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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Then leave another gap. There are finite idiots in the world, and you cannot actually go backwards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Right, if you think about the creation of traffic as a negative speed wave which causes compression, and traffic alleviation as a positive speed wave which requires rarefaction, then it becomes clear why traffic is so stubborn. When people are so bunched together, no positive speed wave can propagate. Which is why you literally get to to the point where the original idiot slammed on the brakes and the traffic magically disintegrates. If everyone stayed 5 car lengths apart in traffic, that alleviation would actually propagate backwards as fast as the initial congestion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Hey I studied this in grad school for a bit, and it really is just "someone does some dumb shit which leads to a cascading wave of additional people doing dumb shit which propagates backwards for miles." Basically when the offered load is getting close to the maximum load, all it takes is one person aggressively changing lanes to throw that section of highway into gridlock, and it will remain that way until the total integrated traffic flux across that incident boundary again falls below the critical offered load inflection point.

Basically, pick a lane and just stay in it. Maintain proper following distance. Counterintuitively, the following distance should be for the speed you want to drive, so even in traffic it should be like 5+ car lengths even though you are going slow. This is because it reduces the offered load, and once that number falls below the critical point, speeds will increase again. Bumper to bumper traffic basically prevents that from happening because it dampens the ability for a "speedup" wave to propagate.

Of course this is all impossible for humans. All it takes is a few idiots to throw off the balance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Immanuel Kant has left the chat
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I have worked at several startups where I was like employee number ten, and you can always feel the culture shift the moment they start hiring MBAs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car community shenanigans dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ah yes, a micropenis only a mother could love
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Presumably the average temperature of the room pre fart Includes the gas in your colon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
People are missing that the fart is under pressure is the body. Increasing the gas volume from your colon to the room will produce a drop in mean enthalpy due to the reduction in mean gas pressure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That one looks attached at the front ...
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
White people yelling "I'm rick James bitch" at hims is literally why he stopped doing comedy for like a decade.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A simpler time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
A perfect example of why median exists
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Rest assured if there's a bubble I can make trouble in it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Those people were correct.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨number box o number box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Excuse me, but a tensor is actually a blob of numbers which extends the concept of a matrix to a sequence and stride data structure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Literally none of this is my problem. I do not give two shits what other people's children do on the Internet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

we as a society do need to do something to prevent children from being able to access pornography

Yes, it's called "parenting"
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Having a larger focal point farther back from the aperture should also reduce parallax, I crease field of view and improve depth perception.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, it's good that they ripped off that bandaid. Parasocial AI relationships are terrible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I'm honestly more worried about choking. Anything larger than about 2cm is getting into high risk territory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Very likely with some reduced range. You can test by clamping a BT device in your armpit. It would be pretty risky to swallow an air tag though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You joke but post scarcity anarchism is probably the only truly viable post capitalist society where the state actually has a real chance of withering away. That means good praxis is anything which reduces scarcity - both in the form of technological developments and sustainability/ecology. And yes, harm reduction measures which foster collaboration and social cohesion which create actualized humans with real agency and a real stake in their own communities.

The problem with so much leftist thought is precisely that it denies agency to those it seems to liberate. "Luxury gay space communism" is a meme, but it's based on a post-left idea which is actually far more rooted in reality than a lot of ML orthodoxy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Again, it's shocking how on this singular issue, we find "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" acceptable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes that thread is quite literally just describing forum politics, based on a very small amount of feedback from a select group of individuals discussing the matter in back channels.

Simply put, admins were not satisfied just banning the agents for voting and the user for commenting. This is entirely a perception issue and caused no actual problems besides feels. This caused the implementation of trusted instances which was actually a flawed concept. Rather than iteration on the idea, the pressure from other admins caused it to be abandoned unceremoniously with almost zero input from users. I'm not sure how you can interpret this as anything other than forum politics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I agree, except we should leave the basic mechanic and just make it a placebo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nobody sets out to be doxxed, but it happens. And as it stands on the fediverse, when it happens the consequences are potentially even greater because all activity is available to all subscribers. All I am asking is for these simple facts to be acknowledged when we have this discussion. The potential risk profile for using Lemmy is greater than reddit in many ways. My frustration with how people approach this conversation is that they all too frequently dismiss or ignore this simple fact.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Piefed literally already implemented voting agents and it worked fine until forum politics killed it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese man pleads guilty in US to smuggling protected turtles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yo, box turtles are worth $1600 each? WTF we used to find these things all the time as kids and put stickers on them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Public votes do absolutely nothing to stop people from making a bunch of users on a bunch of instances and voting from those users. Voting agents are a simple solution to the issue, since you can still just ban the voting agent if it seems problematic.

But there's a deeper context here, which is we are drawing a weird line between voting being a fundamental, if not critical part of the application, but also apparently grounds for imposing sanctions on users for doing it wrong? That's a fundamentally flawed mechanic no matter how you swing it, since you can't standardize any singular set of rules, and we are already seeing a rapid escalation of tit for tat vote bans. This is just unsustainable and is pushing things towards an obvious endpoint where there is such a chilling effect on voting that it negates the entire utility of the mechanic for sorting and content curation.