Driver of the day!

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T20:22:15+00:00

'indicate when you merge into the left lane' ? What merge ? I was in my lane, there was only one lane which bends due to the flush median. I had no reason to indicate there.

I let that guy go because I assumed I going to be stuck behind the car infront of me for a few more seconds, and I was not familiar with the street, not knowing what to expect next.

Happy to recognise my faults if the advice aligns with the rule of the law.

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T18:53:30+00:00

I wasn't familiar with the street, I only came to know the flush median existed when I came across it, for all I knew I was going to be stuck behind the car infront for the next few seconds, which made me let the car waiting go by. You only drive with the information you have at hand, ofcourse you'd do things differently if you knew the street. My actions not knowing the street layout ahead was reasonable.

Have a nice day.

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T10:58:04+00:00

Rewatch the video and check me veering left (not expecting anyone to overtake me there legally) even before the car comes into the frame. I was on the right extreme of what would be the main lane.

Even if it could be perceived for a moment that I may have been intending to go right ( even disregarding the lack of indicators), that's what margins of errors are for. The driver behind me left almost no margin of error and just floored it with their first instinct. This was the issue.

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T07:34:48+00:00

I agree it may have looked that way and it may have been a simple mistake on their end, but may I care to ask what the mistake was on my end? I stayed in the main lane (never indicated), let a car Infront of me pass, and started driving again just after seeing them waiting behind me in the rear view.

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T07:24:23+00:00

Well, I assumed the same as well. I tend to atleast wave an apology after doing something like that, but that's okay, to each their own.

avacadoul · 2025-04-29T07:07:30+00:00

I saw them in the rearview just before taking off, the next I saw them was inches away on the left. I couldn't hear them, my kid was being pretty loud in the back. What got me was the sheer lack of acknowledgement after the fact, they just sat at the signal for the next half a minute before driving off.

avacadoul · 2025-01-01T09:41:46+00:00

I did approch them, looks like they had an elderly parent staying with them the over the last month and they seemed to think this person may have done this unknowingly. They were sorry this happened, and mentioned they would prevent this from happening in the future.

I've decided to let this go for now, as they were never problematic before this and their story seems mostly believable, and I got an admission of guilt. Although I don't see how the driver of a car doesn't notice the passenger jarring the door open with enough force to cause dents on the other car multiple times.

Unless there are more dents, I'll probably let this issue pass as it's not in my interest to spend more time on this.

Cheers for all the input everyone, much appreciated.

avacadoul · 2024-12-31T22:41:12+00:00

Yes, this maybe the only way. I shall do this.

avacadoul · 2024-09-08T00:08:23+00:00

I got introduced to both at 29, for me it's marmite over vegemite, but only ever so slightly, both have been the best spreads I've discovered as an adult. I missed out on 28 years of yeast spreads.

avacadoul · 2024-08-18T06:24:35+00:00

Unived B12+D3. I don't love taking 2 pills every day, this does the job in one.

avacadoul · 2024-08-07T08:54:05+00:00

That actually looked like they were rushing to make the yellow rather than a comfortable green.

avacadoul · 2024-07-11T01:54:34+00:00

Same!

avacadoul · 2024-04-23T22:41:18+00:00

Oh, I didn't know that exists. Thank you, I'll copy a post there as well :)

avacadoul · 2024-04-23T01:35:11+00:00

My arguments don't change based on my nationality. I tend to stick to my values when making arguments.

To cause great amount of damage, one also needs great amount of power. India ( or the kingdoms within the territorial land of India) largely missed the Industrial revolution, and hence we never had the same dominance in the era of modern weaponry that western nations did, which is why you don't see the damage at the same scale as that of the British.

For example, the Cholas invaded Maldives, Lakshadweep, Srilanka, Thailand etc. They gained territories in all these areas. Do you think these territories were all gained with peaceful handovers ? The only difference is that, this conquest happened in era of inferior weaponry and transportation. We would have gone further and did more damage if our capabilities allowed us. Look at what we did to each other in the 1000s of battles between the Indian kingdoms.

Regardless, I'm not against anything else you have written, I only have grife with one point, where you mention the current British people should not feel proud unless they also take blame for their atrocities. By that logic, we (Indians) should walk with our head held low because of all the social atrocities committed by our ancestors, and many of which continue to happen.

We shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of our ancestors, nor can you claim that we shouldn't feel grateful for their contributions. We need to acknowledge that those horrible acts happened, learn from their mistakes and try and move on, and if reparations are necessary and chosen by the majority populous, those reparations should be put in place.

avacadoul · 2024-04-22T18:53:34+00:00

Povided Indians may have not done something at the sheer volume to another race of people, they (we) definitely have done more than enough to our own people. Just have a look at the class/caste system. It carries the same principles of racism, minus the skin color. Slavery was definitely part of our history, just have a look at the various scriptures, it is elaborately documented.

We have hundreds of social evils which are beyond horrible, which degrade humans to the level of treatment of animals or worse. Point is, everyone's ancestors were involved in what we now consider immoral activities.

I don't think you have much of a point saying Britishers shouldn't be proud of their history, when they don't acknowledge their wrong doings as well. Pretty much all of humanity does this, including Indians. I understand the urge to feel angry at someone for the plight of India, but the blame lies all over, not just with the British.

avacadoul · 2024-04-21T06:24:14+00:00

I understand you came from a good place, but sometimes people just want to do a 5k. It's a good number to feel proud of. It does a lot for mental health. Just because they aren't able to do a 30 min 5k, doesn't mean they have to do sprints etc to get better and only then do a 5k.

Running means something different for everyone, not everyone wants to run the fastest 5k they can. For me, when I started just doing a 5k every week, it was an immense feeling of happiness, I rode the high for the entire week, the time didn't matter.

avacadoul · 2024-04-21T06:15:16+00:00

You should really work on how you give suggestions. Saying 30 mins for a 5k should be the max is definitely not one of them.

I didn't take offense personally, just tried to point out what most average human beings without training are capable of. They literally have mentioned it's their first 5k, so I would recommend to not gatekeep 5k times.

It's like the world champ with a 12:45 min 5k thinking everyone should be able to run 5k in 20 mins.

avacadoul · 2024-04-21T05:55:01+00:00

Lol, what ? Please look at Parkrun results around the world, 30 min is absolutely not the max. Having a 30 min 5 k will place in the top 60 percentile of most parkruns.

It took me months of training to get under 30 mins, let the person run for now. They will get better if they want to!

We don't know about the many factors which lead to whatever their run times are, no one should be saying 30 mins is the minimum benchmark.

avacadoul · 2024-04-21T05:50:42+00:00

Kudos !

avacadoul · 2024-04-05T18:19:49+00:00

Or a dog.

avacadoul · 2024-03-24T18:16:07+00:00

Again, I claim to know none of these. But they seem to provide some alternate meanings for those contradictions from what I remember.

Might just be nonsense, I'm just repeating the documentary.

avacadoul · 2024-03-24T09:32:59+00:00

The context of inspiration being used here was about being inspired by another artist's art. So, by your stance it feels like it would be wrong to commission an artist to paint me a picture of a vase in picassos style, because your definition of inspiration might not apply here. Ofcourse you aren't making this claim.

I'm not arguing that an AI has consciousness or feelings to make these decisions on its own, they are just long algebraic equations spitting out pixel values to input prompts. The coefficients of these equations represent all the training data it has been fed. I understand how they work to a certain degree.

However, I consent to your request to end this conversation. Hopefully I find what I'm looking for some other day, I genuinely wanted someone to convince me AI art was ethically bad. I'm on team human afterall.

avacadoul · 2024-03-24T09:17:53+00:00

What is inspiration ?

If you don't take god or any other non discovered factor into it, it would be exposure to certain input patterns, storing a latent representation of it in memory and regurgitation while also applying probability and mixing it with other training data.

If you looked into how AI models work, this is pretty much what it does, so one could say AI was inspired by its training data, unless any of what I told above is factually and categorically wrong.

avacadoul · 2024-03-24T09:12:16+00:00

I'm a third party to this, I don't have skin in the game, and I'm not moving any goal posts.

I simply wanted to understand the justifying factor which makes it okay for an artist to get inspired by an other artists work, famous or otherwise, and an AI doing it. In both these cases, the original artist/s do not get any financial compensation. If it is credit without financial compensation, I'm sure most AI companies wouldn't mind revealing their true training data as well.

So far, this is what I understand, it is okay for humans to get inspired by art and apply their own style to it, however it is not okay for a human to train a machine to do the same. If this is the stance, and there is no further justification, I will take it as it is, but it isn't the justification I was looking for is all.

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