I love drones, it’s like skeet-shooting with prizes!

the entire car is coded by low-bidder, it wouldn’t surprise me if there are hacks out there…which is why I don’t like computer controlled cars in the first place…

Anything connected to the internet can be hacked.

Yeah, I think it should never be involved in decision-making… Pointing out a place for doctors to explore maybe…actually diagnosing? no.

I used to think that the benefit of using AI in medicine, specifically radiology, was plausible… There is SO much data in a CT scan or MRI that human eyes just can’t see, you lose soo much granularity converting a 3D scan to a 2D image on a screen so some bloodshot doctor can look at it…

AI should, in theory, be able to read a scan and find pinprick tumors or irregularities and at least tell the doctors where to look…

But now, watching LLM’s do their thing, I’m now convinced that there isn’t an AI around that is worth it’s weight in horse-shit.

Yeah… 2015 was about where cellular connected cars started being ubiquitous… And of course car manufactures were too cheap to put two computers in the car (one for infotainment, the other for engine management) so the modem has direct access to the ECU, which means throttle control, brakes, steering(?!), everything.

Some of the happiest moments of my childhood were getting a holly six-pack dialed in perfectly on my old Javelin… And balancing a six-pack is tricky as hell… ;-)

I’m a FIRM believer in fix-first… Too many people treat cars as disposable… and I maintain that keeping a 60 year old classic on the road is better for the environment than any new car… We (the world, not just the US) produce nothing but crap these days…cars have a life-expency of about 5 years, 10 at the outside (if you’re a non-BMW built Toyota that is)

My 2014 is 12 years old and still runs like it’s brand new… I’ll get another 15 years out of it easily… And when the engine dies, I’ll replace it.

The only thing that kills cars permanently is rust…rust is the only true killer.

I won’t own anything made after 2015… That’s when LTE chips started becoming standard in cars…

I told my wife, my next car will have a carbuerator.

Nope, fuck-no, not even close. Never going to fucking happen. I have dashcams inside (pointed out) but I keep the mic muted because I don’t need any of my ramblings recorded publicly… (I also have it set not to record speed… for obvious reasons)

I remember saying that in the early 2000s…

So wait, a technology built on stealing Intellectual Property suddenly has a problem with Intellectual Property theft?

Musk is the preeminent welfare queen…

LOL @ “competent government”. We haven’t had one of those in quite a while…

It’s all pump and dump bullshit… You can’t have a 2T value when the most the company has made in a year is 19B.

I would support that as well. That is a toxic company.

Because FSD pulls drivers into a sense of complacensyct, so when something goes wrong a panic reaction can cause catastrophic consequences.

I have a neighbor who says she watches YouTube videos while driving between Florida and Virginia. So much for being aware and ready to take control…

Tesla needs to be a co-defendent in this case.

That makes me happy. :)

A while back I worked for a company that liked to pull the “lets lay people off right before earnings reports to make the stockholders happy” and then call them back after the shareholders meetings…

They found, after a few cycles of this, that when they did that, the top 30% of employees laid off would have already found other jobs by the time they were recalled… They also found that a few cycles of culling the top 30% means after a while your entire workforce is largely worthless, add to the fact that now you have to hire new people and train them…it ended up costing more money than it made them… (but they didn’t care, because the share value boost was all they wanted, so they could personally sell high after the bump and enrich themselves…

I work for a company now that values and celebrates employees with long tenures… They see it as a sign of health in the company (which it is) and celebrate the number of 10+ year veterans employed by them…

I got lucky finding this place. :)

Oh I wouldn’t even entertain a contract position…

I had this while back…I was working for company doing DR/Replication scripting…I was about 2/3 way through the job and they decided that “they could finish the job themselves” and graciously released me from my contract…

They called me back about 2 weeks later, at which point I quoted them 400% of my original rate, payable in advance, to finish the work. ;-) They were fucking LIVID…

Of course, they didn’t re-book me, but the rumor mill told me that they brought it in about a year behind schedule and at about 2x the budget they had allocated…

Helpful hint - do documentation LAST. If they fire you before it’s done, they get SQUAT. I didn’t even have passwords written down for them.

If I were offered that deal I’d politely tell them to go fuck themselves with a cactus.

I haven’t had to report to an office for more than a pizza party since 2011, I have no intention of starting now.