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Comment Re:study confirms expectations (Score 1) 131

it is a royal BITCH to try and remove them

It's worth noting that the way you remove them is by making them stop just sitting there, to the degree they do. The various approaches ultimately just try to break the ink up into smaller pieces that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and carried throughout the body... hopefully to get filtered out by the kidneys and liver and then excreted, but who knows? It seems likely to me that tattoo removal may create exactly the same effects as tattoo application, but moreso.

Comment copilot infection everywhere (Score 1) 28

At work copilot spies on all the the work the PC and laptop do, bogging them down and offering bizzare avant garde prose.

"Use ai for everything" said the new CIO, and within two months the email, documentation, meeting agendas, plans became vague AI spew without meaning. The over a million customers started complaining about the ai hallucinations offered up by the helpdesk.

Good times. I'll probably leave.

Comment Re:It's not Waymo's fault (Score 1) 131

You shouldn't worry about getting rear ended. That's the worry of the person behind you. It's their fault if you get rear ended.

Have you ever been rear-ended? I have, twice. Both times while I was stopped at a red light, so fault was absolutely incontestable. It's their fault, but you end up without a car. Sure, their insurance has to pay, but they only have to give you what it's worth, not what it will cost you to replace it, and the difference is significant. Not to mention that you could be injured. Your hospital bills will be covered, but you were still injured and have to deal with pain, the recovery, and maybe even some amount of permanent damage. My neck has never been quite right after the second time I was rear-ended.

Comment Re:It's not Waymo's fault (Score 1) 131

I can tell you exsctly how many human drivers would respond in a situation like this, because I've seen it happen and have heard about it enough times: the driver would have accelerated away from the incident at high speed.

They would have done that after slamming on the brakes in a vain attempt to avoid hitting the dog, possibly losing control of their vehicle, and possibly causing a collision with other cars or objects. If their reaction failed to cause a serious accident, then maybe they'd have sped away.

Comment Re:One dog and one cat... (Score 1) 131

Many millions of those miles are on roads that never have animals on them.

Until last month, Waymo only allowed their cars to drive on city streets, no freeway driving. Even now, freeway usage is limited, only for selected riders (I'm not sure what the selection criteria is).

So, basically all of Waymo's millions of miles are on streets that often have animals on them.

Comment Re:Shuld the sue Waymo? (Score 1) 131

if it were a medical study on, for example, a robotic surgical system with 10% of the mortality rate of a human surgeon, there would still be concern if, every now and then the system removed a patient's appendix at random during heart surgery.

Sure, there would be concern, but unless you're dumb you will still pick the option with the 90% lower mortality/harm rate. Yeah, it's good to investigate and fix the problem (assuming fixing the problem doesn't increase the mortality rate), but you should still use the provably better option.

Comment Re:Unleashed animal runs into street? (Score 1) 131

The real question is if it simply failed to notice the dog or if it noticed the dog and didn't even attempt to stop.

Also, why it didn't attempt to stop (if it didn't). If it didn't attempt to stop because it correctly determined that attempting to stop would risk causing a more serious accident with other vehicles on the road, that's not only good, it's better than the vast majority of human drivers.

Comment Re: Making a note... (Score 3, Interesting) 51

Only 600 or so primatives make up the written languages derived from the Chinese "bone script", and only a few primatives make up 99% the characters. A rule based system could make quick work of rendering the five thousand or so logographics in common use from the primatives. We have the cpu cycles for it now.

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