Are we just immune to these headlines now because we don’t expect anything different from Microslop? Just an assumption that they’ll have a catastrophic failure once a quarter or more.
I tried to get Claude to build me a spreadsheet last night. I was explicit in that I wanted an excel file.
It’s made one in the past for me with some errors, but a framework I could work with.
It created an “interactive artifact” that wouldn’t work in the browser or their apps. Gaslit me for 3 revisions of me asking why it wasn’t working.
Created a text file that it wanted me to save as a .csv to import into excel that failed hilariously.
When I asked it to convert the csv to an excel file it apologized and told me it was ready. No file to download.
I asked where the file was and it apologized again and told me it couldn’t actually do spreadsheets and at that point I was out of paid credits for 4 more hours.
Mine is sitting on a shelf. I can’t even use it without the battery because it throttles when the only power source is the charger.
I keep it around to maybe scavenge the 4k touchscreen for a project or the ram for a family member’s under-specced laptop or maybe one day someone will crack the battery DRM…
I've seen quite a few various laptops with swollen batteries, and their users don't understand that can't habitually store their laptops in the sun (well, in sun rays through windows).
Those people also don't even realize their battery is swelling, and that it's a bad thing.
Additional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.
Dell will design the worst laptop power rail circuits, even after that awful power adapter barrel connector, and still DRM the battery to ensure they alone get revenue on things they designed to fail.
Also, those drones are essentially guided projectiles, and not even particularly expensive ones at that. What percentage of projectiles do you imagine successfully connect with their targets in combat?
New attack models are using shielded electronics that don't need GPS and are immune to traditional jamming. Relying on computer vision and old school navigation math.
Go ~X speed for Y distance(+/-) on Z heading until you reach A landmark and then start a new set of instructions.
Yeah, but not in ukraine. They brute forced fiber, fly by wire.
Dead reckoning via inertial sensors, cameras, etc are way to complex for the flight controllers without heavier hardware since theyre hugely inefficient.
AI at the sophistication to do this stuff is essentially bloatware. Like running electron instead of a bare metal gui.
Everything I’ve found about the drones in that conflict indicates they use automated navigation for pursuit once a target is locked, but human pilots before then.
you described two different steps: human pilots get to desired area and target locked. For the human part, if the drone isn't using fiber optic and is getting jammed (many types of jamming), the human pilot might not be able to communicate with the drone. If that's the case, how will the drone get to the desired area? that's where the two things i posted come into play.
I understand the technology and the purpose, in context. I’m curious about how they’re actually using this stuff because I haven’t seen anywhere say that they actually are.
Are we just immune to these headlines now because we don’t expect anything different from Microslop? Just an assumption that they’ll have a catastrophic failure once a quarter or more.
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