All of the sweet, sweet gross domestic product statistics. Mmm I love GDPness.

Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.

I was thinking about blendOS at some point - it seemed like a decent proposition the best way to stick with arch, but have the declarative and atomic bits, without going to a new nix thing that sound like a more extreme nerd cult.

But I never did, I’m still mainly on Arch+XFCE or arch+kde, or debian+kde, or debian+xfce in my house.

I think I didn’t do it because I’ve never really heard of BlendOS , no established track record. No one ever recommends it. So it might not still be there in 5 years, so I’d have to be sure it’d all still work if the project ended. Meh, too much bother to figure that out.

If this promised deluge of PCs comes along soon i’ll maybe try it on a spare machine.

I think most people will say go fedora due to track record - but i never liked it when i last used it - a long time ago.

Kids these days think they’re going to get a date without building a medieval hampster wheel powered trebuchet first, our education system has failed.

That’s alright, when the 100% chalk contraceptive pill and the polyethylene ‘super sensitive’ condom hit the market I think they’ll do ok.

They turn into spaghetti at speed. Watch them on video to see the TRUTH!

Unreliable!

Abject failure of urban planning, or democracy?

Hey now, I’m not creating any visions for anyone to share in - I’m not that level of self righteous narcissist?

I just like the name of a forum called ‘Fuck Cars’ so i don’t feel bad about bitching about stupid shitty unsustainable ways that they let their societies get “organised”.

Good luck to all these people raising new generations of children in their “no choice but to commute” image though. Thankfully I’m blissfully unaware of all the externalities, so it doesn’t bother me that they’re all stuck without any . . ahem . . choice.

I’m mostly talking about people who think it’s ok to live over 25km from where they work and then need to create “rush hour” twice a day.

I think 10km is about the right maximum for what should be regular travel, you can just about walk it both ways in a day, and still do something at either end. But ideally it’d be less than that. Even if you are going to use a car or whatever you’ll be causing far less congestion if everyone did much shorter trips. But ideally they’d be able to comfortably walk. And not need to be in such a rush.

But since you mention it, I sincerely hope that not even 25% of the 10 billion become regular international tourists, i don’t think that would be in any way sustainable for any other than a small elite. I’m not interested in elitism or elites however good their perspectives are.

I don’t mind everyone having a once in a lifetime holiday. But there are a lot of rich european pricks who seem to have a ‘once in a lifetime’ holiday every few years, and I’m pretty sure I’d never accuse them of having a good sense of perspective.

As an often pedestrian, i often prefer lights. If it’s a busy dual carriageway roundabout It can often be hard to route pedestrians across. You end up with elaborate and winding pedestrian subways.

Roundabouts are ok on rural junctions, but round here we often have to have traffic lights on roundabouts as you start to get closer in to urban areas - and they do seem to help flow.

I just don’t believe road design alone can remove the need for coordination as population density gets above a certain level. Fuck in central London you need traffic lights just to coordinate all the buses never mind cars. Of course they need an overhead s-bahn type light rail system there though, but planning rules/landowners won’t allow it. At this point they just need less people - but again the govt/electorate/landowners won’t allow that because they’re all a bunch of tw4ts.

Definitely put cameras in the bus lane and fine all the cars who are driving in it then.

There are solid black lines in the bottom diagram instead of dashed in the top two, this suggests something more than a lane line, it might be representing a kerb or could easily be a more physical barrier. but as far as a simplified diagram goes that looks pretty clearly separated as can be depicted in plan view.

I assume this is not the detailed plans. If it is those buildings are way too small for all of these people to fit inside.

I think red is just to show the effective capacity advantage of the bus lane once it appears in the final diagram.

When you have enough tarmac, you don’t even need lanes or lights, there’ll be space for everyone.

Lanes are a commie plot to steal freedom anyway.

It’s obvious from the picture that it is the buildings in the city that cause the congestion. get rid of em.

I once got stuck behind someones house once, I politely honked three times and flashed my headlights , but it wouldn’t budge, so in the end i had no choice but to ram right through it. Fucking cities stealing all our open roads.

Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.

I suspect it is a lot less than they think. But interested to see the traffic simulations. There’ll be some places where it makes no difference, i’d think the more urban and the busier the less impact.

I think congestion really builds up when you can’t clear the lights because there’s too many cars at each side of junction. I don’t see speed changing that much.

$198K of stupid banker. $198K of stupid wanker.

I just hope my savings aren’t in a bank that “invests” like that.

Not the one you asked but - I thought it read more like an exam question than a crapgpt question.

It is this part that rubbed me the wrong way: “Please provide formulas and an example.”

That’s like the part where the examiner is giving a hints about how the marks will be awarded.

Either way here’s my equation: P(Answer | Question and constraint on answer ) < P(Answer | Question)

I assume that’s the OOPs intention though; to block out some of the noise from the responses. I only see one formula so far (excluding my stupid one) so I’m not sure if it worked strictly, but I’d be surprised it it hasn’t filtered out some answers.

I think you have to at least feedback to satnav companies for it to maybe get better - whether you call that blame or not I dunno. Experienced navigators will report back to mapping agencies with map corrections too.

What i really don’t like about satnavs is that they behave like a navigator, so some people use them as a substitute for one, develop trust, and never learn to develop their own navigation skills.

I can see the same with AI. Not all people have critical thinking like that, some people do trust other people and what they say, and they trust words written like authoritative humans. I wish they wouldn’t , but some do seem to. Plenty of times the assistive tool will have plenty of data and give a decent answer about many things, and so build up trust - especially when they communicate in a convincing human like manner.

You can say that’s the users fault for being too trusting , being stupid ignorant, or naive, maybe it is, maybe it’s nature / nurture / laziness. I just say it’s part of the variety of the species some people think differently, some people are more skeptical, some are more trusting and so on. Trust is a useful thing for social animals to have in many cases - it’d be a nightmare to live without it - but its a vulnerability too.

These AI tools, much like marketing people and con-artists and scammers will end up developing and exploiting trust, by accident or by design or by malice, or just by imitation - and I’d rather they didn’t. Of course that isn’t going to stop them.

I’d just like most of these assistive tools to present their uncertainty better and flag risks better. They seem to just give less info or say less when they’re thin on data, that can be a bit dangerous, if it is thin on data it should be saying “I’m out of my comfort zone here, this is a guess, you need to take charge” . Try to prompt people not to get lazy and to try to do some thinking and observation of their own.

I dunno, hopefully more people will become more skeptical and develop more critical thinking skills. But i’m skeptical of that.

I think that depends how convincing and what words the AI uses - and whether it is adequately presenting the risks or uncertainty associated with its suggestions.

An actual intelligent (and empathetic) thing should point out risks when asked such a question, or maybe have the humility to say “that’s not my area of expertise and it is dangerous, the best way for you to get up that mountain is to first speak to a real expert”. Unless the AI presents itself as “artificial stupidity” then I don’t have a problem.

When i know I’m talking outwith my expertise I’d try to make it clear that I’m using my mouth at the other end.

Of course, I didn’t see the actual advice that was given, maybe it was adequately qualified, but if a person said “just walk up there, go this way and that way, turn north at the big rock and follow the ridge” - and didn’t qualify it by asking about experience in mountain conditions or mentioning risks, I’d call that person stupid negligent or worse. So I’d apply the same to anything presenting itself as “intelligent” which, frankly, I find to be a bit of a red flag when a human claims it too.

I don’t think GPS is at fault, insofar as it claims to be a positioning system, it doesn’t try to use hyped up bullshit terms like “intelligence”.

But “sat nav” is more culpable as it’s claiming to “navigate” which to my understanding should involve sensitivity to the terrain, conditions and the traveller/vehicle. If it can’t do that then the satnav is also partly at fault - for overselling its capabilities - that’s in addition to the driver who also bears ultimate responsibility.

I’m not saying that the people weren’t idiots, and they take the ultimate blame. But everyone has a first time experience with mountains and needs to learn as well as build experience. If AI is going to pretend like it is a teacher or adviser then I think it should be sensitive to noobs like a real teacher would.

Another option is to try melting a bit of wire mesh or even strands of wire wool into the plastic with a soldering iron, or maybe just melt in a few staples across the crack.