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LOL. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

I will assume you live in the midwest. Maybe some suburbia.

NYC is entirely different than suburbia and actually is also entirely different from SF, DC and Tokyo. I don't know about other cities.

Within 30 seconds of biking from my apartment, I will already have seen.

1. A car go through a red light.
2. A car parked on the sidewalk.
3. A delivery truck parked in the bike lane, and part of the street.
4. Multiple people crossing the street randomly, not at crosswalks.
5. I will have passed maybe 3 other bikers.

Within a minute:

1. Massive construction on the street.
2. Cars parked in the road.
3. Dodged deep pot holes.

Within 5 minutes

1. Multiple cars going through red lights, I would maybe guess 5.
2. Multiple cars doing u-turns that are not allowed.
3. Maybe 30 people walking across the street in random places.
4. Some drugged up guy standing somewhere in the street.
5. Hit an area where the streets are purposely laid out so, if you want to go the "right way" you have to ground around multiple blocks. It's a peculiar place.

This is the base line.

All of this works together because there are basically no laws. A car goes through a red light, as long as it doesn't hit someone it's ignored. Same for u-turns, same for illegal temporary parking. You want to gun your car, make the wheels squeal and accelerate as fast as you can until the next red light? Nobody will care if you don't hit someone.

It's a zoo. The normal thinking of laws doesn't really apply. If you get upset about every car that runs a red light, you'll be upset all the time. If you get upset at people doing stupid shit, you'll be upset all the time.

I've been biking here for the last 20 years. (Before the bike lanes!) For me, basically 95% of bikers are fine. 5% suck. Just like cars.

I also hate the 5% of bikers that suck.

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For me the 5% that suck aren't because they go through red lights, or down the wrong way. I do this all of the time, and I'm never close to pedestrians. Pedestrians don't even know I exist.

I don't go on sidewalks, but I'm guessing that 95% of bikers on sidewalks are about to stop for a delivery and are going pretty slow.

The 5% that suck, for me, are the ones which do the "fly by" the commenter is talking about. Some biker going 25mph on their electric bike that gets within 6 inches of you.

This also happens with cars, and let me tell you, with a car, it makes my hair stand on end. It seems like the driver is saying, "let me show you how much I hate you."

Years ago when a car would do this to me (when the bike lanes just started coming out, there were a lot of people who were super mad), it would trigger a fight response, and I would catch up and prevent them from moving - just make them sit there - they would go batshit crazy. In retrospect, that was probably pretty dumb to do.

I think the answer to the biker problem, is not threats against bikers, but basically, make some thoroughfares biker only. Like all of Broadway, and maybe 1st or 8th ave. Mamdani should follow through on his campaign to hold Uber eats and etc, accountable. And then some sort of marketing, "Don't be an asshole - don't buzz people - this means you, delivery drivers and Bros on city bikes!"

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There are also some other undercurrents in play here. I wouldn't assume leftreddit is in this camp, but a certain percentage of NYC is.

There is a segment of NYC's population that "secretly" hates the immigrants and/or black people. Most of the delivery bikers are immigrants. And they are mostly black. It used to be most of the delivery bikers were Hispanic, but I think that has shifted. I don't know real numbers though..

So, not only is this guy zooming past fast for a delivery, but he's also an immigrant and he's also black. Really triggers some people.

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Anyhow...

I hope that NYC doesn't go back to the anti biker stance. But I do hope they put weight and speed restrictions on bikes.

<-- A tourist.

I understand and agree.

I have found that AI is super useful when I am already an expert in what it is about to produce. In a way it just saves key strokes.

But when I use it for specifics I am not an expert in, I invariably lose time. For instance, I needed to write an implementation of some audio classes to use CoreAudio on Mac. I thought I could use AI to fill in some code, which, if I knew exactly what calls to make, would be obvious. Unfortunately the AI didn't know either, but gave solutions upon solutions that "looked" like they would work. In the end, I had to tear out the AI code, and just spend the 4-5 hours searching for the exact documentation I needed, with a real functional relevant example.

Another example is coding up some matrix multiplications + other stuff using both the Apple Accelerate and the Cuda cublas. I thought to myself, "well- I have to cope with the change in row vs column ordering of data, and that's gonna be super annoying to figure out, and I'm sure 10000 researchers have already used AI to figure this out, so maybe I can use that." Every solution was wrong. Strangely wrong. Eventually I just did it myself- spent the time. And then I started querying different LLMs via the ChatArena, to see whether or not I was just posing the question wrong or something. All of the answers were incorrect.

And it was a whole day lost. It did take me 4 hours to just go through everything and make sure everything was right and fix things with testers, etc, but after spending a whole day in this psychedelic rabbit hole, where nothing worked, but everything seemed like it should, it was really tough to take.

So..

In the future, I just have to remember, that if I'm not an expert I have to look at real documentation. And that the AI is really an amazing "confidence man." It inspires confidence no matter whether it is telling the truth or lying.

So yeah, do all the assignments by yourself. Then after you are done, have testers working, everything is awesome, spend time in different AIs and see what it would have written. If it is web stuff, it probably will get it right, but if it's something more detailed, as of now, it will probably get it wrong.

Edited some grammar and words.

Holy cow. I didn't think people spent money on orchestras anymore. That's like maybe 40 pieces. If recording was over 6 hours, that would be what around 25K.. Plus studio space plus recording equipment and engineers, microphones, admin, maybe 50K. I guess it's not as much as I thought. Huh, I wonder what the budget was.

Huh, interesting. I wonder how many anime use live orchestras. I read many many years ago, that video games were using eastern european orchestras, but that even those had become too expensive. I guess I really have no idea.

I'm suspicious that sociopaths are a parasitic subspecies. Like there are these alien creatures that look entirely human walking around among us. They look like us, talk like us, but think that the general human species is inferior to their own.

What if they could identify other sociopaths, and were working in concert. Hmm, this is ridiculous.

Anyway, yeah. I don't think Clinton is capable of that level of introspection.

The fact that Clinton endorsed Cuomo is the cherry on top.

t wasn’t really a good run. Wages didn’t keep up with inflation. Even though wages are higher, the buying power with those wages is less.

Generally averages, in my opinion, are not a good measure.

Here is the median:

Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Edit: Maybe this is even better:

Real Median Personal Income in the United States (MEPAINUSA672N) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

That interviewer is such a push over. Jeeze, who are these people! If you know the image is photo shopped, you say, "No, you are wrong, the image was photo shopped," not, "well it is contested, we'll look into that."

Such a disappointment.

I second that. How about we tax Bezos and Musk et al. into "just" millionaire status and then fucking have parties without these Bezo-trucks.

Somehow this made it worse. “goddamn Alpha energy” - who are these people. All I want is for the dems to not be rich people faking concern for the poor.