AstridWipenaugh

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[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I live in a city of 60,000 people in Colorado. The closest train station is 15 minutes away, by car. There is a bus that will take me to the train station, but it's an hour to walk to the closest one and the bus comes once an hour, 6 am to 7 pm, M-F. I can't afford to spend 4 hours on a quick trip to the grocery store and never leave my house on the weekends.

There are bike lanes on the main roads (4-6 lanes 50+ mph traffic). More than half the vehicles around here are massive jacked up trucks and SUVs. I have a bike, but do not have a death wish. It regularly snows, making bike riding a no-go for most of 4 months of the year.

I am very much in favor of reducing car traffic. But it's not feasible for so many people with the way cities are designed and the lack of public transport.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it's because "at least he's doing something." Plenty of uninformed chuds are making the assumption that any action is good action. They're also the same folks that still insist project 2025 is a liberal hoax.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More likely, he'll delete the database.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I can't wait to see what their investigation finds in 3 years! Hopefully they'll finally lay out a rock solid 7 year strategy to bring charges against Trump. That'll show 'em!

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

No love for Jezzball?

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is this a Berenstain Bears alternate universe? I remember playing a game called Portal... was it actually Star Trek the whole time?

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

15-25% seems to be most common. I can't personally say that I've seen anything above 30% in Denver.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“When Amendment 64 passed (legalizing recreational marijuana), anything that was like smokable plant material was maybe 2% to 5% THC. Now some of the plant-based stuff, the potency is up closer to 15%,” Dillard said. “

Bull fucking shit. I've been buying legal weed here since day one and you could get 15% anywhere. Nobody was selling 2% in a dispensary. Maybe some dude on the street selling brick weed, but never in dispensaries.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The main safety features are a tip switch, thermostat, and a bi-metallic safety switch that physically pops open if it gets too warm. The "still dangerous" part seems to just be failure modes or poor operational safety. Don't put it right next to something flammable and don't overload the circuit.

Don't know why you're being down voted; it's a 30 minute video. 😅

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

AI certainly can do it. But here's the thing with generative AI: the answer is only as good as the question you ask. If you don't know exactly what to ask for and which details are important, the AI doesn't know what you meant to ask and can't infer that. AI usually does not pick up implied context that an experienced person would. A person would be able to make an educated guess about what you actually meant and answer that question.

As someone with 20 years of programming experience, I would recommend against using AI to learn to program. You're asking something that doesn't actually know how to program to show you how to do it. From my experience with coworkers using AI, it doesn't improve their work; it simply accelerates the rate at which they can produce low quality work.

Once you're more skilled than the AI, you can use it to speed up menial tasks, like generating boilerplate and stubbing things out. It absolutely will be wrong in some ways, and you need to be able to tell when it's wrong and know how to fix it.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. Same as with Trump's rigged election claims: show us the evidence or fuck all the way off with your conspiratorial fantasies. We have very real urgent issues to focus on before we entertain "curiosities".

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck yeah! Cultural exchange rocks!

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