[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 minutes ago

We're entering the 'blockchain for every need' stage. Expect massive money to flow into scams, poor ideas, and outright dangerous uses for a few years .

Before Blockchain we had 'the web' itself in the dot com era. Before that? I saw it in basic computing as a solution to everything.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago

I had a student came into office hours asking why their program got a bad grade. I looked and it didn't actually do anything related to the assignment.

Upon further query, they objected saying that the CI pipeline built it just fine.

So ..yeah... You can write a program that builds and runs, but doesn't do the required tasks, which makes it wrong. This was not a concept they'd figured out yet.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

As per all too often, the functional programming world invented them. Haskell (and its ilk) usually has all the future cool stuff already. Then python picks it up, then it moves over to C#/Java, then C++ says "mee too"!

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Und dann das nächste Feld für mehr Parkplätze!

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm often impressed with Finland. The attitudes and decision making the nation expresses are often very grounded and data driven.

The trams in Helsinki were also phenomenal. I loved getting around town so easily.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

Our family visited Germany this past summer. I really wanted to get the 49€ tickets, but the system to buy them is cumbersome and we weren't around that long.

Now, we did have a visit in summer 2002. We still have our 9€ tickets from that trip. It was a wonder to be able to get around so cheaply.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 11 points 12 hours ago

Yes, yes we are. And it's getting worse in many cultural groups.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

With the wall style, it also feels like you're crammed between two stone blocks too.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The bathroom looks like it's 1 meter wide and no more.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

They did that to my daughter. I'd setup a laptop for her. The windows boot partition was still there (my bad for scraping every last bit of Windows off - it was setup in haste) and she accidentally chose windows from grub one day. The Windows Bootloader decided to change boot options in the bios and then remove grub somehow, but there was no windows on disk to launch so it was bricked.

The next time I could out hands on the computer I scoured that disk clean of Microsoft's plague rats so they wouldn't get a finger in edgewise again.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

woke Marxist liberal critical race theory.

Any more smooth brain buzzwords we can throw in there?

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago

They're afraid to be called unfair after he said that they'd be unfair. It's one of the strategies that us uses to suppress fighting back against his lies and ineptitude.

First, your preemptively accuse someone of something. Second you do awful things that would normally rightfully get a response, but the authorities have to be careful otherwise you'll accuse them of doing the thing they should be doing. Third, you get your way even though you broke the rules, or you get to yell about how you knew, just knew! That you'd be treated badly.

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submitted 6 days ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

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submitted 7 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

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submitted 9 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.

My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.

We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to drive there, park, hit one store and drive away.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns their pedestrian traffic deaths to zero for several years.

The article does note that half of the streets have bike lanes, they've put buffers between pedestrians and cars, and continue to redesign intersections with a focus on safety instead of just focusing on car speed/throughput.

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/chatgpt@lemmy.ml

What I'm looking for is some kind of desktop tool that uses the OpenAI GPT web endpoint. I'd like something where I'm able to upload one or more documents (text files) and then include them as part of the conversation/query.

I have access to the GPT-4 API and I've been writing Python3 code against it for some various applications. I can see how I'd write a tool that takes in one or more documents to include in the total prompt history, but I'm hoping to not have to write it myself, mostly due to time constraints.

Is there some kind of application that has a similar feature set to this that I should look at? Or, is there a wiki/site that lists off the current tools available that I could look over?

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

I'm enjoying the wefwef feel, but I have a question about copy/paste with comment text: is it even possible?

When I click on a given comment it collapses. When I click and drag it swipes. Is it possible in the web browser (desktop) to highlight a comment's text at all? It's not rare that I want to copy/paste some text, especially Lemmy links lately, to search/work with them. I'll also want to copy/paste quotes or other material on occasion.

So: what's the trick or instructions, if they exist, to be able to copy/paste text in wefwef?

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