Your AC turns itself off and on repeatedly through it’s normal running cycle to prevent frost building up - your fridge and freezer does this as well.

yeah, I just anticipate when traffic will start moving and let off the brake enough that it starts but doesn’t roll a couple seconds before I think I’ll need to go

Note how the government isn’t going after gun ownership as vehemently as they are digital privacy. They know that it doesn’t matter how many guns the people have, if they can’t communicate anonymously (or at all), then any sort of uprising will be small and easily quashed.

One could say he scored so high, it overflowed and wrapped around.

Used incorrectly and without caution, yes. It can be made to be very useful if proper guardrails are in place and if the LLM is carefully guided in the task it’s performing.

This means, that one should only use an LLM for something they are already quite familiar with doing without an LLM’s assistance. Most people will not be doing this however (or in the case of Google’s “summaries”, unable to as they are not fully in control of the session), and this is where the problem arise.

The government and media has spent those decades undermining education and vilifying “being smart”. Of course they’re champing at the bit now to insert an always-on personalized propaganda machine in place of that missing intelligence.

I’ll trust the links if I trust the sites it’s linking to. Any other links are viewed with skepticism at least initially until I’ve vetted the site in question.

The rich people made a lot of money from the last Great Depression, I bet that’s what they’re hoping for again.

A fair number of internal walls are also thick brick or concrete. In warmer climates it helps keep the building cool from thermal mass, it’s also sturdier for places prone to hurricanes.

just be cautious with power supply, a failure could crater the whole system.

What needs to happen is:

1. an enforceable certification process, like part of FMVSS, to state “this vehicle is certified as L[0-5] self driving per https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2022-05/Level-of-Automation-052522-tag.pdf”. Put the certification on the window sticker. Have it reported to insurance.

2. Levels 0-2 cannot be advertised as self driving, even though there may be hands-free driving capability in some limited cases. The driver remains fully responsible and liable (no change to current liability rules essentially)

3. Levels 3 and 4 will be required to have shared liability with the driver and manufacturer in all conditions where the vehicle is in control of itself. This includes roads that the vehicle should be able to navigate autonomously and the driver has requested it to, but it is not for any reason.

4. Level 5 would place liability on the manufacturer solely, as there is no indicated driver in this case. This is the only one that can be advertised as “self-driving”.

“ban pronouns” energy here

that’d be fun, but I think people would catch on pretty quick unless there were some bottleneck events that can be achieved that way if things are well-planned, but would be “easier” done by going authoritarian… but that approach could have consequences further down the line. Just enough to keep that temptation going

i.e.: Town B needs resources from Town A, but they’re a long distance apart and nobody is building roads. You could plan a road and hope people build it in time, or you can force people to build it, at the risk of injury/death, which also increases anti-government sentiments. However, not building the road causes Town B to go into famine, but that could have been avoided if you placed the towns a little closer together or something

That’s the gist yeah… like, I could create a directive that there needs to be a mine near some resource, and people would naturally go make the mine, but then make some houses, shops, roads, schools, etc. and eventually the mine becomes a village.

Or, I could assign specific people to do nothing buy build a mine, others to build houses, roads and so on. That would allow the projects to build faster and exactly how I want, but they would exclusively do the task assigned until they starve/revolt/etc. unless I pay flawless attention to assignments and re-assign workers to new tasks or put them on leave to take care of themselves.

Maybe have a research/policy tree that allows me to unlock things like work shifts, weekends/time off, resource allocation, markets, etc. all with their own benefits and ramifications.

This would be an interesting concept in a city builder/colony sim type game - you can choose to give loose directives and have the people achieve it in their own way, but you have little control over how it happens, or you can choose to micromanage, which reduces the ‘free will’ of the people, meaning you now need mo manage more of the colony’s day-to-day needs.

They’d probably argue that it was “totally corrupt” or “woke” or “DEI” or whatever the bullshit-of-the-day it is

Which is funny, because at times they do glow, but it’s blue (cherenkov radiation)

And Millennials are like “well, there’s this shit sandwich, and we got here when a good amount of it was built, but then it kept getting bigger while the people making it were telling us that the shit sandwich could go away if we used brown bread instead of white, but then when we went to brown bread, we were told that now they had the space to add even more shit, and now the people who stuffed all the shit into the shit sandwich are upset because people are unwilling to put more shit in the sandwich, which means that they may end up needing to eat some of it”

put a drain in the bottom, that way when you shower you can wash the pouch and the water drains out. Towel dry, then throw a couple silica desiccant packs in and you’re good to go.

TBF, the switch is a mechanical part that goes through a series of stresses, not just from the person actuating it, but also from the electrical forces causing the switch to bounce and arc for several ms before it settles. Putting all that stress into a little package with tiny contact wafers, and it’s bound to fail sooner or later.