Every Reason to Hate Cars YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

If you want to hate on cars for a while, or if you love cars and think I'm insane, watch this video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi...

Today I see one of my favorite YouTube channels, Not Just Bikes, published a long-ish video explaining why cars, in their current configuration, are so bad for society. Most of the reasons were obvious to me as a young boy living in Phoenix and I think this profoundly marked my beliefs growing up.

A friend from the US came to visit recently. A week after returning he shared his daily steps with me. While here he was well above 10k every day. Upon his return he struggled to get above 3k. I know cars aren't the only factor leading to obesity but they definitely do not help.

As a child and young adolescent I lived in Phoenix, Arizona. The bus system at the time was laughable: 1 bus per hour. To get anywhere you basically needed 2 hours each way. As a consequence, you only took the bus if there was absolutely no alternative.

I've lived in Europe for more than 20 years. People here often ask me if I feel I fit in or miss the USA. I tell them I've never felt particularly American, primarily because of my disdain for cars and the US's dependency on them.

'A game-changing moment for social media' - what next for big tech after landmark addiction verdict? The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

OMG this is big, and so, so important… I love this.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As I find myself in a similar quest and inspired to answer similar questions, I wrote this post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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If you are on Gran Canaria on March 8th, I strongly suggest you attend this event that celebrates women and programming!

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Ads are coming to ChatGPT and some users are already unhappy: ‘If I get a single ad I’m switching to Claude’ ChatGPT’s Free and Go tiers are getting ads, prompting a backlash from some unhappy users.

What will happen if I consistently like (or consistently dislike) every ad I see in ChatGPT, without fail? OpenAI claims there is no relation between ads and my chats but…

www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

This thought was based on this experiment: www.wired.com/2014/08/i-li... (summary version)

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Went for a hike yesterday, really beautiful place...

17 year-old CEO looking for Head of Engineering on LinkedIn… Olé for him! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effectively.

I'm working on a personal project that requires the creation of hundreds of selfies. I compared 20 models and produced samples for each using the same prompt.

You can see the report here: www.chicagoitsystems.com/ai-model-sam...

I would love your feedback!

Your proposed solution may still be the correct one but I want you to reconsider the premise it is based on.

You said, "Jest may not be picking up the override properly" but this is impossible. Jest does exactly what it is told to do. Jest is heavily tested so it is unlikely it is not doing something properly.

(prompt continues below)

I'm doing a LOT of vibe engineering lately. Yesterday I wrote some instructions that I thought were particularly exemplary of the kind of prompt Claude, Codex et al normally respond well to and I thought I'd share it here. This is me responding to Claude…

Are any of my followers using Claude Code? Have you had any issues with it complaining with "Unable to connect to API due to poor internet connection"? If so, do you know a solution for this (because I can clearly connect and Anthropic's status pages says all systems go)

When I was a child, I had many bad teachers with good intentions. What about you?

I've been reading lots of Engineering Manager job descriptions lately and almost always, without fail, they are actually tech lead positions with virtually no mention of actual management responsibilities. Sad state of affairs when proper management is devalued in this way.

7 old smart phones, 2 old tablets, 4 sets of headphones, 2 with noise cancelling

Not too bad for a family of four over the course of 7 or 8 years, some devices even older. I do wish there was a better way to recycle this stuff though.

I'm still here! Lately we've been doing a deep dive on semantic search and how it compares to traditional search methodologies. We also looked at Supabase "orchestration" (sadly, a way to hobble together stored and Edge functions, cron jobs and queues to do more complex tasks).

Clearly defining the problem is half the solution. When you say, "starved for feedback on how our work impacts the world", what does that feedback look like? Is it citations in other research, lower poverty rates, higher overall GDP, something else? Honest question.

Tech people have laptop stickers of laughing pizza slices and upside down smileys and inside is like the most gnarled async code holding up a distributed system for 10 million users

It also seems reasonable to expect AIs to eventually stop writing human-readable code and just write bits and bytes with the expectation that humans will never be expected to intervene. Should we consider legislation against doing this even if limited to certain contexts??

Writing code that is difficult to maintain and modify is irresponsible but unless the operator, me, _knows_ what unmaintainable code looks like, there's nothing to stop the AI from producing it. It is easy to imagine a future in which codebases are so complex that only AIs can understand them.

Well organized code also has fewer bugs, normally, because it is compartmentalized and thus easily tested. AI and AI-enabled coding tools are great at producing functioning code but never include tests unless explicitly told to do so. It's as if they have no concept of responsibility.

Massive effort has been put into making code maintainable. Maintainable code has low complexity, follows predefined patterns, is terse, etc. AI tools enable us to "fill the gaps" where coding ecosystems fall short. They allow us to shove square pegs into round holes thus increasing complexity.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.