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Trainguyrom

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  • What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?

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  • Back when I was in college I road the bus every day. Nothing even remotely as crazy as most of the comments here describing happened that I witnessed on those hundreds of bus rides There was the dude wearing a parka when the heat index was over 100, or the guy weeping holding a bouquet while heading into a residential area and those are honestly not that interesting because shit happens but I do have one story:

    One fairly quiet bus ride I was seated in some of the sideways seats near the front and a lady seated across from me was reading a newspaper. My eyes are drifting as I'm listening to a podcast and suddenly I realize on the front of the paper this lady is reading is a photo of my dad. I asked her "excuse me, could I look at that paper quickly? That's a photo of my dad there and I want to see what he's been up to to get in the paper but hasn't told me" and it turns out he helped run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event at a local library to help encourage new contributors.

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  • I'll be real, I absolutely loved the first story, it took a little bit to get into the second one (but thoroughly enjoyed it after all) and I gave up partway through the third one because I was struggling to get pulled in and my library book was due soon anyways. So absolutely worth it for the first two stories at least, and hopefully you enjoy the third one more than I did!

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  • Hilariously this was a plot point in a book I read recently. Isambard Kingdom Brunel replaced the firebox with some poorly shielded uranium, but the initial locomotive that was to demonstrate the technology was sabotaged and exploded, killing his parents.

    This same book also had a fictional mad inventor who created a part newt-human hybrid named Victoria with womanly assets if you catch my drift, who upon failing to educate it he sent to a brothel because he couldn't stand to "dispose of it" but when the princess and heir to the throne Elizabeth went missing, the newt-human hybrid Victoria was installed on the throne to prevent a constitutional crisis. And this is all events that occurred in the first 2 pages, so I'm not even spoiling anything!

    To spoil where the Queen to be Victoria was so well hidden that she couldn't be found, she was in fact working in the newt-human hybrid Victoria's room at the brothel! Seriously bonkers stories in that book!

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  • Reminds me of one of my favorite photos, a steam engine being delivered by steam engine!

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • Also, who wants loose liberal women everywhere? Honestly, I dont want to marry someone with more partners than I can count on one hand… I dont think im crazy here? Cuz liberal women usually have many past lovers, in comparison to conservative women, in general…

    More past partners probably means they know some more wild things to surprise you in the bedroom. An experienced partner knows how to please both of you. An inexperienced partner won't

    A lot of women these days realize that their grandmothers had a lot less pressure and a lot more freedom

    Yeah, needing your husband's signature just to have your own checking account is totally freedom. Good luck to any women who kick their abusive husbands to the curb too because they won't have any legal ability to be financially independent even if they do work!

    The big difference between now and 75 years ago that you're referencing is that wages are way lower compared to expenses now than then. Over the last 50 years productivity per employee has grown explosively while wages have been stagnant when adjusted for inflation. That's going to make you feel a pinch in your pocket

    I long for those days ive never seen. Where a guy can get an entry level position and make enough to support his family on that single income. Why did that stop? Why is nearly every household a “dual-income” house

    This ain't got jack to do with feminism and everything to do with Regeanomics and also earlier Republican fuckheads like Nixon. See above regarding wage stagnation. Also costs of college tuition, housing etc. have increased significantly when adjusting for inflation compared to 50-75 years ago further leading to a financial crunch

    If feminism was as successful as you say it was women would be making equal pay to men, and they're still right now in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty five AD only making about 80% on average of what their male counterparts in the same positions make.

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  • Reminds me of a time I was at a party and this dude is like "hey I've got this super funny song, wanna hear it?" Then after folks agree to hear it he thinks for a second "also it kinda has some bad words, is that okay? You're not gonna get offended?" Then plays a song that just has a bunch of racial slurs for shock value and nothing funny or redeeming about it. I don't think a single person laughed and I hope it was as awkward for him as it seemed like it could've been

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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  • I think I've found my new go to secret Santa gift

  • All those words but couldn't understand what tariffs mean

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  • Let's be real, if the media called import taxes "import taxes" and not "teriffs" Trump's import tax campaign would've much more rapidly collapsed

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • Hey it's never too late to get things better under control! My parents only just started that journey and they're old enough to be grandparents

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  • Oh absolutely without actual government action the overall population decline will be catastrophic. Basically if it's handled the way that climate change has been, our kids/grandkids/great-grandkids will be screwed because it's a similarly significant world-wide challenge for humanity that like climate change will require some changes to how people live and run the world. However, unlike climate change, population decline won't necessarily kill off humanity entirely, because it will self-resolve one way or another, either by society collapsing due to the medical system collapsing or by actual social change to adapt to the normalizing population level

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  • This is a problem that’s being co-opted by right-wing nazitards like Elon Musk who are making it about race, but it’s really a global issue without a lot of clear causes or solutions

    Its really only an issue in the context of capitalism. Capitalism relies on growth. No growth or negative growth means capitalism collapses and all of the hoarding that the rich and powerful have been doing was meaningless. Capitalism grew out of Mercantilism which was an extremely similar economic theory but Mercantilism largely assumes that any trade is bad because someone is "winning" and someone is "losing" meanwhile capitalism learned that trade is good because the same money can be spent more times by more people.

    The short term solution is to create significant financial and other incentives for people to go into healthcare, particularly CNAs because a larger aging population than the working population will require lots of CNAs to care for the elderly. Right now these workers are woefully underpaid and largely abused by both their patients who lack the mental faculties to know what they're doing and their workplaces which are increasingly frequently owned by private equity

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • Honestly the questions you're posing require a level of market analysis that could fill an entire white paper and be sold for way more money than I want to think about. Its a level of market analysis I don't want to dive into. My gut instinct from having worked in the tech industry, working with datacenters and datacenter hardware at large companies is that the AI industry will contract significantly when the bubble pops. I'm sure I could find real data to support this prediction but the level of analysis that would require and the hours of work are simply more than it's worth for an internet comment.

    You have factors including what hardware is being deployed to meet AI bubble demand, how the networking might be setup differently for AI compared to general GPU compute, who is deploying what hardware, what the baseline demand for GPU compute is if you simulate no present AI bubble, etc. etc. it's super neat data analysis but I ain't got the time nor appetite for that right now

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  • That's super interesting! I didn't know other languages handled side thoughts better!

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  • Whether or not specifically going out of your way to allow an aggressive driver past is definitely a matter of risk tolerance. Personally, when I'm on a 2 lane road (that's one lane per direction of travel) I'll typically simply set my cruise and not change my behavior other than slowing/moving right when it is a passing zone so that they can more easily and safely pass.

    Where I live, the country roads are very lightly policed so some folks really test how fast they can go and maintain control of their vehicle on the curves and hills, many going 80+ on narrow 55mph roads with limited visibility and frequent deer, Amish buggies and farm equipment around blind curves. This practice works well for me here because it might prevent a fatal accident where some poor family was just trying to get to church and the speeder couldn't see them in time, but more importantly I'm not disrupting my drive for other people's insanity. I'll continue to drive with my tolerance for breaking the law (which is extremely low), and other drivers can choose to drive at their tolerance level, and maybe the minor inconvenience of encountering vehicles that aren't speeding excessively will help make the choice to speed excessively make less sense

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  • So if someone wants to run a red light but isn't first in line everyone should start running the red too so that they can run it? That's basically what you're demanding with your gospel of Keeping Pace

    Or if we want to make this even more extreme (and less good of an analogy), if I see someone pouring drugs into a girl's drink I should do absolutely nothing because I'm not a cop?

    That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • Oh yeah machine learning as a technology will survive, and eventually it will be implemented where it can do what it's really good at, but right now it's being shoved into everything to do things it isn't good at, so you end up with a super expensive to run, energy inefficient tool that runs worse than with traditional algorithms that can be run client side or on a single much cheaper server (I'm oversimplifying the server architecture for brevity)

    Think customer service chatbots on ever car dealership's website. Traditionally these were extremely simplistic and usually just had canned responses based on keywords in the customer's written message and would quickly cascade the customer to a real customer service rep as soon as things got out of scope. Now with LLMs companies are running those as the customer service chatbots and the LLM can do anything from agreeing to sell a new car for a dollar to providing scam or invalid contact info to referring the customer to a competitor. There's no knowing what the AI will do because it's non-deterministic and you don't want that in customer service!

    Right now we're in the bubble phase where every single company is finding some way to shoehorn AI into its business model so they can brag about it. Fucking Logitech added a remappable AI button that brings up a ChatGPT interface and just spends Logitech's money on tokens with ChatGPT. That's pure bubble behavior. Once the bubble pops we won't have literally every single time you open a car dealership page spending an LLM token or 5, you won't have Amazon running AI chatbots on every product page just for asking about that product, you won't have every website just giving away free unrestricted access to LLMs. That's what I'm talking about.

    AI demand will drop when the bubble pops, and while it will be higher than it was 8 years ago, everyone is going to be very skeptical of anything AI, just like folks are still skeptical of mortgage backed securities over 15 years later, or just like people are skeptical of commerical websites without a clear method of financing 25 years after the dotcom bubble. People remember these things and will take a while to warm up to the idea again

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  • Is there enough demand for thousands of servers with purpose built ARM processors (which may or may not have any publicly available kernel support) driving 4-8 600w a pop Nvidia datacenter chips though? Yes some will be repurposed but there simply won't be the demand to fill immediately. Realistically what will happen is companies operating these datacenters will liquidate the racks, probably liquidate some of the datacenters entirely and thousands of servers will hit the secondhand market for next to nothing. While some datacenter structure city empty and unmaintained until they're either bought up to be repurposed, bought up to be refurbished and brought back into datacenter use of torn down, just like an empty Super Walmart location

    Some of the datacenters will be reworked for general compute, maybe a couple will maintain some AI capacity, but given the sheer quantity of compute being stood up for the AI bubble and the sheer scale of the bubble, basically every major tech company is likely to shrink significantly when the bubble pops, since we're talking companies that currently have market caps measured in trillions, and literally a make up full quarter of the entire value of the New York Stock Exchange, it's going to be a bloodbath.

    Remember how small the AI field was 6 years ago? It was purely the domain of academic research, fighting for scraps outside of a handful of companies big enough to invest in am AI engineer or two on the off chance they could make something useful for them. We're probably looking at a correction back down to nearly that scale. People who have drank the coolaid will wake up one day and realize how shit the output of generative AI is compared to the average professional's human work

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  • they weren’t keeping pace

    driving 75 mph in a 65 mph area

    Why are you being intentionally obtuse?

    Nobody should be peer pressured into breaking the law, especially when the risk can be literally life or death on top of risk of law enforcement interaction (which can be extremely bad for many people. Some jobs literally require zero traffic infractions and check regularly in order to maintain the job. Folks on parole or probation can be sent back to prison for a minor traffic infraction, at risk folks can experience racial profiling during traffic stops which can be deadly)

    When it comes to breaking the law, everyone has a risk tolerance. Some folks that's zero and they will follow every law they can, some will accept some risk of a minor fine but not more, and some will risk everything regularly. Just because you want to speed excessively doesn't mean anyone else is obligated to enable you