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I think Guitar Hero was a good investment for my kids, as they came to love all the classics I grew up on.

This looks fascinating! Definitely signing up for the early access.

Here in Ontario, I think we have 16 reactors spread across 3 power plants? And more are purportedly on the way.

The CANDU reactors use heavy water and should, in theory, be safer than light water designs since they can function with unenriched uranium. OTOH the nearest reactor to where I live is in upstate New York and is rather Fukushima-like from what I’ve heard. Also, I don’t know what the new reactors will be, though the provincial gov seems to be pushing SMRs for whatever reason.

Wow, I actually pretty qualified for this. But I’m rather busy… :/

What jumps out almost immediately is that it does not appear to be a loop. Were it a loop, you could have more than one car going around. Should it not at the bare minimum satisfy its own naming criteria?

I use Sourcetree for routine stuff, though I occasionally have to hit the command line when shit gets real.

Wait, they’re not all made in China? Last time we were ordering some for a development board at work, we had to source them from China, though that was admittedly a few years back.

A man rides an electric scooter along Polk Street on July 29, 2024 in San Francisco, California. According to a University of California San Francisco (UCSF) study, injuries involving e-bikes surged more than 3,000% across the country between 2017 and 2022, and e-scooter injuries jumped more than 560% during the same time.

So this is essentially the entire piece. Not so much as a link to the original study. How much did e-bike/scooter usage increase over that period? How many of these injuries were caused by vehicles? How did urban infrastructure—or lack thereof—contribute to any of this?

This reminds me of articles I’ve read on The Telegraph. Any UK people here? What is the deal with that rag? Why do they hate e-bikes so much? I read Apple News for certain paywalled sites, and they’re the first paper I’ve actually had to block. (I think the final straw was their recent diatribe over the blight of solar panels.) Do they just have a particularly curmudgeonly op-editor or is it the whole culture with them?

I wonder how much range you would get running your tricked out ebike at 70 mph? I bet you would burn through battery pretty fast. I say this after researching e-motorcycles awhile back. I was disappointed that most of the affordable offerings topped out at around 100 km range or less, where my use case would have been inter-city. I have an e-bike for the city I’m perfectly happy with. But then I found someone on a forum mentioning that you could more than double the e-motorcycle range if you restrict yourself to city speeds to cut the wind drag.

I ride my ebike on mixed use paths on my way to work. My personal policy is to treat it as a class 1 in that case, and not exceed 24 kph. When passing pedestrians, this drops to 20 or lower, depending on the circumstances (e.g. can I get their attention with the bell, are small children/unleashed dogs involved, etc.).

Yesterday, I saw someone shoot past me on an ordinary bike. I briefly sped up to match his speed and checked my speedometer. He was doing 36 kph. In fairness, regular bikes don’t tend to come with speedometers, so he may have had no idea how fast he was moving.

I have also seen ebikes going well over 32 kph though. Mine is software limited to top out at that for electric assist, but the cap can easily be lifted with the phone app. I have elected not to do so. I’m a commuter. I just want to get to work. Not trying to win any races.

I think that’s part of the plan though right? If they spot a compliance officer walking up, they can drive the patio around the block a bit until he’s gone.

I was kind of hoping for a window view. I can’t even picture what travelling 600 kph at ground level would look like?

Pokemon Go?

For instance, if an AI model could complete a one-hour task with 50% success, it only had a 25% chance of successfully completing a two-hour task. This indicates that for 99% reliability, task duration must be reduced by a factor of 70.

This is interesting. I have noticed this myself. Generally, when an LLM boosts productivity, it shoots back a solution very quickly, and after a quick sanity check, I can accept it and move on. When it has trouble, that’s something of a red flag. You might get there eventually by probing it more and more, but there is good reason for pessimism if it’s taking too long.

In the worst case scenario where you ask it a coding problem for which there is no solution—it’s just not possible to do what you’re asking—it may nevertheless engage you indefinitely until you eventually realize it’s running you around in circles. I’ve wasted a whole afternoon with that nonsense.

Anyway, I worry that companies are no longer hiring junior devs. Today’s juniors are tomorrow’s elites and there is going to be a talent gap in a decade that LLMs—in their current state at least—seem unlikely to fill.

Ok thanks I managed to subscribe eventually through the link: https://piefed.ca/f/allgames@piefed.social

There must be a more instance-agnostic way to do this though? 🤔 Something like !allgames@piefed.social maybe? Or is that more of a lemmy thing?

I’m new to piefed. Could someone explain how I can subscribe to these from piefed.ca?