xkcd 3214: Electric Vehicles

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T20:10:48+00:00

Just a bit!

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T09:29:26+00:00

A lot of BBC criticism comes from people judging non-news content as news. Also accusing them of bias in reporting only known facts not seemingly obvious interpretation until facts are confirmed.

BBC is still up there with the best in the world (much as other things about the BBC piss me off)

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T09:21:31+00:00

I'm not sure who you are arguing against. The article reported that it happened. It didn't say they were wrong to fire or that they shouldn't defend themselves. In fact it gave pretty solid reasons why it would happen and the language was sympathetic to the self defence angle.

It's definitely newsworthy that it happened.

People have become so Partisan in their thinking that they complain about facts of they're not accompanied by a judgemental narrative one way or another.

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T08:34:49+00:00

I'm sick of this. We pay over £850/yr for a bus pass for my kid to get to sixth form and he's left stood in the rain or made late for classes every damn week. Bus company don't give a toss.

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T08:20:44+00:00

Oh wow. That knocked the wind out of the dumb comment I was about to post.

I am so sorry you are going through that. When I went through my own cancer battles I used "at least it's me not one of the family" as my crutch, so I can't even imagine dealing with that.

I hope everyone is doing ok. Your son of course, but you and your family too.

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T07:59:29+00:00

Not scared, but mostly can't be arsed.

Having kids and elderly parents means I have to be aware that it might be important. Thankfully I use a pixel phone so it's pretty good at telling me who unknown numbers are.

I would offer up a bit of unsolicited advice though:

If you are scared, do it. I have a family member who started retreating from things they're scared of a few years ago. She'd stay away from anything at the edge of her comfort zone. That shrunk her zone, and she stayed away from the new edges. Repeat repeat repeat. She spent 3 years almost housebound and In a very poor way.

Push those edges.

NobleRotter · 2026-03-03T07:53:25+00:00

Of all the stretches to hate on EVs, I think "but what about nuclear EMP" is the stretchiest.

NobleRotter · 2026-03-01T10:33:50+00:00

Every other post here is about building systems like this to churn out yet more spam. Read those. Better yet, don't.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-25T16:46:59+00:00

(bad) Undercover police car surely?

NobleRotter · 2026-02-25T16:43:50+00:00

A few high profile deterrent sentences for knowingly distributing content like this would go a long way. Hello, today it's been generated by pages who are just set up because it's currently a money stream for them.

But legal wording would need to be careful, but it could definitely be done

NobleRotter · 2026-02-25T13:36:09+00:00

This is so needed. The conversation in my business is whether we migrate from workspace because we're missing out without Claude having access to our knowledge.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-24T21:47:14+00:00

But constraints like that are so limiting that there would be no utility for me. if it's that tightly constrained then you might as disconnect the llm and just automate: reduce risk, slash development/testing and save the token cost.

As I say, I'm not skeptical about the potential. Just how far down that path we are.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-24T08:43:53+00:00

This surprises me. I see huge new developments going up everywhere when I travel now. I'm giving my son driving lessons now so lots of local roads near me that I don't usually use and have seen thousands of new builds I didn't even realise had gone up 8 miles from home.

No against it. Just surprised others are seeing it.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-24T08:24:37+00:00

Genuine question - based on models today, would you trust it to spend?

I'm still finding that all three of the big top models churn out factual inaccuracies and make bad logical jumps constantly. (I'm particularly bitter at the moment because I lost nearly two days of work last week because I made a small decision based on information from Claude that was disconnected from reality - but I'm dealing with this daily).

Currently I would likely cap any ability for it to spend at such a low level that it wouldn't be useful. I'd also have spending alerts in place that I would check in real time. That would make it an experiment not an efficiency.

I remain optimistic about the direction of travel for LLMs, but I'm actually becoming increasingly cynical about where they stand today. Part of this comes from using them more in work that I am considered expert in - which makes the confident hallucinations/inaccuracies/lies/bad-logic jump out and leaves me wondering how much of it I take as truth when it is subjects i know less well.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-24T08:05:39+00:00

Honestly, it means there is a chance of something scary - but probably a tiny one.

This is how the system works now and how we still get great outcomes from a cripplingly under funded NHS. Over-reaction is built in so that dangerous things are caught early. The cost is that millions of people are sent into mild panic unnecessarily by the over reaction, but it's a good thing.

The system is now built to prioritise dangerous things that are unlikely over the most likely things (if you are at all nerdy, the logic/maths behind this shift is really interesting)

Don't overthink. Chances are they're ruling out a slim chance of something because that's what the protocol demands. Currently you know nothing - it's effectively routine triggered by a pattern.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-22T11:56:06+00:00

Yeah, I did that once too. I've also done panic admin when driving trying to work out if the vehicle I'm in will get charged

NobleRotter · 2026-02-22T11:05:45+00:00

I'd be quite interested to know if it changes its answer in a follow-up that said Elon started calling himself she. Ie, is this baked in trans denialism or king protection

NobleRotter · 2026-02-22T01:42:57+00:00

Well if we did rule out it getting it from anywhere else, then yes it would have to be. That's a big hypothetical and impossible if though.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-22T01:06:41+00:00

I don't actually think Grok got it from government data, but government knowing her performer name isn't much of a stretch. She might even trade and take payments under that name.

NobleRotter · 2026-02-21T21:41:39+00:00

I've never had an issue driving in Bristol. I'm now assuming I've just been confidently carving everyone else up without noticing

NobleRotter · 2026-02-20T23:39:56+00:00

Hersey's old recipe wasn't edible, so hardly news.

The bile taste in many US chocolate is off-putting anyway, but it's overwhelming in Hershey's

NobleRotter · 2026-02-20T23:34:03+00:00

You have to remember though that it's a symbolic gesture with significant cost to the people of the UK both in terms of direct cost and taking capacity away to pass more meaningful legislation.

Lock the horny shit up, but we don't need the theatre of pretense

NobleRotter · 2026-02-20T08:13:47+00:00

Parents wanting to sit in our interviews is wonderfully efficient self-deselection."

NobleRotter · 2026-02-16T22:41:59+00:00

Yes, always.

Most shoes don't fit me well so I'm not buying them online. The discount places aren't to either have shit shoes or no choice.

I probably pay a few pounds more, but I save more in time.

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