This idea sounds really bussin

I did do that but manually removed the “cross posted to” thing. Guest that undoes whatever process identifies as a cross post.

YES THAT’S THE ONE! Thank you!

Damn, seeing that cover unlocked a whole wave of nostalgia.

No. That only solves some of the issues, and creates brand new ones.

You haven’t solved the inherent inefficiencies of having everyone sit in their own cars. The same bottlenecks will still exist and will still cause congestion, only with automation you can have slightly more capacity because it’s taking out the delays between one driver moving and the driver behind reacting and starting to move as well.

All the issues with tires rubbing asphalt creating micro rubber particles will stay, as will the massively cost ineffective infrastructure needed to support mass car travel like freeway interchanges, as will the fact that you need orders of magnitude more materials to manufacture enough cars to do the job of just a few hundred trains.

And having the cars autonomous will make them even more vulnerable to cyber attacks than modern cars already are.

Also, trains are even easier to automate than cars. I live in Vancouver and we’ve had autonomous trains since 1986.

Whoa the font on the Lemmy web UI actually renders them differently!

Fair enough

Would probably be more effective to mess with Linux config files that use semicolons. Especially if it’s run as a daemon because Systemctl doesn’t always return helpful error messages for configuration errors.

You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you’re using Firefox in general make them think you’re a bot. But actually they’ve already decided you’re definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.

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School is meant to introduce you to a wide variety of fields and disciplines to help you choose a career. You might not have had any interest in geometry, but at least some of your classmates did and they may well be architects or engineers by now. Meanwhile, you probably had other things in school you liked but the other kids didn’t, which almost certainly influenced the kinds of jobs you want as an adult.

Even a poet should have at least a basic understanding of how an engine works

On the other hand, writers/artists trying to incorporate science and technology into their art while not actually understanding how the science/technology works are hilarious to the people that do.

(And I say this both as someone who somewhat knows technology and as an amateur sci-fi writer who definitely gets a ton of stuff wrong.)

People thinking knowledge outside their career is useless is how we ended up with flat earthers, climate change deniers, anti vaxxers, anti maskers, and 5G conspiracy theorists. Most of those people are not objectively stupid, but they work in industries not closely related to science and instead of trying to learn how science actually works, they just blindly go with their assumptions and post their own opinions online thinking they’re just as much an authority on it as the actual experts. And then more people ignorant of science end up thinking their intuition makes more sense than the published knowledge so they start denying science too.

Don’t ask Churchill about his undue sympathy toward captured Nazi soldiers either

Potatoes will also just start sprouting without any water or soil. Just using the stored nutrients. It doesn’t give a shit.

In elementary school, when I was still learning English as an immigrant, I read about a third of this book about a society that criminalized every kind of candy under the guise of being healthy. Like actually criminalized, the book talks about how kids caught with candy are sent for “rehabilitation” and any adults selling candy to kids are imprisoned for life. It wasn’t until I was older did I realize it was most likely commentary on the War on Drugs and now I really want to finish it but don’t remember what it’s called.

You weren’t allowed to criticize the dead queen or the new king for a pretty long while too IIRC.

If something is already a monopoly/duopoly, that means it’s managed to manipulate the government/legal system. Even in capitalist legal systems there are “supposed” to be regulations against that. So if they’re circumventing them and/or the government never enforced them to begin with, they’re not playing by the rules in the first place and there is very little you can do within the system to stop it.

Text generation has many valid use cases and I use it on a day to day basis, but image generation as much fewer valid use cases and much more malicious ones.

Do you not extend the same sympathy to writers as you do visual artists?

“Reportedly”

“Planning”

“Annex”

Can any journalists enlighten me? When you write headlines with these super passive terms for the worst atrocity of our generation, do you genuinely think those are the most appropriate and good faith words to describe what’s happening or does your boss make you do this?