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To you, sure. Meanwhile I have about 7 legitimate uses, almost all of them involving recording things down in mines while I need both hands free to keep myself from dying.

You stay in your bubble if it makes you uncomfortable. Real people have real uses for this tech, whether you like it nor not.


almost all of them involving recording things down in mines

How are the glasses more beneficial than the far, far more durable helmet-mounted cameras that construction workers use, or the industrial-grade chest-mounted cameras used in many other industries?

Also, how well do the glasses function underground? Are there pico cells down there to provide connectivity?


You can't use a GoPro or one of the many body cameras where it is clearly obvious to everyone who sees you that you:

(a) Have a camera (b) Are recording?


What a silver lining... "oh this date rape drug works great as an animal tranquilizer and I need it at my farm! Don't ban it!"

I agree, I think people are being far too cynical.

It's just like AI, people discount the positives and magnify the negatives.


<--- Who are these people. It's like they are from a different planet.

"mining scale"

Don't need much area, depends on the concentration of radioactives. I have a small mine that's just a pegmatite body about the size of a house which produces almost marble-sized chunks of a thorium-uranium mixed metamict mineral (I suspect samarskite but Raman and XRD can't give any ID,) you'd barely notice it from a private airplane's typical flying height, however you could dig the entirety of it up and you'd have enough unprocessed uranium for some real fun.


You could only somehow sell it. If you tried to enrich that you'd get flagged so fast your head would spin.

Correct, and we can demonstrate this via various gem-bearing and REE-bearing pegmatites which almost universally contain magmatic-sourced water trapped within them.

Could this have happened under the pressure of the interplanetary collision with the protoplanet "Theia" that led to the creation of the moon?

Might make sense, in California's driver handbook you're required to pull into the bike lane to make a turn if the bike lane is there. Part of that programming should have already existed given where Teslas were made.

No, as can be clearly seen from the video, it is doing a right turn onto a road where the only lane is a full-size lane with a sign indicating that cars are not allowed to use that road in that direction.

If there is a sign which explicitly bans cars from entering it is still illegal (I assume; I never took the drivers license in California). In the video you can clearly see the street has a sign that says no cars and no motorcycles. The Tesla presumably saw that sign and either doesn’t recognize it (unlikely) or has a software telling the car to ignore it (more likely).

It most likely does not recognize the sign. Last I saw, after years of furious development they were still unable to recognize standard "Do Not Enter", "Road Closed", and "One Way" signs in the US. Here is a video [1] from a week ago where it fails to recognize a clearly visible "Do Not Enter" sign with "One Way" road indications.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/realdanodowd.bsky.social/post/3mnhw...


I think that is worse. There are only a few hundred traffic signs in use in Europe and even I could write a supervised learning model in an afternoon that could recognize all of them with very low uncertainty. And if I had Tesla budget I could easily have a tiny portion of my workers label enough data in another afternoon.

If this is true, and Tesla does not do this, that means that somewhere up in Tesla’s chain of command somebody told their workers not to do this. That is, somebody at Tesla made the decision that Tesla cars should not be able to recognize all the traffic signs. If that is the case, this person should be held criminally liable and Tesla cars should be pulled off the market (and the roads) by regulators who are (or should be) concerned about consumer (and road) safety.


You went from ignoring Hanlon's razor in one comment straight to duning Kruger's in your next.

Seems like you just don't like musk and have to find a bad reason...

Personally I like the idea of ideas > event > people...

If I'm wrong on this post and you are really that capable I'd suggest you go work for comma.io because self driving cars/vehicles is definitely in top 5 of best upcoming inventions.

Good luck!


You should have shown the original video and not the one from Dan O'Dowd. He is not interested in pedestrian safety in any way, he is doing this only to promote his own company, Green Hills Software. He didn't have any issues with Tesla until it stopped using his software.

The original: https://x.com/DirtyTesLa/status/2062260954709049840 or https://xcancel.com/DirtyTesLa/status/2062260954709049840.


Ah yes, consistently, correctly, and truthfully highlighting serious safety defects and unacceptable design oversights for years in the products of a trillion dollar company with a rabid fanbase well known for running smear campaigns is "not interested in pedestrian safety".

I imagine everybody relishes the opportunity to get smeared by entirely false accusations by Tesla promoters with a conflict of interest. You can tell the Tesla promoters running the smear campaigns are worth listening to because their smears keep getting disproved by video evidence.

Please point at any clearly visible video evidence that their whistleblowing is inaccurate. No "shaky cam" "Bigfoot" evidence where you point at something blurry and falsify a claim to fit your desired narrative.

Your job would have been a lot easier if any of those Tesla Promoters accepted the Dawn Project's offer to attempt the tests themselves with their own Tesla's and their own cameras giving them the perfect platform to debunk the Dawn Project's claims. Weird how they all chickened out on that slam dunk.


In this case, the whistleblowing was done by DirtyTesla (as credited by Dan). Respect to him for that. Dan has created proven fake videos where Tesla is allegedly unsafe, but got caught. So he has lost his credibility.

It's very important to call out these issues AND to do it honestly.


Nope. Those accusations were proven false and the people who made them have lost all their credibility. It was just a smear campaign by Tesla promoters so effective that here you are parroting it against reality to protect a trillion dollar company that actively lies and promotes illegal and dangerous behavior. They really outdid themselves with that smear campaign.

If you disagree, I presented the criteria for evidence needed to support your case. Remember, no shaky cam.


Makes sense to use software modeled on California laws in software made for Denmark's laws for sure.

This is a lane only for bikes, with no car lane going the same direction. It's like turning onto train tracks (and if you keep going down it, you might well be stuck).

That's wild. In Oregon you will get a ticket for driving in the bike lane at all, turn or not. The only exception are bike lanes that go straight and briefly share a turning lane, but those are clearly marked for that purpose.

Good reminder that you should always be aware of local traffic laws when you travel, most places in the US are similar but not identical.


Dude, there is a sign saying it's not a road for cars. Its driving into a road its banned from entering. It means Tesla can't even read road signs.

You're missing the fact that if I wanted to find you and kill you companies are collecting that location data and I can buy it and use it to accomplish my goal.

"Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle."

Just make prettier-than-Himalayan salt lamps out of it and sell it to hippies. Easy solution.


That only shifts the problem. Now we need an increased supply of hippies that are hard to come by in a low hippie-tolerant environment.

You can design around a lot of stuff but what you encounter in orbit will ultimately laugh at that bandage and eat it away. AtOx, hard UV, and radiation levels you don't get on Earth just have their way with everything in orbit over time.

You don't get the AtOx going to mars but you have everything else which will utterly take its toll on a traveling craft.


Sure, you can play with yourself and scroll porn that way. I don't know if I'd call that efficiency.

i spent more than year with ergo split keyboards, home row mods, layers, etc. Mouse + speech-to-text + agents made it irrelevant.

Flux.ai is probably trying to hide the fact their product does not do what it says it does and they're basically scamming you out of your money (won't even refund you for prompts that did not do what they said they would do.) The entire thing was trash when I tried it two years ago and it's still very much trash now, not even able to do a basic TSOP LED driver without you needing to spend hundreds of dollars to correct its mistakes.

"nobody will be stupid enough to hand-code an account recovery where you get to type any email address."

I can think of several pre-2000s chat rooms that did EXACTLY this. It is how I lost several chat accounts as a teenager.


Not a full password reset, but I've seen this on some sites even recently for 2FA... more than one poorly implemented SMS 2FA prompt has asked me what number I want to receive a confirmation code at to prove it's me. :facepalm:

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