azimir

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

One of the various conservative thoughts is to make large swathes of US territory governed by corporations and billionaires. Basically, non-state zones subject to rules set by non-state systems.

Surprise! They're trying to make feudal / monarchy systems. Welcome to bring peasants again, fellow peasants.

The underlying foundation of conservative thoughts was, and is, to uphold a hierarchy that supports a monarchy. It has been from day 1. The American Revolution was a war against conservatism.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My state doesn't have party registrations. It'd just be cheaper to wall us all off and leave us alone in our miserable place, just to be sure.

Of course, you can't wall the side to Canada, but we'll promise to not go there while we are isolated from the rest of the US.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Costco polish dog (from the freezer aisle, since they stopped selling the real ones at the counter). Mustard, catsup. That'll do great. Oh, but make sure to grill it! Yeah, now I'm hungry.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Given the size, wealth, and density of India, I expected the list of underway and upcoming train projects to be much longer and ambitious. Of course, the hyperloop project is... special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_rail_transport_in_India

I also expected there to be more high speed rail going on. There's at least one actual HSR route being constructed, but a very long list of "maybe nots" built up. Once the single route goes into service, India will have 300km more HSR than the US does (which is zero):

https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-rail-projects-in-india/

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sample size: 1

That'll do! Let's hit the pub.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Top 3 for adults. Top 2 for children.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The downtown Wien area is gorgeous! They've got a good transit system to start with, so there's no reason more of the city can't become pedestrianized. I haven't been there for a while, but I hope they're making progress on turning the city into a better place for people.

A quick search turns up at least some efforts:
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/mariahilferstrasse-pedestrianized-street-vienna/
https://www.wien.gv.at/english/transportation/road-construction/kaerntnerstrasse/

The city does score well on urban mobility:
https://www.oliverwymanforum.com/mobility/urban-mobility-readiness-index/vienna.html

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

I don't think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

That's a phenomenal idea, and one that many other cities have used to make their venues usable for big events.

We used to ride the MAX train into events in Portland. Trying to drive to a huge stadium and park is just a huge mess for everyone involved, including the surrounding city that's impacted by it.

TriMet would run extra trains at the start & end of the event. Back then the stadium was also in the Fareless Square area so you didn't even have to pay. Yes, the trains were packed, but that's a good thing. Over time they would run more and more trains, and now the area has trams as well. Downtown event arenas are 100% doable with modern public transit.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To sum up: the referendum to make the core of Berlin largely car free is proceeding past court challenges. If enacted, it would make Berlin the largest pedestrianized city area in the world by a long shot.

 
[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. Germany has some good visa programs for skilled workers. If you've got the credentials, the consulates will work with you on immigration and it's not a very onerous system.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Ma'am: you must be new here. Of course the SCOTUS is outright in league with monied interests. The only evidence you need is Corporate Personhood combined with Citizen's United.

 

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?

 

I'm enjoying the wefwef feel, but I have a question about copy/paste with comment text: is it even possible?

When I click on a given comment it collapses. When I click and drag it swipes. Is it possible in the web browser (desktop) to highlight a comment's text at all? It's not rare that I want to copy/paste some text, especially Lemmy links lately, to search/work with them. I'll also want to copy/paste quotes or other material on occasion.

So: what's the trick or instructions, if they exist, to be able to copy/paste text in wefwef?

 

I received an email from a textbook salesman. This isn't a rarity, but today this line lept out at me:

"Ideal for students learning concepts and reasonably priced at $144.95,"

No. Just no. $144.95 is not reasonably priced. This is the first of what is likely a lot of emails that I get to respond with the line in the sand that I've drawn:

"Reasonably priced" at $144.95?

No thank you. I won't subject my students to materials, including books, equipment, and any online tool licensing, that cost more than $60 per course. Until your offerings are in this range, please do not contact me again.

Even my $60 per course number is high as far as I'm concerned.

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