I never said it was a good idea!

I was wondering the same thing…

yup, but that’s what “AI” means

It literally is.

Yeah, that’s AI in my book. It’s almost certainly the output of machine learning using lots of sensor data, trained on mountains of older data. How is that not AI?

I’m mildly irritated that none of the photos on Wikipedia show it folded.

How do you detect these occurrences then? You can’t differentiate a lane change from a curving road without analyzing the environment.

Idea: cars all have too much AI in them anyway, let’s make good use of it. If a car detects that the driver turns or changes lanes without signaling 5 times in a row, it caps the speed to 50 km/h (or 30 in an urban area) for 5 minutes. Make this a mandatory safety feature in all new cars, like how they make noises if you don’t wear a seatbelt.

https://xkcd.com/566/

Blitzkrieg?

Thanks, I hate it.

I have a really strong muscle memory for Home so it’s super convenient to me, but ctrl+a sounds just as good.

What I do is: Up, Home, type cd , Delete (hold/repeat as many times as needed), Enter.

The Home key instantly brings your cursor to the start of the command line (before the ls), even if the command is long enough to wrap.

I’m not a terminal guru, and I don’t aspire to become one. I don’t want to memorize arcane symbols that each has a subtly different meaning, and I especially don’t want to execute them before I see explicitly what they’re going to do. So while the top comment of cd !$ is a perfectly good and correct answer, I offer this alternative in case you, like me, like to see what you’re doing as you do it. Home and End are pretty good.

There’s a chain of shops in my country that, at least for a while, pretty much only made and sold bean bags. Freaking fantastic ones, too.

I can totally accept the over tourism argument. In that case I’m doing my part, and telling people NOT to go there! :)

I’m surprised how many people vehemently refuse to switch and think I’m being insane. It’s a cultural thing I guess.

Thanks. Honestly the people weren’t the problem, it was moreso the way the city was managed and regulated. Again, it is in the top 5 (potentially top 1) tourist destinations in the world, you’d think the city would make it a priority to make tourists feel welcome from the infrastructure up. Again, pubic toilets alone can be the first and last straw. Every tourists needs to go at some point, it should not be a pain point.

Maybe I had inflated expectations, I don’t know. I’m not much into traveling anyway, I was with family and enjoyed my time with them, but everywhere we went felt surprisingly less welcoming than I expected. Except Disneyland, but that’s neither here nor there :P

It has been long enough that I don’t trust my memory on this, but I think it was really common to have no English signage anywhere…? This is not the Parisian people’s fault, this is the fault of business owners bafflingly choosing to alienate tourists, and the city regulators not caring either. In any other city I’d accept it, local businesses might not want the tourist traffic for plenty of good reasons, but this is freaking Paris!

In many countries including mine, it is such a fundamental form of communications that this amounts to becoming a hermit. I have two choices: either keep using WhatsApp, or:

• cut contact with almost my entire family (yes, I tried to get them to switch, no bueno)
• lose access to the best support communication option for most businesses
• miss updates and communications for groups (work, school, classes, etc.), including things like cancelled or rescheduled events
• make it harder for me to meet new people
• miss messages from delivery guys
• etc…

It gives me no pleasure to say this. Not using WhatsApp is not an option. I tried it for a time, when I was at my worst mental state. It didn’t work out.

I still don’t give WhatsApp phone permissions, which causes it to refuse to connect voice/video calls (even though it clearly doesn’t need this permission). Even this sometimes causes some annoyance, as people try to call me via WhatsApp and I can’t answer. I have to copy their number and call them normally. Small price to pay, I guess.

When I was in Paris some years ago, I was amazed how anti-foreigners it felt when it is easily top 5 international tourist destinations in the world. No public bathrooms anywhere, do the French never need to go?!

I went to the louvre and wanted to buy the 3DS museum guide software. I looked for it in the gift shop, it was available in one or two languages but not English. When I asked, the seller laughed at me like I’m an idiot, “oh we haven’t had English copies of it in months! what did you expect?”

What did you think I expected? I expected the most famous museum in the world to keep stocking something which is clearly selling out frequently!

The whole city felt like it didn’t want tourists there. It was such a strange feeling.

I just spend a couple of minutes researching and trying to understand the joke, but I’m sorry to say my efforts have been unsuccessful. How much ultra-specific information am I expected to know here?

Disclaimer: it’s past my bed time and my brain is malfunctioning accordingly, so this might be on me