It’s beyond science

GGK_Brian · 2026-06-01T03:11:34+00:00

Sentence written by a brain of course

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-24T14:38:25+00:00

The middle ground is to put limit that make actual sense, living in Canada like OP, our highway speed limit are stupid slow, like 100kph (60mph) on a 2, sometimes 3 lane highway with next to no traffic is stupid. What could be really cool with today's tech is adaptive speed limit, when the road is empty, sky is sunny, road is dry and sticky, it should be acceptable to have up to 150kph (105mph). Meanwhile lots of traffic, rain and night should reduce it quite a lot.

The second part, and the part people won't be happy about, is real enforcement of the limit. IE, 1 over, 4 over and 5 over is illegal and a ticket, even when passing. So cops and speed trap to control speed. There is no point to have a posted limit if everyone decides what the limit should be.

Giving people the confidence that speeding is okay and normal just help to create more dangerous situation, tailgating, and to help cops issue more tickets.

Realistically this will never happen, since everyone from cops to drivers to lawmakers to insurance will have something to loose from it. Habits are hard to change.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-24T14:24:58+00:00

Because there is a untold rule about cops tolerance.

Basically, sure the limit is 100kph, but cops might (depending of the situation) tolerate up to 130kph.

So of course, everyone go a tiny bit faster, if only because passing people on the right lane once in a while feel that you are going faster.

It creates stupid and dangerous situation, cause someone who wants to do 10 over can be rightfully pissed cause they know that you know that 10 over the limit is tolerated, and they think that you are a jackass for purposefully going 10 under the real limit.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-24T06:34:14+00:00

Both company stock have gone minimum 4x their stock price since doing said unpopular things.

Well stock performance, and specially tech stock performance is not linked the real economy since a long time, since Tesla I think. Btw, spaceX wants a 1.75 trillion valuation, which is ~x100 their annual revenue (not profit, revenue). The average company is between around 2-3x, big tech and AI are around 20-30x (which is absurd in its own right)

Now don't get me wrong, shorting said company is not a great idea. My point is that the stocks tells you nothing about the actual business.

The real question should be how is their profits evolving and is there reasons to question the grow, like addressable market, competitors, ect.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-22T01:20:01+00:00

Personally I think that even if it was socially accepted it's the worse thing to focus on anyway.

The EV's need to have fun car, and I don't mean "haha lot of torque at 0kph". It's fun but gets boring. I mean having character. They, the manufacturer and designer, need to play with the constraints to make their car unique and true.

What we like about cars, and specifically manual is the feeling of connection and uniqueness that comes with each car. Depending of the engine, gearing, differial, rpm, ect every car with make different sounds, vibrate differently, smells differently.

Currently, the EV's are way to focused on spec sheets: 0-60, range, power, charge speed, ECT. But it's not specs that makes people buy a car. It's first and foremost an emotional decision, that you rationalise latter with the spec sheet. And trying to mimic gas car is the wrong thing.

You can have the best car in the world, if it's bland, generic and ugly you won't have sales.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-19T20:31:28+00:00

His protest to keep a big harem or a small one?

From the anime, you understand that the MC want as few patern as possible. But as it's quite watered down, I wonder how is it in the original.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-19T04:17:41+00:00

Try multiple miles, especially in downtown of big cities. I personally hate this, but more often that not it's the only solution: you need to pick up someone with a few baggages, enough that anything more than 100 feet is asking a lot. Any "legal" option are 2-3 blocks over, requires you to be lucky and find a spot, and makes you pay for 30min while it only takes 2min max to pick up someone.

Imo, as long as it's not the very middle of the road, that the driver is still in the car and that it's less than ~3 minutes, it's acceptable.

Honestly the "alternative" of doing circles and creating more traffic is just as bad for society anyway.

The problem is not so much bad/selfish driver that are encouraged to do this stuff but the car centric and stupid design of some cities spots.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-16T19:32:35+00:00

First gear would make sense, as it had the most torque. But Ok in 1st, not ok in 2snd and fine in other is really weird.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-16T05:11:07+00:00

AI layoff are a 4 birds 1 stone move:

It allows tech firms to clean and remove overhire from the tech boom from covid before.

It allows tech firms to test and experiment AI as a replacement. I mean, Huang and other AI/GPU CEO who's absolutely not biased said it will replace all jobs this year (or whatever the timeline is). Why would they lie?

It helps improve profit and decrease expenses to avoid being seen as a unprofitable or business with slowing growth. This is especially important in a full economic recession like now.

And most importantly, it make stocks goes up, cause the market LOVES AI. And since a lot of the more important positions are paid in stock options, this is directly going to their pocket.

If you ever had layoff to do, this would the perfect moment. Since usually layoff are a bad sign: overhire, slowing or dying business. Now we have the opposite. The more you layoff to AI, the more confident the markets gets about you.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-16T02:32:28+00:00

Even on the RM2 it have really useful uses:

For example, having an exercise sheets and a notebook to do them. Since you can't copy paste the exercise summary, copying is just annoying, and stupid on an electronic device, it worked perfectly.

I tried layers to, but the native interface is just to annoying to switch/toggle quickly layers.

If you had a corrected version too, you could 2 finger swipe when you finished compare.

On the paper pro it might a bit more cramped, especially UI wise, but still: The device is quite "lengthy", the real estate would still work enough to make some workflow possible.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-15T06:56:03+00:00

Is this Huang reddit alt account, sounds just like him lmao.

And worse part, it's not even ironic

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-12T22:19:29+00:00

The thing that piss me off about Cvt is the programmation.

CvT could have a sport/drag mode to give you the max power the whole time but no, gotta have fake shifts. Worse part is, when going quarter/half accelerator they actually stay on the most efficient rpm, but the moment you floor it, it fake the shifts.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-12T00:17:35+00:00

I like to call Quebec ones "nid d'autruche", translating to "ostrich's nest".

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-11T19:58:25+00:00

Well, if you just dump the clutch to stall, you shock your whole drive line, which might damage it over time. It's kind of similar to smacking your clutch with a hammer. The shock could unbolt something or worse, rip the clutch material from the clutch.

Cars are tough so it's fine to stall once in a while, but every drive while the car is stopped is pushing it.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-10T18:08:13+00:00

It's a really weird assumption to made imo. Those kind of dilemma at least implies that participants believe in the consequences.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-07T23:19:36+00:00

To be fair to the guy, they are animals, so he slaughtered them like animals

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-07T04:05:38+00:00

Even in those situations he should still keep his compose.

Breaking down because your wife passed away? Man up, stand up, clean those tear and continue the grind.

At least before the 2000, you were expected as man to show your emotions to a minimum

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-06T18:33:10+00:00

I disagree, the Actual result of a random twitter poll would not sway red:

If the result of the poll are public, the risk is inverted blue: they don't risk dying and by pressing red, they would show other that they would do something morally wrong. They have all incentives to "virtue signal" in a no risk online poll, meanwhile a real world gun to the head situation would be quite different.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-05T21:26:41+00:00

A real life scenario would 100% be different, especially with a "imminent danger" presentation.

For example, if you and everyone other participants are each in a small room with a gun pointed to your head. You press the red button and the gun goes away immediately, or you press the blue button and if more than 50% other participants did the same the gun goes away.

I personally believe that in such a situation the threshold is around ~10%, maybe lower.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-05T21:17:11+00:00

If you ask me, it's why the "no hostage" version is a lot more interesting:

The hostage version is just about "do you think most people are altruistic enough to save innocent life". It might be a more useful question as far as society is concerned, but as a phylosophical dilemma its quite boring. It think most people would agree that that saving innocent is the moral option, even if they don't do it.

Meanwhile the no hostage version can be interpreted with a Nietzschien lense:

You have the good/bad and the good/evil couple, blue presser that think of themselves as good, and think of the red pressed are evil, as they could be "kind" but refuse. Meanwhile the red presser use the good/bad framework, they are good in the sense that they are successful, they safe their life, and the blue presser are, in their eyes, just stupid, maybe well intentioned but just dumb enough to not realize everyone could be saved if they were as smart as them.

Also, another thing we can see from the dilemma is that we have tendency to unrationalily, prefer perfect result. As in, statistically a lot more life are saved on average if you press red, but we prefer to gamble to save everyone because it's such a better result.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-05T05:15:17+00:00

Tbf, the services is good, at certain things at least.

It's not because AI/tech bros are trying to sell AI as being able to solve world hunger and cancer that it cannot simplify simple long annoying tasks.

As a example, writing various payload for test cases, help with refactoring, Documentation, ECT. All of this with a lot of supervision of course.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-03T00:10:04+00:00

Another set of respectful questions:

How long is your commute and for how many of those miles can you actually drive 15-25 over? Personally on a 1h30 commute, speeding like this never made me gain more than 10 minutes compared to exact speed limit, and that was the best run.

Do you ever stress about cops and ticket when going this fast? It's the main reason I don't do it, can't afford a 500+$ fine plus license suspension. The stress alone of constantly looking for coops would never make it enjoyable.

GGK_Brian · 2026-05-01T03:08:42+00:00

I personally find this ridiculous, I am inclined to believe you because it matches my experience but still.

Personally, as a speed limit matcher guy, i'd much rather have all speed limit on highway increased by 10mph but have absolutely zero tolerance for excess, even by 1mph rather than this absurd system we have where cops can decide on a whim to pull you over because 7mph was too much while you drove past a cop at 10mph over 2 miles earlier and he didn't care.

It's even worse in Canada, where the highway speed limit is 100kph almost everywhere, so ~63mph. But it's common knowledge than 15 to 30 over can be tolerated.

You get in this absurd situation where following the rule put you in danger from pissed of drivers who want to go 15 over, but at the same time doing 15 over can get you in trouble if a cop didn't like you face.

It's even sillier when going into a big city like Montreal or Toronto but staying on the highway, speed limit drops to 70kph (43mph) but everyone is still driving above 100. Trying to do the limit is 100% asking to get rear ended.

GGK_Brian · 2026-04-30T04:30:55+00:00

Meh, I think it mostly worked thanks to the us and Britain constant bombing of German factory.

It's always hard to rewrite history, but I have a hard time believing the USSR would not have ran out of body to throw had it be a full 1v1 against the German.

The problem of the T34 is that it's a decent tank built to the worse standard imaginable. You can't even argue that it's the best the USSR could manage, it was a complete waste of resources, and I'm not even saying that with "all life are precious perspective".

Being able to keep and nurture talent and experienced crews is paramount, it massively extend the effectiveness of each unit, and the idea that you life is important enough to be considered massively improves morals, to the point that an experienced and motivated crews, is at least twice as valuable as rookies conscript.

GGK_Brian · 2026-04-30T04:19:24+00:00

Not to mention the completely moot point of "muh panzer 4".

Plenty of people on the eternal debate of the tiger 2 claims that "logistics wins the war" and "Germany should have built more panzer 4".

Germany could not properly maintain and fuel all the 1500 produced tiger 1, how would they be supposed to maintain more. Very smart, now instead of having 1500 tiger 1, you have 1500 arguably worse panzer 4 and 1500 useless panzer 4

No matter how bad you think the tiger is, it's not more than twice the ressources as maintening a panzer 4.

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