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  • As per all too often, the functional programming world invented them. Haskell (and its ilk) usually has all the future cool stuff already. Then python picks it up, then it moves over to C#/Java, then C++ says "mee too"!

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    WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. virtualbox
  • They did that to my daughter. I'd setup a laptop for her. The windows boot partition was still there (my bad for scraping every last bit of Windows off - it was setup in haste) and she accidentally chose windows from grub one day. The Windows Bootloader decided to change boot options in the bios and then remove grub somehow, but there was no windows on disk to launch so it was bricked.

    The next time I could out hands on the computer I scoured that disk clean of Microsoft's plague rats so they wouldn't get a finger in edgewise again.

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    A Trackless Tram...! Also known as a Bus
  • Seattle, WA also still has a trolley bus network. They started taking it out, but fortunately a big chunk was saved and they're adding to it again.

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    Anybody watching the US Presidential debate right now?
  • They're afraid to be called unfair after he said that they'd be unfair. It's one of the strategies that us uses to suppress fighting back against his lies and ineptitude.

    First, your preemptively accuse someone of something. Second you do awful things that would normally rightfully get a response, but the authorities have to be careful otherwise you'll accuse them of doing the thing they should be doing. Third, you get your way even though you broke the rules, or you get to yell about how you knew, just knew! That you'd be treated badly.

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    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.

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    Tesla launches world's first all-electric 'Giga Train' with mind-blowing passenger capacity — and it's free to ride
  • The first non-horse trolleys were electric in... 1910's?

    I think they were trying to say all battery driven. The vast majority of electric trains use overhead wires, and I believe some have batteries for switching and if there's an outage. This gadgetbahn is wholly battery based, so I can only imagine how heavy it is just to move itself.

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    Earbuds
  • I still use wired headphones and earbuds. On the phone it's got a USBC connector, so I had to find a compact adapter. Fortunately USBC is a tough connector so they're holding up well enough.

    The earbuds themselves are very cheap. They normally only last a few years (3-5 or so). I snagged a couple little zip up pods that hold earbuds from a job fair years ago. As long as I do a quick coil up, it's easy enough to pack them away and get them out without tangling. They also don't get hurt living in my satchel.

    I've considered moving to something wireless, but I have enough battery driven devices to babysit already.

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    Trump arrives in court as he appeals $5m judgement in E Jean Carroll case
  • He goes to this, but writes to get out of attending criminal case sessions? He does this mostly because he hates losing to women and he likes fucking up NYC traffic with his motorcade shit.

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    'Big L for Macron': The Paris Olympics were a political catastrophe
  • Every Olympics is a political catastrophe. I've now watched all too many of them. They're huge events and all it takes is some controversy or a fuck up by some middle manager and the whole world freaks out.

    Overall, this one East that bad on France's, except probably the river pollution thing (which I hope pushes them to long term cleanup efforts). Most of the rest was all the USA (we're #1 in being assholes to people) being assholes. Our pearl clutching about religious insensitivity, transphobic right wing hatred, and generally bring dicks was well over the top. So, that's not on France, but the US and our own swimming in Christian nationalist right wing sewage that spilled over onto the rest of the Olympics.

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    Has anyone ever been to a political candidate rally? What was it like?
  • My feeling was that President Obama kept compromising. It seemed that he was trying to get people moving together and he went too far into the appeasement side of things with the alt right racist arm. It was also the real power growth cycle for Fox News and early online podcast/streamers. They are fast on the backs of the racist counter swell... And we got the fallout over the last decade now.

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    Snopes: [True] Project 2025 Wants All **Public** High School Students To Take Military Entrance Exam?
  • Cool, but we also take Finland's law about tuition: it's illegal to charge it.

    No private schools. It's done wonders for their society because the rich people invest in the same schools as everyone else.

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    U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election
  • I accidentally started a video way outside my usual feed. It was some right wing fascist starting to talk about replacement theory bullshit. I closed it fast, but it was like a starter gun for YT to race every kind of conspiracy theory, right wing, Nazi supporting, women hating, christofascist channel it could try out to me. I had to block channel after channel for weeks until it gave up.

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    This country needs some fuckin' reform.
  • Every major US city should have a dense, high frequency grid of trams/subways within 3 miles of the city center. Then, a larger network of light rail/subways out another 3 miles for commuting and events traffic.

    3-5 minute intervals is good enough, anything less frequent is meh. Over 15 is a joke.

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    This country needs some fuckin' reform.
  • One of the reasons I loved taking the train to work (yay, Portland MAX!) was that I didn't have to do the work to drive. I got on the train, snagged a seat (or stood on really busy days) and mentally punched out for 20 minutes. I could read a book, zone out, or make some notes on my thoughts.

    At the end of the route, I'd hop off, walk two blocks and I was at a work. Reverse it to go home. It was a dream commute.

    Driving Hwy 26 would have taken longer, and the sheer stress it caused was horrible. Always having to watch for someone deciding to dart lanes, merge badly, slow to a stop, shimmy forward, wait for a person to merge into the crawl. Commuting by car on any kind of busy road is horrible for your health.

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    Going on my first super long haul flight - what can I buy to make it more comfortable?
  • This is a great list.

    I wear loose athletic pants for long flights. Not bedtime sweatpants, but Adidas style pants. I wear comfy shoes, that I unlace once I start napping.

    I bring a sweatshirt so it becomes a pillow and something to pull over my eyes if it's needed.

    I also have a couple of airplane blankets and I bring my own. It comes in handy on flights where we cheap seats people don't get blankets, and in airports when it's nap time. I roll it up tight and strap it on the bottom of my backpack.

    I also bring Sudoku puzzles. It's a nice diversion from watching videos the whole way.

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  • www.lemonde.fr Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers

    The French capital's mayor hailed a 'clear choice of Parisians' in favor of a measure that is 'good for our health and good for the planet.'

    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.

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    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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    www.bloomberg.com The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths

    In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.

    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.

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    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?

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