* Posts by abcdgoldfish

8 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Mar 2013

Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists

abcdgoldfish

Re: re: taxi seemed to be driving rather more aggressively

It's not an exception in California - that's why you get those videos of cars slowly following a non-yielding cyclist up a mountain road.

Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data

abcdgoldfish
Trollface

Re: A special case?

According to Wikipedia, the copyright to the Happy Birthday song expired in the EU in 2017, and the US courts ruled in 2016 that it was invalid.

So we know ChatGPT excluded Wikipedia from its training set :)

SpaceX demonstrates that it too can shower the Earth with debris

abcdgoldfish

Re: Raising the odds?

I'm not sure - by my math a probability of 3.17 x 10-14 is about 1 in 31,500,000,000,000 , taking the reciprocal . One of us is about 10 times luckier, or unluckier depending on your POV.

Microsoft signs settlement with US Justice Dept over 'immigration-related discrimination' claims

abcdgoldfish

USCIS are quite clear about this

USCIS Form I-9 details the options available to prove Identity and Employment Authorization.

A Permanent Resident could present their PR card, or an I-776 singularly which illustrated ID and EA. OR they could present for example both a state issued Driver License plus a non-endorsed SSA card.

The problem appears to be that MS were insisting on a specific ID, which is verboten.

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

abcdgoldfish

Re: Robinhood?

I think it's actually the office on the corner which is a newer build - try looking at it from the Portage Ave side.

Parts of the area are industrial, although getting less so - there were plans to knock down the old cannery (RIP Frys) and build housing.

Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears

abcdgoldfish

The battery isn't removable - you remove the doorbell to charge.

The mount screws into the wall using scary sharp 5cm long woodscrews

The doorbell clips to the top of the mount, and a couple of 1cm long shoulder security "machine" screws (untapered with only a thread on the 0.5cm closest to the head) screw into the bottom of the mount. The unthreaded part of the screw protrudes into the base of the doorbell and stops it being removed. You need to find your security torx every month or so to recharge.

You'd have to be pretty confused to get it wrong, but clearly people did, and that was a nicely charged battery they were self-tapping into!

abcdgoldfish

Re: Shows people don't read the instructions

They didn't originally contain a warning, although it was pretty clear about which screws were which and you'd have to go to some effort to stick the doorbell up with alternate screws and use the wood screws instead of security screws.

Ring did send out a warning email in the middle of August. I'm guessing the recall affects any "in channel" that haven't already had updated instructions?

Apple iWatch: Coming soon, runs iOS, to earn mucho mazuma

abcdgoldfish

Re: Hmm, sounds like the Xperia Smartwatches

WIMM had a watch which apparently ran a minimal Android.

They were funded by Foxconn and recently went back into stealth.