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- Comment on Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle 7 hours ago:
with a maximum regen deceleration of 0.68 G before the carbon-ceramic friction brakes take over.
That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot?
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 5 days ago:
Ah, okay. So it comes down to a strict definition of “belief” which requires total certainty. I’ve seen it used that way before, but when I say I believe something, I never mean there’s no chance I’m mistaken.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 5 days ago:
I think one can take that even further. It’s possible that the fact that people who rely on truth and morality (which is a human constant if not a natural one) converge, is the whole reason either one has a place in our society. Almost all our instincts lead us away from them, otherwise.
So do you believe in an objective reality, or not? You said a couple of opposite things there.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 5 days ago:
It’s kind of a tale as old as time. If there’s a socially correct way to think, and at least two people, they’re inevitably going to disagree on which way that is at some point, and splinter into subfactions that hate each other.
Lemmy has examples of this already.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
I suppose, although bus collisions tend to have a pretty low fatality rate as well.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.
I could be wrong - they clearly happen. But it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
Am I missing something, or was that the point of this post?
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 week ago:
I mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.
The bar for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.
- Comment on President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis 2 weeks ago:
And somehow, the Democrats don’t learn.
- Comment on No thanks 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on No thanks 3 weeks ago:
Statistically, there might be somebody.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 4 weeks ago:
Text is light. Images are a bit heavier, but there’s not too too many.
- Comment on I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology 1 month ago:
Hmm. I wonder if anybody’s compiled a modern text compression algorithm onto whatever machine they have?
- Comment on I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology 1 month ago:
I mean, there’s also the political unpopularity of letting the words “prison” and “upgrade” get anywhere close to each other. Unless the upgrade is to the guns and razor wire.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 month ago:
Yes, doxxing has always been possible. When I think about how you could dox this account, though, it’s not ways that would show up on a simple tool like that. An LLM might be able to piece together a chain of thought for it, though.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 month ago:
It’s the bible verses on the side OP was focusing on.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 month ago:
I mean, you can still be anonymous, but it’s extra work.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 month ago:
Yeah, so this was always going to happen eventually, right? It’s yet another reason you’re not anonymous online unless you actually are.
Next stop, AI-powered doxxing.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?
It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 month ago:
Truly the new Coke of websites.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 month ago:
And the choice given is if want your car crippled or you want to cough up money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ah, the classics. Nothing like a weird dictatorship giving themselves medals.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 month ago:
Yes, you’re technically right, that’s at least what I was trying to say. “Linear” and “everything is in a multiplicative relation” are really close in my head, though, so I made a mistake.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 month ago:
Yeah, journey length is a huge factor. Over, like, a block or two walking is as dominant as a million years ago. Over continental distances airplanes are the thing to beat. Ordinary rail is promising, and vactrain concepts seem like the best very-long-term option. I did some napkin math that shows for an antipodal trip, even orbital travel can be energy-competitive, given one of a couple improvements beyond existing rocketry.
I also wonder how trains traveling in opposite directions will handle passing each other at 1000km/h given China is already working on next gen trains with that speed as a goal.
You have to adjust for Chinese truth in advertising a bit, so we might not find out, although apparently their rail infrastructure is a notable bright spot. You have to think the shockwaves would be loud, and potentially damaging to the trains, and the solution would be preventing them from ever passing close by, either with barriers and a wider allowance or careful scheduling.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Who didn’t even necessarily believe in god, just some kind of hands-off universe creator?
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 month ago:
Sure. And now the question is if halving the travel time is worth whatever it costs to double the speed.
In some cases, it is. There’s a grand total of one ocean liner left in the Western world, for example, despite the energy efficiency. The concord had problems with energy use getting ridiculously higher right after the sound barrier, which made it not worthwhile, and which is why 21st century passenger jets fly just below it, so that’s a straight example. I guess I just take issue with it being represented as mathematically inevitable.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 month ago:
Travel time is distance/speed. I suppose that’s only linear in distance in the technical sense, being inversely proportional to speed, but the point that there’s no dark magic or non-elementary school math involved stands.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 month ago:
100km/h train = 4 hour journey 200km/h train = 2 hours 300km/h train = 1 hour 20 mins 400km/h train = 1 hour 500km/h train = 48 mins 600km/h train = 40 mins
It feels like you’re scoring returns logarithmically as you move the scale additively here. The faster you go, the sooner you arrive, it’s linear. I’m not actually sure if acceleration and deceleration has been a big issue at the scales involved.