Sconrad122

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Catenaries can stretch up pretty high. This is a bit of gadgetbahn trickery, using batteries shifts cost from up-front capital improvement projects to operating and maintenance cost (managing vehicle charge levels and replacing batteries) and it eliminates one avenue for opponents of new transit to criticize (unsightly wires ruining the anesthetic of our beautiful car-choked city). It is a technically worse solution, but it's a relatively mild departure from trains/trams as far as gadgetbahns go, and if they can leverage the novelty and the political benefits to build more transit to serve more people than they otherwise would have, good for them. Time will tell if this approach pays off, the world is littered with failed gadgetbahns, but also sprinkled with a few success stories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hamas sent an assassin into her IDF controlled cell and killed her. Give us more bombs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

His skin does not look that healthy recently, plus he's got the signature AI stare into the irrelevant distance despite clearly presenting something to the camera. His suit is a little too shiny too. No dead giveaways, but if this was a photo shop job, I'd bet that GenAI was one of the tools used in that manipulation toolbox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Mauna Kea at 9330m prominence being absolutely disrespected by you landlubbers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think I just found the one ethical application of LLM AI

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is this not just "the free market of ideas"? Which has the same pitfalls as the free market of money where if consumers are not educated and motivated to prune out bad actors, the market is easily subverted by malicious actors? Relying on people to regulate their information diets is betting on individuals with limited resources and motivation to defend themselves and the collective against concerted, well-resourced, and well-organized efforts to abuse the market of ideas because there is immense money and power to gain from doing so

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies. No, not Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the parody of that film made on the budget of the "plot" portion of a porn flick. I don't know why I like it, but it's some good dumb fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure this kind of game mechanic (expose yourself to an enemy attack for a skill check that regains health) can be traced back at least to the Dodgeball DLC for Outside™. Game mechanics are like TV tropes, they echo what came before them, almost without exception

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just open YouTube in incognito mode and search a game title probably works. YouTube's algorithm loves serving up manosphere style content like that like my dog loves eating my other dog's poop. It's disturbing on both fronts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Italy beefing with Afghanistan in 2018, smh even America had moved on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read a bit further. Definitely got the vibe that AI had a hand in editing the prose as well, it felt like half a story and half a pros/cons list. There's some technical content in there that is salvageable, but as a piece of writing, it holds up to that stamp of quality, IMO

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean it isn't AI-generated

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