Wonder if that’s bad design or hostile design.

When I was watching Naruto Shippuden on Netflix, I eventually caught up to the episodes NF had but obviously it wasn’t the end of the series. I quickly found alternative places to stream the rest, and from there would occasionally find new animes to watch. Sites would last for a while and then get taken down, then the usual response on my end would be to just do another search and pick up where I left off.

The last time a site went down for me, I wasn’t able to find another one quickly. I’m sure they still exist, but my assumption is that the big search engines are using LLMs to filter results based on what their owners deem acceptable, at least when they can say it wasn’t legal anyways.

I’ve also been surprised at some of the “zero results” searches. Can’t think of any examples offhand, just that some were surprising.

Though I use DDG instead of Google, so YMMV and it might just be Microsoft doing this.

When I’m a pedestrian, I pretty much ignore right of way and treat crossing more like frogger (unless it’s at a traffic light), though generally prefer taking moments where I can cross either fully or to a raised divider. It won’t really help me if some driver that hits me gets in legal trouble.

While driving, I actively try to avoid hitting pedestrians, using various tools at my disposal, such as my eyes (useful for seeing that there’s a pedestrian I shouldn’t hit), my feet (my car is equipped with a pedal that converts my momentum into heat, as well as another one that disengages the motor so that it doesn’t add more momentum back in, allowing me to slow down or even stop to avoid), and my arms (my car is also equipped with a device that allows me to convert the direction of my momentum to a different direction, which can work as a last line of defense when avoiding hitting pedestrians, though honestly it’s a pretty big fuck up to even need to do that because there aren’t many other options for directions on city streets). I also chose my car with “good visibility of things around me” as one of the features I wanted it to have.

Though it helps that the crosswalks here that aren’t at intersections have lights that flash rapidly only when someone presses the button to cross. It’s probably safer to cross at these than it is at an intersection due to varying levels of attention to pedestrians while turning, especially if it’s a left on a busy street that doesn’t offer many opportunities to make that turn.

Pedestrian bridges are nice whether I’m walking or driving. Assuming they don’t collapse, that is, in which case they aren’t very nice.

It’s like the famous saying, “If you want to do something that might be dangerous, it’s best to do it very quickly so that the danger doesn’t have enough time to pop up.” Einstein gave his life proving this principle, so the least we can do is quote it as much as possible because big danger is trying to bury it so they can stay relevant in today’s economy.

So the wings are like the balls of the plane? I always wondered why they were there. I guess electric planes wouldn’t need them and would be able to fly through tunnels, which could help reaching areas with mountains in the way.

Or, hear me out, add some nozzles that require very high pressure to activate that shoot flames at the thing trying to crash into you to scare it off or burn it up before it has a chance to get through the door. Then accidents will have to think twice–maybe even three times–before they pop up out of nowhere while you’re doing normal everyday things like sneaking through a red light (if you roll slowly enough, you can try to argue that you were pretty much stopped the whole time. It’s not a crime, it’s a great way to save time.)

What about a southern sweet tea? I understand the high temperature is taken advantage of to dissolve more sugar into it (which just sounds gross to me).

As I recall, they used to be more similarly priced. Like I remember being flabbergasted at how cheap the Elise was compared to my expectations. I was expecting something more like $60-80k but they were like $30-40k. Miata was a bit cheaper but not by a huge margin.

Though it was a bit different because the Miata was more of a comfort sports car while the Elise was more of a racing sports car with bare minimum interior. Though that makes it sound even better for Doc Brown to tinker with because he wouldn’t have to strip out as much to fit his extra stuff in.

Oh another option just occurred to me, though I don’t recall the specifics, but wasn’t John Titor’s time machine mounted in a vehicle of some sort? His story timeline matches up fairly well with this BTTF remake idea, though iirc he left from the 30s rather than the 20s, and I think his wasn’t closely integrated with the vehicle (like I seem to recall he had said something about swapping the vehicle it was in during his journey). Could update the method from flux capacitors to virtual black holes and even show that laser bending trick (where all other light mysteriously isn’t affected by whatever is affecting the laser lol) as a satirical nod to whoever did that hoax.

Yeah, my thought was either a Miata or maybe go a bit more exotic and go with the Lotus Elise (first released in 1996).

Scrabbling a script isn’t something you can to while scrambling. You end up dropping way too many letters and your dialog ends up consisting of mostly two and three letter words.

Counterpoint: dragons.

And I gave a senior an extra buck behind the convenience store to grab a pack for me when he was grabbing packs for the other kids that had also done the same. I remember one of them was rolling joints and I probably could have bought one of those, too, while I was there, or maybe even something harder.

So the law didn’t stop me from getting smokes despite no machine being involved but it did give me reason to be in contact with people who could get a bunch of other things, too.

They aren’t saying it’s a sane reaction, they are saying “it happens every weekend” doesn’t imply “all drivers who happen to be in the area should know and plan for it”.

Cars are bad for the ocean, too, please don’t drive your car there :(

Edit: they might be ok in space, unless cause a space jam.

Yeah, if someone is going faster than you, less chance that you’ll get a speeding ticket.

Wait, are you trying to imply that there’s some kind of driver solidarity where they don’t care about being slowed down if it’s by another car?

Yes, though in that shot he is going by the alias Hal mumbles.

Turns out paperwork only binds metaphorically.

Yeah, I think if AI was good at translations, we’d see a lot more localizations of media, like manga/mangua/manghwa, video games, etc.

But the reality is that when people say LLMs are great at translation, it’s more of a “they can make things understandable (some portion of the time)” not “they make it sound as if a native of the other language is saying the exact same thing in that language that you said in yours”.

LLMs make token associations, there is no understanding. They’ll need bigger neural nets and even better training data to model understanding. They seem to be making progress in programming but that’s because the whole pipeline can be better automated: a program can be compiled to find syntax or grammar errors, and it can be run to check the behaviour. There is no automatic feedback mechanism for things like translation or image generation.

It’s all subjective, too, so someone who wants the models to be perceived as “good” will be more likely to perceive it as good themselves and miss or forgive errors, while skeptics will be looking closely for them. Neutrals won’t be looking for errors but will recognize the uncanny valley (which bad translations can also fall into, though they are usually perceived more as funny than creepy).

I think they might mean they believe these arguments are generally happening organically rather than purely as part of some Russian or maga division campaign.

Personally, I could see it going either way, as the left has historically had a lot of infighting because it’s not so much a coherent group but the collection of alternative ideas to the current form of capitalism. Some of these ideas aren’t compatible, like anarchism and communism. But I also know that the powers that be won’t hold any punches trying to protect that power, including making fake users who make posts specifically intended to increase division. I think both of those factor into arguments like whether one should always vote blue or if the Democrats are essentially the same thing as thr GOP with a friendly looking mask on, though I don’t know how present that is here.

But I do agree that a lot of people here need to read How to Win Friends and Influence People because I see a lot of people trying to argue their side in a way that does more to alienate it than convince anyone. I could probably use a reread myself. The advice it gives is so obvious in hindsight (because we are on both sides of that, wanting to influence but also someone others try to influence and we can tell how various techniques are received) but it can be hard to remember when you feel passionate about something.