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- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 20 hours ago:
oh right - samesies :D
- Comment on this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it 5 days ago:
unless he’s got his own LLM running on his own server
You forgot the part where the LLM also needs to be trained exclusively on the creations of that very person themselves. Everything else is stolen credits.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
as long as the capitalist class is subject to the peoples wishes.
Yeah I think that’s the part where you missed the news flash about the Chinese state.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
definitionally
That’s not English. Maybe don’t go lecturing others about capitalism when you have to invent words for your (flawed) reasoning.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
But. they are at communist as possible.
Educate yourself. China is de-facto the biggest and most successful capitalist economy on this planet.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
The capitalist class in China is subject to the wishes of the working class represented by the party with its over 100 million members.
LMAO. Do you actually believe that garbage yourself?
The simple truth is that China is the most efficient capitalist country in the world right now - they combine a totalitarian regime with a huge economy and an actual self-serving but smart understanding of capitalism. They are simply better at playing that game that the rest of the world.
What we don’t see from the outside is to what degree becoming rich enables you to take influence on the political system. What we do see is that the Chinese “communist” (muhaha) party has an iron grip on the country, but also that they are strongly intertwined with what you call “the capitalist class” (i.e. rich parasites).
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
I think you missed an important “not” there.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
As a fellow German I kind of admire the French protest culture. Fully agreed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Second pic is “listen here, you little shit” expressed with chef’s kiss.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
See, I hadn’t even read about this. TIL :)
Still, I use ISO8601 all the time when it comes to written dates :)
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, the time separators don’t behave well on all implementations of filesystem access by filename. Need to use underscores or omit them at times.
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
If I want to know today’s date ISO 8601 isn’t a good answer
Can be tailed to the relevant bit though.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
There’s that, too. But here in Germany I am pretty sure the rotisserie chicken at a vending truck is not sold at a loss, and I believe you get a half one at 5 EUR, which is still dirt cheap.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I am a bigger fan of vegetarian (vegan) meat supplements. I don’t mind if chemistry gets involved as long as supervision is adequate. In the end, livestock is just a biological “factory” that turns vegetables/grains/grass into tasty meat. No reason that can’t be done without the detour via the living being.
Not everyone’s cup of tea but I was always a huge meat lover and for ~15 years I have committed to only eat meat when I really really want to & focus on quality then. And those times have become less and less, and I can absolutely live with the veggie options.
But I think food chemistry can go a long way and potentially produce artificial meat as well.
- Comment on Boys will be boys 2 weeks ago:
While I don’t disagree on companies (having always been) getting greedy, getting a whole cooked chicken for 5 bucks is only possible through industrial factory farming of livestock with horrible animal cruelty. Try raising, slaughtering, plucking, gutting and cooking a chicken for that average price while basically creating a torture concentration camp for chicken.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Same.
- Comment on I know Reddit sucks but this one is funny. 2 weeks ago:
Very reflected and based take :) quality content, I did not regret reading - thank you for yout service to the Fediverse!
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 2 weeks ago:
who hurt you?
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 2 weeks ago:
woosh
Also, Chuck Norris passed away earlier this year (and has now taken over for Death as ruler in the afterlife, I suppose).
- Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game) 2 weeks ago:
What’s the problem with 100% open-sourcing? Third party libraries?
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 2 weeks ago:
As an atheist from what I picked up over the years: yes.
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 2 weeks ago:
Chuck Norris was the only being to ever exist that could be 200% of anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think this is just actual mental illness. The guy needs professional therapy, not an internet account.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is poetry. Oh well - it actually is :D
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
You are just trying to drive how you are used to drive in another country.
Yes, because the safety aspect of keeping your distance etc are a matter of speed and a simple formula - whether you can break in time if the person in front of you steps on the breaks depends on physics, not laws.
“Bumperkleven” is forbidden. Whoever is creeping up to you in a few meters is breaking the law.
Obviously forbidden - my point was that whatever the Netherlands doing is not “working” in terms of teaching drivers to drive more safely. I do appreciate the global speed limit though, it’s simply less dangerous.
I barely even see this happening.
You clearly haven’t tried the A2 between Utrecht & 's-Hertogenbosch then.
why the fuck should the person getting overtaken slow down?
Are you maybe one of the drivers who don’t get it? If the speed limit prevents the car overtaking from doing so speedily, then the car being overtaken slows down ever so slightly, the whole process is sped up immensely. You talking about “sudden changes” tells me you completely missed the point. We’re not talking about using the brakes, we’re talking about letting off the pedal for a bit to slow down 2-5 km/h. Difference between a car going 120 being overtaken at 121 vs. going 117 being overtaken at 121 is 1/4 of the total time needed to complete overtaking.
I’m not even going to comment on 3, because you failed to understand the previous point.
The idea behind it is that the flow of traffic should not be interrupted. The earlier you merge while everybody including yourself is driving at a steady pace, the better.
See - you don’t understand how “ritsen” works, and even how the law is in the Netherlands regarding how to do “ritsen”. Please educate yourself, because your logic is wrong and slows down traffic / causes unnecessary traffic jams.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
The last part about governments not acting upon reckless driving, I think it depends on the country. In the Netherlands it is pretty well done.
Absolutely not! My experience from a couple of years living and driving in NL: Speeding is expensive, but has no other consequences -> speed limits are effective for poor people only. No other controls are in effect. The average speed measurement over longer stretches of road is a nice touch, but again, no consequences but expensive tickets. Also, contrary to Switzerland, fines are NOT bound to your income / wealth.
Most disciplined drivers you could find in the world.
Also not. Things wrong with the average Dutch driver that come to mind immediatley: Due to the low speed limits, overtaking another vehicle is a long process - that’s not the fault of the drivers, but the system’s fault (although the average speed limit is designed to allow a quick burst in speed for this, it’s hard to know when you’ll pay an expensive fine and I wouldn’t rely on it either). What the average Dutch driver does with it however is a problem:
- the driver overtaking will creep up to the car to be overtaken’s rear bumper before changing to the left lane, and will typically go right back into the original lane after clearing the slower car by like 5 meters - due to the slow process of “catching up” this leads to minutes with a very dangerous distance to the car in front of them, and will occasionally cause accidents (thanks to the low speed those are not as fatal).
- the driver being overtaken basically never slows down to speed up the process and make it safer for all involved
- on the contrary, people will sometimes even drive at very irregular speeds and speed up a little just when someone attempts to overtake them
and then 4) many Dutch drivers do not understand zip merging and hate people doing it correctly. If a lane is closed down, people will merge onto the other lane(s) kilometres before the road closure, and there will always be someone who behaves aggressively towards vehicles using the lane until the frontmost part where it is closed and the zip merger should be done. I’ve seen truckers(!) veer to the side to try and intimidate cars passing for a zip merger, because they perceive these people as “cutting the line”
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
In one of my other comments I mentioned the reduce of traffic jams as an argument, due to coordination between vehicles.
Yes, that is possible. However, in today’s neofascist regimes, this is a beloved excuse for total surveillance. Not that they still need it - we basically have always-online and trackable cars already anyways. :(
About the accidents: reckless drivers also (mainly even I think, no source) kill innocent people on the road. Reducing the total amount of deaths is more important than some supposed moral superiority of only reckless drivers dying vs people dying due to technical faults.
This is an alternative of the trolley problem. There’s no clear ethical answer to this. Personally, I think that today’s technology proves that companies will always put profits over safety, and I will always prefer to control my own vehicle when it comes to personal travel, over having any kind of safety relevant automation. Just think of Boeing’s 737 MAX debacle, where Boeing murdered (with the amount of criminal energy they put into obfuscating the redesign of the plane there’s no other way for me to see this) the crew and passengers of two civil airliners for profit.
We’re not doing anything meaningful against reckless drivers in today’s world, even when it’s trivial, and our governments are corrupt to the core and will never exert more control over corporations than they will over private people who drive recklessly.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
Ik vind het meestal een bad-faith argument wanneer mensen op basis van de huidige technologie tegen het principe van zelfrijdende auto’s zijn.
Dat zei ik maar niet. Ik zei dat volgens mij de mensheid te stom ervoor is. En daaroom gaan die nooit zeker zijn, tenzij de mensheid leert minder egoistisch te zijn.
Dat laatste geeft ook aan dat je psychologisch iets erop tegen hebt.
Ook niet. Ik zei dat het niet zeker genoeg is voor mij. Een metro zonder chauffeur is iets anders, die gebruik ik wel.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
We hebben het over een hypothetische toekomst waar de technologie veiliger zou zijn dan mensen.
Dat zou volgens mij nooit gebeuren. Terwijl ik niet zou zeggen dat het onmogelijk is, zijn de mensen toch gemiddelt te egoïstisch en gefocusseerd op geld.
Overigens rijden er al een decennia zelfrijdende bussen in Rotterdam.
- bekende weg
- nog steeds een chauffeur voor de controle / toezicht
- rijd langzaam
Zeker niet de gevaarlijkste vehikel, maar… niet voor mij.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 4 weeks ago:
You used the self-driving bit saving you time as an argument in favor of self-driving cars, hence the correction. The time save has nothing to do with who operates the car (unless it’s a F1 driver).
The problem is that this whole debate is poisoned. Self-driving cars are not, and will likely never be safe. They can be safer on average than human drivers, it’s just that other people will die in accidents than those killed by reckless drivers. The ones dying will die due to software errors / profit calculations and the likes. As such, promoting self-driving without a mechanical guiding control (as in railways) is highly unethical.
It might be possible to overcome the technological challenges of safe self-driving, but humankind as a whole is too selfish and profit-driven to ever reach a point where that kind of research will even be funded with any meaningful budget. That’s my prediction.