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Cake day: December 6th, 2024

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  • In the US my mom used to do something like that, but the time it took to transfer to the train into the city and pay for the ticket and parking at the train station, it ended up taking about the same amount of time and cost about the same.

    After a year, she just drove into the city as it was about the same cost and more convenient.
















  • I think we might not be seeing all the advancements as they are made.

    Google just showed off AI video with sound. You can use it if you subscribe to thier $250/month plan. That is quite expensive.

    But if you have strong enough hardware, you can generate your own without sound.

    I think that is a pretty huge advancement in the past year or so.

    I think that focus is being put on optimizing these current things and making small improvements to quality.

    Just give it a few years and you will not even need your webcam to be on. You could just use an AI avatar that look and sounds just like you running locally on your own computer. You could just type what you want to say or pass through audio. I think the tech to do this kind of stuff is basically there, it just needs to be refined and optimized. Computers in the coming years will offer more and more power to let you run this stuff.



  • I live in a country with a strict outdoor smoking ban and I love it.

    There are dedicated smoking areas for people to smoke outdoors, but they are really small and cramped with smokers.

    It’s actually really nice, you never see or smell people smoking unless you wonder too close to the designated smoking areas which are often really out of the way.

    The streets are not really clean here, but at least it’s not cigarette butts. Even things like vapes need to be smoked in a designated area, but sometimes people do it on the street anyway.