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  • Historically I would say I’m not a fan of turning over so much control to the car. However, since 2022 we’ve typically driven up to see my wife’s parents twice a year, a journey of roughly 1,200 miles/2,000 kilometers each way, because even flying normally wouldn’t get us to their rural Quebec town much faster and would cost a lot more. We got a newer Hyundai a couple years ago and it has some self-driving features taking advantage of the adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems. It can even change lanes itself when you activate the turn signals, although you still have to keep your hands on the steering wheel and that doesn’t work well half the time. I have found it works well enough in rural freeways with little traffic, and if I use it in those areas I’m able to handle more of the driving share on the trip and seem to be more alert and fresh in the heavier traffic areas around major cities. I test drove one or two GM vehicles that had a completely hands-off system, which I found freaky, but would probably appreciate even more in those rural stretches.

  • Whatever inspires you!

  • It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.

  • Try melting them together!

  • Look at Ms. Moneybags; I’ve seen pastry chefs go into that much debt in culinary schools just to make $30,000/year!

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  • I’m realizing I like smash burgers from fast food places. For me Shake Shack tops that list, with Freddy’s a close second. I was surprised at how good I thought Sonic’s smash burger was since I usually haven’t been overly-impressed with their food. Not a smash burger, but I do like Five Guys, although they’re really expensive. None of those I would describe as particularly fast, though.

    For something that’s actually fast, as in my food can be ready as soon as I get to the window from when I ordered at the drive-thru intercom I’d say Wendy’s is currently my favorite. They changed their burgers after founder Dave Thomas died and I haven’t liked their changes to the traditional lineup, but the Double Stack or Baconator/Baconator Jr. are good. The others like McDonald’s, Burger King, Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. are consistent, rarely bad but also rarely great. You’re in Canada and I’ve noticed when we go visit my wife’s parents up there that McDonald’s is often running some limited-time variant on their burgers, often the quarter pounder, and sometimes they’ve been good, or at least interesting. We don’t seem to get those in the US, so if you want a fast food burger you might want to at least try them since you have easy access.

    My recommendations might not mean much, though, because I haven’t been particularly impressed with the A&W burgers I’ve had in Canada. I’ve already forgotten what I really don’t like with them even though I had one a few weeks ago, but I think it’s something like the buns are weirdly grainy and the meat is loose and has an odd flavor. I like the root beer, though, in spite of your paper straws that start breaking down way too fast.

  • There are two startup passenger jet manufacturers building factories at the Piedmont Triad Airport in Greensboro, NC. One is Boom SuperSonic, the other JetZero. Of the two, I think JetZero is most likely to succeed. If they can actually deliver 50% less fuel burn than the current offerings from Airbus and Boeing they will have airlines clamoring for their aircraft. Even if Boom gets their plane in the air (itself a big question mark since all the engine suppliers told them they could not build an engine to their requirements so they decided to also build the engine themselves), it’s not clear to me that there’s a more viable market today for supersonic air travel than there was when the Concorde was flying. Plenty of people would like to fly that fast, but I don’t think there are plenty who can afford it.

  • People keep acting like this is unprecedented, and maybe it hasn’t specifically happened this way before, but boom/bust seems to happen every few years.

    To hear my dad and other older folks talk, though, it sounds like things were really good in the ’90s and they haven’t seen commission checks like that since.

  • GameStop beat out Hot Topic in bidding for ThinkGreek, with a winning bid of $20/share compared to Hot Topic’s bid of $17.50

  • Emporia, Virginia is another notorious one, right on heavily traveled I-95 as well as US-58. Virginia has front license plates, so the cars that don’t have front plates definitely aren’t from Virginia and if there’s a group of cars all going the same speed it’s the easy way to pick out the non-local. Saw it happen when I was a passenger.

  • I’m assuming one or two significant players will go bust, but probably not the biggest like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. They might take some serious hits, and they’ll deprioritize AI, but still exist. Maybe someone like Oracle or xAI goes under and gets parted out like an airliner getting scrapped. A lot of data center projects will be cancelled, others will shut down, and the local politicians that pushed for those data centers will see their political careers end as their districts are left with big empty buildings and infrastructure debts that will be hard to pay.

  • Five years is too long for the buyers. The AI bubble will burst before then and then the market price will drop as the inflated demand disappears, especially if this continues long enough for more production capacity to come online.

    They might not have had much of a choice in making the deal, though. Micron has been extracting the absolute maximum they can out of this situation. Make a deal or get nothing. Their clients will remember, though, and flag them as an unreliable supplier. Once this ends—and these always end—they’ll likely have a lower market share and end up having to cut prices.

    Micron is optimistic in saying the demand won’t start easing until 2028. A lot of the rest of the technology manufacturing industry is about to grind to a crawl if not a halt because it’s nearly impossible to get components. Some companies are already delaying product launches and I think a lot more are about to this summer as they realize what’s happening. If non-AI businesses start to slow, the whole economy starts to slow, the AI demand will falter and that’s when the bubble bursts. I’m thinking maybe by the end of this year, more likely next year.

    When the bubble bursts I’m guessing at least a couple of the companies Micron signed SCAs with will fold and Micron won’t get anything.

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  • I’m generally of the opinion that it’s better to express your feelings for someone at some point than to hold back and continue spending time with them in a way that becomes a form of torture for yourself. Better to hear a no and move on than to waste time on something that won’t happen. Maybe don’t ask immediately, give yourself time to try to see if your feelings are real or a passing crush. And try to figure out if they’re even generally open to a relationship. Assuming they’re not already in a relationship with someone, is it because they are happy being single and not looking? Have they recently gotten out of a relationship and want to take time to focus on themselves? If they’re not likely to want a relationship with anyone right now, save yourself some awkwardness and try to move on. Otherwise, if it seems like an appropriate time, see what happens.

  • SMS is 160 characters. In the early days Twitter really only functioned over SMS. The Twitter 140 character limit was to fit the message inside an SMS with room for other info like usernames.

  • Not right now. I would like a Steam Deck for the portability but haven’t been able to get my hands on one so far (less inclined to buy a different option given the Deck’s repeatability/upgradability). Maybe in the future, if prices come down, but it would need to have games that make sense to play on a TV, ideally with friends or family, that I can’t play on something I already own.

  • I don’t know if mine is actually steam but having a machine feels like it’s been a good investment as a pet owner. Our dog is very good about going outside to potty but she does throw up from time to time and she will always try to find the limited amount of carpet we have in our house (I think it’s the closest thing to grass in her mind). Maybe it would be cheaper still to go rent a machine, but the convenience of being able to use it right away also has to be considered.

  • He’s a privacy activist but uses Google Nest cameras?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_pellets
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca

    Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say

    www.cbsnews.com /news/selfies-woman-dripping-diamonds-cruise-arrest-jewelry-theft/
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    Physical Media Forever

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    fffft

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

    Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL The Hayes Barton neighborhood in Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh's birthplace

    www.britishexplorers.com /woodbury/hayesba.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

    mobilesyrup.com /2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do?