Dude the 85th percentile is literally a measure of what 85% of people drive when no signs are posted, based on their vehicles capabilities, road design, weather, and road conditions.

What are you arguing for, 90, 95%, the maximum, no limit? It's unreasonable to have no posted speeds, because half of you assholes just want to drive faster than the person in front of you and will unnecessarily accelerate to pass all the damned time on any twisty hilly road possible. Jesus Christ, you're not getting there any sooner. As soon as you finish passing and reduce your speed when you think the guy you passed can't see you anymore your average speed is no different. If you constantly fight upstream passing every single car, you still only shave seconds off your trip time and deserve every ticket you get.

Use a fucking GPS, just to drive across town even. Flip to whatever screen or setting shows your ETA. Now speed, and watch what it's all for. Fucking idiots.

It's more like the 85th percentile of observed traffic, and other factors are considered. Maybe it's different in some small towns, but not anywhere getting a fancy average speed monitoring system. Haven't you driven over those rubber hose sensor things laid across the road before, that's how they do the traffic study AFAIK.

https://www.ite.org/technical-...

It's almost our entire western coast and the single largest economy in the U.S.

Wherever you're from, they're not sending their best, huh.

"Nobody goes there, the line is too long"

Classic

Wait, there's abuse, like waiting at the bottom of a steep hill with a speed reduction. Automating the abuse, to wash hands, like red light cameras printing money for every slightly rolling right turn on red. An officer might be too embarrassed to do in person. Then there's average speed over some distance, and that's ... what?

Unless that's straight up hidden from the public I'm not seeing how it's possibly abusive. And speed limits aren't always abused anyway, come on.

Shitty speed limits are usually shit for a good reason, there's a turn at the bottom of the hill so the speed reduction is placed at the top to give you time. Or my favorite, going through an intersection it reduces from 40 to 30 at the far side, but coming the opposite direction the 40 sign is placed at the far side again, making it asymmetric.. and counter intuitive because there's no 30 sign facing you as you enter.. that part may be abusive. From an engineering pov these all make sense though, the visibility is different on both approaches to the intersection for example. But the cops waiting at the bottom of the hill instead of around the corner, or the cop watching that intersection and farming tickets for driving 40 twenty feet in front of the 40 sign, THOSE are abusive. If those two things were automated they'd get voted out of town as fast as that right turn on red camera was in my small town.

OK grandpa, what are you talking about propaganda and refrigerators? You want me to fax you a copy of the Radio, Westinghouse, G.E. pages from my grandparents encyclopedia set, or can you ask your nurse to tune the Internet receiver to Google.

You're talking about the time that commercial broadcasting was brand new and Westinghouse was a GE rival, they made industrial equipment, home electrical appliances, trains, radios etc.

This is like ten seconds of reading.
https://earlyradiohistory.us/1...

How do you reduce a G.E. scale industrial powerhouse to "refrigerator manufacturer" and the advent of commercial broadcasting to "propaganda", as if the top two electrical equipment manufacturers in the country would not be involved in the brand new market of commercial radio broadcast. Really weird take on a pivotal time in American history, just saying.

I missed this.. how are we supposed to make sense of these numbers from the expanded OS Version table?
This distribution looks more like what I'd expect real Linux desktop gaming usage to be. So there's what, ~10 other versions of MacOS reporting in with each .05%
And for Linux there's like a hundred or more at .05% each? What's in that long tail, there are a lot of distro choices out there, but these aren't crusty old mail servers, they're gaming systems that someone went out of their way to respond to the HW survey? The top five add up to 1% and I'm having a hard time believing there are actually many desktops below that.

OSX 2.35% +1.19%
MacOS 26.3.0 64 bit 0.55 % +0.40%
MacOS 26.3.1 64 bit 0.49 %+0.49%
MacOS 26.2.0 64 bit 0.23 %-0.21%
MacOS 15.7.4 64 bit 0.14 %+0.14%
MacOS 15.7.3 64 bit 0.10 %0.00%
MacOS 15.6.1 64 bit 0.10 %+0.04%
MacOS 26.4.0 64 bit 0.07 %+0.07%
MacOS 15.5.0 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%
MacOS 26.1.0 64 bit 0.05 %+0.05%
MacOS 12.7.6 64 bit 0.05 %+0.05%

Linux 5.33% +3.10%
Arch Linux 64 bit 0.34 %+0.15%
Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 0.27 %+0.13%
Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 0.14 %+0.06%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 0.07 %+0.02%
Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%
Manjaro Linux 64 bit 0.06 %+0.06%

There were clear spikes in Covid cases, you can see the shadow of the infection rates through the numbers of deaths from all causes. That's what you were hearing in the news was the left side of each of these waves. People kept thinking it was over, it'll be over in the summer, blah blah blah, then everyone would hear the reports in the news of things spiking and they'd stop going out as much, self isolate and then it'd slow down for a bit. Rinse repeat, I remember it vividly. Every damn "re-re-re-reopening" we went through.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

It matches state level data, and other countries, it happened way before the vaccines were available, deaths are deaths, this isn't a categorization problem or spikes in testing, the sums of deaths are accurate over time, and I'm really fucking done hearing any other stupid explanation.

Doesn't that mean correction?

I'm not a lawyer, but that's not how compliance works, at all. Complying with regulatory requirements only protects you from the government, and narrowly. That should in no way absolve you of anything liability related. Doing the minimum required age verification and then knowing you have minors where you shan't, should leave you at risk the same way as fully complying with anti-money laundering rules but knowing you work with criminals and likely criminally obtained money, or complying with auto safety regulations and knowing your car is unsafe. How is compliance a shield? "Your honor, we're deeply sorry about the dead kid but we did the minimum legally required ..." o_O

OpenAI, Anthropic, Musk, etc have all been playing at the same game, testifying to Congress that AI is too dangerous for just anybody to do it right, so it needs to be them and not the other guys. Playing along with the think of the children game is more of the same, they're trying to pull the ladder up behind them because anyone can become a competitor a little too easily. I'm not saying don't regulate them this way or that, but when dominant players in a market show up to Congress asking for regulation, that's their play.

- Viol8, prestigious alt-right academic

Someone needs to make the sequel to Don't Look Up - Don't Zoom Out.

Price of RAM is fine everyone, it goes up and down.
Stock market is fine, it go up it go down.
Oil up 90%, uh, it go up down up *drools* fine. It floats. They all float. You'll float too.

Fucking clowns.

It will just be another line on the forms you sign, like acknowledging the risk of the radiation dose you're signing up for, or the high powered magnets vs. metal stuff in your body, or the contrast enhancing stuff they inject you with, or all the other risks.

I'm not even a lawyer, it's just kind of obvious that you don't have a reasonable expectation of a 100% accurate reading, or zero risk. Your bar has to be somewhere else.

> It was possible to run the entire Windows XP system plus user applications on 128MB of RAM... 256MB was a luxury.

I did an experiment once. Windows NT 3.5 could boot with 12MB of RAM. You really couldn't do anything with it, but it did boot up. As I recall, the whole OS only took up about 40MB of disk space.

The same cast of barely competent fake it till you make it characters that use AI as an appeal to authority already did that with white papers, best practices and whatever blogs they could google. Good job you can read, now model the fucking problem.

It's the same people, same mentality, and it gets the same treatment. When I present a well researched technical solution to you, and you white paper me, unthinkingly quote some best practice blog or a reference architecture diagram, or type what I'm saying into Gemini and pro-tip me, you go on the shit gets done while you're on vacation list and not invited to future discussions.

That's how you deal with those people. Them using AI as their latest appeal to authority crutch doesn't make it AI's problem. Quoting AI is just the new link to a PDF.

That already happened, under Biden, and it wasn't a bloodbath, it was four perfectly boring years of nothing to talk about but egg prices.