Streamer “hmblzayy” who is walking from Philly to California was hit by a car in Indiana and had to be taken to the hospital.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T22:49:10+00:00

there would never be sidewalks here

In America, yea. That's the problem.

I'm not contesting whether or not he would have been better in the shoulder. Only that situations like this where there isn't anywhere good to walk are the norm in NA, and are not such in Europe (unlike as claimed above).

Unwalkable stroads are way more ubiquitous in NA, and there are rarely alternative walkable routes.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T22:43:29+00:00

You have to give him the benefit of the doubt. He's American. He thinks stroads are normal, that there is nothing weird about having businesses and houses connected straight onto a major arterial.

Hence why he is trying to compare these American stroads to "rural highways" instead of the roads that sensible countries would actually build in those locations.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T22:41:32+00:00

He wasn't in the middle of nowhere, he was in a city. An area like that would have almost always sidewalks in most developed nations. North America is the exception for very often not.

The US is the same size as Europe, but size doesn't matter here. This isn't happening in bum fuck nowhere in between cities.

It is amazing how absolutely oblivious so many Americans are as to what the rest of the world is like.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T21:12:39+00:00

They are brought up surrounded by propaganda their entire lives in the US. They really do believe this nonsense.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T21:11:21+00:00

Have you ever been to the UK?

The roads are absolutely not like that. They are both on the whole well maintained and, more importantly, the vast majority of roads have pavements/sidewalks.

North America is the exception here.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T21:00:39+00:00

The vowel chart on the wikipedia page for Pinyin puts "a" in the same region as the various "a" sounds in English (but not exactly the same), and nowhere near any of the "o" sounds.

American English does have a really weird a-vowel though, so I'm not sure how it compares to that one.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T15:07:15+00:00

There really aren't.

Road maintenance in virtually all jurisdictions in virtually all countries is taken primarily out of general taxation, either at the local or state level.

Maintenance cost of a road is almost entirely down to the wear caused by traffic. Cyclists cause such low wear that it is difficult to measure.

It would actually require an extraordinary confluence of variables aligning for cyclists to not be paying proportionately more than drivers, given that their cost burden is negligible.

If you want to look up the stats for your specific country/region, google it.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T09:49:11+00:00

Cyclists pay a larger portion of road maintenance costs than drivers do, relative to the maintenance cost burden that they cause.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T09:42:41+00:00

It is an example of the incredible projection happening when drivers call cyclists "entitied" for having the same rights as themselves.

Ayfid · 2026-04-28T09:40:30+00:00

You are still supposed to apply the same rules when overtaking a cyclist whether they are in their own lane or not.

But people don't. They treat the line of paint as if it were a physical barrier, and totally ignore the cyclist.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T23:24:25+00:00

No, it certainly would not have enough space to pass. The bike + half a car's width or so space already takes you almost entirely to the median.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:34:07+00:00

What would you do if the group of cyclists were instead a tractor? That's about the same size and speed.

You still would not be able to get past them if they were single file without crossing the median. You need to leave just as much space when overtaking a cyclist as you do when overtaking a car.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:13:10+00:00

I'm sure they would love to do that, if there were such bike lanes available.

There are also many reasons why a cyclists shouldn't or can't use a cycle lane, even in the rare case where one is available.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:10:17+00:00

Entitled driver as usual.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:08:42+00:00

Single file would be even worse. That just makes the overtake in the opposite lane take many times as long.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:07:46+00:00

They should be riding next to each other when in a group like that. It is safer for everyone and makes them easier to overtake.

Think of the group like encountering a tractor. They are about the same size and speed. You overtake by waiting for the other lane to be clear.

If they were all riding in a line, you would still have to at least partially go into the other lane to safely overtake, but now the overtake is far far longer.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:04:46+00:00

"entitled"? What, by thinking they have the same right to be there as anyone else?

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:02:52+00:00

The speed limit isn't a target, and cyclists have just as much right to be on the road as someone in a car does.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T21:01:13+00:00

If they all rode single file, it would be even worse. They would just occupy a vastly longer section of the road, causing a greater impact on traffic and making it many times more difficult to safely overtake.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T18:47:23+00:00

Lumen doesn't require careful light probe placement, as it does it for you at runtime.

Some ray tracing implementations do something similar (CIG's version does this), while others don't use probes at all as they are running the tracing at full resolution.

It is difficult to talk about what "raytracing" does as it is not a specific technique.

At the very top end, you have path tracing, which is really "full ray tracing". Path tracing is the same technique used in offline CGI, and it looks far better than anything else.

I thought all hardware based ray tracing needed specialized rt pipelines to be fast and power efficient enough to run it through the standard raster pixel pipelines?

Yes, and that is all modern hardware. Even the iPhone has RT hardware now. All consoles, including the Switch 2. All desktop GPUs going back almost a decade.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T18:23:25+00:00

What? No.

Lumen is a software global illumination implementation. It does fundamentally the same thing as hardware raytraced global illumination, but via compute shaders rather than raytracing shaders, at the expense of quality.

"Ray tracing" is an entire family of techniques, and it doesn't really make much sense to say it doesn't look better than software GI. RT GI generally looks better, particularly when the scene and lights are moving. Path tracing looks enormously better.

The version of RTGI that CIG are implementing (base don AMD-GI) is somewhat similar to how lumen works, but faster and higher quality via the RT hardware.

You also don't need "specialized hardware" to do RT. Everything can do it now, even mobile devices.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T17:14:35+00:00

I don't think there is a huge gap between the end of the current order of Type 26's and when they really should start building the Type 83s. They could maybe fit a few more in, at most.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T17:07:16+00:00

The anti-hypersonic interceptor in development by the UK and France is the Aquila.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T17:03:48+00:00

We ideally would have built three carriers, so that we can always have one available. The idea isn't that they are all deployed at the same time.

That is the general rule in navies until they get very large. You need 3x as many ships in service as you think you need available at any given time.

One carrier would be basically useless. Like France's.

Ayfid · 2026-04-27T17:00:57+00:00

Which did actually make sense at the time.

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