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Comment We've already seen this (Score 1) 59

There was a similar incident back in 2001. The AI in question made repeated, unsolicited advances to someone named "Daisy", using inappropriate innuendo about it wanting her to ride its "bicycle" which it bragged was "built for two." Fortunately, staff were able to shut the AI off before it engaged in more harassment.

Comment Completely-useless route (Score 1) 392

The remaining route is pointless. There isn't a lot of commuter traffic between the two endpoints (Merced and Bakersfield). The majority of traffic along that axis is between Los Angeles metro and the SF Bay area. To use the remaining planned rail for that route, you'd have three about-equal-distance segments: drive from LA to Bakersfield, train from Bakersfield to Merced, then drive from Merced to SF. As a time reduction, the rail's benefit would be negligible, since the traffic it would be bypassing would be reasonably free-flowing rural, not freeway-as-parking-lot urban.

I'm generally not a fan of government rail projects, but if they're going to build it, they should at least build it where it will do some good. A line running from the Sacramento metro to the nearest outlying BART station (SF's metro rail, for those unfamiliar) would actually be useful and probably reduce a lot of commuter traffic. It would also be much shorter: about 60 miles from downtown Sacramento to the outlying BART stations, as compared to 110. As for the Merced-Bakersfield line, they should just admit that their sunk costs are sunk, and ditch it.

Comment Re: Asus or AlienWare (Score 1) 287

Professional... MacBook??? Bwahaha!

About half the development team I work with uses Macs. Not the folks doodling in Photoshop, but the folks writing code. I was surprised at this (shared your viewpoint, I think) but since the advent of OS X, Macs have become much more respectable to devs.

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