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02-24-2017 , 09:31 PM

#13526

RV Life

old hand

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Of course I have, but it still seems trivial for AI. What makes it difficult for humans is how counterintuitive the steering is and only being able to look in the mirrors. These aren't obstacles for a computer.

Yea, good point. Goddamn, I remember it took me like 3 months to learn it LOL.

02-24-2017 , 09:32 PM

#13527

zikzak

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 22,198

Bringing it back to me and my backup camera, the engineers at Chevy made mine so that I can see the ball of the trailer hitch. Instantly changed my opinion of backup cameras from silly gadget to awesomest thing evar.

02-24-2017 , 09:35 PM

#13528

microbet

Solar Powered

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zikzak is right. Backing up a trailer takes a little skill, but isn't that hard to learn. Driving in the real world involves a lot of things that are hard to predict and take judgement. Loading docks can even be equipped with very specific visual or electronic signals which would make navigation pretty trivial and virtually foolproof for computers/robots.

02-24-2017 , 09:37 PM

#13529

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Yea, good point. Goddamn, I remember it took me like 3 months to learn it LOL.

3 months to learn on a box truck? The way I use the term "box truck" there's no trailer.

02-24-2017 , 09:39 PM

#13530

zikzak

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Just realized we're not having this discussion in the LC thread. LOL derailaments.

02-24-2017 , 09:42 PM

#13531

RV Life

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

3 months to learn on a box truck? The way I use the term "box truck" there's no trailer.

Yea, a 26' box truck. I drove once a week and no one taught me how to back into the dock. Had to learn on my own.

02-24-2017 , 09:42 PM

#13532

microbet

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Threads are falling apart under the Trump administration.

02-24-2017 , 09:43 PM

#13533

RV Life

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Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Just realized we're not having this discussion in the LC thread. LOL derailaments.

No worries. The whole country is derailed as it is.

02-24-2017 , 09:43 PM

#13534

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

Yea, a 26' box truck. I drove once a week and no one taught me how to back into the dock. Had to learn on my own.

From the looks of a lot of trucks people find the dock using the braille method.

02-24-2017 , 09:47 PM

#13535

surfinillini

pessimist

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 10,405

Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

This NPR All Things Considered story on Trump's Counterterrorism Czar, Sebastian Gorka, is amazing. His biggest selling point to Trump must have been the size of his clownshoes.

link to 5 min audio story

Thanks for the link.

Wow!

02-24-2017 , 09:48 PM

#13536

RV Life

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,935

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

From the looks of a lot of trucks people find the dock using the braille method.

LOL yea that was me for a bit. Once I was used to it, easy peasy.

02-24-2017 , 09:51 PM

#13537

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Actually, didn't Volvo have a commercial recently where they had a semi-truck backing up automatically?

02-24-2017 , 09:51 PM

#13538

Huehuecoyotl

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Speaking of autocratic's "any plausible reason confusing people about racism"

Quote:

“In my view, this is not a case about racial bias,” the judge continued, addressing the pale young man at the defense table. “If I thought that you had committed this offense for racial purposes, you would go straight to the Idaho penitentiary.”

According to the civil lawsuit filed by the victim’s family, their son had been the focus of long-term racial bullying and abuse. Howard taught him a song that glorified anal rape and the KKK, and members of the football team called him slurs including “******”, “chicken eater”, “watermelon” and “Kool-Aid”.

But on Friday, Stoker brushed aside those assertions. The victim “was not targeted, which dispels in my view any claim of a racial incident”, Stoker said. “Another individual who was involved said [the victim] was called ‘fried chicken’ because [he] said it was his favorite food ... I don’t think it’s a racial slur.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...light-sentence

02-24-2017 , 09:52 PM

#13539

surfinillini

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Would anyone be willing to start another thread about Trump's alleged dubious connections to Russia as well as the ethics violations the administration has allegedly partaken in?

I think it warrants it's own topic.

02-24-2017 , 10:22 PM

#13540

Max Cut

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Apologies if pony is slow.

In case anyone had doubts, here's Sean Spicer on why certain new media were blocked from the briefing today.

"We're going to aggressively push back. We're just not going to sit back and let, you know, false narratives, false stories, inaccurate facts get out there."

Audio:

www.politico.com/story/2017/02/reporters-blocked-white-house-gaggle-235360

There may have been doubts due to lies coming from the White House, such as:

Quote:

White House Principal deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders downplayed the controversy. "We invited the pool so everyone was represented. We decided to add a couple of additional people beyond the pool. Nothing more than that," she said.

02-24-2017 , 10:25 PM

#13541

uDevil

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^^False flags ok tho

02-24-2017 , 10:28 PM

#13542

wheatrich

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Russian media has already turned on trump so they definitely have moved to "lol USA" mode. Especially with "see USA restricts media, so it's normal" with their own dictator crap. Russian media are still really big fans of some other guys especially spicer.

Hopefully everybody that got banned can stop wasting their time trying to appeal to trump and devote all the resources to investigating all this bull****, not just russia but global.

02-24-2017 , 10:43 PM

#13543

prana

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Muhammad Ali jr detained at airport feb 7th for two hours and asked how he got his name and if he was Muslim.

02-24-2017 , 10:47 PM

#13544

Dominic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

^^False flags ok tho

That's fantastic

02-24-2017 , 10:48 PM

#13545

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by prana

Muhammad Ali jr detained at airport feb 7th for two hours and asked how he got his name and if he was Muslim.

Oh come on

02-24-2017 , 10:55 PM

#13546

ScreaminAsian

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

Pro-Trump megadonor is part owner of Breitbart News empire, CEO reveals

probably because funding breightbart and funding a pro-trump superpac is exactly the same thing

02-24-2017 , 10:57 PM

#13547

campfirewest

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Quote:

Originally Posted by prana

Muhammad Ali jr detained at airport feb 7th for two hours and asked how he got his name and if he was Muslim.

Its only a matter of time until Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gets deported.

02-24-2017 , 11:07 PM

#13548

Inso0

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There's a chance Trump is one too many levels ahead of everyone else here and things backfire in unexpected ways.

The snub toward a few media outlets was genius. They probably just had some milk and cookies in there and spoke about nothing of consequence.

I'm sorry you're all so upset, but this is apparently the new normal and I'm quite curious to see how it plays out in 2 years for midterms.