What makes this worse is that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

If those “improperly adjusted” or pointing forward headlights weren’t the same height as my eyes, they would not be a problem. Which is my exact point.

A thought occured to me the other day: there is absolutely no reason that headlights have to be on the upper part of the front grille. Mount them as close to the ground as possible. (Like busses and some cargo trucks) At least it will address a situation where pickup truck / SUV headlights are at eye level for drivers of anything smaller.

Of course! Dark Streets on Lexaloffle

Plays in browser, you can see the code right there too, or LMK if you want a more-commented version (had to remove comments to save space)

Ukrainians would also want to rm rf

I wrote a computer game (including the engine), and matrix / vector math plays a key role in movement and rendering. Definitely needed some refreshers, but the good thing is it is not abstract anymore like it was in school, all math things are directly relevant to in-game objects and mechanics.

First we had Merlin Appholes who would submit misidentified and similar sounds as “sightings”, but Cornell tightened the tolerances on the recognition model.

Now this. But to be fair, even before AI there was a subset of “birders” who loved to exagerrate via ignorance. Cardinal = scarlet tanager (it’s red), american robin = baltimore oriole (duh, orange), red-winged blackbird = Bobolink (it says this meadow has Bobolinks, therefore, any large bird on grass = bobolink), and so on.

Just a fair warning: Element (Matrix client) also had issues with notifications not appearing in time, or attachments/images not loading. (This is on a self-hosted Synapse with a handful of people and 1 bridge).

I haven’t kept up much with new developments, but last I remember, hosting the official Element Server Suite Community requires Kubernetes. Third-party servers or some install scripts are an option though.

These are so bad they cause integer underflow, making them good again.

You will make a great father.

(USA)

Less lawn care and more native plants: save money on fertilizer, save time on mowing, grass looks better too, you get fireflies and birds.

Own tomatoes taste much better. And they grow like weeds in subtropical regions of the US, so very little effort needed there.

Repair and DIY: You want to get ripped off by some person who will also put minimum effort into fixing your house or things? Or worse, company salesman who will wear you out with endless speeches until you agree? “Want it done right? Do it yourself”.

Solar power: This is MY power.

No car / smaller car / older car: Gas is expensive (ironic for Americans, I know, but it’s a common complaint)

Smaller house / apartment: Save lots of money on heating and cooling, pay less taxes and lower insurance rates.

But to even get this far, we have to somehow overcome cultural norms, such as: my neighbor(s) whose hobby is mowing the grass twice a week; people ordering shit on Amazon as the default; stupid laws about solar; wanting a bigger car, house, yard for no practical reason.

And I can’t find a good selfish argument against big tech and AI - it’s free, and most people are indifferent about external costs and surveillance.

I used porkbun, and never had to upload an ID (but I am in USA). IIRC still need to provide an address, but they mask WHOIS.

Article uses the “akshually humans are just complex learning machines” pro-AI argument:

The competence a human needs to oversee an AI system is not a fixed asset. It is built and kept alive through practice – the same practice the AI system is now doing instead of the human.

Keep scrolling.

HERE WeGo (aka HERE Maps) is not FOSS, but has traffic, satellite view, offline mode, etc. Some POI might be outdated (due to it being not Google)

IIRC from an ornithologist talk, owls have such good evolutionary advantages (eyesight, hearing, silent flight), they don’t have to be “intelligent”. The rest of the raptors are generally considered more “intelligent” for seeking, stalking, and catching prey.

And an airport! I was going to comment about that too, but then realized I have seen neighborhoods like that, nestled between a refinery and warehouses, or between an ababdoned steel mill and a river. I could only imagine what living next to a refinery does to one’s health…

Good engineers will produce more good code, because they ask the right questions, know what good looks like and check the output.

Best code is the code that is never written in the first place. But that concept is difficult to explain and measure for management purposes. Just because “AI” can automate well-structured, tested boilerplate for “good” developers does not mean all that boilerplate should be there.

Instead of headlights 2 feet off the ground, now we have overpowered searchlights (brighter = safer, amirite?) mounted 4 feet high, guaranteed to blind pedestrians and any shorter vehicle’s driver.

Not just mechanical stress, but sugars and carbohydrates in those foods feed the bacteria in the mouth, whose byproducts damage the enamel. Few people are blessed with teeth that withstand it, or mouth flora that is non-damaging, but there is no natural selection for that… Because we have dentistry, thankfully.

“The future” being 59,000 years ago! Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache

Cautiously optimistic about this one. $500 for a niche Linux phone that works as a phone is fair.

And color LED notifications! Why did we ever get rid of those?