I’ve DM’d to say nice things or have a question with no flirtatious intent. Am I doing it wrong?

Yeah, Kodak held/holds tons of foundational patents in digital imaging. But it was siloed away from their consumer division that generated the bread and butter revenue. In thinking about it, I’m not sure what they could have done instead. Film and processing were consumables. Digital isn’t. That revenue was going to…

Yup. With spoofing the inevitable conclusion is that eventually everyone will have blocked everyone else.

They do exist! There’s a TV repair place near me. Some of these places survived by pivoting to contracting with the manufacturers to do warranty work.

Even if they did sell some in the US - I don’t know if they actually would - it would probably dilute the appeal in the home market, which would actually make it less desirable and feasible because part of the desirability is the exclusive nature of it.

Leather is shiny and makes noise. This car is for the person who is above all that and projects elegance through understatement.

Backup cameras are an attempt to reduce the numbers of small children being ran over every year because they cross behind the car and are too small to be seen through the glass. I have no beefs with this and neither should anyone else.

If and when this happens the underlying technology will create changes throughout society will make the development of a self driving car seem rather modest. Kind of like those Victorian prints that illustrated their idea of flight in the year 2000 - they just contemplated it as some kind of amusing hobby for the…

I’m not sure what details optics miss that lidar finds, once you have a well functioning optical system. There’s a usability tipping point where the optical engine will outperform the lidar in every situation.

Yes, these are all issues. They are inherent issues with a system that relies on sending out a beam and getting back a return. Even in ideal circumstances the totality of information conveyed is very limited. 

From a psychological point of view a self driving car must be nearly perfect. We don’t really accept machines that make mistakes especially if that mistake ends in death and destruction. Look at the response to the 737 max issues - and that is a very simple system by comparison.

I used to work on lidar mapping code in an autonomous robotics lab. It’s a dead end. It’s confused and degraded by sun, rain, fog, mirrors, glass you name it. Can’t see more than a few dozen yards in ideal conditions.

I can’t speak for anyone else but I’m bored with instagram. And I think others may be too. The bots, the ads, the vapidity of it. I now limit browsing to 5 minutes, 2 or 3 times a week and you know what? I feel good. I still think its good to have a presence professionally but I’m letting automatic posts handle that.…

“Influencer” seems to be the job of choice for the lazy con artist these days. Buy some followers, get a cheap camera, even photoshop yourself in vacation spots you can’t afford and hope that hapless businesses will give you money or free goods and services.

Phones are intelligent enough now to cut off charging when a temperature threshold is reached. They will also slow charging if its okay to do so but it may get warm. Generally it appears modern phones are pretty good at managing this, the odd one in a few million battery fires not withstanding (which probably has to…

I believe the Snoo can be rented now. It’s still expensive but it’s only for short term use.

It’ll have urea. The current generation CX-5 has a spot for the DEF filler port next to the gas filler.

I don’t know how I feel about Manwich offering up low-carb zucchini fries. I think some tricky scheme is in motion.

Some of them are actual businesspersons...usually they’ve been at it for awhile and have a business set up around it. However I think many, even most these days, are just underemployed narcissists living a lite-con life. Especially if they actually refer to themself as an influencer.

When I worked in an autonomous robot lab we had discussions about what exactly is “artificial intelligence”. The only real conclusion we reached was that it is whatever is the next major milestone in development - in other words, an ever moving goalpost. Before natural language processing worked, that was “AI”. Then…