SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
6hr ago
4-lane divided highways are signed at 100 km/h or less
The normal speed limit on highways is 120 km/h. 100 km/h is only during winter time.
SkoomaDentist
14hr ago
discourage people from driving giant SUVs and pickup trucks they can't handle too fast.
There's a local saying that nobody is in as big hurry as the guy driving a company van. It's not uncommon to see such vans passing you at 20 km / h above the limit on a highway. They seem to have around 150 to 200 hp if I'm reading wikipedia right.
SkoomaDentist
16hr ago
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Yes. This should be automatic.
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Yes, mostly. The exception would be rolling at fast walking speed instead of stopping completely at a stop sign if you can see the road is completely empty.
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Driving 5-10 km / h above the limit on roads leads to smoother and safer traffic. OTOH on residential streets the speed should often be slower than the limit because of pedestrians, people getting into / out of cars and so on.
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Yes, no. Cutting people off or riding a bumper are unsafe and should never be tolerated. Flashing lights or other such signal should be normalized for people who drive unnecessarily slowly on the left lane.
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Only if you can do it safely, ie. there is enough space for your car and they start giving you more space when you start entering that lane.
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No.
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People who drive slower than traffic or overtake slower than the speed limit on the left lane should be ostracized significantly unless there's an obvious mitigating factor. A slowish bus overtaking a tractor is fine. A normal car slowly overtaking a truck that drives 20 km / h below the speed limit is not. If the second driver can't overtake at speed limit, they should just stick to the right lane.
OTOH driving slowly on the right lane is always ok unless it's actually endangering other drivers' safety.
SkoomaDentist
16hr ago
You have a point there. I will pray to the Emperor for forgiveness.
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
If only there was a way to get that effect on every ”provider” that insists on shoving AI slop to my face in their ”tools”…
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
Should have thrown in another three days FOR USING ALL CAPS. My eyes are burning.
It looks like we need to call in the Ordo Hereticus Malleus to prevent a spread of the Chaos infesfation. The Emperor protects.
She does half-assed twitter polls. That is not data science. I don't know of anything she's done that could accurately be described as data science.
But she posts fancy looking diagrams, so that totally makes it data science, right? /s
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
The US should have dealt with Iran decades ago.
How, though?
Iran is mountaineous and has a large population, so a traditional war would have been protracted instead of something like the Irak war where the army surrendered effectively immediately.
SkoomaDentist
1d ago
Yet more evidence in favor of my approach to automatically dismiss the writings of any people I see regularly mentioned here but not in general newspapers.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Unflortunately I haven’t looked into that. I suspect they wouldn’t perform particularly well unless it was almost a solo piano piece.
I use Ultimate Vocal Remover to remove vocals and reduce the volume of drums and bass to make it easier to hear what the guitar is doing and I combine that with Zplane Decoda (shows rough chords and allows transposing and changing speed on the fly) for practising playing along to songs.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
The market is willing to bear that 7e and the European online stores have few sales. Then people wonder why customers are ordering from China…
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Word limit would be a good first step. Anyone exceeding it should be required to start with a one or two paragraph abstact that summarizes their point.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
As far as I can tell, those two are technically identical,
You’re thinking of generative fill.
Content aware fill is a much simpler neural network that runs locally (even without a gpu) and doesn’t understand scenes as such, just local shapes and patterns. Ironically it (or the similar remove tool) is also often more useful because it won’t try to generate new objects and isn’t behind Adobe’s ridiculously oversensitive censorship filter.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Or to put it another way, if someone drove a car like many Cyclists ride bikes, they’d get the cops called on them within moments and lose their license.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
acceleration I’d heard the theory but wondered if the rise of e-bikes had made acceleration less of a faff.
There’s a very simple trick to making acceleration less of a faff that was ubiquituous back in the 90s where I live: Drive slower.
It only takes a few pushes of the pedals to get back to speed that’s still much faster than walking.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Which would make even such trivial things as using Lightroom / Photoshop generative erase to remove wires or small objects ”illegal” as they use a diffusion model to inpaint the selected area.
I used to bike all the time until the end of high school in the mid 90s when I got a job in the neighbouring city and started my university studies here in Finland. What strikes me as the main difference and not something covered in comments is that back then cycling was mostly an improved alternative to walking or short bus rides. You could travel faster and cover longer distance than by walking. The speeds were moderate and not particularly important and having to stop at a crossing was barely more annoying than as a pedestrian. You might go for a longer ride the same way you’d go out for a long walk / run. Some people would bike to work if the weather was good but considered that a hobby. If the weather was shit, you took the bus (or drove a car). Nobody sane would bike when there was any significant amount of snow and ice on the ground. The only way anyone considered being a cyclist as an ”identity” was the same way some people were tennis players or runners.
Today there are people who ride bikes as back then but the public discussion is dominated by a new group who are Cyclists. Ie. people who make cycling a replacement for a car and a core part of their identity. They demand that everyone accommodate their wish to be able to get everywhere by bike fast. Speed is of essence. If cars or pedestrians get in the way, that’s their problem, not the cyclists’. Having to slow down and stop for crossings is considered a travesty and insult towards cycling. The same goes for having the bike lane change to the other side of the road. The unofficial uniform is tight spandex clothes.
By and large nobody over here has a problem with people who just casually ride a bike. Cyclists OTOH get well deserved hate.
Scandinavian working class or small business types spend huge amounts of money importing and fueling pick up trucks
These are extreme outliers and really rare for the simple reason that US style pickup trucks solve the problem of hauling stuff or people around in a very poor way. They’re expensive, huge & heavy (a major problem when trying to drive or park them) and don’t protect the cargo. People who need to haul large amounts of cargo buy either a van or a trailer. People who need to regularly carry people and regular goods buy a station wagon.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
In a similar vein I needed a USB isolator. The price from Aliexpress including postage was 7e. From western stores the same product (marginally different plastic case, identical innards using ubiquituous Analog Devices isolator IC reference design, almost certainly produced in China) would have cost me 40e and 10-20e postage. People can talk about undervalued currency but that doesn’t explain the nearly 10x price difference.
That really depends on what you mean by "non-toy AI".
Do things like AI noise reduction and music stem separation count? I use both regularly. DeepL is very convenient for translating random languages to English.
I don't use LLMs as I have little use for very limited tools that require massaging long prompts that might or might not kinda-sorta do something helpful if I spend a lot of effort at it.
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
Have you looked at how much China’s GDP has risen?
SkoomaDentist
8d ago
I doubt anything particularly serious will actually develop from this but if it does, it will be glorious. I'm going to need to stock up on popcorn.
SkoomaDentist
11d ago
How dare you suggest anything like that?!
How on earth is always using a turn signal "totally useless and actively harmful"?
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