tiredofsametab

My sleep-deprived brain read “ancient bot” and I thought I must be dreaming. Really neat find!

Yeah, it was not fun. I’m about an hour from Sendai and we had some long ones. Not the most violent, though.

I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.

Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good

I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).

I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.

I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore

a kitchen is hell… mostly because of him.

As someone who used to work in kitchens before his show was a thing, there’s always been abusive assholes there.

Fucking gross

My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.

Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.

I can’t speak to BYD, but Tesla has claimed all kinds of things that never materialize or are not what they claimed to be.

That aside, I don’t think most people have $10k laying around. Most couldn’t even afford a $1k expense (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/), so I don’t think we’ll be seeing any widespread adoption at that price in the near future (which is what I took your comment to mean, but maybe that’s not what you meant).

For clarity, I’m not someone who’s just anti-AI, I’m just someone who thinks it’s way over-hyped, is being shoved in places it doesn’t need to be (especially in a half-baked state), is an environmental disaster, and has many other problems.

Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households

I don’t think this is a problem in a lot of the world. Commercial kitchens already have rules and inventory management systems. The only thing I could think of where it might be useful is looking for mold on things, but I suspect most people are using containers into which something couldn’t clearly see.

A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.

Maybe? It would still need to learn all the dishes the person has and what clean and nonclean versions are. That training and calling the model has its own environmental impacts and I don’t know that implementing it would save energy over the life of the appliance due to the extra costs in energy to train and call it.

My washer has settings for heavier and lighter washes based on what’s going in (as does my clothes washer)

In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI

They do not.

Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning

This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we’re being super loose with what “machine learning” means here. We’ve been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.

We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.

That’s so gross to me personally that I don’t want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it’s close, at least for how I think you’re using “close” here.

As a software engineer, hard disagree. There is no need for any AI in any of that. The device will have gone through various testing. If they wanted to implement this, they could use what they learnt in all the testing to set threshold values and run occasional diagnostics, all on-board with no internet, to know about such things. The only internet even required might be updates to those tables of values (or if a user wanted to opt in to sharing their data for whatever reason).

Thanks. I wonder who approved this. It says it’s Minato Mirai, but I doubt Kanagawa can approve that since road law is, so far as I know, national. I want to write to someone expressing my concern, so I think I’ll have to dig.

Got a source? I haven’t heard of this yet (or blocked any memory of it)

Well, guess I’m never gonna be an adult seeing as I had a vasectomy nearly a decade ago now. I did finally buy a house in my early 40s (well, I’m paying for it for the next 19 more years, but still).

As an overseas voter who lives in hell trying to save for retirement because of asinine IRS laws (can’t use Japan’s advantaged retirement accounts because basically everything is a PFIC, most brokerages won’t touch americans, etc.), you’d best bet I’m using my rights. Fuck you and release the Epstein files, you and all your enabling republican administration.

Fewer hurricanes out there, and other natural disasters as well. I don’t know how tuscon is seismically, but otherwise it has a lot of lowere risks from nature, probably

How many were stabbed at walmart and how many at man in custody? (My brain had way too much trouble with this headline for a few seconds).

Function > durability > cost > tons of other things > “interestingness”

We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.

Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.