adamweld

I get so angry about these intrusions. There is nowhere I am more opposed to AI written slop than in my interactions with friends and family.

The iOS keyboard and gmail app are the worst offenders here.

It does follow. A bigger screen is more addictive.

Your brain _is_ getting smoothed by this behavior. Don't use AI for writing or your thinking will suffer.

Of course Claude told you its version would land better, that's what how it is trained, but that doesn't make it true.

20% would be an absolutely massive accomplishment. Think about how many decades of incremental improvement have gotten us to the efficiencies we have today.

No, that's not the reason why people speed. True emergencies are a rounding error.

The real reason is that speed limits are generally lower than the safe speed of traffic, and enforcement begins at about 10mph over the stated limits.

People know they can get away with it.

If limits were raised 15% and strictly enforced, it would probably be better for society. Getting a ticket for a valid emergency would be easy to have reversed.

I've only listened to one interview with Dan Wang, but I understood him to be particularly talking about the politicians, not the country as a whole.

I can't speak for China, I've only visited a few times, but in the US it's true that an overwhelming number of successful politicians were previously lawyers. Which is not a good thing IMO.

It is in fact one of the least generalized forms of "AI" out there. A model focused solely on predicting weather.

HDMI Audio Extractor is what you need. Look at OREI.

Correct answer, HDMI audio extractor.

Personally I use an eARC extractor to run S/PDIF to an audio interface (MOTU Ultralite Mk5) and an RPi running camilladsp handles room correction and active crossovers. Overkill at the moment for just a few studio monitors and a sub, but it'll be a great solution when I get around to building some custom speakers.

I just use UUID to make sure the mountpoint for each device stays the same across reboots.

Here's the relevant section from the 2023 National Poison Data System:

https://i.imgur.com/vIXenG8.png

8294 case mentions, 3039 hospitalizations.

for outcomes check the table.

A recent Ezra Klein Interview[0] mentioned some "AI-Enabled" CAD tools used in China. Does anyone know what tools they might be talking about? I haven't been able to find any open-source tools with similar claims.

>I went with my colleague Keith Bradsher to Zeekr, one of China’s new car companies. We went into the design lab and watched the designer doing a 3D model of one of their new cars, putting it in different contexts — desert, rainforest, beach, different weather conditions.

>And we asked him what software he was using. We thought it was just some traditional CAD design. He said: It’s an open-source A.I. 3D design tool. He said what used to take him three months he now does in three hours.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

The material used by genuine Crocs seems to last much longer. My brother bought some knock-offs at the same time that I picked up a new pair. He wore through the soles in about two years while mine are still kicking after almost 8 years of near-daily use.

You can get the genuine ones for $18 to $35 on ebay depending on the color, so while I'm sure you can save some on clones it's not worth it for the durability and comfort.

Nice, you just outed yourself as being completely clueless. There exist many good sensor fusion techniques for summing the output of disagreeing sensors.

It's probably not going to be possible to completely silence your neighbors, but I'm sure there are a few things you can do to make a difference.

If noise is transmitted through the floor, add thick carpet and support your bed with a vibration deadening material, e.g. something viscoelastic. Sorbothane is popular for this but you'll need to spread the load out or pick a high durometer (stiff) rubber.

For the walls, hang up some carpets or similar, and/or hang heavy material around your bed as a canopy as you suggest. What you want is a material that's heavy enough that the energy in the sound waves is dissipated trying to move it around. Maybe a weighted blanket, or a duvet cover stuffed with mass loaded vinyl (used in cars for sound deadening).

Interesting... star trackers have been around since the 50s and inertial navigation / SLAM is pretty plug and play these days. Looks like the unique thing they are going after is spoofing GPS so that a consumer drone can fly in a GPS denied environ. Neat, but a bit dubious as an investment.

Or a Casio f91w. Timeless.

Sure, technically there is a paid plan but all of the important stuff is free.

I use the app for work and personal note taking, todo lists, etc. and have not run into any limitations of the free plan in the last five years of daily usage.

It has native apps for Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

https://workflowy.com/download/

Try Workflowy, it has good native and web apps and a great minimal but powerful design and is completely free.

https://workflowy.com/basics/

I'm surprised no one in this thread has mentioned Workflowy[0].

It is extremely minimal and elegant, does everything that you're looking for (on first glance), and is completely free. Not to be hyperbolic but the interface is ingenious in it's power and simplicity. Give it a shot.

[0]: https://workflowy.com/basics/

Yes aircraft fasteners are often torque marked, and almost all safety critical fasteners have an additional preload locking mechanism. Often these fasteners use mechanical locking features such as cotter pins, safety wire, or safety cable.

Typical realtor response. It's simple, realtors use MLS monopoly to earn more than their fair share of the profit. It's not an open market.

It's not that Google search has necessarily gotten worse, but it's lagging behind the shitiffication of the web caused by SEO and the new features (People Also Ask QA synopses) have absolutely horrible accuracy.

ChatGPT and other LLMs are also absolutely horrible on accuracy, don't get me wrong.

But, here's an example of what's wrong with Google.

I search something like "Can mangoes grow in Washington state?" and at the top of my results is the condensed "People Also Ask" question answer result. These attempt to read and condense a webpage (of questionable accuracy) into an answer for my query, but they are often full of shit.

For example expanding "Where are mangoes grown in WA" shows an answer about Western Australia rather than Washington. Another answer tells me "yes" but when I read the actual article it clearly says "no, they won't survive".

FWIW the data agrees with you, for milder cases of anxiety and depression, which often correlate with interpersonal issues, talk therapy (e.g. dissecting childhood trauma) is much less effective than cognitive behavioral therapy (analyzing behavioral and emotional patterns, trying to catch and redirect cycles of thought and action that lead to negative outcomes).

This is a tragedy of the commons. A tragedy in real terms, that everyone is worse off because of.

Not sure where your number is coming from. A quick search[0] led me to 181 pedestrian and 40 cyclist child fatalities in 2019.

[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

This is the dictionary definition of a tragedy of the commons. You must recognize that regardless of your individual decision making, the fact that vehicle sizes have ballooned has made everyone on the road, your family included, much less safe.

Simple answer: drone noise is a combination of narrow band and broad band noise. The narrow band frequency comes from the RPM of the rotors spinning, but the broad band noise comes from the turbulence inherent to propeller lift production and the frequency cannot be contained to above/below human hearing.

The overall magnitude of the noise production can be reduced a bit by using lighter vehicles (less thrust needed) and more efficient propellers, but it's never going to be quiet unless we do away with propellers, which is very unlikely to happen.