AA5B

@ AA5B @lemmy.world

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5h ago

Humanity has “lost the fight against climate change”
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AA5B @lemmy.world 5h ago
For me in the us, it was the election. We finally had goal, funding and progress toward renewable energy. We had the government working for us, not against us. We were building momentum on the switch to EVs and residential electrification. Sure, it was too little too late, but it was progress and it was a huge change of “attitude “ and direction. No longer fighting the idea but actually responding.
Then the pendulum of politics in the us swung the other way, all that slow painful progress undone, an administration actively working to make things worse. All those corporate resolutions to become good corporate citizens disappear under the slightest pressure.

1d ago

I mean why not?

No, I’ll publish opinion articles about trolleys causing problems, blame some marginalized group like homeless, and organize protests, appeals to politicians. NOW the trolleys got a real problem

1d ago

When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

But you can’t opt out. It scams the vendors but also the people who don’t take part.

1d ago

Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

Of course, the problem is transit, not the criminals nor the society that increases desperation and gives desperate people nowhere to turn

1d ago

Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

Plus all the time loading and unloading. A few tens of seconds per stop over the length of the route adds up

1d ago

Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

The article seems needlessly negative. We see evidence of air pollution improvements: take the win.

It’s also good to know where things get worse: sure, next step is to try to improve tire particle pollution. However, even assuming it is worse than for ice cars, that in itself is not reason to worry. People are concerned about the extra weight, but there’s every possibility the weight comes down as technology improves. We may not have to worry about that aspect. We’d do better to worry about tire particle pollution as a whole, and do something about that

2d ago

What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

For exactly the reason that one person is doing it. There’s not really a thing but one interesting character is mildly entertaining while not impeding readability or require learning historical lettering

2d ago

Trump’s EPA Just Deregulated Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicles

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

For sure that’s even better, but let’s not let ideal block “better”.

A bit of encouragement walking my dog today …… up the street is a family of contractors, including five kids that are now young adults. Most of the time I’ve lived here, they’ve had 4-5 F-150s parked out front. This morning not one. Four cars and I even saw one of them drive up in a Honda Civic!!!

2d ago

This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

As far as I know, pioneered by Tesla, but also in at least the Sienna and Rivian …

A special mode to let you leave your dog in the car. Typically hvac on so the animal doesn’t freeze or overheat, possibly locked controls and internal alarm sensors so animal can’t get in trouble, soothing music if you want it, and a message lit up on the screen so any concerned citizens know the animal is ok. I believe the Tesla lets you use the internal camera on vehicles that have that, sto check on the animal

Camp mode is somewhat similar idea but humans don’t need the lit up screen. Usually turns off interior lights so someone can go out to the bathroom in the middle of the night without the lights coming on while everyone is sleeping

2d ago

Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

Most commonly I use an aggregator. It runs a chat window in a browser and you can choose from a variety of models or let it pick. While it’s not integrated with anything, it does really well for general purpose writing. Every result comes with citations and a few suggestions for next steps.

My company just gave up on copilot as useless, but we were explicitly using it for coding and it was just not effective. Sometimes “free” costs too much

Currently management is really pushing Cursor/Claude for coding, which I really hate. While Claude is much better at coding than copilot and does cite sources, cursor is way too aggressive at spraying arbitrary changes across the code base. I’ve had to do way too much damage control from junior devs blindly accepting when it makes arbitrary changes across the code base. For example one of my guys used it to generate unit tests, which it is good at, but they generated an order of magnitude too many tests of dubious value, that now need to run in every build and be maintained forever …. And in all that slop just arbitrarily introduced a new mocking tool. The intelligence part is pretty good but it needs to get much better at keeping the human in the loop. For example, I really like it for code reviews, it makes good catches and suggestions, but is horrible at presenting them to the developer for individual approval. Current effort is trying to use the agent.md to establish a sensible base for useful code reviews

Other than that, we’re spending a lot of time with mcp agents, which I’m still trying to decide on. All too often it’s just a more complex and dangerous way to do a text search, but it has a lot of potential to bring active data into the ai decision space

2d ago

Sleep well

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

Looks great, but I’m not sure I’m willing to go that far. I do see some great designs there, but am more likely to go with the Minecraft style or Yggdrasil!

2d ago

Trump’s EPA Just Deregulated Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicles

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

On the other hand

Volvo ex60 is coming out and looks outstanding
Toyota is releasing four new EVs in market segments where they are much needed
Rivian r2 is coming out, with r3x generating excitement
Slate truck coming soon, to lots of excitement
new vehicles are increasingly unaffordable
Hyundai/Kia is really upping their game, with frequent releases of exciting technology
while truck market is highly profitable, it’s generally older technology at excessive prices plus driven by fashion, which could collapse very quickly

American car makers might only be selling in domestic markets soon.

Those manufacturers could easily be not selling to anyone soon.

2d ago

The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

Thank you. Infinite pagers are such poor usability, just all around annoying. I really don’t understand why people want them unless it’s developers saying “this is cool”

2d ago

US fixation on the hard-hat economy and making manufacturing great again makes little sense

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

This is really not inevitable, and policy is a huge part of it. I do believe Biden is a poor example here, because that approach to rebuilding manufacturing was to actually invest in it. Especially investing in forward looking technologies. Especially trying to establish longer term consistent policies, especially trying to connect with reality and science

Trying to force a return to “the good old days”, starting trade wars with every one, terrorizing large segments of workers, flip flopping policies for personal gain, isolationism, trying to protect old technologies/manufacturers from competition will never work. This is hugely more self-destructive than hands off

2d ago

This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

I did also the first time I used startstop, but that was more than a decade ago. Even back then it eventually came back on for the ac - just allowed a larger than normal temperature change. I’m sure they’ve gotten better but even back then you do more or less get used to it. Eventually. Combining that with series hybrid or plugin hybrid should make it really shine.

2d ago

This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

My brother is planning on a sienna as the ultimate camper van. Big enough to kit out as a camper, efficient enough to travel widely, tons of range to actually get there, drives like a car. Easily converted back to car when he wants to sell. Apparently it even has dog mode or camp mode or similar, so he can choose to use the hvac at a campground without a noisy generator

2d ago

Sleep well

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

I’ll create a guest room somewhere, just to freak someone out with this pillow

2d ago

When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

A big part of it was the rise of credit card perks like cash back, supported by higher credit card fees. I gotta admit, why should the vendor be paying for our cash back?

2d ago

Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

Also statistically most likely that no life form has ever been able to leave its solar system, huge limited the opportunity to have detected each other

2d ago

Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

Most ai stuff I use include a list of relevant sources next to the results. Do you not ever click in?

For me it’s critical to confirm, for example, the detail of that vendor api I want to use. However even then any hallucinations would mostly waste my time since if it doesn’t work it won’t get released