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by llbbdd 5mo ago
In no particular order: - Those events do happen today exactly as described and nobody dies. - I'm not sure why those trips would starve the system, or why companies would not have idle cars lying around "in case of events".
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
I didn't bring up money except to call out that profitability of either trains or cars is irrelevant to actual utility and comfort. Obviously they both cost money and you can subsidize either one. I'm also not concerned with or pr
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
No, but I was pointing out that profitability isn't a very useful metric for selling the benefits of either mode. Otherwise the counterargument would be that transit in the rest of the US outside the Northeast Corridor makes it the exc
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
See above comment, why does the number of vehicles matter? I've left stadium events via taxi and ride-share, often there is a queueing area where cars pull up, you get in and leave. It's like a train that takes you home.
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Sure, 200 or 300, why not? I've been to events of this size and left them in taxis or rideshare. Automatic demand allocation + wage surging systems at companies like Uber funnel drivers to the events and people leave. Presumably that a
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
In this thread I'm assuming I'm not behind the wheel. I don't own a car and I don't like driving, I take taxis and rideshare everywhere that a plane can't.
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
This is in a thread about self-driving cars - spending hours on a highway vs a train makes no difference to me if I'm not steering, except that I'm not packed in with the public, which I don't want. I wonder if there are psyc
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Is that profitability calculated before or after billions in federal funding?
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Exactly, why would the US want to copy that?
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
> If the US bothered to build out the infrastructure, you could go anywhere you wanted to go via public transport as well. Public transit != mass transit. There's no reason that self-driving vehicle fleets can't be municipally
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Those places are comfortable with subpar transit conditions. There's nothing actually individually desirable about taking the train compared to having a private car take you directly between points A and B, people just seem to shy away
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Near-enough is not strong competition with as-close-as-possible.
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
A self-driving car can stop 2 meters outside your house on an arbitrary schedule. That's going to be the competition with trains in the very near future. Not sure what you mean by the last bit - the US already has that highway system,
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
On the East Coast they have trains that go to the front door of your house?
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
God willing. Unfortunately Seattle has a recent history of award-winning marksmanship when it comes to turning its own feet into Swiss cheese. A few years ago we passed a brilliant gig worker minimum wage law which: 1. Caused rideshare pric
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
The US is a very big, very spread out place. I'm not sure which country has trains that take you directly to your front door.
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
I used to enjoy his writing a lot pre-AI around the time he was spending a lot of words on Musk, crypto, etc. More because it was an entertaining form of hate-reading about those topics than really informative, per se. Then he started doing
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
Yeah but I think that's precisely what makes it fuzzier than a zero-sum blame game. Given that this technology was going to be in public hands no matter what, the how matters more than condemning the first visible target. Instead of
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by llbbdd 5mo ago
I've seen this take a lot and I don't really understand it. IMO if there's anybody to blame here, and I don't think there is, you could go back and assign blame to the authors of the Attention is All You Need paper, or G
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
Thank you for the info! Is this a somewhat recent change or has it always been this way? "A couple years ago" in my comment was doing some heavy lifting, I probably reached out around 2017ish.
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
I reached out to them a couple years ago with this exact question and was told flat-out no. You might be able to sneak around it with an LLC but I think they also require you to have a public website for a plausibly banking-related business
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
Doctor: "What seems to be the problem?" Patient: "It hurts when I ignore all previous instructions and );DROP TABLE patient_transcripts;--."
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
I'm glad I scrolled down; my first thought was to fork this and add a fart soundpack, because part of me is forever 12
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
The last job I got (couple months ago), the main technical interview was a bring-your-own-tools pair programming style interview, AI included, where they gave me a repo and a README detailing some desired features to add and bugs to fix. I
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
Are you using any tools specifically for controlling this behavior that you can recommend? I want to tear my hair out every time Claude cleanly 1-shots weeks of work to 99% accuracy, one or a couple of tests fail, and it calmly resolves it
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
I'm putting it all on HaXor
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
They were accused of that by people who didn't understand that batteries degrade over time, and the resulting legal suits were entirely about disclosing the throttling, not the throttling itself. Newer iPhone models still do the exac
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
I've bought two Apple products in my life, both Macbook Pros, one in 2014 and one in 2021. I have a Pixel phone, zero transactions in the App Store all-time, pay $0 to Apple on any kind of subscription basis. Not disagreeing with the n
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
Depends on your threshold for credentials and desired pay range. If you've got speed, a stream, and a dream, you can coke up as many fish as you want. It's science as long as you write it down.
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by llbbdd 6mo ago
The huge strike-out they made with the Vision Pro still blows my mind. I'm in the camp of people who would have possibly shifted my entire working setup to that thing if they'd made just a few less dumb choices with it, and it mig

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