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I was unable to book a doctors meeting through the clinic's website, so I declared "screw tech" and called their call center, which still worked better. The app just searched for the "first available spot" and never found anything. If they axe the call center I'm going to have to go to their place.

Maybe they'll figure it out when their revenue drops next quorter or the ones after that?

I was thinking in the same terms: you put up a QR capcha, you don't get my traffic and money. Just the amount of extra work needed, let alone the Google tracking turns me off. As if traffic lights, crosswalks and bridges weren't enough of a hassle.


C obviously.

I was hoping bash because why not. It's AI that has to work and maintain anyway and Anthropic employees aren't limited by 5 hour 7 days limits anyway I suppose.

You missed the part were everyone is going to run its own vibe coded assembly tools[1].

So the next step will be that bun will be directly re-written from scratch at every iteration, the repository will only contains the specs for the LLMs.

Caching locally the generated code will be authorized for some transition period, but as it’s obviously very dangerous to let people tweak what exactly computers are doing, forbidding such a practice using safe secure boot mandatory mode is already planed. Only nazi pedophiles would do otherwise anyway, thus the enactment of the companion law is an obvious go to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947


Democratizing knowledge btw

Not sure I understand what you mean here.

Yes, it does beep a lot but you can adjust the volume to low. Source: we had a 2025 replacement Yaris. It's annoying but the older ones' seat belt alarm is even more annoying, although I use the seatbelt at all times. It also turned me off, not wanting to get a new post-2025 Toyota. Now they all have mandatory alcohol testers and speed alarms. Use hand sanitizer and you have to Uber to work. No thanx. I'll keep my old car.

Sorry new Toyotas have mandatory alcohol testers? Which locale are you in? I’ve heard of mandatory breathalysers for work vehicles or DUI drivers but all new cars?

Not only Toyotas, all new cars sold in the EU need to have an interface for alcohol testers. They already have beepers and other detterents for exceeding speed limits since june 2025.

https://www.ietl.net/news-details/no-more-drunk-driving.html


Auto headlights switching is nice as well. We have it on the Lexus.

Is it really that onerous to turn headlights on manually? That's not a feature that I envy.

It switches automatically from low beam to high beam. Very useful as I don't have to continously fiddle with the switch. The auto lights and daylight running lights are standard on all new cars. I love it. I never forget to turn on the lights. Even if the illumination from streetlights is sufficient to see, we also have to be seen by ohers.

It's like the MBS during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Today it prints money, tomorrow it blows up in your face.

Yeah they put a blue check on it like Elon did. Until they get paid to put the check on slop. Rotten fish is still rotten even if you mix it with fresh fish and label it accordingly.


Department store musak, worse than hotel lobby or elevator musak.

I just heard a country cover of Gangnam style in Korean with Southern accent. Hundred percent not "AI artist".

Spotify is too expensive for the amount of slop they push onto users. We used it as background noise for our dog. Switched to Tidal. At least that one I could trust not to push slop into artist radio, for now. If they do ot I'll cancel and play JS Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

Just gimme a break. Added sugar in our food, now slop in our music too. What's next, "AI poetry"?


Sounds for the Supermarket (1975)

https://youtube.com/watch/gcU7ZlnJFPE


You don't like slop and you left Spotify for Tidal? That is pretty much the only one that's even more infested with fake tracks than Spotify is.

AI slop specifically isn't even the worst problem on Tidal, it's like the third worst behind Tidal being incapable of properly handing multiple artists sharing a name and adding the track to the wrong discography (not even allowing the listener to properly report it) or shitty producers tagging a popular artist and pretending they've collaborated with them.


You don't have to wonder, because it is the agenda that you're thinking about and also the agenda of fossil fuel companies.

But we now have two lessons that teach us that being anti-nuclear was stupid: the Ukraine war and the current US administration's adventure in the Gulf.


The over regulation is there becaused the Soviets have shown us what under regulation, disregard for safety and zealotry can lead to.

Even Japan managed to screw up. Yes, it took a 9 Richter scale earthquake and a tsunami, plus some mistakes that were made during development.

Passive safety works just fine, but it's expensive to build huge water tanks and containers that could withstand 9/11 type of events.


You left out the culture of borderline malfeasance on the utility's part and the failure to aggressively pursue that culture on the regulator's part.

Anyway if the fine print were risk of catastrophic failure in the event of a >9.0 earthquake I think that would be acceptable (and I think a lot of people would agree with me) depending on the geography where it was to be built.


How could japan have made that powerplant tsunami proof? Put the emergency generators on a pontoon or on a inland moumountain?

put some generators on roof. Generator placement in Jp was based on BWRs placement in US - underground, which is sane considering tornados and stuff. But it wasnt adapted there

The same way anyone else avoids flooding: by building it on slightly higher ground.

the cost problem is lost experience to build stuff. It's not like berlins airport is so expensive because of new whistles. Many western nations forgot to build. Japanese ABWR has a lower core damage frequency vs french EPR yet EPR took 20y and ABWR - 4

There's a video of Alvin Weinberg explainng why. It's the smaller scale that allows those safety guarantees.

https://youtu.be/iW8yuyk3Ugw?si=MEJpGpX8LQuGn7iv


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