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Another AI slop article urging me to use AI on the orange AI fanboy site which has guidelines against AI slop comments, but AI slop submissions, that's just fine I reckon... Screenshot since the share button demands I have some social media login.

https://imgur.com/a/UW15xVE

The cost of ownership goes WAY up immediately after the warranty expires. I owned one car. A Ford I purchased brand new. I have no more desire to ever own a car. That experience taught me all I ever needed to know about cars. They are an endless money pit. Everyone I know who drives is poorer for it.

>owning a car means less time spent on transportation

See, that's how drivers think. "I need to spend less time in transportation", because it's miserable for them. You don't even consciously think about it, but subconsciously, you hate being in that car. I like riding the train. It's fun. Even the old Amtrak trains are fun to ride. I can enjoy a beer if I want. There's one cute conductor who flirts with me. I'm not getting any of that in a car.

>Lots of people prefer the lifestyle.

How many "prefer" it because they have never tried any other way. Sitting there alone, rage listening to talk radio in gridlock. No thanks. Cars are antisocial. Been there, done that, I don't care for it.

I hear the cope though, about how cars are "freedom" and can "go anywhere," but when you don't have a car for a while, you begin to realize how cars are the opposite of freedom. Cars are an anchor. Everywhere you go, you have to worry about where to put the car. You can't get too far away from the car. If you have to feed a parking meter, you can barely get a block away from the car. Can't even finish the movie, let's go back to the parking meter. You always have to go back to the car, you can't just continue on your journey and leave it behind. That's not an option. Go back to the car.

Once you have no need for a car, only then do you realize what a slave you were to the car.

>closed due to depopulation

Meanwhile, there's more people in the city of Tokyo than nearly the whole continent of Australia :) Japan's population is concentrating into a handful of big cities. I mean, who wants to live in a small town when there are endless options for shopping, restaurants, etc in the big city? It's not like in the US where big cities are dangerous. There's not much of a positive tradeoff for choosing small town life in Japan. Maybe you think you want to be a big land baron as all Americans seem to desire, but then you find out that undeveloped land in Japan is heavily taxed with property taxes. If you are not doing something very productive with Japan's limited land, Japan wants you to move your arse off it and let someone with a plan work it. Anyway, as rural areas empty out, the local rail lines close. JR is however building lots of bullet trains to connect the big cities. There is a new bullet train line opening soon between Shin-Hakodate and Sapporo for instance. It will probably be extended from Sapporo up to Asahikawa after that.

The "decline" you mention is privatization of JR and their efforts to make it more profitable. Privatization started in 1987, but it wasn't fully privatized until 2006.

If it has anything to do with babies, you have your cause and effect reversed. Autos are a cause of declining birth rates...

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731812

So a reduction in trains causes a reduction in birth rates, not the other way around.

>people getting wealthier and buying cars

Haha, my experience is people buying cars feel poorer, not wealthier. Car payments, maintenance, insurance, taxes, fuel... and as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL. Time to start paying for the next one.

Oh, someone is jealous. His country will never be responsible for the longest underwater tunnel in the world. How will he continue to tell himself he is the greatest country? :)

It would be interesting to see a negative bar with station closures as well. And some way to zoom the map would be nice.

As a point of interest, I'll mention Tōgeshita station. A station in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, a station would exist purely because that's where trains needed to pass one another. Tōgeshita was one of those.

Whenever I passed the station, it was strange, almost a creepy feeling. I think it could have been a great plot for a Japanese horror movie, something in a "Blair Witch Project" style... the old one car train slows to a stop. The door opens, no one dares get off there. Except you, with your portable camera, a cavalier exit from the train. The conductor casts you a side eye with a dead pan 'arigato goziamasu.' The creaky diesel train car slowly pulls away and you're left there stranded for the next few hours until the return train comes around. I wonder what I'll find in the forest just beyond those trees....

You've mistaken "a lot of money" with "intelligence." Which is why I think the AI crowd really really wants this magical machine god thing to succeed. Then they can really have money = intelligence whilst keeping the rest of us poor and stupid. You know, like how they used to prevent literacy among the slaves.

Reading the EU commenters' opinions is strange to me.

>Good! I'm glad I can't have new and improved!

In the US, we basically see this as a shakedown by foreign governments against our successful companies. It really is a matter of "build your own iPhone" you guys. You had Nokia, so don't tell me you can't compete globally. I'm pretty fed up with Google and Apple personally, so please do deliver me a nice EU phone with sd card, removable battery, unlocked sims, usb-c, and all the other nice things your regulators demand.

I'm reminded of a statistic I read. 75% of the time you will spend with your child happens by age 12. I think I would eschew the phones until 13, purely because I'd never get that time back. Once they're adolecents and "too cool" to hang out with parents anymore, then fine, here's your phone, don't kill yourself.

Anyway, let's not assume everyone is a parent and ruin the whole online world with rules to "protect the children" made by the same people that never arrested any Epstein clients. We know they're not doing it to protect children. Let's not even pretend they are.

Hah, I speed ran that process when I graduated with a useless degree back in the dotcom days. I graduated and gave up any hope within 3 months. I was working at the shopping mall selling suits after that. I've since told anyone who will listen that college degrees are worthless and school loan debts are the kiss of death. Not many will listen, but I try.

Amendment 10 of the US Constitution:

>The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Where in the Constitution does it delegate authority over AI to the federal government? Just curious.

9 points in 30 minutes and not on the front page, yeah, this is getting [flagged] for sure.

>OK, so this is important not because it comes from Microsoft.

No, it IS important because it comes from Microsoft.

>If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. - Linus Torvalds

Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine this would happen. Microsoft spent a decade trying to kill Linux via SCO lawfare. Linux has won. Microsoft is completely and utterly defeated.

I copied the first three paragraphs into gptzero and it says mostly human.

>writing all code by hand

This is now officially a pet peeve of mine. I don't write code "by hand" I write code "by brain." A craftsman who does something "by hand" actually needs manual skills to produce that carved wood thing. Even if you know what you want and know what it looks like, you need skill with your hands to make it happen.

Software is not like this. I don't need typing skill, the IDE autocompletes most of it for me. I think about what I want and it becomes reality. If you were using a bare text editor and typing out getters and setters your whole career, sorry, you were just doing it wrong. No wonder you love AI.

I don't feel sorry for the US broadcasters who received free airwaves for HD broadcast and instead shipped 4 channels of SD instead during the Digital Television Transition. They need to be reminded. It's as bad as a government where you pay them money that's supposed to be earmarked for retirement only to find the account empty at retirement time.

Microsoft owns Github and Windows, makes sense. "Security researchers" love attention however, and I'm going to guess this one knew it would happen and is now making hay on the fact that it did. Now let me roll out the tired authoritarian excuses to wrap up the thread.

>It's a private company. They can do what they want.

>Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences.

>Build your own github.

Did I miss any?

Cash broke the gold barrier a while ago. A $100 bill weighs one gram, whereas one gram of gold is now $145 at today's spot price. https://www.kitco.com/charts/gold

That's a very dangerous position for a fiat currency to be in. You are concerned about which banana republic politician is on the bill. I'm concerned about carting a wheelbarrow full of worthless paper to the grocery for a loaf of bread. We're not the same.

Can you put aside the TDS long enough to let us get a bill large enough to buy groceries? Can you? I promise you can change the picture to whoever you want as soon as he's out of office.

>but Democrats vow to block move

Can't say I'm surprised. Digital currency and zero privacy cashless society is what they've been working on for decades.

I used to get so angry about the RIAA and their shenanigans, but 20 years later, I realize I got that wrong. You see, I thought "information wants to be free" and the RIAA was getting in the way of that. What I didn't realize is that "free information" was not part of the plan from any side of the fight. The file sharing apps were just there to bankrupt the old record labels so asshole techbros could buy them up for pennies on the dollar and create spotify/youtube subscriptions on the same not-free information.

The information was never going to be free, but techbro assholes took what was a great career, literally the Rockstar, and made it pay about as well as a starbucks barista position. Six million impressions buys you a sandwich. I really should have sided with the RIAA back then. They were indeed the lesser evil.

Is it too late to stop that happening? Nobody wants maven + yaml or whatever else they will add. XML is the correct format.

But Linux doesn't have wiring exposed for all applications on the command line, any more than any other OS. That isn't a requirement for applications to run on Linux. For example, the Eclipse IDE runs on Linux. It even has a command line interface. But what you can do in the command line is not everything you can do in Eclipse.

AppleScript arguably offers a far richer interface for driving applications that have a UI. It's just no one has designed an agent to take advantage of that.

MacOS has quite excellent help docs built in. It also has all the "wiring" exposed via AppleScript for most applications.

I would suggest that the GNU+Linux command line is not accidentally designed well for agents, it is that agents are purposely designed to use command line. And there are far greater numbers of posts online about how to write a bash script to accomplish something with a command line than there are about similar tasks accomplished in AppleScript. The agents are designed for command lines, and they did not "learn" by using, they just "copy/paste with more steps" from the abundant chatter about the command line tools from the internet.

Maybe someone will write an agent in Java, instead of the sloppy JS that Claude Code is written in. Then you might get a cross-platform java.awt.Robot that can drive the UI. Maybe someone will write one in AppleScript and flex that scripting interface. Maybe someone will build one using a selenium driver for ChromeOS. Who knows.

And that's a good thing!

Remember the last time someone was treated for Ebola in the US? A nurse gave him antibiotics and sent him home... where he died. The US just isn't equipped or trained to handle Ebola.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11132475/Fi...

Is it though? How did the agent learn to operate GNU+Linux? Man pages, or questions on forums, mailing lists, and wikis?

Get used to it. This is the "task inflation" phase of the process. When you get a mechanized harvester that can harvest 20x the produce of a human produce picker, do you get done in 5% of the time, or grow 20x the produce to pick? Right, it's always more more more. Now that the business owner can answer your email in two seconds with his ChatGPT screenshot, he stacks more tasks in the free time. You're not getting a human response anymore. Enjoy the slop.

looks down to me

https://www.digikala.com/

That's the cost of renting money (mortgage), not owning a home. I saved up cash and bought my home in cash. I did not have closing costs. Only the seller did. My closing cost was the price of the home.

I don't plan to sell. I'm not "investing" in the house. I'm living in it. Essentially, my home eliminates the biggest portion of my monthly expenses. I hope my home value goes down, a lot. Then I pay less on the one expense I do have associated with it: property taxes.