It doesn’t seem likely that it will happen overnight, if at all, that’s why.

Why overnight? I would just switch to radio then. If average people switch to Spotify then there’s nothing I can do about that. But I don’t have to listen to it.

Does Spotify have video podcasts? I thought it was audio only

They would lose a lot of listeners doing that. I’ve stopped listening to plenty of podcasts that moved to Spotify – and I already subscribe to Spotify. Just out of principle. I will never listen to a podcast on Spotify.

I’m not that smart and Lemmy is pretty easy. The problem is it’s federated and I did have to hop servers once and most people really don’t want to bother with that added complexity.

But give it time. Mastodon was small for years and never grew quickly, but because it’s federated, it is not going away.

It’s true they really don’t cross the Atlantic all that well but they’re great fresh

The problem using AI like you would try to use a search engine. When people write books or make videos or art, you as a consumer can evaluate them critically – what is their point of view? What are their biases? Can they be trusted?

Gen AI is a tool that always answers with confidence, and the makers and/or hosters of the tool have a responsibility to keep people from using it to do harm. 404 media has written all kinds of articles about how people have used it in harmful ways – making abusive images of people, or impersonating stalking victims, or filtering out resumes that don’t match the pattern of a college-educated white boy without explicitly saying it, and all kinds of stuff like that. As a society we have to protect the most vulnerable and hold these companies accountable for what they enable people to do with their products.

If you self-host an open tool and have control over it, you assume that responsibility.

I still disagree, and here’s why. I’ve ridden an electric bike share bike with no battery up a hill, with no extra load, and it was undoable. You couldn’t stay on the bike. It was more sensible to return the way I came than to keep going. Yes better gearing would have helped, but why was it necessary? Because the battery ran out. Why did it run out? Because capacity is limited by weight.

300 miles is way too much for most people to ever come close to in an ev unless they’re commuting 100 miles daily. Those people can get an extended range car or something. Whereas the battery capacity of ebikes and scooters is often met or exceeded especially with bike share. And then the bike is unrideable. Same with electric “push” scooters - they become unrideable when they run out.

People have range anxiety and I don’t fault people who want to be able to do long trips someday with their personal vehicle, but to me, it’s way more important to have better vehicles I’ll actually use daily.

If it was the difference between 150 miles and 200 that would be a different value judgement because then it does start to affect the car’s ability to function as a car in winter temperatures and normal distances.

I thought they were erasing the SMART data and selling the drives as new

Bad headline!

I would say I’m something of an expert about lifting bikes because I’ve lifted hundreds and hundreds into storage hooks on the ceiling at the shop I worked at, as well as at my own place. It absolutely is worse having to manhandle a heavier bike. If the average ebike is 50 lbs no way would it be workable for me on a daily basis, and no way would it be feasible to pedal home if the battery dies. A single hill and you’d be out of energy.

The distribution of weight matters a great deal. You can easily say that 5 lbs is the weight of groceries, but 2-3 lbs of heavier wheels would be much worse for getting up hills.

I don’t see why you think I want an incredibly light and fast ebike. I just think it’s more important to have a lighter bike, say 35 lbs vs 40 lbs, then it is too have 250 mi range than 300 in a car. I’m not going to get close to either number except on road trips, but I’ll deal with the extra weight of the bike daily. It’s ok if you don’t share this opinion, we can agree to disagree.

Your preference in cars seems fine too, I don’t see anything wrong with preferring one thing over another.

an LLM uses an equally authoritative writing style when regurgitating things it has trained on millions of times (things completely accepted as fact) as when regurgitating things it has only trained on once (lies, sarcasm).

I never knew that and it explains a lot.

I’m talking about how a heavy bike is worse than a car with less than 300 mi range, relatively speaking.

Great solution (esp the corrected one further down). I can relate to OP in the sense that if I studied programming, I might be able to whip something like this up, but so far I haven’t been disciplined enough to learn and practice programming consistently.

It’s also interesting, this new AI variation of Cunningham’s Law, wherein posting an incorrect solution on a discussion board will yield way more attention and correct answers than asking a question. It’s interesting to wonder why that is.

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If it’s correct can you post it here

I’ve been watching YouTube about actual pilots, and one fun thing is the Autopilot is often better than the human in the mechanics of steering the plane in stable conditions, but it can’t really do anything else, so it’s designed to turn itself off with an alarm whenever it encounters a situation it can’t handle.

I guess that’s because it’s an old school program with error handling, etc, where all generative AI is used in such wider scopes it can’t be realistically programmed to say “I can’t do this” because its limitations are so poorly defined?

The part where lifting a mass on a long lever is not easier than carrying it close to your body

Have you heard of torque by happenchance?

Proton said it was a mistake to get political in their “official statement” responding to their other “official statement”