jkf
1d ago
In Google Maps you can just right-click and "report a data problem", and I vaguely recall reading somewhere that municipal governments also have special authority to upload information directly
Sounds nice in theory, but IME contacting Google is... low priority for them. I didn't try contacting the appropriate governing body, but considering the way that they prioritize other things that seem more directly in their wheelhouse, I wouldn't expect it to be much better.
In one of the cases that I know about, the map's not wrong -- there's an easement there! It should be on the map; nothing on any government map I've seen indicates it as a passable road.
The other one is not on any map -- it's just an access track that the former farmer used to get from one field to another, prior to the road being built. It does stick out like a sore thumb on satellite photos, so my working hypothesis is that Google (and whoever else) did not strictly stick to whatever GIS files they got their hands on.
jkf
1d ago
Trucks aren't the only issue though -- around here there are roads that deadend, but have an unbuilt easement or farm road (on private property, but mapped for whatever reasons) making them appear like a nice shortcut to GPS algos. This is a bigger problem for highway combos (nowhere to turn around), but still can create a lot of unnecessary traffic on crummy little roads in the summer when there's a lot of non-locals tooling around glued to their screens.
"Local Traffic Only" would work I suppose, but that one gets abused by local governments when they get too many complaints from residents about people using crummy little roads that actually go through as shortcuts, and also depends on one's definition of "local" -- specifically calling out GPS issues would be useful I think.
I supposed I best fit the stereotype of an old-style PCP
Fooled me; I always figured that you were a crusty old GP!
jkf
11d ago
Then there is no rule at all -- and the slop-lovers among us will continue to push the line until the forum is largely bots arguing with each other.
Bad way to go.
jkf
12d ago
Reads to me as even more slop infused than your own forays, which as you know I think are counter to the current official stance on LLM-posting -- my question as usual is: if bot-posts are officially not allowed, but nobody is ever willing to do anything about it, in what sense are they not allowed?
(I'm aware that you personally think that they should be allowed, but AFAIK this is not in fact the position of the mod-team as a whole; the law of the land so to speak?)
jkf
12d ago
That said, wasn't the whole HR-mandated woke stuff kind of exaggerated to begin with?
The Canadian NDP (fairly popular centre-left party) is literally handing out privilege cards to members of the oppression stack to determine the speaking order at their party convention -- the rankings on said stack being determined by a non-binary chairPERSON who scolds you if you call her MADAME chairperson. Nothing is over, it's just gone to ground. (in the US)
jkf
12d ago
Unironically -- woke-ism doesn't survive contact with the practical world, so teach them to grill, fix cars, build houses -- stuff like that.
jkf
15d ago
She had to come back because her replacement turned out to be too insane even in terms of internal cohesion, nevermind electability.
jkf
19d ago
The (first) lie was pretty much true though -- masks (as implemented) didn't work, and it was always obvious that there was no way they could work.
The second lie is much more interesting.
jkf
22d ago
I find it interesting that the extrapolated numbers fail at low values of house area, literally giving a negative number for the minimum cost of a 1-story house.
I mean it's not literally the case that somebody will pay you $1500 to build a zero square foot house, but this seems like a pretty acceptable discontinuity assuming that the formula otherwise gives good results?
jkf
25d ago
Polling for the BIOS key should be the very first thing that the system does after POST pretty much, though -- if it's boot-looping at various points in the process, this should be possible.
What's the specific motherboard? As I said, DP systems are quite niche in desktop/gaming use these days but there are niche communities associated that may be able to help -- the boards are server-oriented and can be quirky.
If it truly won't enter the BIOS menu that's a pretty big clue in itself -- standard procedure would be to unplug absolutely everything from the board but one stick of RAM, a keyboard and mouse, enter the BIOS using onboard VGA (if present) and proceed from there.
jkf
27d ago
Thank you for mentioning the built in raid - that's a feature on his system. I was thinking of a repair company,
DP Xeon (?) is pretty niche for a gaming rig -- it's more of a 'rule of cool' hobby project since about 2015, although I'm still pretty down with it myself. (not for gaming tho)
I think if you can get the BIOS to open (F12, [Del] or some other brand-dependant key on POST) there will be an option showing you whether the board's built-in RAID is enabled -- I don't know your husband, but if he is like me he would not have done this, and slapping the drive in an enclosure will be sufficient. This is all that most 'repair companies' would be up for anyways, and I think USB cages are like $10 on Amazon nowadays? My recommendation is to just do that yourself, unless you see some RAID settings in the BIOS or another system has trouble with the drive -- in which case you might be stuck troubleshooting the hardware a bit. PSU would not be my first guess -- presumably the system was working previously, so I wouldn't think sizing would be an issue?
jkf
27d ago
I'm not asking why there aren't more competitors in our 2 party system, I'm asking why there aren't fewer.
What makes you think that there aren't (fewer)?
jkf
29d ago
Just that... it's a really popular book these days, and the prose is surely distinctive? Maybe people don't actually read it, IDK.
NYT has a quiz to distinguish human and AI writing. I did bad (3/5), but in my defense, I think most of the human examples are awful, making the quiz harder.
4/5 -- I will take up your defense in that Carl Sagan being indistinguishable from AI slop is not that surprising...
I'm somewhat shocked that 50% of the NYT-ariat don't recognize the passage from Blood Meridian, nvm are unable to distinguish -- blame English teachers for promoting trans-lesbo POC slop over great American novelists of the 20th century I suppose?
jkf
1mo ago
We barely have an army in the first place -- and the constitutionality of separation has been mostly confirmed previously. (if you are Quebec)
jkf
1mo ago
Doing easy things is not a good demonstration of military prowess -- that doesn't make the hard things smart to do, but it would be impressive if China could take territory from India. (preferrably without getting nuked, but AIUI there's not a real MAD situation in play with India -- so I'd still be impressed if the Chinese got their hair mussed a little)
jkf
1mo ago
"Tinpot" is pretty good for Carney but he hasn't started any wars yet! :-)
(Now if you want to talk about people who have the ability to get large amounts of natural gas to Europe, you are certainly dealing with a smaller set -- I'm not sure Trump's really in it either though so you might be stuck with the Ruskies after all...)
jkf
1mo ago
I expect it's too hard, but I (and a lot of other people, but probably not people who want to pay) would like a somewhat compliant browser engine for Mac OS9 -- obviously this is pretty much exactly a Netscape clone, but a POC would be interesting and would get the model well out of it's training set, thus testing for 'thinking' vs 'parroting' quite well.
How about 'non-interactive render of arbitrary web page; will run on my MDD PowerPC, OS 9.2.2'?
jkf
1mo ago
Can you typically tell whether an MLB pitch is a ball or a strike without seeing a replay/specialized camera view? I guess they have some electronic BS for this now too, but for me that's not necessary to enjoy the game!
I guess I don't understand the complaint -- typically it seems like people are saying that they can't see the puck at all -- but you are saying more like "90mph slapshots are hard to track"? That is true, but I'm not sure it's that big of a problem -- for another example, does it bother you when they bring out the chains to see whether a football team has made first down?
jkf
1mo ago
Sick final though. Trading two teeth for the gold medal in OT is legendary.
I'm watching it right now -- yes I know what happens, I'm watching it anyways!
NBC doesn't serve hockey to Canadians apparently, but looking at footage elsewhere it's a hard shot that bounces out -- this is hard to be sure about sometimes even for the refs and players! That's why there's a goal judge sitting behind the net. In this case it looks like it might have bounced off some of the crap they've got stationed inside the net; in the past you'd mostly see the impact on the netting, but there's still the rear bars -- normally there's a noise though.
If you think hockey is bad you should try watching lacrosse -- crowd injuries used to be a major problem there for people who didn't follow the action. Now I think there is dumb netting all over the place so people can safely focus on their beer.
jkf
1mo ago
Probably -- but it would have to 'cheat' on the buzzer I think -- it's certainly good enough at answering trivia questions that this would work, but if you made it do any thinking at all before buzzing in it seems too slow. (the generalized versions that is)
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