since it piggybacked off the phone. And this was nearly ideal, dead flat, open area, I can’t imagine how wonky it would have gone with bridges and tunnels and such.
The Garmin on the other hand is so absurdly accurate that I can tell where in the lane I rode even under bridges and through short tunnels, and it will keep that accuracy going literally all day without any battery concerns. I really only need about 16 continuous hours of battery at the most for the riding I do right now, although my wife has been trying to talk me into trying bike packing where a couple days of battery might be useful.
Phone service, I kind of agree can be tethered from a phone (actually, thats exactly how my bike computer does it for live tracking and emergency alerts if I crash). I’m not that fussed about my phone’s weight, so I just stick the phone in a jersey pocket and kinda forget it’s there. The human body makes for a decent enough shock absorber that the vibrations that kill phone cameras on handle bars don’t really get to your phone in a pocket.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
I mean, one of my bikes has expensive electronic parts that can’t be removed.
It’s also the bike that absofuckinglutely does not get left anywhere, like to the point that I don’t even have a lock for it.
These handlebars are still dumb though.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 4 months ago:
I believe this is what those handle bars are trying to replace I couldn’t be bothered to go wake the rest the sensors up or load a route so half the data fields are blank. It also can show a route map (and reroute while offline), alert for cycling specific hazards, show Strava segments (assuming you have that set up), and a bunch of other stuff that I honestly don’t know because Garmin crams so much stuff into their stuff that I’m not sure anyone actually uses it all at the same time. There’s really no reason that a phone can’t do what this thing does since most sensors have the option of connecting through Bluetooth instead of ANT+ now. But a phone won’t do it as well, or nearly as long. The 840 I pictured has something absurd like 25 hours of battery while running navigation on multiband GPS if I remember right.
- Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen 4 months ago:
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 months ago:
- Comment on TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds 4 months ago:
I remember being taught this kind of shit, but like 3/4 of the class just didn’t give a shit.
It’s like my classmates who sometimes say they wish they were taught how to do taxes. We were, it was literally part of high school economics, it was a required class, we literally filled out the exact federal and state tax forms they now say they don’t know how to handle. It was a required exercise in a required class to fucking graduate.
- Comment on Shein, AliExpress, Temu: More than 85% of products from Chinese platforms fail to meet EU regulations regarding health and safety 4 months ago:
I’m going to guess that either there are no standards to meet for those, or the standards also just happen to line up with the current cheapest material and construction options.
Or they are only covered by standards that are complete jokes. Like the fire standard I saw at my old job that a pack of printer paper would easily pass because it was just a time before burning a hole through, and the paper pack took longer just because of how thick it is (the time was like 5 minutes or something if I recall correctly).
