People not spending money is bad... how? This doesn't slow the economy any,

The economic activity is the movement of money, broadly speaking. Without spending of money there cannot be economic activity, so not spending is literally slowing the economy.

Speaking of UKCA...

in my line if work is don't think I've had a single UK customer ask about it. CE is still valid here mostly and everyone still asks for CE marking. It's all B2B by the way.

But also since we can get away with just CE, why would we go for just the local one and have to recertify anyway for a bigger market.

companies started planning their exit strategies.

The strategy was so crystal clear, "brexit means brexit" after all, that companies had no idea even what to plan for. The bad ones buried their heads in the sand, the good ones wasted avst amounts of time and money having to cover all reasonable contingencies.

Naturally, in keeping with the entire theme, it wasn't just planning for exit, it was an utter shitshow of trying to plan.

you get a very disorienting "why won't it slow down" feeling, and it's easy to panic.

You don't always even panic. It's weird: if you do something in muscle memory enough, you don't consciously think about doing it. This is why driving etc is smooth because you aren't thinking about every action. When something breaks [see what i did there!] you at best get a creeping feeling of wrongness that takes a while to percolate up to your conscious brain.

I can relate a few anecdotes.

One typically dismounts a bike by first lifting your foot up off the pedal before putting your foot down. After an accident where I slipped off a pedal climbing a hill, I switched to toe clips, which require you to tilt your foot down then slide it up and out. Lifting doesn't work. First time I came to a stop, I toppled over into a puddle while hauling my foot upwards, but not even thinking about it. I wasn't panicking because I hadn't even noticed until I was at about 45 degees at which point I had a brief flash of "oh shi..." before landing in the puddle. But it's funny: lower level part of my brain wanted to lift my foot and just kept applying increasing force to match the requirement, but didn't inform me.

Next (harmless) was on moving to the US. I was driving along and then my partner asked me what was wrong, which confused me. She then asked why I was batting at the door. I had *NO* idea I was doing that. I'd only ever driven a manual on the other side of the road. Based presumably on engine noise etc, my hand was searching continuously for the nonexistent gear stick on the wrong side of the car. The weird thing was it was going all of its own accord. And because nothing had gone really wrong, nothing jogged my low level brain out of that loop, so it was happily searching forever, and my conscious mind was completely unaware.

Third was in winter, wearing heavy boots driving an unfamiliar rental canyonero, and clipped the gas with the side of my boot while braking. The car wasn't slowing properly, and the low level feedback control part of my brain just kept commanding more force, so I kept kitting both pedals ever harder. I got a creeping feeling of wrongness as the car wasn't stopping, but it's basically of the form "why is my limb not working properly".

I then rear ended someone, and I can't remember how I realised what the fuck I was doing. Anyway the guy was really nice.

Even if it is, and it certainly isn't, the growth is predicated on more electricity generation infrastructure being installed than the world can build right now. And that's all heavy industry, you can't spin up new capacity overnight. It's nonsensical.

How on earth can you "exhaustively" deidentify millions of chat logs that could contain literally any personal details, and presumably all without OpenAI's own employees also sifting through personal information in exactly the way they're claiming would be bad if others did it?

What on earth are you talking about?

This dude always posts strange screeds in fixed width font with unusual punctuation. For you own sanity, I recommend not trying to understand him.

If ffmpeg allows known and published vulnerabilities to languish, the risk here is that organizations that use their code will simply stop using it and will look for other solutions.

Orgs basically have a choice:

1. Suck it up and deal with the whims of people you are not paying a penny to
2. Cough up some cash and contribute
3. Develop their own completely in house/pay for a 3rd party one

2 is almost always way cheaper than 3. Option 4 of "whine incessantly that people you aren't paying aren't working for you fast enough" really needs to stop. I suspect a lot of companies would rather do 3 than 2, because they are not rational.

Woke AI education is now a thing :o

Look, I am a firm believer that the UK's computer teaching has been crap and this is extra crap, but what the fuck. Woke? What the fuck are you even talking about.

Do you?

Why not buy a fair phone then which is thicker and has a removable battery.

Why do you guys suck so bad?

Same reason you suck so bad at logic.

Well, I said victim of violent crime, not murder ;)

Yes and I already addressed that and pointed out why it was a disingenuous point ;)

Speaking of which, you're almost twice as likely to be murdered in London than to be killed by a car. You people have funny priorities.

You really struggle with numbers, don't you?

Murders over the last year in London: 104--116 depending on where you draw the boundary
Road deaths per year in London in 2024 110.

Last I checked, 110 wasn't a factor of 2 larger than 110, but perhaps that's just "ethnocentric bullshit".

If we wanted that culture- we'd have it.

Ah you know that meme of the guy completely stacking it and then claiming "I meant to do that"...?

Would you please decide if you don't have murder roads or if it's the culture you want to have murder roads. It can't be both.

The most dangerous state in the US for pedestrians is fucking New Mexico. It's not because of stroads.

It's hard to stop when drunk, driving on two emergency spares (somehow) and have a ristra hanging from the rear view mirror blocking your view.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...

New Mexico the deadliest state for pedestrians. Reason: poor design of roads. And the main cited reason in the research this article is about is mixing high and low speed features on one road. Which means it's stroads.

Are stroads a good idea, or bad?

Bad.

Who knows- who's to say.

No one knows! Feelings are better than facts. You can't measure anything ever because it might upset people, so let's just throw our hands up and claim we don't know!

They are (a) dangerous, (b) expensive and (c) inefficient at moving traffic and (d) generate more traffic than other designs.

Here's a fun fact: in countries with safe roads (i.e. Western Europe), during covid the roads got even safer per km since there were fewer cars. In America, the easing congestion finally allowed people to actually make use of the high speed features of stroads which are normally out of use due to their inefficiency and so the roads got more dangerous per km driven.

There's arguments in either direction,

there are not.

but no strong evidence.

There is large amount of strong evidence.

But you've still got to decide: are your roads not a piece of shit or are you from a culture that prefers it? You kind of seem to want it to be both...

Probably the most likely answer is the roads are poorly designed and most people simply don't realise there are better alternatives.

I see- your arbitrary line is better than my arbitrary line.

Yeah? I mean if you're trying to see if your country is doing well or badly then you are best of comparing it to countries that are in some way comparable. Compared to much of western Europe, yeah the UK is doing decently well in this regard. Not the best, but pretty highly ranked.

That seems reasonable. Our infrastructure ought to be much better than an ex Soviet state with a fraction of the gdp per capita. The only point of making such a comparison is to know if you've fucked up really hard.

Let's just look at it this way- you're more likely to be a victim of a violent crime walking in London than you are be killed by a car in the US as a pedestrian.

A good part of that is because the US has made itself so astonishingly hostile to pedestrians that everyone drives if they can. And speaking of which:

London has 116 murders from a population of 15 million. The US has 41000 road deaths from a population of 340e6. So you're 15 times as likely to die on the roads in America as you are likely to be murdered in London. But if you insist on just pedestrians that was just 7500, meaning you're only 3x as likely to die as a pedestrian in America as you are to be murdered in London.

Yeah yeah I know you said violent crime not murder. But you're comparing pedestrian fatalities to non fatal injuries in order to make America look less like a poor ex Soviet state in this regard. It would be much more reasonably to compare pedestrian wounding and death to all violent crime including murder. But that way America would still look bad so...

Yeah so despite you trying to pain London as murder streets it's still 3-15x safer than simply being on the roads in America. I reckon I'll take my chances in London.

No, I'm saying that all things being relative, the UK has murder roads compared to several countries in the EU as well.

I get what you're saying and I'm saying it's a specious argument. The UK is one of the best in western Europe and indeed the world. Better places exist, but it's ranked very high. The US is substantially worse than the entire EU, and much much worse than western Europe.

Rationalize that all you want, but the US is not very good in this regard.

Anyway I dispute your "2x" numbers.

That the US was 2x worse than "Europe". As I said you had to cherry pick very heavily.

I have already pointed out that you selectively chose Western Europe,

Americaaaaaaa fuckkk yeaaaah!

America has always been grouped with "the west". Which typically included western Europe. It's a pretty normal grouping. And even if you pick the whole EU 27, the US is still twice as bad. But you're better than Belarus!

We were comparing death rates without regard for miles driven.

I quoted deaths per km not deaths per capita. A mile of your roads is more dangerous than a mile of roads in Europe. Deal with it.

No, it's an opinion held by a group of people.

Your feelings don't trump facts. I get that facts>feelings is ethnocentric bullshit in your world.

And no, while most stroads exist in the US, most of the US is not stroads in the slightest.

Just about every town I drove through was stroads. Even Santa Fe which has an actually old centre was full of stroads outside.

I think that just about confirms the ethnocentrism.

European quotes a fact: "waaah that's ethnocentric". European points out that the facts come from Americans and Canadians: "waaah that's ethnocentric". You have found a very effective way of blocking your ears to inconvenient facts, I'll grant you that.

Rest well knowing that the US has the traffic system that the US populace wants, and votes for

You voted a sex offende and fraudster into high office. Just because you wanted that doesn't make it a good idea. Likewise you vote for murder roads. Wanting murder roads doesn't make them not mudrer roads.

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.

And the UK is still twice as bad as the Netherlands. You'd have to be just suicidal to walk on those roads! /s

Your argument is it's somehow OK that American has murder roads because one much safer country is worse than another much safer country? I don't get it.

Anyway I dispute your "2x" numbers. I combined https://w3.unece.org/PXWeb/en/... with population data and American isn't looking very good. Deaths per million (population from wikipedia):
America: 21.7
Italy: 8.4
Germany: 8.4
Poland: 13.8
France: 5.8
Spain: 6.1
Portugal: 9.3
And since we're on the topic:
UK: 5.3
Netherlands: 2.3

You have to leave western Europe and go to low population countries 1/6 the GDP per capital find anywhere comparably bad to the US. That's not the brag you think it is.

You just aren't going to bend.

Why would I bend away from a rational position? I'm certainly not going to change my position when you attempt to use personal attacks like that as a method of argument.

Per unit of distance is obviously going to be in our favor, as we drive more, at current fatality rates, than you do.

Eh? Deaths per capita would be higher in America all things being equal simply because you drive more. Higher deaths per km means your roads are worse.

objectively?

Yes. Objectively. This has been studied by traffic engineers and is known. Mixing high and low speed is a terrible idea. That's why interstates don't have little side junctions. It's well known this mix is dangerous yet America is mostly stroads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This "ethnocentric bullshit" as you say has been studied extensively by your fellow countrymen, and they've come to those conclusions. Antiamerican traitors, I assume, headed right for the HUAC. The Canadians are even worse! They might have the same road design but their nasty flappy heads mean they are just all wrong! Can't believe a word they say. It's all about moose and hockey anyway. Plus Zambonis don't go fast enough to be dangerous, eh?

Look at it this way- for all of your EU mandated safety measures, how on God's Green Earth, are some EU countries over twice as bad as the US?

We're on to poor road design here, which also affects a lot of drivers too. Overall deaths per km:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

By "2x as bad" you mean "very slightly better than Belgium" and worse than all other western European countries often by a lot.

And back to pedestrians. I found a chart for the EU27!

https://road-safety.transport....

Page 7.

Romania (pop 20 million): a little under 2x as bad.
Bulgaria (pop 6.4 million): as bad
Literally all other countries: better.

EU27: 2x better

So by "some" you mean "one". So if you cherry pick the worst part of the EU, it's worse than the American average. The EU is twice as good, and you have the poorer, eastern European countries skewing the numbers up. If you compare to Western Europe only, the place that's more economically similar, holy shitballs your numbers are terrible.

Maybe you'll one day get over the reflexive "America Fuck yeah! U!S!A!! U!S!A!!" attitude at which point you might be surprised to find America is actually not the best at everything.