It is as bad as it sounds. If you triggered it at the right time you could cause a derailment as the brakes applied full across the entire train. This is only likely if the train is moving at relatively high speed on bad track, though.

Trains use an air brake system with glad hand connections so that if a coupler fails (or more likely, wasn't correctly secured) the pressure is released and the brakes set on the entire train. The device we're talking about, which is known as FRED (on railroads the F is considered to be an F-Bomb) replaced the caboose in the 1980s. It monitors brake system pressure to ensure that it is in the operating range, and can also release the system pressure from the rear. This is needed so that the train brakes more from the rear than the front, although there is not much difference in timing unless the train is very long because the hoses are fairly high diameter.

It really ought to allow the user to just add new currencies of their choice.

BTC does make sense for inclusion, though, since it is popular.

They have always run firmware. I don't think it was always Java, but it has been for a long time.

Lick harder, I see some leather left on the wealthy's collective boots. Surely they will reward you richly!

If he wanted to help me with that he could have made the phone call, which either also would not have helped or would have done. He also didn't offer to call when I told him what happened, he acted like it was my fault.

Yeah I'm aware he was a shit father but there's lots of those

Then you should invest in gambling websites. You can't lose if you're on the side of the house.

Oh, wait. Now I'm remember how a certain Yuge Orange Buffoon (YOB) managed a couple of casinos into the dirt...

But seriously, folks, the applied psychologists have this one in the bag. As in the gamblers' testicles in the bag. Just finished a somewhat relevant book called The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton. He's mostly focusing on selling garbage, and he carefully steered clear of gambling, but he still crossed into relevance with a closing chapter about the ethics of psychological manipulation. Spoiler: He thinks it's okay.

More directly on gambling, it's best targeted at suckers who don't believe in math. The book had many examples indicating that Shotton is no mathematician.

You left out their motivations for breaking the pleasant environment, but I admit that I can't understand crazy people, so maybe their motivations cannot be explained in a way that I can understand...

In my imaginary solution approach, the troublemaker would essentially disappear from my vision because his earned reputation would save me the trouble of noticing his activity. The key to protecting public discourse would be the visibility defaults, because most people just accept the defaults. Still don't have a good solution for that problem... If the line is too clear, then the bad actors will cluster around it, but if the line is not clear, then the system becomes more complicated...

Did you miss my Subject? Or just rudeness as a non-persuasive writing style? Or my poor writing (again)?

Your Subject made me think you were going for funny, but I'm not getting the joke. However you are also referencing a movie I don't recognize, so maybe it's no joke, but just my ignorance showing again. So can I ask you to clarify your intention? (And of course it's always possible the real meaning was just "I'm in a hurry to claim FP" with little underneath.)

My Subject is from another website where the discussion topic was AI-related problems and the best labels for various important terms. For example, AGI versus GAI or GenAI for the current LLM category... One problem that keeps coming up is models customized to "pass for" real people in various ways, but I am still not aware of a standard term, so for now I'm still sticking with GAIvatar as a portmanteau of "Generative AI" and avatar... Does anyone have a better label? Maybe with a citation or two?

Time for a weak book recommendation? There is a recipe book for GenAI applications by the Hugging Face guy, but I didn't think it was that enlightening. I can dig up the exact citation if someone expresses interest, but most of the recipe books just seem to support Wolfram's negative summary. He thinks they're useful, but mostly the result of trial and error without real understanding of what's going on under the hood. So I would still give my strong recommendation to the Jeff Hawkins book, which in the first part is mostly a critique of GenAI from a different perspective on human intelligence... (And now I'm remembering The Age of Em by Robin Hanson. Terrible book to the point where "I can't believe I read the whole thing." Technofantasy of the absurd.)

Looking for a closing joke or personal anecdote, but my muse is weak these days. Perhaps intimidated by the GenAIs?

It's bullshit advice in general anyway. My dad thought he was friends with some guy who was an exec who worked for Diversey-Lever (initials J.L.) and he gave me "his" number to call to allegedly get an interview. So I called up about it and got a receptionist who I couldn't get past, and never got a call back. People like that don't have friends, just people they can use, and they have people in between to protect them from people who think they are their friends.

They don't have the exact same upbringing, in particular first and second siblings are typically treated differently in a number of ways. They also are not the same person, and different people are able to take advantage of different opportunities for multiple reasons — not all people have the preparation to take the same opportunities, and not all people will have the same opportunities handed to them. So no, you are factually incorrect, they did not have the exact same upbringing, and even if they did that would only be partially relevant.

Logic, you fail it.

Oh look, more clown shit. The government provided more funding to those schools instead of offering predatory loans directly to students, so the tuition was a lot cheaper for the student, because so much of the cost was paid before they were billed.

You fail at facts, too.

Modern life as we know it is completely impossible without cooperation. Even the most trivial of finished goods require the input of hundreds or thousands of people. It is also be competitive, but it is inherently cooperative, and there's no reason not to make it moreso just to make the bootstrap pulling, boot licking crowd satisfied.

That's what you are now. They are called CEOs and politicians.

You used to be able to store phone directories on SIM cards, albeit not with very many entries. On my Motorola Triplets and RAZR phones (original RAZR obviously, not the ones where they reused the name) you could easily choose whether you wanted them stored on SIM or locally. Maybe they don't know how to process strings, though, only store them. Or did they remove that functionality? I haven't tried to use it in many years, so I wouldn't know personally. Looking around I see that sometimes even SMS was stored on them?