Sometimes breaking traffic laws is literally the safer option. The laws are written for cars not people on bikes. Me sitting in the turning lane between a bunch of massive trucks hoping people notice my bike with a flag on the back and remember I’m there when the light changes. Or I ride on the sidewalk and use the crosswalk. Technically one is legal and the other is not (depending on the local laws obviously).

Seriously though. I got the flag after the first time a massive truck pulled up behind me. Realized they literally could forget I’m there their Field of view is so bad.

I really don’t know how they are legal. I mean I do. But they shouldn’t be. Only thing that big should literally require a commercial license and a valid reason for use.

Now with 50% more Hitler!

Literally just had the same thing happen to me. This time at Microsoft. Worked for a small startup. It got bought out in 2023 after investments in actual hardware that wasn’t named Nvidia died.

Layoffs on most of our engineers. Somehow I survived and basically did no work for 2 years. Was finally laid off.

I hated it. But I basically stole a salary from Microsoft for two years. Fuck these big tech companies.

Dude. Be normal. I’m sharing a story about an annoyance of modern US infrastructure (which is obviously the fault of cars).

I’m confused by what conversation you’re trying to start here. I obviously acknowledge the issues of infrastructure that lead non cars to have to deal with the frustration of a “choke point” in our sidewalks.

I think you may be just interpreted my comment in the least charitable way anyone could. Because, God damn, I don’t think anything you criticized could actually be concluded from what I said.

Not to mention the three word quote you start with. Are you just here to try to disagree with someone that likely agrees with you?

Seriously. Maybe reread this in the AM mate.

I have this attitude when biking. In the US. At least I assume everyone has this attitude towards me. I’d rather be respectful to the people walking and piss off the cars. There are just too many times when taking the sidewalk on a bike makes the situation 10x safer for you.

But I’m not gonna be an asshole to people walking. If it’s a busy area. I walk the bike. If it’s an open area where I can see I’ll ride the bike and stop/walk if I see someone ahead.

It’s not often I have to. Usually I just take up the entire lane on the street and bother the cars. But I’ll take the sidewalk for a bit if it makes it significantly safer to do so.

Oh, I also turn off the electric assist on my electric bike when I’m on sidewalks with people. No one wants to hear that noise.

Yes. Cars are 100x worse. But people normalize that because they have to. I want people walking to see bikers as nice and respectful by comparison.

I care. I bike myself. I was walking downtown and some idiot left their bike leaning up against the tree on the sidewalk. Right next to outdoor seating to a small restaurant. Just completely blocking the choke point of the sidewalk. Walking with my kid in a stroller. I could either drop the stroller off the curb into traffic or move his bike to the other side and help everyone else actually walk.

I moved his bike. Which required actually picking it up as the bike wheel was locked. A 50lb electric bike. Not something I’d expect everyone with a stroller or especially a wheelchair would be capable of.

The problem is both. Don’t leave your shit blocking where others need to go.

Its especially annoying because it easily fit on the other side of the tree. I just can’t imagine why someone would leave it like that. But, yeah, some people are just never taught basic manners.

Having a kid now. I realize that there are so so many adults that just never got taught how to not be an asshole. They have a child’s brain.

Don’t worry you don’t have to pay now either. Just use “After Pay” and you can pay $20 extra in late fees. Or don’t. Just keep racking up debt like the rest of society. We really don’t care if you pay anymore. We just want a big $ we can show investors so we can all jerk off to the profits we pretend have real material value in the world that is crumbling around us.

In Seattle we throw those green scooters in a pile blocking the garage exit to the ICE facility.

They have their use cases.

Fucking Christ. Glad I left windows behind.

Oh man. You should see the source code for IOS (the Cisco one not Apple).

Spent 5 years working on it out of college. I think it’s the most cursed code base you can imagine.

Not necessarily because of the massive struct defs everywhere. They are kinda needed when you’re running an entire OS as basically a set of interacting Linux processes pretending to be an OS.

At some point Cisco realized they could not compete without putting a Linux kernel as their base. So they basically just copy and pasted the old code written in the early 90s for the IOS and put it into a set Linux processes.

To be clear. It’s not just the front end. They didn’t really change the code much from the old IOS. Its a cluster fuck of interprocess communication hacks that probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

It is a massive pain in the ass to code because you’re basically doing everything on the Linux kernel and then frustratingly have to write the CLIs for IOS just so Cisco can continue to sell their proprietary OS with some of the most unnecessary hardware locks. Massive learning curve for any new engineer.

Literally, no one on the entire switching team knew how to send a message from a specific process to the IOS process. I had been assigned something that needed it. So I somehow figured it out and was “the guy” for that for the time I spent there.

Fuck. I’m gonna start ranting more if I go any further. But yeah, sometimes you need a massive struct because some idiot decided that forcing a closed source CLI on the market is a good idea for profits.

Definitely not a good idea for coding. But you learn quickly that no one actually cares about good code in this industry. There is no time for it. There is no reason for it. Just spit out garbage until it works and your manager won’t care.

If you want clean code. Go write an open source project or a personal project.

Sometimes in JAV you really just get curious what the fuck is happening.

Nice. I learned about different applications of whisper because I’m a degenerate.

https://github.com/meizhong986/WhisperJAV

Maybe we should have just let AI say the n word.

Took too long to type my comment but basically just said the same thing. Most of these models are the same exact thing with different biases and hard coded prompts to guide it’s behavior.

But grok. It’s obvious it’s just being fed a prompt directly written by Elon. Probably with a mountain of 4chan links to guide it’s behavior.

You can tell the model wasn’t actually retrained too. It’s just being fed a default prompt before answering questions.

It’s like if I start a ChatGPT with “pretend you’re a pirate through this whole conversation and talk like a pirate. Otherwise do everything else as you normally would”.

The phrase itself. Not that I know of. But it’s basically just saying “every <group I don’t like> is like this”. It’s not a whistle. It’s just racism/sexism/etc.

It’s 4 chan behind the keyboard. And Musk is basically a rich child who gets all his world views from 4chan memes.

We get the timeline with the most annoying fucking Nazis.

I really wonder what Canadian capitalist are thinking. I guess their thoughts are to try to keep Canadian politics as “Liberal” as possible to avoid growing anti American sentiment along with anti capitalist sentiment (something that obviously goes hand in hand). I’d guess they are trying to avoid that connection and working to maintain national solidarity in place of what could very quickly be class solidarity if they are not careful.

Because at the end of the day the capitalist class of Canada is essentially just an extension of US capital. And I’m not saying this in an “Americas hat” kind of way. It’s just how global capital works and even more so with Canada because of its geographical proximity.

I worry the capitalist in Canada are working to ensure the “pro Canada anti-American” politicians are well within their hands. And when the point comes to squeeze the working class of Canada harder it will likely be done through the means of “Canadian Nationalism”; and ensuring the masses view their suffering as a fault of “America” and not for what it really is; an attack in both countries on the working class.

The only people that use to drive through there were tourists that put the location in their GPS and then got stuck.

Them and delivery/Uber drivers.

Ugh. The amount of Uber drivers that actually dropped people off in the middle of Pike Plac was infuriating.

If there is ever justice for Palestine the trials will be short. These bastards are so proud of their support for genocide.