Arn_Thor

Those people are so exhausting. I work with one.

Sure but that needs to be set up and configured. I just don’t think there’s enough time in the scenario for ATC to guide a non-pilot to do it. And if they got that guidance, why no flaps and gears? I am quite convinced the pilots themselves had control of the aircraft.

I don’t think water is preferable to a runway, gear or not. Both will be very hard surfaces indeed at the right speed, and water has additional hazards that more than make up for the fact it has more space.

They seemed perfectly lined up with the runway and descended at the right pace though. That’d be real tough for a non-pilot to achieve.

They don’t send the photo. They send some encrypted metadata to which some noise is added. The metadata can be loosely understood as “I have this photo that looks sort of like this”. Then the server takes that encrypted data from the anonymized device and responds something like “that looks like the Eiffel Tower” and sends it back to the device. The actual photo never goes to the server.

Always did

Fair enough. Hadn't thought of it that way

I think we were due another

The South emits a lot producing products consumed in the North

Doing regenerative farming does not mean abandoning half a century of knowledge and technological progress. Rather, it is using all we now know and know how to do to heal the land and maximizing output. In a lot of cases yes, the output may be smaller of some crops, but the net total calories extracted might not be that different.

Not to mention, if your land is all but barren and it requires fertilizers to grow, when prices spike or supply disappears and the farmer can’t afford to plant…the output is zero.

Apples and oranges. We can produce a lot of food without turning all of it into ultra-processed products stuffed with high-fructose corn syrup.

It’s not fast but if your transcript doesn’t have to get out ASAP it’s fine

Got it. Makes sense in that context

Whisper runs so well locally on any hardware I’ve thrown at it, why run it in the cloud?

That, and/or freeway speeds make the situation inherently more dangerous. When the traffic flows freeway speeds are fine but if a freeway-speed car has to handle a stationary object…problem.

Why? I would hope we all expect pedestrian detection (and object detection in general) to be just as good on a freeway as on a city street? It seems the Tesla barreled full-speed into an accident ahead of it. I would call it insane but that would be anthropomorphizing it.

Everybody say it with me: “privatization of natural monopolies is dumb and wasteful!”

When you rent each carriage from a rolling stock company you’re incentivized to run as short trains as possible to keep them as full as a sardine can. Renationalize the whole lot.

That is so the wrong approach. If I’m very reductive, I could say that if we automate everything there would be no one to commute left. Staffing is good for people: for safety, information, help for the vulnerable, expertise, robustness of the system, etc.

Perhaps some public services can’t turn a profit but are still necessary. Perhaps they can turn a profit if even more people use them. Perhaps other economic models are needed for these companies, see for example Singapore and Hong Kong where the rail company owns the land at stations and are allowed to develop there which funds the network and incentivizes buildout.

When you say “carbon abatement” do you mean carbon credits/cleanup or other ways of emitting less of it in the first place?

“Company culture”… that’s the word they use for sure. Often it’s ego, sunk cost fallacies and other things that have to do with the culture in the C suite for sure. Pay people well and treat them with respect and you’ll end up with good and loyal employees, as always.

I'd really like to know where this was or see some pictures of it. It's almost inconcievable that something designed like a roundabout would be more dangerous. It might indeed cause more accidents due to the kind of confusion you describe, but at the very least the angles and grading should lower speeds dramatically and result in fewer deadly accidents.

Citation needed. Otherwise you’re just gatekeeping the term

This makes the blood boil

There is something deeply fondly nostalgic about looking at that ANSI color table

Plastic is widely used, but it doesn't have to be as widely used. Certainly, there are many applications where it's essential (medical, food safety), but a lot of applications where it just happens to be the cheapest and/or most convenient option. By raising the cost we are leveling the playing field for other options.

The most pressing example is fast fashion. The clothes are too cheap, incentivising use-and-bin behavior, and they also don't last because they're cheap synthetics. Cotton is relatively more expensive, but at the very least lasts longer. The race to the bottom must be halted.

I did say “the optimistic scenario”, not “the only/likely scenario”

What’s bad for US semiconductor manufacturing (I.e. a poor and cash starved Intel) buys China more time to catch up to frontier fab tech. If Qualcomm buys Intel, the optimistic scenario (for the US) is a stronger domestic player.

Sure. But they’re not giving the user a choice in the matter. Also, it’s transcoded on the device as it’s backing up, which is the last thing I want to spend battery power on. My NAS is on and plugged into the wall 24/7 for a reason

thanks for the reply