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mylittlebrainon Car headlights don't have to be this blinding

And to make it worse, there are so many large vans and pickup trucks (empty too) speeding, that also have very bright and eye level cornea melting LED lights.

mylittlebrainon AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Reminds me of the The Two Faces of Tomorrow book by James P. Hogan It opens with this exact scenario.

mylittlebrainon The Influentists: AI hype without proof

Off topic, but AI hype is appearing in hardware and consumer electronics. I just bought a rechargeable hand warmer that claims to have an "... Have Intelligent AI Temperature Control Chips That Can Accurately Control the Temperature," At least in the early days the Transistor, radios did have them.

mylittlebrainon Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

Similarly, we already have AI, which is really MI (Machine Intelligence). Long before the current hype cycle the defense industry and others have been using the same tools being applied now. Of course, there are differences, such as scale and architecture, etc.

mylittlebrainon Bartók's Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania (2013)

"... he wandered the countryside on one of his peasant-hunting expeditions". Grissly hobby or article needed better reviewing.

mylittlebrainon The Earth is getting greener

How should the environmental movement frame things?

mylittlebrainon CLI tool, written in Rust, to diff directory snapshots

That was my first thought. A content addressable file system* like Git or Mercurial, would be the simplest thing that could work. * Not sure these VCSs could be called a CAS.

mylittlebrainon Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo

Is this view documented anywhere?

mylittlebrainon F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

Maybe the news reports are in error? They said autopilot was left on. The pilot survived. Surely they must know the settings for the course. It sounds like an episode in one of those spy thrillers.

mylittlebrainon Heat pump sales outpaced gas furnace sales in the US in 2022

I wonder if a dual-fuel system can optimize the use of heat-pumps and gas heating. Could a control system also use the current price of each fuel to determine the mixture.

https://www.goodmanmfg.com/resources/hvac-learning-center/hv...

mylittlebrainon Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

The only news we have is that the indictment consists of more than 30 counts related to business fraud. The exact list has not been released yet. So, speculating is pointless.