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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Can’t speak to the usefulness of a foot mouse, but a cheap set of 3 USB foot switches is a game changer, literally.

    For tactical shooters I bind lean/peek to the side pedals, and set the center pedal for voice communications.

    For solo gaming, you can take your obnoxious overlay commands, set them to impossible key combinations, and then bind those combos to the foot pedals. No more accidentally opening up the Steam or AMD overlays, but they are still there if you want them.




  • Well, he meant " the little number, and the big number of economic troubles the liberals, Biden, globalists and illegal Mexican drug cartels, wrote over your number in the box, even though you were writing the best number, perhaps even, perhaps, many people you know are saying it. Lower number. Lower. The lowest number you’ve ever heard of. It’s the lowest number since the last time I wrote a low number. Ask Sean Hannity about it. Why won’t anyone ask Sean…loooow, I like like low number, you like low numbers? I like 'em low! I like low numbers when they aren’t supposed to be high. Lower good numbers, lower is better, just like in women, when women’s numbers are lower, unless they are tens, but even then that is a pretty good low number for me. Democrats hate my low numbers, and my high num…frankly, I didn’t want to say it, they hate any number from me."

    Or something like that.





  • Try to keep the mouse centered in your mousing area. The aiming motions for the mouse are shorter, snappier throws rather than the long and slow arcs of an analog stick.

    So move the mouse to your aimpoint, then pick up and recenter. I find that a full “flick” for me should go about 360 degrees. You can also check for mouse acceleration settings, this increases the rotation of your view based on how fast you move the mouse. Good for games where action is coming in from all sides, but it can cause some problems with precision and consistency.


  • Actual AI?

    Imagine your phone knows that you have a business meeting downtown today. It’s already reserved a parking space for you, set your car to warm up before you leave and looped your contact in on your ETA, along with automatically notifying you of any delays. Then, your kid wakes up this morning in with a horrible toothache, you ask your phone what to do and it rings up your family dentist, who has a full schedule today, but makes you a referral nearby. You agree to try that other dentist today, and your AI books an appointment, checks your meeting today, coordinates with their AIs and approves a 15 minute delay so you can get to the dentist. It also notifies your kid’s school of their absence and has their teachers AI automatically queued up to send transcripts, notes and homework assignmenta from today’s classes.

    That’s the kind of stuff actual AI can do. Overgrown autocorrect? It’s basically a multi-billion dollar Magic Eightball.




  • It’s hard to tell, but from about 15 minutes of searching, I was unable to locate any consumer vehicles that include a LIDAR system. Lots of cars include RADAR, for object detection, even multiple RADAR systems for parking. There may be some which includes a TimeOfFlight sensor, which is like LIDAR, but static and lacks the resolution/fidelity. My Mach-E which has level 2 automation uses a combination of computer vision, RADAR and GPS. I was unable to locate a LIDAR sensor for the vehicle.

    The LIDAR system in Mark’s video is quite clearly a pre-production device that is not affiliated with the vehicle manufacturer it was being tested on.

    Adding, after more searching, it looks like the polestar 3, some trim levels of the Audi A8 and the Volvo EX90 include a LiDAR sensor. Curious to see how the consumer grade tech works out in real world.

    Please do not mistake this comment as “AI/computer vision” evangelisim. I currently have a car that uses those technologies for automation, and I would not and do not trust my life or anyone else’s to that system.