vaguerant

joined 11 months ago
[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 10 points 5 months ago

Reddit probably closed down their existing community.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 77 points 5 months ago (16 children)

The big headline is understandably that it crashes into a fake painted wall like a cartoon, but that's not something that most drivers are likely to encounter on the road. The other two comparisons where lidar succeeded and cameras failed were the fog and rain tests, where the Tesla ran over a mannequin that was concealed from standard optical cameras by extreme weather conditions. Human eyes are obviously susceptible to the same conditions, but if the option is there, why not do better than human eyes?

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

You know what, at this point I'd miss the messages if they stopped coming. I had a two week gap and I was weirdly disappointed about it.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 40 points 5 months ago

"We're getting these babies now--strong, American babies--these babies are at temperatures, big numbers, numbers we haven't seen for 60 years here. Yesterday I had... a baby came to me, tears in his eyes, he said 'Sir'--these tough babies call me sir, have you noticed that?--he said 'Sir, you're giving us something in this country that we haven't had in generations.' People are saying they've never seen this before. We brought it back."

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Those things aren't strictly related. Lemmy is open source and there are a bunch of apps. There also used to be a bunch of Reddit apps, but Reddit wasn't open source. The important factor is that the Lemmy software provides an API (application programming interface) which app developers can use to talk to Lemmy instances. API access is free, like it used to be on Reddit.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 98 points 5 months ago (11 children)

The impression of legitimacy enjoyed by chiropractic is too damn high. I was well into my 20s before I ever heard a single word about it being pseudoscience. Walking around (usually on people's fucking spines) calling themselves doctors, I absolutely believed it was just some sub-variety of physiotherapy, which I guess is the point. In the whole universe of alternative medicine, I think that has to be the practice which has most effectively disguised itself as conventional medicine. It's gross.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, the joke they are making is simply not racist in nature. At the same time, the idea that using blackface to make a joke about entrenched Hollywood racism trivializes the harm of using blackface isn't unreasonable. It's a layered issue, people can land in different places. Ultimately though, the controversy over Tropic Thunder, then and now, being so minimal does indicate that for most viewers, the joke justified itself.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 31 points 5 months ago (7 children)

It's an interesting case. Most of the movie is Cohen doing patently ridiculous things to an audience who just go "Welp, foreigners sure are weird." The joke is mostly on the people who are willing to believe that Borat is an accurate representation of what Kazakh people are like.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 51 points 5 months ago (8 children)

There's video of that one as well. The athlete holds it together well.

Testing: Do Lemmy/Mbin support directly embedding videos?

Video from The Guardian of Borat spoof anthem playing at a Kuwaiti shooting competition. The Kazakh medal winner stands and listens stoically before smiling as the incorrect anthem ends.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, my language was overly broad. You can use QR codes as part of a system where the security is going on elsewhere, but the integrity of the QR code itself isn't something that can be relied on for security.

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