HiddenLayer555 2d ago • 100%
I can't say I've ever thought rice smells like cinema nor popcorn. I associate the smell with China since I spent my earliest years there. My guess is your brain associated that smell with movies for whatever reason (maybe you always got Chinese food at the mall after the movies or something?)
HiddenLayer555 2d ago • 100%
Annecdotal, but I definitely enjoy the simplest foods specifically for their simplicity. Things like a fresh loaf of bread with no sauces, a plain bowl of rice straight out of the rice cooker (I'm Asian), or plain roasted sunflower seeds.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
Trump, your child couldn't put a lego car together.
Also I'm pretty sure there's drug testing at automotive plants. How's your cokehead of a child going to even get in the door?
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 85%
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 94%
Headline: US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding
First line of the article: The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk
The headline is intentionally making it seem like the US is asking Israel itself to provide aid to Gaza, no they're just pretending to ask Israel to please stop preventing other people from trying to provide aid to Gaza.
Thanks Associated press, very cool.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
Zionists have little concern for Jewish people
FTFY
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
while the robots are doing what people would do to enjoy themselves.
and for the specific purpose of increasing profit margins of media companies who no longer have to pay artists and writers
If generative AI was merely a computer science endeavour, the 1% wouldn't be investing this heavily in it.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 97%
Same with "communicating over the internet isn't real communication."
I'm not saying that there aren't problems with how much we're communicating over the internet and how little we're communicating in real life, but the vast majority of humans in history would have considered the ability to send text messages to someone on the other side of the world in less than a second to be reserved for the gods above.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
AI also isn't studying or being artistic. It has no real awareness of the concepts it's seemingly learning, at least not yet. AI as of right now is basically just statistical analysis of human-made information and art and predictive modelling of how a human might respond to a given prompt.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
All I'm getting from this picture is that the biggest danger to scooter riders is in fact cars.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
Also in this thread: Identifying the need to restructure the current standard before car usage can be realistically reduced by large amounts.
The best way to reduce car use is to create an environment where driving isn't the default (or only) way to get around. Induced demand works in reverse too.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
or do people in reality have cars and need to park them somewher
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Why not let the business decide how much parking to have then? Surely they know the needs of their customer base better than the city. Even as an anti-capitalist anti-free-market socialist, parking minimums seem like an extreme government overreach. You can still have parking without mandating a parking minimum.
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Why are you working with the base assumption that people have to drive? If you can't park somewhere, maybe that place should be set up with good alternatives so people don't have to drive there in the first place, i.e. good sidewalks, protected bike lanes, frequent public transit. Humans are surprisingly space efficient when they're not in huge metal cages.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
Not everyone who can't really walk much qualify for handicapped status. The majority don't. The elderly as just one example.
Additionally, on-street parking gets you even closer to where you want to go. In fact, if more people who can walk did walk, it would make it even easier for people who can't who won't have as much competition for good parking spots.
HiddenLayer555 5d ago • 100%
Move to the country if you want to drive everywhere then. Leave cities for people who actually value the density they're supposed to provide.
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 100%
Honestly it wouldn't even be that hard to release full translated versions of existing programming languages. Like Python in Punjabi or Kotlin in Chinese or something (both of which already support unicode variable/class/function names). Just have a lookup table to redefine each keyword and standard library name to one in that language, it can literally just be an additional translation layer above the compiler/interpreter that converts the code to the original English version.
It's honestly really surprising that non-English speakers have developed entirely new programming languages in their own language (unfortunately none of which are getting very widespread use even among speakers of that language), but the practice of simply translating a widely used and industry standard English programming language doesn't seem to be much of a thing.
If I ever make my own programming language, I'm probably going to bake multi-language support into the compiler. Just supply it with a lookup table of translated terms and the code in that language.
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 97%
And I love how cute it is that you think GM, Ford, Tesla, etc aren't lobbying for parking minimums.
Also, auto companies have never tried to manipulate a country's government, no they would never.
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 100%
Because it supports Unicode as variable/class/function names and Unicode includes all the characters humans have ever used, even dead languages (I assume for historians to digitize ancient texts?)
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 100%
And they're walking in car infrastructure. Some of the most unpleasant, not made for humans places, not to mention dangerous. Compared to walking in what a city should feel like.
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 98%
Actually you're right. Didn't see that at first.
HiddenLayer555 1w ago • 100%
Do you see the people walking in the top left picture?
That's what access to the public looks like.
"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!" If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!" If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others. You're crossing a stroad. Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility. Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.
You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others. You're crossing a stroad. Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility. Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.
They definitely have a boomer for a social media manager
They definitely have a boomer for a social media manager