BillyClark

I got one a few years ago that had a setting to automatically go to a specified input when the TV started (similar to how normal TVs used to work).

My only mistake was leaving the TV connected to the network, as it updated and caused some hassle recently.

It’s pretty clear that you’re trolling at this point, and if you don’t think you’re trolling, then you may want to reflect on the fact that your opinions are indistinguishable from trolling. I block trolls, so you’re blocked.

AI and bots have officially taken over the Internet

This title makes no logical sense. An official statement about a thing has to come from the entity that is in charge of that thing. So, if AI and bots have taken over the internet, any official announcement would logically have to come from the AI or bots.

Did you really see “fuck cars” and expect it to be polite to car people? One time, I told a car guy that I enjoyed taking public transit, and he aggressively told me that I “could pry his car keys out of his cold dead hands.” I hadn’t even said anything about him or anybody else. I didn’t even know he was a car person. Car people are not going to cooperate and “work sensibly towards a better world.” They don’t give a shit about the world, and they don’t give a shit about you. And this is a place where we can shit on those evil people.

I’m sure there are plenty of communities where you can waste time working sensibly with people who don’t give a shit and will never change, and your message will surely resonate beautifully there. But here, we’re in the “fuck cars” community, so don’t try to tell me not to act that way in a place that is made for me to act that way.

This just sounds like you hate cars so much that you just want people who like cars to suffer out of pure spite.

You’re in a community called “fuck cars.” Are you an idiot?

Some types of harm that are caused or enabled by cars which are often overlooked:

• Children left in a hot car.
• Making it relatively easy to move a body in secret enables many murders.
• Cars create many occasions where strangers come into protracted isolated contact with each other. Things like cab drivers. Individuals in broken down cars on lonely roads. Prostitutes getting into cars. It enables a lot of serial killer shit.

It sounds like it has no negative effects. If anyone deserves bureaucracy, it’s car modders.

I used to have a grocery store that was about a 5 minute walk from my house, and even with a 5 minute walk, there were many things that I couldn’t buy from the grocery store and walk back. Heavy things or bulky things. So I brought my own cart for those things. I also once lived a 15 minute walk from a grocery store, and I simply biked there.

What I’m saying is that people figure these things out. A 15 minute walk isn’t bad for most people, even for groceries, but if it’s only 15 minutes, they can probably figure it out.

Even when I lived very close to the grocery, I still frequently took a bus to go to a different grocery store that I liked. So, that’s another option, living close to transit.

Don’t be a shit. You know what I meant. Things like seat covers.

This jives with my belief that street-legal cars should not be allowed to have any external or functional modifications. Basically, there is one version that was approved to be safe and street legal.

If you change the rims to be a different size, that alters several safety characteristics of the car, including its stability/balance and speedometer readings. If you add a spoiler, you’re changing its maneuverability. Even adding things like custom bumpers will change the fuel efficiency. Changing the engine or exhaust can change performance characteristics.

Basically, if you want to customize the car, you can change the interior. If you want to change other things, fine, but there’s no reason to let those things on public streets.

This would also have the advantage of giving “car guys” fewer things to be proud of, so presumably there would be fewer car guys going forward.

Pretty sure I saw advertisements on screens in bathrooms in American nightclubs and bars over twenty years ago. I think they didn’t have one per cubicle, though.

I have found that you can often go car free if you live and work near a University.

Is 16 minutes a long time for a walkable city? I always thought that the bar was something like 30 minutes, and 20 minutes was normal-ish.

I am a fan of city design that tries to keep total commute time, including walking and transit, under 30 minutes.

I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.

But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you’ve been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.

The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn’t even understand what’s difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn’t broadcast their ignorance publicly.

Even if it’s not entirely faked, you can instruct an AI to give you wrong answers to your questions. So unless you can see the entire conversation history, you can’t make any conclusions about a single response.

I imagine if somebody started a thread here that asked the same question, but said, “Wrong answers only,” people would find a lot of evidence that humans aren’t capable of figuring this out, either.

You were using the phrase correctly. “They can’t compete with it,” is the standard way of saying what you intended to say.

I was playing off of the normal meaning of your statement to make a turn of phrase. In other words, I am intentionally using weird phrasing, and placing it next to your normal phrasing for humor and impact.

It says that xAI lost their second cofounder, but then it turns out that he just left the company.

I never worked for Google, so I can’t say for sure, but I have this weird suspicion that they use a shitload of open source software, and I’m not just talking about their Android OS or Chromebooks, but for their most core businesses.

It wouldn’t be odd to think that Google might not exist except for their being able to use the open-source software that people had made before they founded their company.

The alternative is that they were complete idiots who paid for all sorts of retail software.

Of course Google hates open-source. They can’t compete with it.

Again, it’s just my supposition, but I’d bet that they can’t compete without it, either.

For any major tech company, apart from ones that are absolutely dedicated to proprietary software starting from firmware up through the OS and on to applications, like Microsoft and Apple, it’s going to be deeply hypocritical to hate open-source.

I noticed something similar with video. Like, if I am paying attention, the difference between the highest quality encoding and the next level is usually visible.

However, I have a harder time telling the difference if I don’t do a side by side comparison.

And even when I can easily tell the difference, once I’m watching the thing, I get into the story and I don’t care anyways.

Obviously a slightly different criteria compared to music, but people do make a big deal out of stuff that even they don’t actually care about.

I have wondered the same about scammers. Like, if their mother knew they were going to do that with their life, she’d probably regret all of that wasted effort raising them.