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Main Paineframe posted:On the subject of journalism specifically... On top of this, one fundamental problem with tech is that the model for paying salaries to good investigative reporters has been severely disrupted. There definitely seems to have been a push towards alternative models, but it's not clear to me whether you can get the same quality of reporting by e.g. funding it via Patreon. (And see also the the issues with clickbait -- Jordan loving Peterson was making $1M/year from his Patreon at one stage.)
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There's a big difference between unreliable patreon/substack money and stable full time employment with benefits and the backing of a large organization.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(A) because federal law (they have to have hands on the piece of paper) and hobbesmaster posted:In the US they can do that for everything except schedule 2. Most effective ADHD medicine (stimulants) are schedule 2 and for some reason paper prescriptions are the standard for the “highest risk” drugs. They can use e-fax poo poo now, the services they use to do that (based on talking to some doctors) cost $$$, though, so doctors operating on their own and smaller offices often don't want to pay for it. My doctor started sending scripts electronically about a year ago which allows them to send multiple prescriptions that are post-dated after each appointment so they're waiting at the pharmacy when I need to fill them which has made my life less of a pain in the rear end. They still can't be transferred between pharmacies, but if one pharmacy has a stocking issue I can just call the doctor's office and have them send a new one to a different pharmacy instead of having to pick up a paper one. Could be worth trying to find a doctor that can do this if you're having issues with it.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:It's a mixed bag. On one hand, your information is no longer controlled by what the dozen old farts controlling your locally available news outlets deem important, for better or worse, but on the other hand the stranglehold Google and Facebook have on ads has obliterated the revenues of many media outlets, particularly local ones. This is a huge problem IMO. Local reporting is really limited these days and focuses on the cheap-to-produce stuff like weather, COVID case updates, and high school sports scores. Instead people spend their time obsessing over the national political day to day and apply those national storylines to the limited local stories they have exposure to.
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Mister Facetious posted:Also gently caress applying the just in time shipping model to every industry whether it's a good idea when an emergency strikes or not. I don't understand the obsession with Just in Time as the root of all supply chain woes. We're two years into a worldwide event that has generated massive consumer demand for products instead of tourism and services, an event that, coincidentally, causes major production and shipping disruptions. We're well past the point where One Weird Inventory System (Manufacturers Hate Him!)™ could have prevented what we're seeing. Interesting to note that, at least to some extent, we're actually seeing the exact opposite. Manufacturers are overordering raw materials and components because of the uncertainty, which is increasing the severity of shortages. Baronash fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Lead out in cuffs posted:On top of this, one fundamental problem with tech is that the model for paying salaries to good investigative reporters has been severely disrupted. There definitely seems to have been a push towards alternative models, but it's not clear to me whether you can get the same quality of reporting by e.g. funding it via Patreon. (And see also the the issues with clickbait -- Jordan loving Peterson was making $1M/year from his Patreon at one stage.) Toss a coin to your snitcher. Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Buffers are generally Good Unless you use printf() or sprintf().
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Ignore the reddit link, but as expected Musk's RGB gamer tunnels....have traffic jams: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/rxd3ns/lol_elon_musks_boring_company_has_traffic_jams_i/ It still blows my mind that they're allowed to open those tunnels to the public. Did they get an exemption for fire safety laws? There is ZERO way to get out of them safely in the event of an accident. Death trap waiting to happen.
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Crain posted:Ignore the reddit link, but as expected Musk's RGB gamer tunnels....have traffic jams: Like, everyone predicted this was going to happen. Everyone. There's never been a scenario with vehicles like cars that didn't result in a traffic jam. They should've just built a subway.
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I for one enjoy our new battery in tube method of transportation. I also enjoy the fact that I can finally drive a subway car.CommieGIR posted:Like, everyone predicted this was going to happen. Everyone. There's never been a scenario with vehicles like cars that didn't result in a traffic jam. I don't trust Musk to run a subway. He would be constantly trying to cut costs on the black olives and onions
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CommieGIR posted:Like, everyone predicted this was going to happen. Everyone. There's never been a scenario with vehicles like cars that didn't result in a traffic jam. A subway is public transport, even if you charge a huge cost. You still end up having to be near OTHER PEOPLE! Which is the entire point of what the "hyperloop" and tunnel project started with: Musk wanted a private highway/tunnel system from his house to the closest airport so he never had to see another person. Also lol that their original plan of "the AI will drive you so ensure that everything runs smoothly" but their AI can't reliably pilot a car in the most optimal environment possible.
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CommieGIR posted:They should've just built a subway. a subway doesn't make sense for an in-facilty people mover. at this scale we're talking something like a moving walkway, like you'd see in an airport. the LVCC system is only like a half mile long at most. LVCC went with the musk tunnels because its flashy and the incentives for a convention center are different from a city. having the tesla system is the kind of neat but pointless bullshit people love at expos like CES, which is one of the crown jewels of the expo calendar and something LVCC wants to keep hang of las vegas conditionally approved the expansion of the tunnels with one major condition - the city doesn't have to pay for the system. boring company is going to pay for the tunnels to civic locations, and they're going to hit up the various casinos on the strip to pay for stations at their properties. i've got no idea how this passes review from a fire safety perspective because as noted, the loop system is a death trap Crain posted:Also lol that their original plan of "the AI will drive you so ensure that everything runs smoothly" but their AI can't reliably pilot a car in the most optimal environment possible. im not sure if the AI is capable of doing it or not, but regardless, the city requires human safety drivers for the time being Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Yeah, I dread when the first fire happens. Those tunnels are going to become a tomb.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:
I saw an article stating that before official opening, on the "test days" where they were still trying the AI it wasn't able to reliably pilot the cars at the initially advertised 90mph, it couldn't even do it at reasonable high way speeds and their best test had the AI barely managing the task at 35 mph.
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you don't want to get up to highway speeds in those tunnels without a guideway anyway (what happened to the guideway from the prototype? it was very disneyworld) but the presence of AI is really the least stupid part of this system. plenty of existing heavy rail systems around the world are automation/AI capable, but for various safety and union reasons human drivers are prevalent. the biggest problem is, how do you ensure the embarkation/debarkation process is complete before you close the doors and start the vehicle? you can set up a gate and sensor system, or the driver can just lean out the window the stupidest thing from a comedy perspective is that the embarkation platform is just a parking lot where the vehicles park around willy-nilly, this trashes throughput and efficiency but its about the best you can expect when your system is a stealth showfloor for private vehicles rather than sensibly using a train the stupidest thing from a tragedy perspective are the tunnels drilled too narrowly for proper ventilation, emergency egress, or other safety measures
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I can't find it, but there's a funny report of the feedback from testers who used the tunnel which basically amounts to "I wish the cars were bigger, and easier to get into, and could seat more people, and maybe link a few up together so they can all go at once".
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:you don't want to get up to highway speeds in those tunnels without a guideway anyway (what happened to the guideway from the prototype? it was very disneyworld) but the presence of AI is really the least stupid part of this system. plenty of existing heavy rail systems around the world are automation/AI capable, but for various safety and union reasons human drivers are prevalent. the biggest problem is, how do you ensure the embarkation/debarkation process is complete before you close the doors and start the vehicle? you can set up a gate and sensor system, or the driver can just lean out the window In reality, yes, the advertised speeds were always laughable. But another big problem with Musk's system is that he refuses to use anything but machine vision for his driving AI. Other autonomous vehicles use lidar, radar, MV, and any other visualization tech they can for the simple reason that they work and machines can take advantage of them quite well to do their jobs. But Musk's big braim says "Humans can drive with two eyes so our car will TOO!".
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I can't find it, but there's a funny report of the feedback from testers who used the tunnel which basically amounts to "I wish the cars were bigger, and easier to get into, and could seat more people, and maybe link a few up together so they can all go at once". You'll have to call them 'pods' to get Elon involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvagC5ccyY
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I dread when the first fire happens. Those tunnels are going to become a tomb. Very Boromir voice: "this is no subway, it's a tomb!" Crain posted:In reality, yes, the advertised speeds were always laughable. But another big problem with Musk's system is that he refuses to use anything but machine vision for his driving AI. Other autonomous vehicles use lidar, radar, MV, and any other visualization tech they can for the simple reason that they work and machines can take advantage of them quite well to do their jobs. Yeah, it's especially ridiculous because we know that even human vision, which we are evolved to process in very convenient ways in our brain, is pretty poo poo and we have tons and tons of technology to make up for its shortfalls.
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the entire loop system is just a series of downward compromises as musk's vision keeps battering itself against cold reality until he ends up recreating technology which has already existed for decades the loop prototype from this video is basically an AGT system but then they ditched even that and its just taxis in tunnels now of all of musk's halfass visionary revelations, i think loop fandom is the most niche and most obvious of someone lost to reality - anyone looking at this and seeing innovation is incapable of mentally sorting good ideas from bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQn-D-i5lyM
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Honestly surprised he didn't just buy an omni-mover system from Disney and slap some fancy bubble cars on top with RGB and touch screens full of ads and call it a day. Seriously, the "People Mover" from TomorrowLand is a more efficient public transit system than the current iteration of the Musk Tunnel.
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that would be the sensible thing to do if he was an honest grifter. the problem with elon musk is he sniffs his own bullshit, he's an ideas guy who hasn't read a book in decades and has no idea his vision for the future is squarely from 1961
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It's literally not a joke either: People Mover hourly capacity: 4, 885 guests an hour Las Vegas Loop hourly capacity: 4,400 guests per hour*. *This is the stated "goal" capacity with full cars every trip so it's actually less.
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Crain posted:*This is the stated "goal" capacity with full cars every trip so it's actually less. That is the definition of capacity.
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I dread when the first fire happens. Those tunnels are going to become a tomb. 
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withak posted:That is the definition of capacity. ??? The PeopleMover figure is the rides reported actual throughput vs. Tesla's advertised ideal capacity instead of their actual throughput. Maybe I could have stated that better. Basically tesla is only saying what they hope it gets up to and now what the actual numbers are, given the traffic jams we now see they have.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:a subway doesn't make sense for an in-facilty people mover. at this scale we're talking something like a moving walkway, like you'd see in an airport. the LVCC system is only like a half mile long at most. LVCC went with the musk tunnels because its flashy and the incentives for a convention center are different from a city. having the tesla system is the kind of neat but pointless bullshit people love at expos like CES, which is one of the crown jewels of the expo calendar and something LVCC wants to keep hang of There was another major condition: Boring Company pays a huge fine for every day the system fails to meet its capacity targets. The system physically cannot meet its capacity targets. Ultimately, though, I think this was all designed as a weird "no such thing as bad press" PR project for Tesla, where they were just ready to eat the penalties and have the whole thing be a catastrophic failure as long as it generated some buzz and helped sell some cars.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:There was another major condition: Boring Company pays a huge fine for every day the system fails to meet its capacity targets. Sure is ashame they had to recall so many of those cars.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Ultimately, though, I think this was all designed as a weird "no such thing as bad press" PR project for Tesla, where they were just ready to eat the penalties and have the whole thing be a catastrophic failure as long as it generated some buzz and helped sell some cars. right, the thing about this system is that its a way to get a lot of people to take test drives in Teslas
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:that would be the sensible thing to do if he was an honest grifter. the problem with elon musk is he sniffs his own bullshit, he's an ideas guy who hasn't read a book in decades and has no idea his vision for the future is squarely from 1961
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The thing is, Musk abhors the idea of being in the presence of strangers on transit. He doesn't want to be on a bus, or a monorail, or a train. He does not like them, Sam-I-Am. I also buy into the theory that everything he invests in and promotes is simply so he can get his rear end to mars and be alone and as far away from another human being as possible. Dude saw "The Martian" and went "I want that".
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Maybe Musk has hidden Ohioian DNA in him. I doubt it though and just think he's a dumbass that doesnt know really life colony buiding is boring and dangerous. He probably honestly thinks he's going to find a hidden alien temple and gets do a real life scifi adeventure. e: wait what the gently caress, the musk hole is real and was built? I thought the video thumbnail was a cgi marketing promo. PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Crain posted:I also buy into the theory that everything he invests in and promotes is simply so he can get his rear end to mars and be alone and as far away from another human being as possible. Hell, Musk probably has thought about it and has completely embraced the dystopian dynamic. Has private plans on forcing all the lower classes to wear bomb collars to forestall the inevitable moment when they toss his useless rear end out an airlock.
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https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1479165032013438977 Your car clock is wrong, and you'll never be able to reset it because the manufacturer has no interest in repairing a bug in a car that old.
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On the topic of the bad tunnel: https://twitter.com/adamtranter/status/1479149037253238790
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How can the AI not manage to drive in one of those? It looks like the ideal environment for an AI - no pedestrians, intersections, animals, weather... Basically just stop and go and follow the gentle curves.
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Blut posted:How can the AI not manage to drive in one of those? It looks like the ideal environment for an AI - no pedestrians, intersections, animals, weather... Basically just stop and go and follow the gentle curves. tesla is trying to fix their bad AI already being sold to consumers as fully working, there's not much incentive to make it work in the tunnels where local regulations make them use paid safety drivers anyway
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Perestroika posted:On the topic of the bad tunnel: Wow after so many jokes about what a death trap this tunnel would be, I’m surprised to see it’s even worse than I imagined.
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