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PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
I enjoyed The Right Stuff narrated by Dennis Quaid.
pusher_robot
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4d ago
This is a sensible signal but the implementation around me has been terrible. The left turn signal is a 3-stack of arrows, green, yellow, and red. The first part of the turn is a protected left, so it's a green arrow during this segment. Near the end of the protected left segment, it switches to solid yellow for 3 seconds. Now, my expectation would be that if the next period is unprotected turning, it would flash yellow, and it does, but not before turning solid red for 1 second. Every time I start proceeding on the yellow, expecting it to turn flashing, the solid red causes me to stomp the brakes in case I've made a mistake and the direction is changing. It's infuriating, and I wonder if anybody else has this terrible implementation in their area.
(My preference would be for it to transition immediately from green to flashing yellow - why do we need a warning that we're about to proceed with caution?)
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PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
4d ago
Elonism?
The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2023
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4d ago
3-4 years seems reasonable to me.
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5d ago
We "won" in the same sense that we "won" in Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan. No one would argue those countries scored any kind of military or economic or political defeat against the US. And yet. Does anyone really think we "won" those conflicts? That we achieved our objectives and it was so worth it that we'd do it again if we had it to do over? That we couldn't have spent national treasure on better purposes?
Probably very few but that's precisely because we lost focus of the ends and the means. Would the actual outcome we achieved in Vietnam be viewed as a success if our involvement involved airstrikes and bombardment for 30 days? Would Afghanistan be viewed as a success if the outcome that was achieved didn't drag on with troops getting attacked on the ground for years on end? I think it clearly would have!
So if we actually toppled their regime, or at least crushed them so thoroughly that they became a non-player in the region, and we will never, ever have to worry about an Iranian nuclear program again, I'd have considered it a questionable but at least definable victory.
In other words, if we achieved something literally impossible (guaranteeing something forever), in almost no time and with no cost, you might consider that a victory. This attitude is the problem. This extreme bias against any action, the absurd, over-the-top status quo bias, is going to kill our civilization.
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PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
5d ago
No, the only cost is a minuscule amount of electricity. I would probably join in, time permitting. I've tested the headless multi-player server in the past. It works well and has a nice feature that it auto-pauses when nobody is connected.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
6d ago
I have an always-on server with gig fiber (and own space age) if you need someone to host the multiplayer
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
6d ago
It's not obvious to me that this would be a worse outcome than them deploying nuclear ballistic missiles.
Amazon already has, for most intents and purposes, a guaranteed job paying meager but livable wages for anyone willing to work. They get zero gratitude for this.
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