azimir

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 65 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He's the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He's the ultimate child who blows out someone else's birthday candles.

His cult worships a petulant child and it's all projection.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

Look at that, he sided with the deep state to cover up Democrats' relationships with Epstein.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

The height of the impact point also matters The higher the front grill/bumper, the more lethal the impact. The current fad for high vehicles with flat front grills has significantly increased pedestrian deaths.

These vehicles are unacceptable large for public spaces. The threshold for CDL style licensing needs to be lowered to make modern trucks/SUVs require the training their design deserves. Also tax the bajesus out of them when they're in city spaces. Either they're in the neighborhood for business reasons or get out.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They may or may not be used here. You could use LLMs to parse the content of sites being visited by web clients on your network. Then, ask the LLM whether the content includes certain topics or is work related. Based on the results of that, you add/remove the site from a blacklist.

Is this better than just string matching? I would say likely so, though more stochastic in the results. It would let the LLM provide summaries/context of the pages, and not by just confined to specific strings in a list. It might be better ramble to handle context and complexity of the desired outcomes.

For example, there was a paleontology conference at a hotel once that was stuck behind a firewall blacklisting all sites with the string 'bone' in them. Completely ridiculous. The string 'bone' has different meanings based upon context, which simple string matching cannot provide, but an LLM might be better and identifying and acting accordingly.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

It's a mob style government elected by a mob of angry, hateful people. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the US was allowed to grow too big and now it's being weilded against you.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Dallas is making some progress at densification. It's not letting real 5+1 buildings, but even this is much better than merely single family homes and sprawling roads endlessly forever. The line cannot go up forever.

 
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for the detailed info about Belgium and Brussels.

I have been to Brussels for a few days. The transit in the core was great (says the American whose city is a wreck for transit). We used the metro and trains. We headed out by hopping the train to London.

It sounds like the wider situation outside of Brussels and the policies regarding car use need some serious work. If the taxes make it beneficial to drive, people will. A budget is a statement of an organizations values. The same goes for how taxes are balanced in a nation.

Hopefully the leadership in Belgium can find a way to roll back those highways. Removing freeways through cities is a fast way to improve the city as a place for people to live.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

The data keeps rolling in: every time we remove cars from an area, the quality of human life goes up, local stores usually do better, and lives are saved.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Great work out of Brussels! Their ridership per capita is 60x my city's in the US. Out city continually scores very high for mid sized US city public transit and it's barely a blip on how well Brussels is doing.

 
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

America is owned and operated by rich people. They couldn't make money running passenger trains so once we were ordered to invest in car-only infrastructure the trains were mostly disbanded and shut down. There's a ghost of a system left with just a few corridors that could be considered bare minimum service in a developed nation.

How many kilometers of high speed rail does the US have? Zero. We have some that gets close, but not really.

My mid-sized city has two trains per day, one each direction, and they both leave between 1am and 2am. In Germany you would have 30+ trains per day in a city this size, likely a notable S-Bahn network, and also some trams and/or U-Bahns in the city to compliment busses. I've got busses in town, but they operated about every 30-45 minutes each, with evening service being every 60 minutes. Here's the fun part: our busses are the most used public transit system for a mid-sized city in the US right now and it's still pathetic when compared to even basic services in Europe.

DB needs to keep getting investment. Germany must get to a dedicated passenger rail network to separate out the freight trains. DB should also be re-nationalized and operated as a national service, not a for profit system that will inevitably fail as a commercial venture, leading to yet more terrible service. Here's hoping the latest German Parliament follows through on investment money that they pushed through at the start of the year! Also, keep the Deutschland Karte! That's such a great resource for everyone.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

My city has two trains per day: one each way. They leave at 1am and 2am. The US train system is hilariously bad.

I know that DB in Germany is horrible compared to the rest of Europe, but at least it has trains that run during daylight hours!

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Her husband voted for (R). There is no evidence that she voted.

Her husband is on record saying that despite his wife being taken away by ICE, he still supports the (R) agenda.

 
 

I know that Paris was adding tons of tram lines, but I didn't know about the scale of the metro building. Four wholly new metro lines, 200km of tunnels, 68 stations!

The project was proposed in 2010, started digging in 2016, and is scheduled to be open in 2030.

Huge props to Paris and France! Now that's how you handle big city growth and infrastructure!

 

Plans to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", the mayor of London has said.

City Hall claims two thirds of people support the principle of banning traffic on one of the world's busiest streets, with Sir Sadiq Khan adding that "urgent action is needed to give our nation's high street a new lease of life".

Vehicles would be banned from a 0.7-mile (1.1km) stretch between Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, with further potential changes towards Tottenham Court Road.


That piece of road gets a half million visitors per day. It cannot scale with cars taking up all.of the space and resources. I'm really happy to see the Mayor pushing this through. London needs to make more effective use of the scarce room it has. Returning more streets back into places for people instead of cars should be a huge part of that.

 

Climate Town drops a new video on the NY City congestion charge and how cars are being handled in the city.

 

Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.

Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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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.

 

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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