🇨🇦 tunetardis

Yeah you’re probably on the money there. AI gives you some sort of plausible deniability?

It certainly is. They get caught once in a while. The first time it happened was when I added the term “oligopoly” to my vocabulary.

Like do you really need an AI to do this? It’s been going on for years where I live. It’s not hard for all the local gas stations to collude to raise prices. It’s easier than ever when you have the likes of gasbuddy crowd-sourcing all the price-checking.

Got a reservation but haven’t fully committed yet. I guess I have…er…reservations about it?

It’s chilling looking at the animations in the article. The left turn one shows how a pedestrian can be killed in even what should be a pretty low-speed collision. This is exactly what happened about a year ago to a cyclist at a busy intersection where I live, and I had always wondered how such an accident could prove so deadly?

Yeah same. I am so confused by this whole Crimea business. Russia took over in 2014. Did they offer really generous incentives for people to move in? Or was it more stick than carrot?

I seem to recall Ukraine retaliating by cutting off the water supply to the peninsula, which makes me think it would’ve been pretty shitty to stick around, let alone move in? And then when the current war got under way, Russia made it a priority to reestablish the water supply. But then they (the Russians) blew up the dam that controlled it?!? Like none of this makes any sense to me.

$6 million would be his annual subscription with tons of vendor lock-in. He could maybe save a bit if he agreed to ads on the bionic eye?

It’s for the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

ACK

My wife was supposed to get hers for Mother’s Day. Now she’s hoping Christmas? But even that’s iffy at this point.

My brother started eating salads with bamboo chopsticks because it bothered him that a vinaigrette dressing brings out the metallic flavour in a fork. Then he realized they are much more practical for the reasons you mention and has become a huge advocate. They have become my preferred implement as well.

Oh yeah good point. So something more electronic maybe? Hmm…

It would be great with a little squeaker thing inside it!

I used to be into aquariums, and now I’m wondering how big a plecostomus could grow if released into a tank of that size?

Others questioned whether the technology will remain effective. X user Peter Austin (@PeterAusti61402) claimed he had bypassed the challenge using a virtual camera and AI-generated animations.

Damn, I’ve been reluctant so far to make sloppy AI animations like so many people are, but I may be forced to do so now to protect my privacy?

I also have a vague mistrust of non-alphanumerics in file extensions. Like while .c++ is fine, .cpp feels…safer?

I guess strxfrm and the like date back to a period in the 80s when symbol names had to be kept short for the compiler/interpreter’s sake. Like while BASIC back in those days technically allowed > 8 chr names, the interpreter only stored the first 8. In other words, the first 8 needed to be unique. As such, people tended to stick with <= 8 chr symbols to avoid interpreter issues. I think C allowed up to 31? But the culture of <= 8 prevailed nevertheless.

Then in the 90s, such restrictions were largely dropped in most languages, and symbol names ballooned in size to take advantage of this new freedom. In C++, you even had reserved words growing to the likes of reinterpret_cast around that time, but APIs just got ridiculous along the lines lengthy_class_name_followed_by_fully_spelled_out_method.

Today, people seem to have come to their senses and settled on more reasonable lengths, though not to 80s extremes. Like going back to C++, we have new reserved words like decltype and constexpr. In the 90s, these would likely have been spelled out in full like constant_expression?

I might be a little old school when it comes to autopilots?

I’m guessing the guy in the back in 2013 is not a direct descendant of his counterpart from 1942?

I can’t remember who said this, but the quote that vampires are the aristocracy of the undead while zombies are the working class always stuck with me.