I assume the ‘engineer’ has never seen a road or drove a car, because even if we assume more infrastructure will solve induced demand, and even if everyone’s going at a nice 30mph, this intersection is gonna go at like 3 accidents/minute.

I’m currently back to Win+R and either whatever I want to start or CMD, because I have to work with a bunch of Windows PCs for my job and about 30% or so will randomly decide to crash the Explorer or at least the searchbar.

On a tangent; just yesterday I had to out-bug two bugs with another two bugs, to get a notebook to almost do what I want. It’s great.

So, you have never driven on the Autobahn, you say?

Deep in our hearts, it’s real.

Are you on Tesseract?

It has almost never failed. We added 254092 ifelse statements, ensuring every possible state will be dealt with. It only fails if the user does something unexpected, like clicking too fast. Damn. That makes 254093.

Don’t forget:

“conventionally attractive” and “ugly and woke”

Just wanted to say the exact same thing.

Projects can be treated like games too. You had some fun, learned a bunch, challenged yourself, and when there’s only uninteresting stuff left; why bother?

Most of that knowledge was only deleted but not saved in any other way […]

That was perhaps the saddest part about leaving Reddit. I also opted for the edit-and-delete approach, because I didn’t want Reddit to use my posts to train LLMs. But man. Years of trying to be helpful, sometimes really going out of my way to address something properly; gone.

But honestly, I don’t know of any alternative. Even if I archived everything, it wouldn’t be as accessible to anyone as it used to be on Reddit.

Reddit had (and imo still has) a monopoly on searchable advice from strangers. There’s a reason they wanted Reddits data to train LLMs.

I mean, they are leaning.

I don’t know if I’d have them learning at like 15mph into a civilian car, against buildings and at billboards.

Unless they are also learning about insurance policies.

Edit: ensurance → insurance

A friend had his American friend come to visit him last year and they had me over to chill.

At some point he told a joke that didn’t land and excused himself over nothing. So I said, completly straight faced, “Oh, I’m sorry, that was really funny, this is just how we laugh around here”.

It was probably funnier in the moment, but the next ten minutes was me trying to keep a straight face while he was trying to get me to laugh. We were both in on the joke and it was hysterical.

Like, this is by all means a dumb stereotype. But it’s pretty harmless. And if you laugh at it, it literally disproves itself.

Nein, der Witz ist, dass Deutsche keinen Humor hätten. Das ist aber nur trizen und nicht ernst gemeint.

In dem Fall ist’s fast noch witziger, weil du den Witz erst genommen hast. Nimm das nicht übel. ^^

record heat wave

“we always had those”

I want fabulous secret powers.

But it pitches up and down with the vehicles speed.

I fucking hate the current- and probably next-gen slop. Modern cell phone cameras rely on computational photography, since the software based solution of guessing what’s there is much easier than expanding the physical optics and sensors.

But that also leads to artifacts that are very similar to AI-generated bullshit, because both are based on a computer making guesses based on a noisy input.

I hate that I can’t tell the difference between a cell phone’s bad guess and a data center’s really good guess.

Wait, deleting a post removes alle comments?

Like in deleting them aswell?

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Well, there’s “Imagine how cool that would be, bro”.

And they are kinda right, if you imagine it a fair bit cooler than it would actually be…, bro.

Other than that, you’d have to pretty much disregard anything learned from this. And you’d have to disregard the entire issue of getting rid of heat, powering a power hungry system that’s in earths shadow half the time, maintaining a server farm that’s constantly 500-1500km away from any technician and also in a vacuum, along with managing a solar flares, 500ms of latency and bits of sand traveling at 10km/s hitting your servers - oh and your boss being on drugs half the time.

But it’s not all robot wolves!

Why is she choosing the bear over the robot wolf that makes no sense. The bear is clearly stronger!

(just in case)

Electronics are mostly solid state and are therefore virtually wear-free.

If it’s designed well, they could actually be more reliable than pushing fluids through tubes. But pushing fluids through tubes is already pretty fucking reliable.

I think the main point is to eliminate rusting brake discs from EVs, which rely largely on regenerative braking anyway. I know mine are constantly crusty; like I can always hear them scraping for the first few hundred meters of driving. Which is prolly not great.