So on mine, I haven’t bothered to change from the ISP provided router, which is mostly adequate for my needs, except I need to do some DNS shenigans, and so I take over DHCP to specify my DNS server which is beyond the customization provided by the ISP router.

Frankly been thinking of an upgrade because they don’t do NAT loopback and while I currently workaround with different DNS results for local queries, it’s a bit wonky to do that and I’m starting to get WiFi 7 devices and could use an excuse to upgrade to something more in my control.

Hey, he earned that purple heart when that skateboard viciously injured him

I’ll agree with this, that my mild annoyance at being 2mph slower than I want to be is greatly reduced by adaptive cruise control. Which means my following distance is nicer and I’m less likely to bother to change lanes.

Biggest thing is that it doesn’t begin slowing down for traffic ahead like I would like it to, and I don’t trust it enough to see if it even would, but maybe that much engagement is good to make sure I don’t get too complacent.

Also, mitigating the mind numbing monotony of hours on a freeway. The wheel naturally staying in the center (lane centering, not lane keeping) does a lot for keeping me feeling more well rested on a longer trip.

Guardians of the Galaxy resurrected that one for a lot of people.

Sure your favorite songs, but what about those that you haven’t listened to since high school? Did those fare as well?

I suppose the thing would be songs that you listened to back then but stopped listening to. So in your case, pink floyd wouldn’t count because it has staying power and you kept listening, rather than “you haven’t listened to since high school”.

If you randomly pick some billboard hits of the time that you haven’t heard in a while, you realize why no one has played it in a while despite you listening when it was new.

Music of the (insert decade) is generally better than music of today largely by virtue of having a decade to choose from, versus picking over the most recent year or two

They were driving with reckless abandon before…

Maybe the one thing I could see is people letting go of the steering to do something thanks to lane assist, but those same people were thigh-driving before, and I might trust the system more…

I would appreciate more vector formatted content. Nice to have that effectively infinite resolution.

I dont get the transparent png angle though.

And yet it publishes in a bitmap format (webp). I can understand why, but still…

I think an ai could outperform my executives.

One of them sent out an email about how we weren’t making enough money. But don’t worry, he has a strategy that we will execute on and fix it.

The strategy is to raise prices and get more sales at the same time… That is literally it. Not even picking “high value” versus “high volume”, just a declaration that we can do both. If this genius plan doesn’t work, it’s just because the sales people failed to execute against his brilliant strategy well enough.

Yeah, generally of a feature is vaguely expensive, they will not mandate it.

Where airbags hit the scene, they said that would work, but since it is so expensive you can do automatic seatbelts instead.

We are talking about a few dollars on a 30,000 dollar purchase…

I appreciate the online update/kill switch/repaiarability, lock out concerns, but these systems are surprisingly good for safety

On an early outing with my kid driving, we were going on a freeway next to a long line of cars waiting at an exit. Well suddenly someone pulls right in front of us, in a way that even if it happened to me I think I would have hit it, and certainly the car couldn’t brake in time and my kid swerved instead, a good call but one I’m sure would have left us running into the ditch at the speed we were going and no experience with that maneuver. However it was like a professional driver, managing to dramatically yank the car around the sudden slow car and neatly back in the lane after avoiding.

I was shocked my kid pulled that off with only 10 hours of driving experience, turns out the car had an evasive steering assist. Saved our asses.

Tons of videos about the emergency braking tests that should easily convince anyone of their value to safety.

In my car I haven’t figured out what sets it off, it happens all the the with nothing in the backseat.

I appreciate the intent, but at least in my car the false positive rate is so high I could imagine ignoring it

It’s pretty much a vibe coding issue. What you describe I can recall being advocated forevet, the project manager’s dtram that you model and spec things out enough and perfectly model the world in your test cases, then you are golden. Except the world has never been so convenient and you bank on the programming being reasonably workable by people to compensate.

Problem is people who think they can replace understanding with vibe coding. If you can only vibe code, you will end up with problems you cannot fix and the LLM can’t either. If you can fix the problems, then you are not inclined to toss overly long chunks of LLM stuff because they generate ugly hard to maintain code that tends to violate all sorts of best practices for programming.

This all presumes that OpenAI can get there and further is exclusively in a position to get there.

Most experts I’ve seen don’t see a logical connection between LLM and AGI. OpenAI has all their eggs in that basket.

To the extent LLM are useful, OpenAI arguably isn’t even the best at it. Anthropic tends to make it more useful than OpenAI and now Google’s is outperforming it on relatively pointless benchmarks that were the bragging point of OpenAI. They aren’t the best, most useful, or cheapest. The were first, but that first mover advantage hardly matters when you get passed.

Maybe if they were demonstrating advanced robotics control, but other companies are mostly showing that whole OpenAI remains “just a chatbot”, with more useful usage of their services going through third parties that tend to be LLM agnostic, and increasingly I see people select non OpenAI models as their preference.

It is easy for them to have 0 income, and we should fix that. The means by which they can access ‘value’ of their wealth to pay for stuff without actually incurring a taxable event need to get closed. Primarily this seems to be about borrowing against wealth, which should be a taxable event, with an option to eventually get credit for loan repayment to assuage the ‘but but double taxation!’ crowd.

Upvoting for recognizing the double taxation but saying that is addressable.

Sure, you can get a credit later for repayment, suggesting that you paid the tax on other income. In the mean time, it’s effectively a 0% loan to the government between borrowing against the wealth and getting a credit for loan payment.

I think the wealth tax would be hard to get satisfactorily right. Either too little to feel like ‘justice’ or too much and you have people losing controlling interest in a company despite never really wanting it to get valued that much and never wanting to sell it.

Also, I think if you are head of a private company, you have a lot more ‘invisible wealth’ than the head of a public company, so there’s opportunity for a tax dodge through making your company private.

I like the idea of treating leveraging assets to actually have something spendable as income.

Fun story, my car had a recall for the brake light coming on randomly. After they replaced the part, then the brake light wouldn’t come on at all. Then they made it so the brake light would only sometimes come on. I said screw it and finally fixed it myself. The pedal pushed down on two different things, one to actually operate the brakes, and a separate little button for the electronic brake indication for the lights and for the cruise control to disengage (the cruise control also stayed active even when hitting the brake pedal).

Anyway, they screwed up setting the electronic button and I had to position it correctly in the little bracket, where it gets pressed if the brake pedal barely moves even if it takes a smidge of actual distance to start the real braking.

Hurray, everyone is off the platform. Honestly, that would be for the best…