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Comment Re:It doesn't have to work perfectly. (Score 2) 185

All three of your citation neededs are asinine. Anyone who has been remotely paying attention to these things over the years and decades knows them the same way they know New York is on the east coast. Repeated references to same.

Go do your own homework, see that he is right, and come back and apologize.

Comment Re:User Errors (Score 1) 185

It's already been prognosticated that general household robots will be a massive goldmine for lawyer frauds. The only way around it is a black box, perhaps with video, to show people fucking around and deliberately causing problems.

I always wondered if the rate of slip-and-fall accidents in supermarkets plummeted after security camera installation (even dummy ones.)

Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 185

While not always bug-free, automotive embedded software is a hell of a lot better than desktop or phone shit. I have done both.

Embedded goes through rigorous testing of every single feature. Software is code reviewed with difference tools and every line poured over. Every path is guaranteed execution in testing. Worst case stack use is capped. Infinite loop failsafes are created.

"Regular", i.e. desktop development, is a yee-haw, flyin' by the seat of your flaming pants endeavor. I have done both. So should most developers as there are some eye opening things which can be easily adopted without slowing the bleeding edge nature.

Having said that, this new system is just an extension of already-existing lane keeping and distance keeping automation.

Comment Re:Probably just never stopped growing. (Score 1) 85

Sure, but dinosaurs aren't reptiles, so not sure what relevance that has. Now if an ostrich continued to grow throughout its life, or perhaps a chicken...

Kangaroos, fish, and crocodiles (which are commonly refered to as one of the closest living relative) never stop growing.

Also kreetles from Star Wars: Galaxies

Comment tomblur (Score 1) 131

tumblr app autoplays gifs, so to speak (previously it just showed a preview and you clicked on it to see it) thus making it useless for two reasons.

First, it eats throuh gigs of data in no time. More importantly, 4g can't keep up with it and the fast scrolling you may want to do. Some clueless ass designed that one in a vacuum.

Comment Re:Doom by boredom (Score 1) 170

I've found no matter how "easy" a game is, people will push the limits until they get killed. So whether its original EQ where you need a full group to deal with singleton yard trash, or recent WoW where you destroy stuff that's near-skull level (or even beyond skull level) solo, you are always pushing.

Comment Re:Uncompetitive? (Score 1) 312

Have you ever had a scientific study of the "rigorous technical car checks"? (We will assume for the sake of argument they are useful in spotting problems.). And make sure the big companies are up to standard and not just bribing the official, who, coincidentally, applies a rigorous standard to tiny and independents, oh, another problen. Get it fixed and I will recheck in a month.

Comment Re:The diet is unimportant... (Score 2) 588

It needs movement, not exercise per se. You want to call walking and keepinh busy "light exercise", that's your business.

People who exercise vigorously then go sit on the couch for six hours in the evening had almost the same heart disease rates.

These "walking workstations" may help you live a lot longer.

Comment Re:Flip the switch (Score 1) 247

It's Searle's argument, which I did not fully appreciate as an AI pup. Consciousness, whatever it is, is a real, physical phenomenon, and therefore must arise out of real-world physics.

Interpretive symbol pushing is not such a process. We don't know what part of the brain's physics gives rise to consciousness as a real, physical phenomenon, but it isn't from an abstract interpretation of electrons or chemicals.

Note I am not saying you couldn't simulate consciousness, but said simulatiou would not actually be conscious in the sense of experiencing the greenness of green. I also don't think a perfect simulation of physics as we know it would give rise to simulated consciousness even. There is something else we are missing.

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