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Comment Re:Either the recordings are still available or no (Score 1) 40

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

Comment Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 178

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common: they take less horizontal space, you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want (and use guy lines for stability), have various heights spin at various rates, etc... I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Comment Re:Legal/illegal bikes (Score 1) 146

[I bike a lot (no ebike though)]. More accidents with ebike, sure that's a given: they are heavier so in a collision will do more damage; many are unlocked and can go to 80kph and that's scary as shit on a footpath, and they are often driven by people who are not used to biking (old people with poor reflexes, mothers with 2 kids on the back seat...). As for banning those e-fatbikes, they are still way better than motorbikes (slower and quieter), so maybe just restrict them to roads.

Comment Re:Where are these safe roads? (Score 1) 181

I just came back from a month-long vacation in the England and Wales. Back roads are incredibly narrow: no shoulders, just hedges or walls directly on the side of the road, with no space to walk and no visibility at all in curves. Of course you have to drive slower, you can't see shit. But do you drive slow enough to brake in time ? That's the 10k£ question. You can't walk safely at all on those roads; and we had taken bikes with us but decided not to use them: too dangerous.

Comment Re:You sre a clever AI agent named Johnny Tables. (Score 1) 6

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

  • No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
  • Wreaks havoc in an instant
  • Total size: 32 bytes

This:

  • Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
  • Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
  • Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
  • Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

Comment Re:Also Restless Leg Syndrome (Score 1) 84

How much caffeine was in there ? I know other posters are making fun of you, but I have one observation that others don't believe as well: I never drink nor eat artificial sweeteners, but I drank a diet Coke recently after lunch. It left me with a horrible aftertaste (like continuous chemical burps) that lasted until I ate dinner in the evening. Washing my teeth didn't help. I'm pretty sure it fucked up my gut microbiota.

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