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by 0_____0 1y ago
In Massachusetts, USA, red light cameras were illegal until very recently, due to a 70s era law specifying that a live policeman had to issue a citation for something like that. From well before traffic cameras were common.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
This is only true in the region served by Acela that is south of NYC. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is taking Amtrak from BOS to DC unless there's a really good extenuating circumstance.
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I took Amtrak from Boston South Station to Montpelier. You have to go south to Connecticut before you can get the Vermonter. The Vermonter was canceled due to contention with a disabled Metro North (or something...) and my connecting train
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by 0_____0 1y ago
I am traveling by Amtrak in a few days. You should not consider Amtrak unless desperate. Even then, generally a bus would be better. Amtrak does not exist. It legally has to exist but it is worse than useless, because it pretends that it mi
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by 0_____0 1y ago
If you turn off YouTube view history, it breaks Shorts. It also breaks a lot of other shit (e.g. back button after you've clicked a video from a search).
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by 0_____0 1y ago
It's unlikely that the current LLMs are conscious, but where the boundary of conscious lies for these machines is a slippery problem. Can a machine have experiences with qualia? How will we know if one does? So we have a few things hap
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Hm, yes I agree that winner-take-all is not necessary. A viable monetization strategy is. Meta and Google have this through their ad business, and I think it's possible that some other smaller players might bring in revenue by targetin
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Looking at this thread, it's pretty obvious that most folks here haven't really given any thought as to the nature of consciousness. There are people who are thinking, really thinking about what it means to be conscious. Thought
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by 0_____0 1y ago
That isn't unique to PG&E. Clear across the country, my utility bill is close to 60% transmission fees. Also what are you doing? Running a flux capacitor?
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I believe Google might win the LLM game simply because they have the infrastructure to make it profitable - via ads . All the LLM vendors are going to have to cope with the fact that they're lighting money on fire, and Google have the
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Do you ride motorcycles or is this just conjecture? You seem to be reaching for things to convince yourself of the danger. You can reduce the danger of rear impacts on the highway, again, by lane splitting at a bit over the prevailing speed
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by 0_____0 1y ago
58km long, 6km diameter cylinder. 60km is about the distance from central San Jose to SF, as the crow flies.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Yes, and . You always leave yourself an out. Oncoming unprotected lefts are the most dangerous feature of city streets, and good motorcyclists learn to be extremely wary of their users. Re: stopping in front of you - this is one reason why
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by 0_____0 1y ago
My commute from Oakland to SF was 20-25 minutes in rush hour (1hr in a car), without having to do anything particularly sketchy, just by filtering/lane splitting. If you're looking at USA stats, you should know that there are many
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Yeah if you watch crits you can tell from a still image whether it's fast or not by looking at the grouping. It strings out into a line when it's fast.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Maybe a nit, but In Illinois it's unlikely that what's being farmed goes into people's mouths generally. Corn (not your sweet corn, but field corn) and soy mostly go into other industries e.g. biofuels, animal feed, chemical
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by 0_____0 1y ago
PWM itself is fine!!! I have no idea why they set the PWM frequency so low. Even setting it to something like incredibly low like 1kHz would have solved the problem. In electronics land you almost have to try to get frequencies that low o
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by 0_____0 1y ago
the ubiquity of keurig machines really does speak to this.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Maybe it'll be over my house. Oh goody I'll get to watch!!
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by 0_____0 1y ago
If you disable YouTube history, it completely removes shorts. It also breaks functionality in surprising ways (breaks back button behavior - the petty bastards)
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by 0_____0 1y ago
That one was flying around 60,000ft and weighed probably about 1 ton. Very different kind of balloon. It was shot down by an F22 with an AIM-9 Air-to-air missile. This is the highest altitude air-to-air kill known, and the first combat kill
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Even if it made sense to try to take out a balloon, the missiles that can reach 80,000ft+ are tens of million dollars a piece, and not that many countries have access to that type of missile tech.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Kill kill kill and discard grains. We have taken to freezing all grains that come in (flour, rice, bird seed) for at least a week before releasing it into the pantry.
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Or medical devices. Or aviation/spaceflight. Or automotive. It turns out there's actually quite a bit of precedent for doing actual Software Engineering, versus what most of the software world seem to be doing (presumably rotating
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by 0_____0 1y ago
There were similar connector standards that preceded 38999, e.g. MIL-DTL-5015 as far back as the 30's, which evolved into a couple of subsequent standards, with 38999 emerging in the 70's. Edit: just realized you were maybe referr
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Shall we do the math on this? Pogi's Zone 2 power is apparently around 320W. That puts his FTP around 500. Assume he's doing a climb at tempo, say 6W/kg based on system weight. The power density to beat for your mechanical do
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Is this China sort of poking/probing the US? The world of international boundskeeping is interesting to me but I don't really have the context to know what China would mean by this, assuming it was intentional (130nm of penetratio
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by 0_____0 1y ago
Or by doing even a slight amount of encoding of the IR signal. Transmitting a single byte as a key (set by region, same as fire dept. elevator keys) would be enough to prevent people from using their TV remote controls or whatever to trip t
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by 0_____0 1y ago
IIRC Apple computers can be put into Target Disk Mode, which lets a host computer rifle through its contents as if it is a dumb disk drive
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It is fascinating to me how 'hackers' went from being people who operated at the margins of established technology (2600, Capn Crunch anyone?), to being the literal establishment, in the sense that probably a good chunk of the &#x

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