Unless I missed one, it msmash got the trifecta. Maybe EditorDavid can get the superfecta?

Maybe slashdot editors could use AI to scan for duplicate stories that are on the homepage at the same time?

My experience with Waymo is that they're really good at navigating through areas like this. The sensors do a great job of knowing where exactly the car is, and how to maneuver around stationary things, or other traffic that's moving predictably around it.

This is where they shit the bed. It's going to get confused, stop, and just completely block the road. The last time I took a Waymo, it was about a mile trip, I was just curious and wanted to try it. I was honked at three times, and as it was pulling to the curb to let me out a valet driver pulled away from the curb, which caused the Waymo to freeze and it told me to get out in the middle of Grand Ave. in downtown Los Angeles. It did helpfully warn me that a car was coming and to be careful though... After I got out it proceeded to sit there for about a minute, blocking the lane as it tried to figure out what to do. It was honked at again multiple times before it finally pulled away.

Some parts of their tech is pretty cool. But it is very much not ready for prime time.

I have. It spent about 5 minutes waiting to turn down a closed road that was barricaded off for a farmer's market before it finally called tech support and had a human route it to the next corner. Also have you seen the stories recently with Waymos driving down light rail tracks, through police standoffs, and onto active fire scenes? They do have some impressive tech, and have good reflexes to avoid immediate accidents, but they're not remotely ready to be running loose on our public streets. Not to mention they get confused and just essentially shut down if power knocks out traffic signals, and will just completely stop if someone places a traffic cone on their hood.

Lol, no they're not. They're not even close.

I haven't seen them in years, but you might like the Capsela toys.

Used to watch that with my dad. We actually stopped by his shop in NC (?) and my dad got to meet Roy, it made his vacation.

Ah yes, America "thrived" because people went to church, not because it had a secular constitution, independent courts, free speech, science, public education, and a government explicitly barred from enforcing religion. Correlation solved.

A religious population!= a religious state. The U.S. succeeded because belief was optional and law wasnâ(TM)t written by clergy, which is exactly why the Founders bothered with the First Amendment in the first place.

And invoking Iran as the only example of religious governance failing is cute, but unnecessary. We can just look at any place where religion actually runs the government and compare it to the least religious countries today which, awkwardly, are doing just fine.

If church attendance were the secret sauce, Mississippi would be an economic superpower by now.

Any international company or foreign government that isn't currently working on a move away from US based computing/storage/OSes/Office suites is setting themselves up for failure. We've shown that we can't be trusted with their data.

No, he means Notepad. Now with Copilot!

Why should anyone have to go and create a security policy, especially on a "professional" OS to prevent ads? Especially when a future update will almost certainly re-enable them.

Users shouldn't have to baby sit their OS like this. And if you tell the OS not to do something, you shouldn't have to worry about future updates overriding what you've already told it.

MS treats their power users like idiots, and is driving them away with it.

New phones are several hundred dollars, and offer very little improvements over models a few years old. With inflation and every other cost of living rising, wages stagnating, unemployment rising, people are making choices. And more often than not, the choice is to pay food and rent instead of a shiny new phone that doesn't do anything new.

A decent amount. Here's a pull request for the dotnet library where they were having copilot do work.

It did not go well. The comments are gold.

https://github.com/dotnet/runt...

That's a whole lot of extra words, instead of just saying that you're a fucking moron who doesn't understand science.

I'm probably going to go for the 48GB/1TB as far as storage.

I tend to try and buy a laptop that I'll use for several years, this seems like my best bet right now. It will be replacing a 9 year old Dell Precision laptop that I've been using daily since it was new.

Curious what Mac you're using? I'm getting a new personal laptop somewhat soon, and the M5 chips look really nice. How much RAM do you have? I've currently got an M1 mini with 8GB of RAM that works pretty well but it tends to start bogging down when using containers and having a bunch of youtube tabs open. I'm not sure how much of the Apple Tax on memory I need/want to spend.