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chucksta··on Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution 'plume' moves downstream
Couldn't have responded better for me
chucksta··on Bing Chat is getting ‘unhinged’ and argumentative: It ‘feels sad and scared’
>Are you implying that black slavery was justified?

That's the exact opposite of the statement. Xw's point is there isn't one, there never was one. A group of people decided and made is so and continued to believe it until they no longer could.

chucksta··on Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution 'plume' moves downstream
How much have you heard about the balloons in comparison?
chucksta··on Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution 'plume' moves downstream
little bit of a sprucing /s
chucksta··on Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch
I'm not saying its not impressive or doesn't contain logic and facts and knowledge, i'm saying people generally understand the word intelligence to mean one thing, and this doesn't meet that understanding.
chucksta··on Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch
And intelligence is part of the acronym, what it is and what the masses understand it to be are two completely different things.

Barely anyone is calling them LLM, its always AI.

chucksta··on Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch
This reads the same as "what did you expect of full self driving? Of course there are technical limitations." A lot of people have an expectation that AI is "smart" based on popular culture, relatively very few realize what we have currently is word prediction not intelligence of some sort
chucksta··on Putting solar panels in grazing fields is good for sheep
I think the crop or the plants would have to change a lot. Currently it's pretty easy to see which areas get full sun and which don't when you drive by a corn field in growing season.

Looks like its being tested though https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/can-agri...

chucksta··on My employer is reneging on its remote-work promise
Those are two different things, digital nomad is not work from home. I mean.. they even use opposing words. Nomad means some form transient, home origin or permanent place of residence.

There is also the other way to to spin your point, what about all the small towns they've helped https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizfarmer/2021/09/15/the-small-...

chucksta··on How Micro Drill Bits Are Made [video]
Funny as How its Made is shot in Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made > Canadian documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and the Science Channel in the United States. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2.

chucksta··on State Farm says 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in LA
I wanted to know, New Hampshire. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/states-not-requ...

Looks like Alaska provides exemptions too

chucksta··on U.S. No Fly list publicly shared on a hacking forum, government investigating
Nope, they're getting more power https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2022/10/18/tsa-issue...
chucksta··on Tesla catches fire on Highway 50 near Rancho Cordova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5vDWhMHTwE
chucksta··on How true is 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Sign? (2016)
It's possible to break the law and not be penalized for it.

>But what if a cop is having a bad day, or has a quota to hit, or doesn't like my bumper sticker, and decides the legal limit is 65 mph because the setting sun might be dazzling in my rear view mirror?

You would take it to court like you do now and fight the assessment.

>And if I don't want the cost and inconvenience of going to court, should I go at 60 mph instead, just in case?

Yes, no different than today

chucksta··on How true is 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Sign? (2016)
Black and white thought process is what leads to things like minimum/mandatory sentencing which having a lot of criticism

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/end-...

>imagine trivial court cases hinging on whether a "reasonable person" would drive a certain speed

That's exactly how they cite things like reckless driving

chucksta··on EV batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand as early as 2030
Depends on your state https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/03/which-states-o...
chucksta··on One man’s two-decade quest to let the ‘Irish Giant’ rest in peace
I'm gonna have to point out the obvious here, that most mummies and saints weren't regular people to begin with so they continue to be treated as such.

Saints also implies catholic who feel a certain type of way about how remains should be dealt with.

chucksta··on Why is Amazon selling fake 16TB portable SSD drives?
I've gone out of my way to report this manipulation before, it amounted to "tough shit"
chucksta··on How sugar and fat affect your brain
That and historical lobbies, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
chucksta··on Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
I see, so its more of a positional feature than it is used in the function of mapping, "so it knows where it is in the map" so to speak?
chucksta··on Genders.wtf
Vanity sizing means the items is listed as a smaller size than it truly is, changing the units doesn't change anything. They can still say its 28" when its really 30".
chucksta··on Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
Why does it need to know anything in the Z dimension higher than 6"?
chucksta··on Genders.wtf
Vanity sizing would still mess with your dream, which is the real issue with finding the right size.
chucksta··on Microservices are hard
>Context matters so much.

Well that point that just makes %90 of web articles moot.

chucksta··on Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers?
>Do downvotes mean I’m wrong or that I upset someone?

Both likely. It comes off authoritative, without much backup. And if you are going to retire in your 40s' being in tech is certainly going to help and most members are in that field. I also think a lot of people in tech have a similar plan.

chucksta··on Flying Disc Museum
I've seen some interesting discussion around how skateboarding and the x games killed skating in the US

https://np.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/4vj7ov/dodging_and_ska...

chucksta··on Spookz – decentralized streaming platform for gamers
let alone all the slang references for the core word
chucksta··on Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report
That's the same statement, they wouldn't use a Chinese robo-caller in an area with little to no Chinese population
chucksta··on New Reformed Amish
Did you write it?
chucksta··on New Reformed Amish
AFAIK there isn't a rule against flying. I know a man and his wife who flew down to Mexico to get cancer treatment.

I think it's likely there are just more complications with flying, also taking a guess here, but knowing their general lifestyle I would assume they are more comfortable on the ground too.

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