ulterno

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 49 minutes ago

Coming to answer after being woken up by a neighbour's after-party noise, after a few hours of inadequate sleep caused due to noise from said party. And it's half past ten. On top of that, I have had a bad sleep for the past 2 weeks due to continuous bombardment (no, that's just Diwali) for the past 2 weeks.

And even from the video, you may notice - It's less about cars, but that people are loud:

  1. People like car go vroom vroom
  2. People like farting motorcycles and most of them over here, buy non-farting motorbikes and get them modified to get them to fart. Same for farting cars. Only a few cars that fart by default. Mist of the farters are modded.
  3. The horn problem is also more about people and less about traffic necessity. On top of that, the sound-proof cabins make it hard for car drivers to hear cycle bells. I recently got a near miss from that.
  4. And guess what, that area also gets loud when there's a party
  5. Tire noise, I'd rather have that. How else would I know when there is a car behind me, before they blast the horn? In fact, me detecting the car first, looking back to see their lane and giving way, has prevented a lot of potential horns. But yes, if the low sound roads and the porous roads that help in rainwater infiltration (causing groundwater replenishment and reducing sinkhole probability) are the same, then I would definitely be for it.

Air pollution:

Picture shows cigarette butt on road, implying that someone smoked while driving/riding, causing others behind them to intake/inhale that smoke
Taken from 9:13 in the video.

  • Roads have been pretty breathable ^[at least as long as you are only considering the vehicle smoke and not the smoke coming out of smouldering sticks in the rider's/driver's mouths] ever since Catalytic converters and I have been mostly fine, breathing heavily while running over 35.
  • There is another kind of farters. The vehicles who don't get proper maintenance and start puffing white smoke, filling the road air with it, making me have to take a stop or hastily overtake them.

There is just one case, where I would look differently and that is the case of tuk-tuks and mopeds, which turns out to be out of necessity and lack of money. Because those have to be cheap, to cater to the requirement of the target customer, reduced noise comes lower in the list of priorities.


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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

in the new section of Science Memes, A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking...

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's not trying to say either of them.

It's just guessing what word to say next, given the previous words in the context.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev -1 points 13 hours ago

Had they just used some punctuation - "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced", it would have made it easier to get. Even, "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced" would be doable.

How do these feel?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

graph of binding energy per nucleon for stable nuclei

And gives some energy (and building material) in the process? Yeah, it's just kinda hard.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

Having rules, means we need to be sure everyone follows it. And having a condition in which everyone wants to and strives to follow it, is also something utopian.

So even if the rules turn out to be desirable, a deterrent would be required. Now of course, for the thoughtful, the deterrent would be the possibility of losing long term stability, but for those who only think of immediate gains, you either have to band up (which eventually causes formation of communities and states) or they band up (= bandits) and eventually become kings (the problematic kind).

And then these things come into play:
Cooperation game Pretty good linking of thoughts by Veritasion

Then comes the most important point (or at least what I consider so). Technological progress. Science is very much viable in Anarchy, with most scientist-scientist interactions not really requiring a state in the first place. You just need an incentive structure that is good enough to make maintenance (including prevention of loss of knowledge) and further improvements, a desirable endeavour. And science can take a lot of resources, while not showing any return for a long time.
Depending upon the case, this might incite frustration in those, investing in it for those working on it.
And stagnation is not a possibility. Any attempts at that will just cause a slow downfall.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I used to say, "I don't like novels." until I read Foundation

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 14 hours ago

You just gave 2 links to places on the internet where people have mentioned it.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

So I just invented a game.
I kinda like it a bit.
Of course, I'm not going to tell you its name or its rules, or I will have mentioned it on the internet, which will make it a paradox.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Any chance you’re a lawyer?

Physicists come pretty close too, and guess where you are

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, we are yet to make sure that the drones run on the same OS as the Teslas.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 15 hours ago

I get it. There's probably 100's of sites with you on them.

 

Until he actually had to use it.

Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site.
Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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