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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also, you dont need to buy a nice ferrari. Just get a cheap Toyota Tercel from facebook and then start replacing body, drivetrain, engine and interior with ferrari parts. I feel this is 100% solvable. But then I don’t buy cars, so maybe out of the loop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ok, so that's 3000 Cybertrucks sold, how much Profit do they need to make on each car for a 46 billion payout...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

a set of only 9 characters

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

OCR existed long before the 486. AFAIK it was already used in the 70's or 80's to scan mail and presort them based on the postcode. I remember that postcards had light orange boxes (presumably because this color was invisible to B/W scanners?) with dots inside where you where supposed to write the postcode numbers in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (10 children)

ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's rather call it "Decentralized Backup fee" .

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That are some good points, i didnt really hear about deepmind for a long time and forgot about it. But replacing google websearch with "AI" really sounds like a decision made by marketing department, where they dont understand their own product, their customers or the techs limitations.

Unless of course they want to remove/hide all outgoing links from google search, so the user will spend more time there and google has more opportunities to show them ads from their own ad network, instead of losing the visitors to another website...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Results might be very different if you are inside china, or write in Chinese characters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Baidu, please tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wow, in the 2000's and 2010's google my impression was that this is an amazing company where brilliant people work to solve big problems to make the world a better place. In the last 10 years, all I was hoping for was that they would just stop making their products (search, YouTube) worse.

Now they just blindly riding the AI hype train, because "everyone else is doing AI".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, you can have a lot of space for casinos, shops and pools with waterslides on a cruise ship to entertain passengers because weight is not important. But on an airship...?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

While i would love to travel by airship, I dont think there would be a commercial success in airship passenger travel in the near future:

  • travel times of multiple days means you probably need 2-3x the crew, compared with a plane on a 8h flight
  • this also means a plane that is 4x as fast can make the same trip 4x more often, bringing in more money for the airline in the same amount of time
  • you probably can't land on existing airports, because an airship the size of a large building would be crawling accross your airspace blocking all flight traffic, or shaken by the turbulences behind a large jet powered airliner
  • new technology without any existing infrastructure is much more expensive than building on top of existing things
  • tickets would be much more expensive than a commercial plane because of the reasons above, the lower passenger capacity and the fact that you have to carry more supplies (water + food for days multiplied by people on board) for a longer trip. Each passenger with cabin and supplies was calculated as 300kg weight on a transatlantic flight on the hindenburg
  • Hindenburg could not fly in a direct straight line, because it travels at a height of only 400-600m. This means you had to go around high mountain ranges, because people and the combustion engines need oxygen which you dont have much above 4000m. However i dont know if this is still a problem with modern pressurized cabins, or if there is another limitation from the lifting gas...
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