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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Huh, I hadn’t heard about previous efforts to make it one way for motor vehicles permanently. I’m sure the residents of the homes along that street would love that solution, as would the bikers/walkers who would then have way more than enough space to coexist. Seems unnecessary, though.

    I bet you could narrow the lanes and keep the two way slow bumpy motor vehicle traffic while providing a nice two way bike lane, though I’ll admit I’m no traffic engineer. I’m just a person who has driven successfully on more narrow roads. I’d be in favor of a permanent physical barrier between the motor vehicle way and bike way no matter what, though.

    I hate those bumps so much, despite also knowing that they have to be there due to speeding jerkfaces, heh.


  • I’ve had similar problems and this was the issue. The problem is there’s no way to know what the requirements are from a user’s point of view at the moment of posting, and the error doesn’t provide useful information, so it just looks broken.

    I don’t know how much can be done within the app about the error messaging, but having a way to squish down the image in size and compression within the posting flow would be really helpful.









  • Oh wow. I’ve been needing to upgrade for a while and happened to be in a place where I was ready to make the purchase. The day the news about the most regressive tax scheme in history hit I went through the whole normal process of selecting all the completely insanely priced upgrade options I needed and placed the order. It’s due next week - I must have been one of the last ones.


  • I used a local model based llm thing to separate a drum part out of a song that I was working on learning with some friends. That was a lot of fun, and didn’t feel like I was ripping creators off.

    I also recently tried out gemini’s research mode thing to research a subject I already knew a good bit about as a test. It got some decent answers and showed its sources, which was great for double checking its work, but it still had that oddly verbose and repetitive quality to it. I asked for an audio summary and it spat out an absolutely horrifying uncanny valley fake podcast on the topic. I still kinda shudder when I think about it.






  • I kinda laughed when I read that headline - give people money and they won’t not have money! Hehe. But I’ve always wondered what kinds of upward or downward pressures that would make on the prices of certain things. Or on purchase patterns in aggregate. I’m no economist, so I’m not aware of all the history of similar programs. I have seen some really weird things happen in closed systems like FSA benefits that people ‘use or lose’ here in the US causing weird purchase patterns that cause shortages of certain things that people end up over-purchasing just to not feel like they’ve lost a benefit. Dunno if you have a similar program there. But in a scenario where it’s just money, I imagine the patterns would be completely different.