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Even better, they have a model called the "Freedom Cage"!

It's an unequal distribution problem here. There's a train with 5 minutes between vehicles, it just takes a half hour walk to get there if I miss our bus. Some parts of the city the system isn't a joke and is so redundant and fast you don't need to check a schedule, and the people in charge don't seem to realize there's places where it's bad.

I think Archive Team might have scraped it, but their site is down due to PHP-related reasons at the moment.

Where I am, we're getting the worst of it, where we're treated as if no one needs a car because there's a bus that comes by every half hour most of the day (unless it just doesn't show up), but we still get driving made more difficult without a viable alternative. It's frustrating.

Seattle has instances of it, but there are still many parts of the city not well connected by transit.

Might have been these charts: https://www.rangevoting.org/IEVS/Pictures.html

> Of course just because there are technically flaws, doesn't mean it's not an improvement over the status quo.

The problem IMO is when there's better options but it's hard to get people to care enough to switch systems again. I'm hoping Ranked Robin can catch on so at least places that went to IRV can switch to a better system without new ballots.

> Non-monotonicity in particular seems like a bad property of a voting system, so I'm confused that IRV is so popular recently.

Same here. The idea of lobbying for a voting system where your vote for a candidate might hurt them, or where you might be better off not voting at all than expressing your honest preference is bizarre to me. If IRV was the only alternative, sure, but we have multiple other systems which don't have as bad tradeoffs. STAR or Ranked Robin would be so much better, but the Equal Vote Coalition doesn't seem to have the power behind it that FairVote does.

The 737-NG is relatively safe. By hull-loss accidents per million departures, it's safer than the A320ceo, less safe than the A320neo. You're thinking of the 737 MAX.

> The FAA rejected these requests, saying the inspection intervals were to ensure excessive freeplay does not develop in either original or replacement parts. It is estimated that each inspection will take six work hours and cost $510 per aircraft, putting the cost across the US fleet at over $1 million, not including the price of replacement parts.

Doesn't sound like it.

Brood War definitely took some inspiration from the movie.

A shame if they don't recreate the Lost Viking game from Wings of Liberty itself.

I haven't been bothered over them yet, but I fully expect a conversation where someone yells at me for "filming", I show there's no cameras, and they insist they're simply hidden.

It doesn't fly in the same way I don't "fly" when I jump. You need to be on more than a ballistic trajectory.

I think they more meant the "6-8 hours to fill and you get 1 launch" aspect. The gooning starts in the garage.

Maybe they updated it, this is what I had earlier: https://i.imgur.com/cegBAOF.png

EDIT: I can get this to happen if I pick the "\"0 people\" (wording check)" option. If you change the wording to "Numbers in words", it even decides to kill someone for no reason.

How is it not "like X"? It's practically a knock-off outside of the userbase.

> A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

The trolley problem with this would be an Asimov story (it's pretty close already). Pulling the lever injures a human, not pulling the lever allows a human being to come to harm via inaction. The positronic robot probably ends up stuck trying to pull and not pull the lever at the same time.

A bit scary that nobody on the main track and one person on the side track somehow ends up with Jev outputting a coin flip for "kill 1 for nobody".

> A movie ticket, inflation adjusted, costs the same as it used to for decades.

Maybe so, but it doesn't feel like that to people. A lot of things are actually way cheaper than they used to be inflation adjusted (we complain about an $80 video game, but inflation adjusted they used to be well over $100, cheaper now even with all the microtransactions, we just remember a sticker that said $50). When I know that a decade ago I could see a $5 matinee and for $20 have drinks and popcorn too, knowing that $40 (albeit for a smaller drink/popcorn) isn't really twice the price doesn't stop the sticker shock, especially for people whose income didn't go up at the same rate as inflation.

> that one isn't isn't likely to meet anyone outside the meetup (or perhaps ever again even inside it).

I don't think that's a post-COVID dynamic as much as a pre-COVID one that got accelerated. When I moved to a new city in 2018, I spent a lot of time at meetups and had exactly that issue. No one would want to meetup outside the group (to be fair, most of it was that some people seemed to be willing to travel really far for a meetup group but not for other things), and you wouldn't see the same people often enough to really be friends within the group.

That's how I've treated it too, if a sub has gone from making me happy to making me angry, it's gone, and "cute picture of cats" seems to be more resistant.

Rather than rent it out (maybe some people would pay a few bucks a year for novelty web/mail hosting, but it's both too much and too little for most use cases, running the program of renting it probably eats up a lot of the revenue), maybe they could give compute time to universities for free, with the requirement that they provide some sort of display for museum visitors? There's probably some people with Monte Carlo simulations that could benefit from a lot of cores (if they get the M4 upgrade) while being on a student budget of $0. And if no one has requested it, they could run some BOINC project that has a nice visualization.

I don't think so, the lowest from 2026 was still 2.66 PFlop/s, so they'd need thousands of Mac Minis. The M4s in the Minis aren't on a different level than the Xeons in those old clusters (outside of power consumption), even if we let the Macs use FP32.

We already make L-sugars, but they have strong laxative effects.

It said in the article, they had a lot of difficulty finding a foundry that would actually let them do it.

> None of the metal foundries we contacted in the US and Mexico would let us jump a robot with lithium-ion batteries into their expensive equipment. We even reached out to former MythBusters to help with the search. In the end, the only place in the world we could find willing to take this on was a foundry in Imatra, Finland.

You can also ask it what Trump said about who won that election, although it will adamantly refuse to compare the two results.

Yeah, I'm not sure why they're calling it that. XR glasses, maybe, but not VR if you can't actually have any immersion.

Meanwhile in Washington:

> As the 5 p.m. cutoff to pass bills approached Tuesday, Sen. Shelly Short, R-Addy, launched an unusual bid to bog down the Senate process. She demanded Lt. Gov. Denny Heck, a Democrat, to have the chamber’s secretary read all 39 pages of a bill focused on electrical transmission infrastructure. Usually, the clerk reads the first and last line of legislation into the record. Heck agreed.

> This maneuver killed the transmission bill, as well as several others Senate Democrats were hoping to vote on before the deadline. One of those looked to address surging theft of copper wiring. Senate Bill 6190 would’ve imposed new recordkeeping requirements on scrap metal businesses and made destroying “critical communications infrastructure” a felony.

Better luck next year, I guess.

> the seats necessary to alter that aren't even open

Seems to be anyone's win right now: https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/senate/2026/toss-up (and RCP is considered to be conservative).