burritojustice

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

batteries: bringing you yesterday's solar, today! http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx#section-supply-trend

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

“I think traffic engineers tend to think traffic is like a liquid. If the pipes aren’t big enough, then it gets plugged up and overflows. The solution is building bigger pipes,” Goodspeed says. “But all of the evidence says that that’s not true, that instead [traffic] is much more like a gas, meaning the volume of traffic congestion will expand to take up the capacity allowed.” And if traffic can expand, it can also contract.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-02/dallas-debates-fate-of-the-downtown-highway-that-divided-the-city

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

LET THE DOG DRIVE

danhon, 1 month ago to random

I've been informed by the 11yo that his mother and I are the target of an antitrust lawsuit joined by at least 15 other children, that we have abused our power to maintain an illegal monopoly in the relevant market of "parenting decisions" specifically for preventing choice and putting in place limits regarding food, videogames, and other media, and have conspired to make it effectively impossible for them to switch to alternative parenting decision providers

jef, 1 month ago to random

@burritojustice Sign suggestion:

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

“No other branch of civil engineering tolerates this level of system failure. In any other field, if engineers knew that systems would fail catastrophically about 30 times this year and knew when, where, and why that was most likely to happen, they would be required to intervene or shut everything down. And if they didn't, there would be serious professional consequences: firing, fines, loss of license, and, depending on how egregious the infraction, criminal penalties” https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/03/27/guest-commentary-traffic-engineers-must-put-safety-over-driver-throughput

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

“As I've written before, hallucinations are a feature not a bug. These models do not "know" anything. They are mathematical behemoths generating a best guess based on training data and labeling, and thus do not "know" what you are asking it to do. You simply cannot fix them. Hallucinations are not going away” https://www.wheresyoured.at/peakai/

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

“I'd suggest, yet again, that we start designing streets to force drivers to go slow and to make it so reckless drivers crash into things before people... Instead, any effort to narrow lanes and do things that would actually force safe behavior is immediately vetoed by SFMTA and the city” https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/03/19/commentary-the-west-portal-tragedy-and-the-unfathomable-cost-of-motordom

burritojustice, 1 month ago to random

@rollovereasy @LukeBornheimer

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/street-widths/#

https://streetwidths.its.ucla.edu/data/

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

“A system where we can provide the same input multiple times, and the response will change in minor or major ways, for unknown and unknowable reasons, and yet we're expected to rebuild entire other industries or ecosystems around it, is merely a tool for manipulation” https://www.anildash.com//2023/06/08/ai-is-unreasonable/

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

wtf Mayor Breed

“I'm not sure that this particular incident fits in the scope of that problem around Vision Zero”

https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/16/one-child-one-adult-killed-others-injured-when-car-strikes-bus-shelter-in-west-portal/

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

EVERGREEN TOOT

LukeBornheimer, 2 months ago to random

The current mayor of San Francisco is driven 1 mile downhill in a 3-ton, 7-passenger, $100,000+ SUV during a roadway safety crisis and climate crisis.

We need a mayor who leads by walking, biking, or taking public transit.

Will the next mayor walk, bike, or take public transit?

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

I didn’t realize until later that Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion were on the b-side, gone when I came back, sorry everyone

Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic, 1975!

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

“The US has built more commercial nuclear reactors in the past 25 years (two) than it has major commercial airports (none), even though air travel increased by almost 50% over that period” https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport

Alon, 2 months ago to random

Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

fucking balloons https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/25/1088930/global-helium-market-semiconductors/

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

these poor migrant workers in SF

“Scala!”

“Hadoop!”

“JVM!”

burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

hombre de pac

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burritojustice, 2 months ago to random

some real post-apocalyptic vibes down at Candlestick

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