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  • If it wasn’t the LLM it would be random letters on license plates that drive by, or the coindence that red lights cause traffic to stop every few minutes.

    You don't think having a machine (that seems like a person) telling you "yes you are correct you are definitely the Messiah, I will tell you aincient secrets" has any extra influence?

  • We have ai models that "think" in the background now. I still agree that they're not sentient, but where's the line? How is sentience even defined?

  • You can't really kill a programming language though

    Companies are going to continue using it just because it's what they used before

  • I agree, you can use an old desktop, laptop, or if you don't have something I had good luck with the local university surplus store.

  • Harris was less than 2% behind, and Clinton was ahead in the popular vote. I don't think gender was not a factor, but I also don't think it was a major one.

  • Tech bro is the specific subset tho

  • The Chinese market already has better EVs than Tesla for cheaper afaik. Teslas don't sell well there anymore.

  • Blahaj.zone is an instance aimed at queer people, but it doesn't have to prevent non-queer people from participating. I would imagine an instance aimed at women to be similar.

  • Just scoot forwards a bit?

  • That's interesting, I can see both circles but my hand does always go to my right eye unless I force myself to look at the other. That makes sense I guess because my right eye is more focused at a distance. I wonder if that switches though when I look at something close up for a while, because my left eye is more focused then.

  • I'm kind of weird I think in that I can focus further away than something I'm looking at, but I can't focus closer than something I'm looking at. At the same time though I can cross my eyes to converge closer, but can't push them apart to converge further away.

  • Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

  • It dissolves in water, so you can also just let things soak for a while. Glue stick is made of the same polymer that people use to print dissolvable support material.

  • Glue stick washes off in about 30 seconds. I wouldn't want to use it all the time, but for just 1 part it won't inconvenience you very much.

  • don’t worry about performance, GHz will always go up

    TF2 devs lol

  • This is slightly misleading. Even if you can't achieve "agi" (a barely defined term anyways) it doesn't mean AI is a dead end.

  • I agree that it's a political problem, but I think that a modernized rail system would be well-used if it were available.

    I would be shocked if they actually start building the northeast maglev. Happy, but shocked.

  • I would be surprised if the French TGV can go into tunnels at those speeds, or maintain them safely 24-7. Also, the 100 years figure is one I completely made up based on what I've seen from conventional trains, I have no idea how long maglev track actually lasts.

    Also, the scmaglev is advertised to be able to hold up to 728 people in the 12 car configuration, and can probably reach high frequencies similar to the rest of the shincansen system.

    Speed matters for people to actually want to use trains, and maglevs are supposed to be both much faster and even more comfortable than conventional rail. They are a proven technology by this point.

    Yes, it's not cheap, but it has the ability to significantly improve rail service in the northeast, and as the richest country in the world surely we should be able to afford that.

    The other argument I've seen is that we have to go through all of the trouble and lawsuits around obtaining a new right of way anyways, even for normal high speed rail, so we may as well put the best technology available there.

  • Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

    Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.