The SK05 Pro is powered by one or two 18650 Li-ion batteries connected in parallel.

👍👍👍👍👍👍

I’m in Ontario and ride on quite a few rural roads. Unfortunately, speed limits are pretty much ignored and nearly every vehicle that passes is a high-speed pickup truck, which sucks when there’s no shoulder. 😫

If you read how they programmed this robot, it seems that it can anticipate things like that. Also keep in mind that this is only designed to do one type of surgery.

I’m cautiously optimist.

I’d still expect human supervision, though.

Suggests?

Isn’t it their job to investigate crimes???

It’s worse than that.

You don’t generally blame someone for being shot by a random stranger.

But kill a cyclist or pedestrian by car? What did or didn’t they do?!?! 🧐

I’ve got knives from ZWILLING J.A. HENCKELS that are made in Germany. They carry all kinds of kitchen stuff, but not sure if it’s all made in Germany or not.

Being trained on videos means it has no ability to adapt, improvise, or use knowledge during the surgery.

Edit: However, in the context of this particular robot, it does seem that additional input was given and other training was added in order for it to expand beyond what it was taught through the videos. As the study noted, the surgeries were performed with 100% accuracy. So in this case, I personally don’t have any problems.

Every place should be doing this.

The ROI is significant, and every car you remove from the road is money saved by everyone.

That random street photo you posted is exactly the type of place that you need bike lanes because there’s no safe place to ride a bike in that example.

No shoulder and single lanes means cars and cyclists will be in conflict.

Calming measures work.

Yes, they do. And NIMBYs hate them more than automated traffic cameras.

Speed cameras do not.

They have demonstrated to be effective in all the Canadian municipalities who have implemented them. Do you have evidence to suggest otherwise?

The problem is people don’t like getting caught for breaking the law, so they either vandalize or petition against these cameras.

Alternatively, they could drive the posted speed limit and not run red lights. 💁‍♂️

Stats Canada didn’t have those figures in the data I was looking at, but yes, that’s important! There are so many other important metrics, too: affordability vs wages; commute times (then vs. now), etc.

If only one metric moved for the better, are we really better off?

Depends on your perspective.

The lowest it’s been since 1990 is 4.5%, and that was a post-pandemic bounce-back in 2022. It’s been over 10%, but the average is 6.6%. We are only slightly above that, which is amazing considering we are under direct attack from the States.

I would expect those number to drop as Canada severs ties with the US and builds a more robust internal economy.

And remember, every time you “buy Canadian” over something that would have come from the States, you are adding jobs to our workforce while taking them away (hopefully) from the American labour pool 🤗

Only Conservatives could call “freedom” sitting in a metal cage, surrounded by others in metal cages, when “woke” alternatives (like walking!! 🫢) are freely available to them. There is no logic, only self-harm and the harm of others.

Interesting, it’s slightly slower for me through the web interface both with a direct connect to my network, or when proxied through the internet. Still, we’re talking seconds here, and the results are so accurate!

Immich has effectively replaced the (expensive) Windows software Excire Foto, which I was using for on-device contextual search because Synology Photos search just sucks. Excire isn’t ideal to run from Linux because it has to be done through a VM, so I’m happy to self-host Immich and be able to use it even while out of the house.

OK, indexing finished some time yesterday and I ran a few searches like:

“Child wearing glasses indoors”

“Cars with no wheels”

“Woman riding a bike”

Results come up (immich on android) in three seconds.

But the quality of the results do appear to be considerably better with ViT-B-16-SigLIP2__webli compared to the default model.

I’m pretty happy. 👍

London (UK), Toronto, Montreal, Paris, all the Netherlands…

So many cities proving that cycling infrastructure can get people out of cars. Yet, cycling infrastructure in most of Canada is either no longer being built or torn down.

Incredibly maddening, especially when drivers complain about traffic, yet here’s a cheap and easy solution for any city.

Edit: expanded

about a person in a ghillie suit playing hide and seek near a road which lead to an accident

Did they intentionally try to get hit or cause a crash? If yes, then they bare some (or all) responsibility.

But people wearing regular clothes should not be punished.

We never, EVER see motorists involved in crashed be blamed because they were driving a back car.

This particular crash happened on a lit roundabout where the cyclist apparently had a rear light. The driver was either going too fast, or wasn’t paying enough attention.

But where does the responsibillity of the pedestrian end?

This is a good thought experiment. There are legal answers, but logically, blame could be given to a pedestrian when the norms are broken (i.e. suddenly changing lane on a path while oneone is trying to pass).

As a cyclist, or motorist, I make a huge effort to ride defensively. If not to avoid people, then to avoid animals popping out of nowhere.

Consistent with dementia and incompetence.

It’s been fun replacing American goods and services with Canadian and not-American alternatives.

In many cases, you end up with better products anyway.

Nope. Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, Netflix, etc. will all still track your behaviour, collect your data to be used against you, and still make you the product.

Corporate greed and enshittification have ruined everything.