[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

This may not fit perfectly into the that category but i think it's cool how Lazarus Jones exists in the media in some capacity in most of the GTA games. One of the best threads of continuity throughout the series.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 months ago

This doesn't seem that complex to me. If there is a pedestrian in front of your car when the light turns green, you wait. Pretty fucking simple. This isn't some offshoot of the trolley problem where an incident was unavoidable. The car made the active decision to proceed when it was not safe to do so.

Why have we programmed our self-driving cars to emulate the psychotic behaviour of a typical road ragin' car-brained human? Isn't that the problem these projects should be trying to solve?

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 months ago

What this story reveals is the stunning level of ignorance amongst Americans at large. This is a bona fide fascist manifesto, published by the handlers of the current leading presidential candidate, over a year ago. Nothing rattles me to my core quite like being confronted by the harsh reality that a lot of people out there are just going about their lives like everything is fine.

These are the people we need to organize with in order to ― at this point ― basically survive, so I'm very glad something was able to spur them into some level of action before election day.

That said, and please excuse the momentary lapse into doomerism, but if we have to rely on Hollywood and celebrity culture to bring something of this magnitude into public awareness, we might be more thoroughly cooked than it was previously thought to be possible.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I already don't trust AI, there's no way I'd want it to be the arbiter of potentially critical job-related information in a workplace. For probably less money than licensing and running an AI, a company could just hire a stenographer to sit in meetings all day, take notes, and send those notes to concerned parties. Better yet, why not get certain people to send info directly via email, instead of scheduling a bunch a pointless meetings. How's that for innovation

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 76 points 4 months ago

Did nobody else's CS department require a bunch of linear algebra courses? A vector is an element of vector space.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 43 points 8 months ago

I'm glad they're doing this now, but it really should've been done 5 years ago. Ideally, it should've been done even before that.

The whole point of the FAA is to make the industry operate in such a way that failures like these are ruled out preemptively. The nature of aviation doesn't really allow for things to fail in a safe way.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 89 points 8 months ago

Time to pull out that electoral reform idea you've had in your back pocket for the last 8 years.

Seriously, if there was ever a time for something like that, it's now. The CPC seems poised to take a landslide victory in the next election. We might be able to avoid that looming disaster by making a vote against Trudeau not equate to a vote for polievre.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 45 points 9 months ago

You wasted 3 hours of your life so far lol

But yeah. I find the most mysterious and time-consuming of problems are usually caused by a very minor detail that is so obvious it gets overlooked immediately.

And even if you know that's probably the case, sometimes your brain will just discard information that isn't consistent with its assumed reality, and it tells you the piece of code you just read is fine when it's obviously not.

Troubleshooting/debugging is fun.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 61 points 10 months ago

So they found almost as many guns as a typical American household and like, a calendar written in Arabic? Yeah, they should definitely keep looking. I'm sure the weapons of mass destruction are in there somewhere. /s

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 96 points 10 months ago

You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.

Why does it sound like he's got a mountain of fake ballots sitting in a warehouse that he's gonna drop from a blimp or some shit.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 166 points 1 year ago

Lmao when you're trying to turn your company into a bloodsucking vampire but you forgot that long ago, you told your lawyer to chain the coffin in case this very thing happened.

[-] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see the privileged try to live in a city devoid of any service workers.

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