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IphtashuFitz

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  • A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

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  • This is one of the many edge cases that I’ve been convinced will keep self driving cars from becoming mainstream unless/until true AGI is achieved.

    A few years ago I stopped at a red light next to a construction site. I was watching the traffic light, so at first I didn't notice a cop at the construction site trying to wave me through the red light. He finally took a few steps towards me and yelled to get my attention. Only then did I realize he was waving me through, so I did just that. I seriously doubt any current self driving car would recognize a police officer (and not just a random pedestrian) that’s overriding the traffic signal like that.

    Another edge case, coincidentally at the same intersection a few years earlier was when there was a car fully engulfed in flames as I drove up. I could hear sirens in the distance, and the cars in every direction were making sure to safely get out of the way of the approaching fire trucks. At least one or two cars cautiously crossed on the red to get out of the way. Again, I doubt any current self driving car would have navigated that situation anywhere nearly as well as a human.

  • What was it like the first time you had to call 911?

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  • Not exactly 911, but somewhat similar. A few years ago my wife & I were in a rental SUV while on vacation. It was a fairly new car with only something like 2000 miles on it. We were in the third lane of a 4 lane highway when a drunk driver hit us from behind with almost no warning. It caused our car to spin 360 degrees across 3 lanes before coming to a stop in the breakdown lane.

    Within about 5 seconds of the car coming to a stop we heard a voice asking if we’d been in an accident and were we ok. It turns out the rental car had one of those OnStar types of services. We were so pumped full of adrenaline that it was all just a blur as we tried to remember what highway we were on, near what exit, etc. We were so panicked… Luckily a state trooper on a routine patrol stopped maybe a minute later so we didn’t have to keep trying to figure out how to tell the OnStar person where we were.

  • Get ready to fight: Armed forces chief issues stark warning as Russian threat grows

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  • Don’t forget that they are also reportedly squandering their gold reserves, and are losing a lot of revenue from Ukraines growing attacks on oil infrastructure. Russia isn’t going to be able to pay its soldiers or buy equipment if those two trends continue.

  • Surprise, surprise: People don’t want AI slop on ‘SNL’

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  • If you google “SNL Scientologist” then Chloe Fineman’s name pops up. But most of the articles are just speculation because of her associations with known celebrity Scientologists.

  • [Combat] The SSU and Ukrainian Navy used a "Sub Sea Baby" underwater drone to strike a Russian "Varshavyanka" class submarine in Novorossiysk.

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  • There’s a mountain of differences between the Pearl Harbor battleships and this submarine. For starters just the fact that this is a submarine is a huge difference. The key component of a sub is the pressure hull. I believe US subs cast the pressure hulls as a single massive piece, so no seams that could suffer from poor welding etc. I know older Soviet subs were two pieces welded together, but I’m not sure if newer ones are one or two pieces. Whatever the case, if that explosion did significant damage to the pressure hull then it’s basically a complete write off. They might be able to salvage components from this sub, but they would have to cast a whole new pressure hull, which basically means a whole new sub.

    Then there’s the more modern electronics in these subs. The kilo class subs were first launched in the 1970s, so 30+ years after Pearl Harbor. There’s bound to be a lot of computerized and other electrical gear in the sub that doesn’t take too kindly to being submerged in salt water for a prolonged period of time. There’s bound to be a lot of different metals used throughout the sub, and not just in the electronics. Put different metals in a salt bath and you get electrolysis, which corrodes the metals over time. I doubt raising that sub to the surface and drying it out will be a quick process, so there’s a lot of time for equipment to corrode beyond usefulness.

  • This is the momentum for Europe to act: seize Russian assets

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  • [Combat] The SSU and Ukrainian Navy used a "Sub Sea Baby" underwater drone to strike a Russian "Varshavyanka" class submarine in Novorossiysk.

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  • That video amazing! I don’t see any sort of disturbance on the surface that would indicate something moving underwater. To remotely maneuver into that port, around the other docked ships, and target the sub takes a lot of ingenuity & expertise.

  • Bondi beach terror attack: father and son duo allegedly used licensed firearms in shooting

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  • Came here to say this.

    In response to a mass shooting in 1996 Australia passed strict gun regulations. Since then you can pretty much count the number of mass shootings in that country on one hand.

    Compare that to Wikipedias list of mass shootings in the USA for just 2025. I stopped counting that list at 300.

  • [video] We need more of this energy

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  • Probably because a group of uniformed police with more solid clubs would track you down and make an example of you.

  • Exclusive-Russia's oil and gas revenue seen halving in December to lowest since August 2020

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  • Oil profits go SPLAT!

  • Ukraine Punches Almost $100M Hole in Russian Air Defenses With Precision Drone Strikes, Video

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  • Western defense analysts estimate the cost of a single Buk-M3 system at approximately $45 million, factoring in the launcher, radar, command vehicle, and missiles.

    And this doesn’t even touch on the amount of time to build & deploy a replacement. If Russia is even able to do so at this point.

  • Russian sources say the UAV strike on the An-26 in occupied Crimea killed and injured several crew members.

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  • Ukraine has demonstrated that they know how to use different drone tactics to circumvent various types of defenses. There have been plenty of videos showing successful drone attacks getting past nets, flying into bunkers, dealing with tank modifications, etc.

  • Entire Russian column destroyed entering Pokrovsk

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  • [Combat] The SSU and Ukrainian Navy used Sea Baby naval drones to strike the Russian shadow fleet tanker Dashan in the Black Sea, causing critical damage to the vessel.

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  • It’s a safe bet the tanker is empty. It’s riding so high in the water that its rudder is partially exposed.

  • Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function

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  • I worked on a memory manager back in the days of DOS & extended memory overlays. The original author liked to refer to blocks of memory as “cookies” and temporary variables as “handy”, among other things. My favorites however were a flag identifying memory corruption as “shit_cookie_corrupt” and a panic function when it couldn’t recover that was called ohShitOhShitOhShit().

  • Ukraine Launches War’s Most Massive Drone-Missile Strikes, Russian Energy Targeted

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  • Five Russian oil refineries set ablaze, four airfield strikes, a Lukoil offshore rig ablaze in the Caspian Sea – all in one night – noisily contradicted Trump’s claim that “Ukraine has no cards.”

    Love that summary!

  • Russian oil rig in Caspian Sea halts production after Ukrainian drone strike, SBU source says

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  • I’m so happy to see Ukraine expanding their attacks to include Russia’s shadow fleet and now offshore oil rigs. Repairing this is likely to be significantly more difficult than land based refineries.

    Anybody know how many offshore oil rigs Russia has?

  • Trump dealt major blow as Europe threatens ‘nuclear option’ over Ukraine

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  • Maybe. Let’s see if they follow through.

  • Russian Military Cargo Plane Crashes East of Moscow

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  • The Defense Ministry earlier said the flight took place after repair work.

    If this is the state of their aircraft maintenance then expect to start seeing more even more crashes in the coming weeks.