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New comment by weweersdfsd in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

weweersdfsd — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:29:57 +0000

The solution is simple. Just build big parking lots outside the city where land is cheap, and a bus service from these parking lots to the inner city. That way commuters can get to their workplace and back fast enough.

Making commuting viable that way is beneficial to inner-city folk too. When people who want to live further away from city can do it effectively, housing will become cheaper for those who actually want to live in the city.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

weweersdfsd — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:23:19 +0000

Social media AND smartphones became popular around that time. I think it's the toxic combination that's the worst - easy, low effort dopamine hits that are available everywhere via your phone, whenever you are bored.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:45:04 +0000

Yes, what Western world really needs is more people moving to already unaffordable big cities, because they can't afford a commute from cheaper areas.

Landlords would really love that.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:40:26 +0000

It's a good argument if you care about privacy and geopolitical risk, like a dictator suddenly deciding that citizens of your country should no longer have access, or should be monitored when using the service.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:23:52 +0000

If that is the case, where are the LLM-controlled robots where LLM is simply given access to bunch of sensors and servos, and learns to control them on its own? And why are jailbreaks a thing?

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:16:01 +0000

The problem with current GenAI is the same as in outsourcing to lowest bidder in India or whatever. For any non-trivial project you'll get something that may appear to work out of it, but for anything production-ready you'll most likely you'll spend lots of time testing, verifying, cleaning up the code and making changes to things AI didn't catch. Then there's requirement gathering, discussing with stakeholders, gathering more feedback and so on, debugging when things fail in production...

I believe it's a productivity boost, but only to a small part of my job. The boost would be larger if only had to build proof-of-concepts or hobby projects that don't need to be reliable in prod, and don't require feedback and requirements from many other people.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit"

weweersdfsd — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:03:37 +0000

>> Two-thirds of Syrian refugees are now employed, many reducing public reliance and boosting the economy.

I don't think legitimate Syrian refugees were the biggest problem. Rather, the open-door policy was abused by lots of young men from other MENA-countries, with no eligibility for asylum. Deporting them proved pretty hard, and crime stats prove that some of them had a very bad attitude towards their new host.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "How to grow almost anything"

weweersdfsd — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:54:39 +0000

If you're into home automation, you could probably get pretty far with some light & moisture sensors (I recommend Xiaomi Flora bluetooth sensors for the latter purpose) and smart plugs connected to Home Assistant. I did something like that on a small scale, it worked fairly well.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "The Who Cares Era"

weweersdfsd — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:30:41 +0000

This is it. It's rational not to give a damn in this environment, at least for anyone who isn't an entrepreneur or very well paid.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "The Who Cares Era"

weweersdfsd — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:28:43 +0000

Perhaps you can't pay people enough to make them care, but you sure can make them not care by paying too little.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492"

weweersdfsd — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:34:13 +0000

They do get parts through various third party countries.

Sanctions really don't work in aviation either. Iran has faced harsh sanctions through the 2000's, yet they've kept flying Western made planes, lately even newer models. Similar story with Cuba, somehow they operated ATR turboprops for decades, and those certainly do have American made parts.

If you have the money, somebody will supply you the parts.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled"

weweersdfsd — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:23:44 +0000

I think the switch will happen sooner rather than later, considering the progress BYD is making in China (and many of their export markets).

It's true that electric vehicles remain a bit too expensive for many, but most of those people aren't buying brand new ICE vehicles either. Why spend lots of money to buy a brand new car of obsolete technology, when the alternative is to buy used and wait for electric ones to get cheaper? I know literally nobody in my age group (adults in their 30's) who has bought a brand new car in past few years. I live in rich EU country.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress"

weweersdfsd — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:49:05 +0000

The key here is "under your guidance". LLM's are a major productivity boost for many kinds of jobs, but can LLM-based agents be trusted to act fully autonomously for tasks with real world consequence? I think the answer is still no, and will be for a long time. I wouldn't trust LLM to even order my groceries without review, let alone push code into production.

To reach anything close to definition of AGI, LLM agents should be able to independently talk to customers, iteratively develop requirements, produce and test solutions, and push them to production once customers are happy. After that, they should be able to fix any issues arising in production. All this without babysitting / review / guidance from human devs, reliably

New comment by weweersdfsd in "AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption"

weweersdfsd — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:02:59 +0000

I agree. Most frontend rewrites are totally unnecessary, caused by resume-driven development, desire for the latest fancy thing and most JS frameworks having a short lifespan. If LLM's reduce that behavior by steering devs towards most popular solutons, then it's only a good thing.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?"

weweersdfsd — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:44:26 +0000

Even if the runway was only used from one direction (not true), it would be dumb to build a big concrete structure near its beginning. It's not unheard of for planes to come in too low and touch down before start of the runway due to pilot error (or even double engine failure on rare occasions).

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Morgan Stanley Follows Citi, BofA in Quitting Climate Group"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:06:12 +0000

Build and create what? More cheap plastic junk for consumers? Big SUV cars for middle class that could very well drive a Corolla? Cloud services delivering social media that negatively impacts people's mental health, but makes billionaires a lot of money?

Most energy out there already goes to causes that do nothing whatsoever to advance humanity's future or to improve people's lives. Burning fossil fuels to produce that waste of energy is absolute madness.

If we are to waste energy, it should at least be produced in a manner that doesn't doom future generations.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest"

weweersdfsd — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:59:13 +0000

There's nothing wrong with resisting bad working conditions, unfair pay, or getting replaced by a machine without adequate social safety nets in place.

If businesses decide to replace workers with AI, then it's also their collective responsibility to pay for their retraining, or if that isn't possible their social security.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:47:22 +0000

If it comes to a war I'm going to be on the front lines anyway, because I happen to live in a country next to Russia. Capturing a cargo ship guilty of sabotage wouldn't make much of a difference in whether a war comes or not.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

weweersdfsd — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:44:07 +0000

The truth is that Russia has been making war preparations for a long time, also within the EU. In Finland even during the "good years" (between fall of the Soviet Union and Georgian war) Russian businessmen kept buying property that made zero financial sense, but was located close to strategic infrastructure or military bases.

New comment by weweersdfsd in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

weweersdfsd — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:42:25 +0000

I think it's time for a special navy operation which captures a Russian or Chinese cargo ship every time a cable gets damaged. The ships and their cargo could be then sold to the highest bidder.