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New comment by saberdancer in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

saberdancer — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:41:35 +0000

They were testing FSD so I understand why they would do it. It also looked like roadkill and didn't expect it to be a hard obstacle.

New comment by saberdancer in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

saberdancer — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:41:19 +0000

If he used real numbers the tariffs would be so low that it wouldn't make any sense.

New comment by saberdancer in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

saberdancer — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:40:37 +0000

Apparently it is 34% on top of current 20%, bringing it to a total of 54%.

But who knows with these guys.

New comment by saberdancer in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

saberdancer — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:39:35 +0000

Fully agreed. Tariffs are one thing that Trump has always been clear about. He likes them, he sees them as beneficial and now that he has no brakes in this administration he is finally going to try and put them in place.

There is no 4D chess.

New comment by saberdancer in "B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia"

saberdancer — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:45:39 +0000

It's a big stick to point toward Iran.

Flying from Diego Garcia means they can takeoff without anyone reporting them inbound.

New comment by saberdancer in "The Silurian Hypothesis"

saberdancer — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:50:29 +0000

And number of dinosaurs found compared to number of individual dinosaurs that ever lived is staggeringly low.

New comment by saberdancer in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

saberdancer — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:50:02 +0000

Companies have staging and test process but CS bypassed it and deployed to prod.

New comment by saberdancer in "Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie"

saberdancer — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:58:47 +0000

I really liked the bit about first rule of government spending.

New comment by saberdancer in "I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script"

saberdancer — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:42:10 +0000

Strange no one commented but apparently Bradley Cooper (of all people) is working on making it. https://movieweb.com/bradley-cooper-hyperion-movie-epic/

No definite timeline on it.

New comment by saberdancer in "Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]"

saberdancer — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:55:25 +0000

The way I thought about it, you have to roll around the larger one and you have to roll around yourself (+1). So if they are two same size circles, it's 1 for the other and 1 for yourself. If the other one has 3 times bigger radius, it is 3 for the bigger one and 1 for yourself. Etc.

Not sure if it is mathematically accurate but it seemed to make sense to me.

New comment by saberdancer in "First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality"

saberdancer — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:39:27 +0000

This would mean that a lot of malaria related deaths are unaccounted for or that the vaccine is helping in another way.

New comment by saberdancer in "NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away"

saberdancer — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:44:05 +0000

The point is that they are getting updates, not because NASA paid 865 million in 1970s but because it is doing scientific work that no other spacecraft is able to do currently. If Voyager was orbiting around Earth it would get no updates at all, no matter how much NASA paid to get it into orbit.

So my point stands - if Voyager ran on an iPhone it would get those updates.

New comment by saberdancer in "NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B miles away"

saberdancer — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:36:02 +0000

I think it's better to say - if your phone was 12 billion miles from Earth and used to send sensitive scientific data - it would get updates as well.

New comment by saberdancer in "A suicide crisis among veterinarians"

saberdancer — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:45:51 +0000

Yes but there is a much larger effect on gas oven suicides than overall.

Suicide prone population dying out would not cause one type of suicide to reduce in a much quicker rate - as is implied here.

New comment by saberdancer in "Twitter no longer serves as a trustful source of information"

saberdancer — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:43:03 +0000

WarMonitors is an incredibly bad source that continously posts misinformation and propaganda.

I follow Ukraine war closely and that is one of very few twitter accounts that I blocked - due to constant misinformation that they posted. This block happened months ago and had nothing to do with recent events. Even clear propaganda accounts are better than that guy. I'd love to find some example but this account posts so much that it is impossible to look up things from months ago.

I have a feeling that Musk was fed these two accounts by someone who he listens to - my guess is David Sacks as Sacks was much more active in Ukraine/Ru Twitter circles - and it would fit that one of his sources is unreliable WarMonitors.

sentdefender account I don't find as problematic.

New comment by saberdancer in "Twitter no longer serves as a trustful source of information"

saberdancer — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:09:13 +0000

Twitter changed their algorithm and the way they promote content.

Now if you get verified (pay Musk) - your replies get promoted and get more views and reactions. With effective removal of "old" verification system you have no way to validate whether an account is reliable or not. Everyone can look the same and virality is rewarded.

It has become much worse than in the past.

New comment by saberdancer in "This boat don't float (2009)"

saberdancer — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:22:38 +0000

The story is from 14 years ago. Grimes is 35 years old today.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grimes-mississippi-homemad...

New comment by saberdancer in "TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken"

saberdancer — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:50:38 +0000

Depends on the photo. I had a photo that shows military unit marching between two of the great pyramids. Much easier to figure out a location if you have such obvious landmarks.

New comment by saberdancer in "A search for technosignatures around nearby stars"

saberdancer — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:54:49 +0000

I found his books (which IMO are not that famous) because our local library had them. Otherwise I don't think I would have stumbled upon it.

Same applies to Walter Jon Williams and his Hardwired which was one of my early favorites. I was amazed to find out later that this book is one of inspirations for Cyberpunk tabletop games and Cyberpunk 2077.

New comment by saberdancer in "A search for technosignatures around nearby stars"

saberdancer — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:31:58 +0000

Thank you for the recommendation. Growing up I was a big fan of John Brosnan's trilogy Sky Lords - post apocalyptic / genetic wars sci-fi with zepellins - what is there not to like :).

Seeing this is by Brosnan as well means it's an instant buy for me.