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  • nah, some disabled people need a lot more than transportation… a lot of equipment, a place to nap… but still deserve to go to town and be part of it.
    (e.g. a good friend of mine has m.s. and has to sleep in her van periodically).
    but i did learn, a lot of the world is very inconvenient to navigate in a wheelchair….
    like, uneven sidewalks….
    but whatever, we can start with a lot more bike lanes….
    and not just a white stripe painted on the side of a road with a “bike lane” sign.






  • at the end of the day gpt is powering next generation spam bots and writing garbage text, stable diffusion is making shitty clip art that would otherwise be feeding starving artists….
    all the while consuming ridiculous amounts of electricity while humanity is destroying the planet with stuff like power generation….

    it’s definitely automating a lot of tedious things… but not transforming anything that drastically yet….

    but it will… and when it does, the agi that emerges will kill us all.





  • i have been to Chicago many times and used to live in NYC… i’ve also used public transit in many other cities…
    door-to-door in 20 minutes is absolute fantasy… you’re not getting to the train station in 20 minutes… especially not from if you have to take a bus.
    oh and i used to live and work in manhattan and never pulled off a 20 minute door-to-door trip….






  • we need math in programming because math is the best language for describing the universe…
    you don’t really need much to do a lot of stuff, but it’s a very math like thing… the computer was invented as a general purpose math machine, programming languages are rather similar to math… variables, functions, etc….
    imo they make students take way too much math and it ends up being “just prove that you could do this, not that you’ll need to”.
    like, “multivariable calculus with analytic geometry” isn’t needed for anything unless you’re doing scientific work….