And forgot to add, the latest one I have they thinned it so that now it can't really cool itself. As a result, for actual tasks longer than a few seconds, the prior fatter one was faster. The new one starts throttling almost immediately.

The thinner thing sucks. My old laptop was thicker, had a dvd drive and a hardwire ethernet port. My new one has neither, but thinner! And the one prior still I replaced the hard drive and battery as it was of an era where things like replaceable batteries and hard drives were a thing. That one even had two slots for hard drives.

If you note, in a followup I gave the number 7000 total in a year were handed out. Look above. As I said, proportionately I think waymo is very high. And also in the above, I added a link to where AISD provided waymo with a test of several bus types so they would stop doing it. In that link they state,

"Hafezizadeh said Waymo “disagreed.” In early December, Hafezizadeh offered his school buses and parking lot to further test the software in Waymo vehicles. He noted that Waymo brought two of its cars and he provided seven school buses of different OEMs to conduct tests. He added that his staff complied with any request made by Waymo officials during the four-hour test period.

“The unfortunate part is, after that, they had another two or three violations,” he said."

I suspect that if I got nailed for passing a bus, the school system would not at their expense give me a training course. Just a guess though. To your point as to treating them equally, why would waymo get a pass here? I see no reason how you could believe a waymo robo gets to pass a bus with kids possibly exiting in front of the bus and the waymo would not be able to detect it until too late. I just don't see why laws would not be uniformly applied everywhere for moving cars. Even waymo hasn't suggested that. don't give them ideas. Bikes get a pass in some jurisdictions because of very different reasons, mainly they don't weigh 2 tons plus.. And we don't have just buses as a problem. Waymo also seems to like to park illegally https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheautowire.com%2F2026%2F0..., and fail to get out of the way of EMS ambulance and fire trucks in real emergencies, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.axios.com%2Flocal%2Fau... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fus%2F... Parking is a nuisance, although they fight the tickets. The blocking in multiple instances should have had their license pulled until they can demo that it is fixed. EMS gets to setup the tests. Remember that could be you that needs to get to the hospital and dies in the ambulance because a waymo blocked your ambulance

Other problems seem to be just generally blocking traffic if confused, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kxan.com%2Fvideo%2Fapd..., driving into water, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedriverlessdiges... and I'm sure others.

Almost forgot, the fine is for passing a school bus for a human, $500-$1200 criminal fine 1st offense. 2nd offense will get you 2 grand plus possible jail time. Did waymo pay the 48 grand roughly they owe? And who got jail time? I saw an article stating AISD had asked google to pay a fine in a letter, although only for 1 offense, I did not see anything saying they had. And why is AISD doing it. DPS should have sent an officer over to the waymo office with a reel of tickets for each offense.

Then let me give you another. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstnonline.com%2Fnews%2Fway...

"Austin ISD now confirms Waymo vehicles committed a total of 24 violations, as of the middle of January."

Article goes on to say district is seeing around 7000 total a year now with the cameras. 24/7000 = 0.3% of the violations. I've seen the waymo's around, I doubt I see them 0.3% of the time. That would be 3 in every 1000 cars I see. I expect it is closer to 3 in 10000 I see. Downtown, I do see them more frequently.

I'd expect the ai co's to tilt to trump. He has expressed an absolute admiration for ai, and actively encourages the co's to ignore guard rails. And how can we forget, trump just recently started using government funds to pay for ads for the R "brand". Even some R's find it abusive. So would the ai co's go all in much like musk has on trump, you betcha.

Have you dealt with insurance co's lately. I just sued to get a roof claim paid. State farm, first claim in over 20 years. Everyone has told me the laws changed in I think around 2019 in TX and it has been a field day for insurance co profits. Like to the point the claims dept is now considered a "profit center".

I've yet to know anyone who passed a school bus with the sign out. And yet, waymo's seem to do it often. To the point even the trump admin is investigating. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntsb.gov%2Finvestiga... Note that was not an isolated incident. I believe they are up to around 40 times the bus cameras have caught them doing this. And this is VERY illegal in TX. Very. Like lose your license on the 2nd infraction I think it is.

Agreed, trump's book should never have been called the art of the deal, the art of the lie would have been far more accurate.

Maybe, but in August, FB was ordered to pay almost 1B for its failure of child protections. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnmdoj.gov%2Fpress-releas... A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we are talking real money. And kudo's to NM, they seem to be leading the pack in terms of going after the once untouchable social media tech co's.

I also have a small site. I used to provide some of the code/schematics I did for home projects like a pool controller. Used to. The number of hits from the AI co's is thru the roof. I took that stuff off the site. I don't care to train an AI with more hobby work. If people really want it, they'll ask. Kind of makes me sad when I have to stop sharing with people because of scraping to train machines. I cannot imagine the bombardment of AI scraping that large forum hobby/tech sites must endure.

Smart home would more likely be pico's I think. And I thought RPI org designed those themselves so maybe a bit more profit (percentage wise) than the broadcom based pi. It also says that RPI can go beyond the board and do chips. I've used the pico's and found them pretty easy to use, and so far quite reliable. In some applications, better than a pi with rock solid timing, near instant on time, much lower power. And bonus, no occasional SD card corruption on a power fail.

Don't kid yourself. This is a way for wealthy people to meet wealthy people that are connected to the VC world. The price is a gate to keep the undesirables out.

I'm with you, I'm baffled how it can be hard to find stuff. From stainless steel screws I recently needed to .1% smd resistors to spline tools for screens, to specialized brass shutoff valves, to misters I just don't seem to have a problem finding sources and getting stuff. And that was just last week. And generally I avoid amazon. There have been a few things I've never found. There is some stuff that just doesn't exist. Market too small I imagine.

From what I've read it seems the AI co's are under-reporting cap ex numbers by stretching depreciation schedules. If that 3 year old GPU is worth zilch and you've binned it, but your depreciation schedule has it at 7, it will still be an expense from years 4-7 when there is zero value coming from it. Those finance guys have always been just as creative as AI.

Someone needs to mod this up. Wasn't it google that just bought some bankrupt companies chats, voice recordings, ... for peanuts. In bankruptcy court, there just doesn't seem to be any restriction on privacy rape.