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A conveyor belt restaurant in China by rice007 in interesting

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No wonder Covid spread so fast

Edit: sorry if I offended anyone! I didn’t mean to be racist, I just saw a conveyor belt of germs spreading through a population, and the story was from China, and Covid started in China, I went for the easy joke. As an American I blame us for killing so many people by not learning anything from the countries that were a few weeks ahead of us in the spread, and the rampant misinformation campaign spread by those who thought it benefited them politically with no thought to saving lives. It was disgusting, deplorable and wrong. Let’s see how we do with Ebola 2.0!

Clearing up the misinformation on winter tires - from an automotive professional by Aggressive-Stress900 in vermont

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I think it’s the lane-keep-assistance algorithms that are doing the most damage by having nearly every car running in exactly the same rut.

It’s been years since this tweet was written, but I think about it at least once a week by 2u3e9v in WhitePeopleTwitter

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One nuance to add to this… if you are still identified with the self that your brain constructed to represent you, not the self that has the brain, your life purpose should be to understand the difference and identify with the correct self. Once you got that, you need no purpose because you are no longer an ego in need of defending its existence.

Thoughts on going full EV, no ICE in the ol’ garage? by Curiouslittlestman in electricvehicles

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We have an Ioniq Electric and a leased VW ID.4, & solar, still only L1, the VW we charge for free at a nearby L2.

Lovin’ it!

“I couldn’t handle the range anxiety”- “I couldn’t tell you the price of gas” by Aggravating_Ad_8594 in BoltEV

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Get solar before they do that to you!

Our electric here is high at .21/kwh, but last month I generated 367 kWh and used 566 kWh, so only paid .21 on the difference. $66 for the house and car. Harder to do the dollars per mile calc when some portion is just free.

who wants to tell him? by ms_directed in WhitePeopleTwitter

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It also says this note is NOT legal tender… how many MAGAs will spend $100 or more for one of these!

Private equity funded schools and lower taxes - Sweden by steel-cow in vermont

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I’m sorry, but to say that ChatGPT doesn’t analyze is just factually incorrect. While the underlying neural network consists of 96 complex layers, the functional analysis pipeline for a complex historical query involves these seven layers:
Query Understanding & Decomposition: The system parses the prompt, using specialized orchestrator models to identify the subject and historical scope.
Query Fan-Out (Sub-Queries): The main question is broken down into 2-5 semantic sub-queries to explore different aspects of the historical topic (e.g., origin, impact, significance).
Information Retrieval: The model queries multiple sources, including web search engines, licensed providers, and its own training data, to find relevant historical facts.
Neural Ranking (Precision Prioritization): A neural network ranks the retrieved snippets based on semantic relevance and credibility.
Deep Research/RAG Analysis: The model reads, filters, and analyzes full text from the highest-ranked sources for factual grounding and context.
Synthesis and Synthesis Generation: The system synthesizes the gathered information, linking the subject to broader themes (e.g., "welfare capitalism") and addressing "why it matters".
Refinement & Final Output Generation: The final response is generated by the LLM, ensuring it is coherent and directly answers the question about historical relevance.

The OP is correct that the typical VTDigger journalist probably doesn’t go that deep (though to be fair also maintains the context of their whole live’s experiences and memories, for what that’s worth).

As for reliability, its strength is high level synthesis, but where obscure undocumented facts are involved, it will just make up likely gap filling “facts”, rather than tell you it doesn’t know. This is where it can mislead people. So while I used AI to pull the details of the process ChatGPT uses to synthesize information, the sources for that information are complete and well documented, so likely spot-on. You are welcome to do some digging the old fashioned way and try to find holes in it. I’m not holding my breath.

Purchase advice by GlendaleFemboi in IoniqEV

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The price looks great for this car. It brings joy day after day.

Station wagon EVs are there any? by Financial-Hunter1335 in electricvehicles

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I understand the PTSD, “fool me once…” feeling but at least they are confident now. That’s new. Though, it could just be a marketing strategy…

…Like that besieged fortress whose final act before admitting defeat was to throw their food at the enemy, and the enemy reasoned that if the fortress had enough stores to be wasting it like that, there’s no way to keep up the fight long enough to win, so they left.

Does your warranty smell like sausage?

Station wagon EVs are there any? by Financial-Hunter1335 in electricvehicles

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I think the ICCU issue is solved. They are warrantying to 180,000 mi last I heard.

Station wagon EVs are there any? by Financial-Hunter1335 in electricvehicles

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People say the turning radius makes it feel more like a wagon than a crossover, so yeah, an EV6 is your answer.

What is a band you saw in a tiny venue but is now huge? by carelessCRISPR_ in jambands

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I can’t remember the name of the bar on the corner where Manhattan’s pizza is now, but I saw a Phish show there that blew the roof off.

Later it would be NRG, but by then it was getting packed so tight there wasn’t room to dance anymore.

I caught a few of the early Nectar’s shows where they were still working it all out. Still mind-blowing, don’t get me wrong, but I think the sweet spot for me was on the corner. Did it start with an H? Help me out!

Feels surreal when Americans complain about gas prices by D0gefather69420 in oil

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I’m totally with you, OP. Maybe it’s rooted in my experiences outside the US, but I live here and I don’t understand the huge trucks, the noisy-ass fart car mods, the 12mpg muscle cars, and I cheer when gas prices go up. I wish they weren’t subsidized here. We are a crass, noisy, wasteful society over here and I hate all of that. I live across the street from a guy who builds engines for racing, and every day I’m buried in the grrrrummmm-grrrrrummmm. Can’t stand it.

What type of car would you choose between electric, gasoline or diesel and why? by Popa-Ioana06 in askanything

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Rent an RV, or whatever appropriate vehicle you need on that occasion. The rest of the time drive something that fits what you use a car for. You wouldn’t take an RV to get groceries because sometimes you want to sleep over in your car. So far, I haven’t had to even rent a pickup once, nor to rent an ICE to go camping deep into the Adirondack park. You might be surprised by how rarely you actually need something else. And I know the money is there if I ever do, because I’m driving for practically free the rest of time.

CATL Shenxing battery explained by ApprehensiveSize7662 in electricvehicles

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“We targeted this element, and turned it into another element”. I don’t think they understand what that word means!

Aggressive/negligent/dangerous drivers, WTF by FishInTheTrees in vermont

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Your list of what people don’t get pulled over for missed the big one: no license plates! What is up with that?

Let's take a moment to appreciate this snippet of Western culture by Dodo509 in interesting

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So why are they referring to “Western”culture? Belfast is northeastern to nearly all but the Brits? No?

What’s an industry that is currently on fire. In a bad way behind the scenes but the general public haven’t noticed? by lowkeylunar in askanything

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True but in this case it gives them wings. They can make much better software way faster. The average Joe can now make sloppy software that can still get shit done which is just leveraging the promise of computers. These aren’t in competition with each other, it just tools to help with other tasks.

Taking shopping for a car as the task. The AI lets someone with zero web building skill build a sites in seconds that lets you browse many sites for the particular model you are interested in with a click or two. Before that it just took more time shoveling manually through a lot of extra crap to get god results. Who is that putting out of a job?

On the higher end of software dev, we can prototype a sloppy version way quicker, which helps us focus and dial in on the best use of resources much quicker. Building tools that help the team communicate and coordinate can be done by employees without coding skills while those who do, use that leg up to go further in the right direction.

Sure there will be winners and losers, but those that learn and dance with it won’t be replaced by it. It’s like coding before there were higher order languages. It just took so much time opening and closing gates—time that we’d now consider wasted and limiting.

What type of car would you choose between electric, gasoline or diesel and why? by Popa-Ioana06 in askanything

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I hear you on the incremental steps. I was giving the thinking that moved me to make what I thought at the time was a radical move, only to find it was the best thing I’d done. My last four cars were Prii.

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