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byStikyPad
2026 @09:49PM
(#65896185)
Attached to: 'The Cult of Costco'
Atlantic staff writer Jake Lundberg, who shops at the Granger, Indiana location, describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.
Maybe in Granger, Indiana. Every one I've visited in a major metropolitan area (whether coastal or heartland) has been a cacophony of chaos with, at best, oblivious shoppers looking at everything except where they're going and who is around them, and at worst people who actively jockey for position, rushing to pass one another, only to stop short and block the person they just passed. It's insanity, and I avoid going there as much as possible except to take someone else.
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byStikyPad
2025 @10:56AM
(#65869091)
Attached to: Anthropic's AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away
LLMs cannot reason. None of them are "smart."
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byStikyPad
2025 @01:49PM
(#65732564)
Attached to: 12 Years of HDD Analysis Brings Insight To the Bathtub Curve's Reliability
MTBF is useful information, but I think it would be more useful in conjunction with factors like active spinning time, total spin up/down counts, cumulative head seek time, total IO, etc. Presumably time-in-service affects the MTBF more than the age of the drive, but to what extent? Is a NIB drive that's two years old going to be as reliable as one that's only a month or two old? So many variables....
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byStikyPad
2025 @03:31PM
(#65725030)
Attached to: Indonesia's Film Industry Embraces AI To Make Hollywood-style Movies For Cheap
The internet is really the best medium for sarcasm.
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byStikyPad
2025 @03:30PM
(#65725024)
Attached to: Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
Pretty sure this opens him up to a legal malpractice suit. Probably more lucrative than whatever the debt was.
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byStikyPad
2025 @10:39AM
(#65714362)
Attached to: China Confirms Solar Panel Projects Are Irreversibly Changing Desert Ecosystems
lasting ecological shifts will hinge on design and long-term care.
We don't really know that for sure. It may improve the odds, but neither desertification nor greening require human intervention, nor is human intervention necessarily going to achieve the desired outcome. Life, uh... finds a way. (Except when it doesn't.) But for all we know (and what seems most likely absent evidence to the contrary), this is just a temporary oasis of sorts that will last only as long as the structures on the site.
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byStikyPad
2025 @12:01PM
(#65690504)
Attached to: 'No Driver, No Hands, No Clue': Waymo Pulled Over For Illegal U-turn
The article is sparse on details. I don't necessarily think driverless cars should be given a free pass -- in fact, we should probably have higher fines for the manufacturers -- but 9 times out of 10 when a road is blocked, it's because of construction or an accident, not a checkpoint. I suspect it was reacting to the obstruction, because when a road is obstructed, the "no U-Turn" rule generally doesn't apply (or isn't enforced anyway). In fact, if it hadn't been a checkpoint, I doubt they would have even been looking for illegal U-Turns, which are indicative of people trying to avoid the checkpoint, presumably.
As for fines, I do think they should be higher for self-driving cars, because $300 isn't even a slap on the wrist for Google. On the other hand, that could create a perverse incentive where officers are ignoring flagrant violations by human drivers in favor of issuing a $100k ticket to a Waymo that veered out of its lane to avoid a hazard. It could also create a situation where self-driving cars are so cautious that traffic is snarled by puritanical robot cars that won't even approach the speed limit because it's not worth the risk.
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byStikyPad
2025 @07:05PM
(#65631286)
Attached to: Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever
Sorry for your loss. Dating apps are indeed garbage. If I were single, I'd be talking to every attractive person I saw at a grocery store, museum, out walking, etc. I'm an introvert and it makes me nervous AF, but I've also realized that pretty much anyone who agrees to meet for a drink is already interested, so that makes it easier. I mean I hate doing job interviews too, but it's just part of the process, not the end of the world.
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byStikyPad
2025 @02:11PM
(#65600580)
Attached to: MIT Report: 95% of Generative AI Pilots at Companies Are Failing
Everything is derivative (or just plain copying), though generative doesn't even imply novelty. I can generate a list of the first X positive integers and that will still be generative as long as I didn't specify each one literally. It will not be novel.
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byStikyPad
2025 @02:03PM
(#65600560)
Attached to: MIT Report: 95% of Generative AI Pilots at Companies Are Failing
I mean, the same is true of many things that are automated. Every once in a while someone dies on an escalator, but far fewer people die from riding an escalator than by falling down stairs.
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byStikyPad
2025 @01:48PM
(#65600492)
Attached to: MIT Report: 95% of Generative AI Pilots at Companies Are Failing
I'm curious what specific problems have been "solved" by particular generative AI startups. I'm aware of AI-based tools for specific tasks, but nothing that uses LLMs to solve a problem (other than perhaps code generation).
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byStikyPad
2025 @05:28PM
(#65588452)
Attached to: Temperature Records Broken as Extreme Heat Grips Parts of Europe
I assume you mean because water evaporates more quickly than pads are wetted, leading to reduced functionality. This is an implementation problem, not a limitation of the concept itself. Better wetting, materials, and/or using multi-stage evaporative coolers can overcome the limit of older systems typically found in homes.
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byStikyPad
2025 @03:57PM
(#65588274)
Attached to: Musk Threatens 'Immediate' Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations
This is assuming rational behavior, which is a stretch here.
178667150
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byStikyPad
2025 @03:21PM
(#65588204)
Attached to: Polestar Sets Production Car Record For Longest Drive On a Single Charge
It's easy to get great efficiency when you're traveling at 25MPH, where drag is a minimal contributor. Most modern EVs can manage close to 5 mi/kWh at those speeds. Range is then just a question of battery capacity, so is the improvement in energy density, or just packing more batteries into the vehicle?
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byStikyPad
5 @10:25PM
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Attached to: FCC To Eliminate Gigabit Speed Goal, Scrap Analysis of Broadband Prices
What happens if you just disable 5G on your phone?
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