I think it’s a joke

Didn’t see the “one of the” there and was about to lose my faith in humanity.

Even more.

Given that you yourself are remembering him, you can’t wait until you die / have dementia?

I changed my mind

No. You give 2 Months.

No, AI means AI

Corporations came up with AGI so they could call their current non-AI AI

It’s a LLM. Not an AI.

I was going to downvote you when I realized

Yeah, that isn’t a important distinction in a discussion about power button locations

He really is pedantic

Awful to self-host (resources, administration) and rolling their own crypto

On the UX-Side it’s too complicated to explain to my parents.

I’d love for it to succeed, but for now I’ll just stick woth Signal

That’s not what exactly happened, but yes.

Stockholm Syndrome (if it exists) is not what happened at the Event it was named after

Everyone else is allowed to do it, so why not them too? China, Russia, Brazil, Mali.

No wonder the poor western democracies feel left out!

The topic of slavery should be treated with respect

oh lighten up, jeez

Kind of a stretch, comparing a Cybertruck to symbols of oppression, division and slavery, isn’t it?

Feels disrespectful to all those that suffered under the DDR/Slavery, don’t you think?

It couldn’t be banned because it was never approved in the first place

Wait, what?

Since when is vandalism a good thing?

https://lemmy.world/c/homeassistant

I always make sure my appliances are comatible, and so should everyone.

If the tracks are used as the wires

They’re not. Swiss rails are extra made so that you can walk over them. All electricity goes overhead for security reasons. If anything, they would probably tap into this overhead-grid.

cleaning & maintenance

possibly. But I can very easily imagine specialized trains cleaning them once every day

vandalism

not really a problem here in switzerland

modifying the track to limit the conductive paths (assuming they’re used for this).

They’re most likely not used for this. All electricity is overhead for security reasons, routing solar energy through the rails would destroy that. Doing that (beyond the 100m test-track) would mean a prolongued political discussion.

“just”

bastard?

you’re absolutely right. this is a stupid solution for a stupid problem. But you’re also right that this is a product for a special subset of people that need this and whom this works for.

Both can be true.

That’s the nice thing about capitalism (free market economics actually): You don’t have a authority that decides what is useful and useless, what gets produced and what doesn’t. Because in the End, everything is useless. I have a robotvac because I’m too lazy to vacuum myself. Stupid and Lazy. I have a Vacuum cleaner because I’m too lazy to use a Broom. Stupid and Lazy.

So yes, it’s both. Stupid solution to a stupid problem. But it’s also a great product that solves a problem that a subset of our population has and therefore useful.

Uber

Airbnb

Bitcoin?

LLMs?