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It's pretty easy to control the air flow inside a tunnel if you install good exhaust fans. Might get a bit wind-tunnel-y for a while, but they should be able to get any toxic fumes out without anyone having to breathe them. A road tunnel needs good ventilation even in non-emergency situations, because the crap ICE vehicles put out in the course of normal operation is going to continue to be an issue for a while yet.

Also what happens when a cybertruck catches fire down there, won’t that kill a lot of people?

While I don't expect Ford to learn from the past, in the hypothetical event that the tunnel were to make it as far as the detailed-engineering-drawing stage, I would hope that the engineers would have heard of the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, the Caldecott Tunnel fire, the Channel Tunnel fires, and so on, and be able to incorporate appropriate safety setup. Actually, a cybertruck catching fire would be a minor problem compared to a commercial transport full of flammable liquid doing the same—that's usually the big killer in road tunnel fires.

There are more hoops involved—stuff Windows 10 with your Adobe software in a VM with no Internet connection and you should be okay even after Win10 stops getting security updates—but it isn't quite impossible for you to migrate everything else and have one or two specific Windows programs too. Granted, you may not have the time and energy to go that route.

I was in the French-language Ontario school system until the end of Grade 8, and I cannot recall that we ever used the formal "vous". As in, it wasn't used (in class or in general in that primarily Francophone town) or taught, and the one time it came up in classwork at some point late in elementary school, it was so abnormal that the teacher had to explain it.

Edit: I've been thinking about it since I wrote the above, and I've realized that there may have been an additional wrinkle: the town's majority language was French, but its prestige language was English. So someone speaking to their boss's boss would probably have done so in English (with widely variable degrees of fluency), not French. Under those circumstances, it makes sense that the more respectful speech registers in French had mostly vanished. The teachers were pretty much all of local extraction, so they weren't likely to be surprised by the local dialect.

Does it matter to the humans interacting with the LLM whether incorrect information is the result of a bug or an intentional lie? (Keep in mind that the majority of these people are non-technical and don't understand that All Software Has Bugs.)

If the bail system is broken, part of the reason is that we don't have enough facilities to house individuals accused of violent crimes who are awaiting trial. There are two ways to fix this: clear the backlog by appointing more judges, thus freeing up some space, or build more jails.

The current Premier hasn't made a real attempt to do either. He's just whining because he's butt-hurt that people don't agree with him about the value of bike lanes.

(No, I didn't vote for him. Yes, I did vote in the recent provincial election.)

He was a candidate to head the party at one time, but they decided on Singh instead. Now he's too tired to try again. But I do wonder about the parallel universe where things turned out the other way around.

Dude, apparently unlike you, I remember Usenet, which uses precisely the sort of system you're describing, in its heyday. That means I've also seen discussion groups implode because they couldn't get rid of a single bad actor. Killfiles alone aren't enough, even when combined with community naming-and-shaming. Someone always lacks self-restraint and engages. That encourages the bad actor(s). They post more, often using multiple sockpuppets to get around people's killfiles and flood out legitimate discussion. Newcomers to the group see masses of bad actor spam and fail to stick around. The lack of new blood kills the group.

Self-moderation simply doesn't work. Yes, bad moderation happens and I've seen plenty of examples. But no overarching moderation is also the kiss of death.

Anyone who thinks you can have both absolutely no restraint on speech and an environment that isn't a cesspit hasn't seen what humans do in an environment that has absolutely no restraint on speech. Constructive discourse requires that there be someone to moderate and throw out the trolls, the spammers, and that guy who, wherever he goes, preaches about the effect of weather conditions inside the hollow earth on the lizardmen who select US presidential candidates.

The charter and some other items of historical significance belong in a museum. Items of Indigenous origin should be offered back to their tribes of origin if possible. They can auction the Barbie dolls, though.

Because modest returns don't attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).

Only 30%? Or are you assuming that the remaining 70% would be so revolted at the idea that they wouldn't buy it?

I think the equivalent in Canada would be an order-in-council, which is reserved for the GG rather than the PM (and therefore is normally never used). Technically, the US President's function in government is most similar to the GG's in Canada, but for historical reasons the duty of being the public face of Canada to outsiders has landed on the PM here even though the PM is not really our head of state.

All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I'm sure it could be done, but most people couldn't do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it's in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I'd guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn't seem like it would work for this printer.

Maybe part of the job of these specific officers is outreach, and they think staging a silly photo contributes to that. Or they could be waiting for something/someone else, and thought this was more interesting than just standing around talking about the weather. Or maybe they were indeed doing this after or before work, or while not on the clock for other reasons. Truth is, you don't know any more than I do. And to be honest? Even if they had no excuse, how much pay do you really think they would have collected in the five minutes it took them to stage the shot?

(Sorry, but it annoys me when people expect perfect efficiency from others. Hardly anyone is actually doing work every single second when they're at work, and if you are, I'd advise you to ease off before you burn out. That applies to cops as well as everyone else.)

Since the total cost would be under $20 (for the snacks—everything else they would have had already or picked out of the trash), even at current ridiculously high grocery prices, I'm not overly concerned about that aspect.

Interesting, but not terribly useful unless you have a separate, likely electronics-driven, machine to punch plastic sheets for it (or have a pre-existing sheet defining something you want to replicate a bazillion of). It's an ingenious but very niche machine.

It's Complicated? It's possible that if a teen commits an offence heinous enough to be tried as an adult, they'd also be sent to an adult prison. There won't be under-twelves in a prison of any sort, since they can't be held criminally responsible for their actions under Canadian law. Teens guilty of sex crimes certainly do get thrown in with other teen criminals (and often aren't adequately monitored and reoffend while they're on the inside).

But in this case, I think whatever idiot posted the message meant "there might be kids in houses next door to the prison". Which begs the question: how many prisons and jails are actually in residential areas? I'd bet it's uncommon, but not unknown.

What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

Did PP's wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🤣