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[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 13 hours ago

There have been cars that can manage it.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amphicar-president-johnson-1960s/

The Amphicar was manufactured in West Germany and first made an appearance in America at the 1961 New York Auto Show.

Originally designed by Hanns Trippel, these amphibious cars hit the US market from 1961 to 1967. Most notable for their ability to cruise on land and operate in the water, these cars were a fun new invention in the car world for that time.

One of the most famous owners of the Amphicar was President Lyndon Johnson. Those leisurely rides created the opportunity for a clever prank that Johnson enjoyed playing on his passengers.

It involved barrelling the vehicle down a hill into a lake and exclaiming to his passengers that the brakes had malfunctioned, while they had no idea the car was designed to float in water.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 13 hours ago

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/grapevine-lake-tesla-cybertruck-arrested-wade-mode-jailed/287-f60869e6-bd78-4008-9241-6e5e61a013c2

Police arrested Jimmy Jack McDaniel, 70, after he and two visitors from Germany to whom he was giving a ride became marooned near the Katie's Woods Park Boat Ramp around eight o'clock at night.

Making sure that they get the full tourism experience, I see.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

www.businessinsider.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Insider

In 2023, Business Insider shifted its organizational model, adding multiple artificial intelligence (AI) products in 2024, and reducing its staff by nearly 40% between April 2023 and May 2025.[7]

I suspect that the author is more likely to be impacted than most of the people involved.

Journalism's been having a rough time for some decades from technological change, though that predates AI as we know it today.

First


in the US, not sure about everywhere else


there was a shift away from local news towards focusing on national news. You don't need as many journalists to cover a limited number of national stories. IIRC, that started before widespread Internet adoption, but the Internet accelerated it a lot:

https://theharvardpoliticalreview.com/local-news-democracy-risk/

The appearance of news deserts across counties and communities in the U.S. has been a widespread phenomenon in recent years. But why? In an interview with the HPR, Jeremy Meserve, the Staff Producer and Archivist for the Belmont Media Center, pointed to the over-corporatization of media consumption as a cause of the decline in quantity and quality of local journalism.

The rise of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram has fundamentally changed how people consume media. Social media platforms like these have spelled the end for many local newspapers as people have shifted their media consumption priorities to more convenient options. Meserve believes that part of the downfall of local newspapers had to do with the old business model, where many local papers were free. So when social media emerged, people stopped reading, as social media platforms provided faster and equally free media. As a result of this, newspapers lost their audience and their benefactors which led to that old business model being unsustainable.

Second, Google basically took over the ad market that a substantial amount of journalism relied on for revenue. Sure, some money came from subscriptions, but a lot of magazines and newspapers relied on their ability to put ads in front of a broad demographic's eyeballs. You don't want to pay a newspaper for relatively untargeted ads when you can pay Google, which can hit exactly the demographic that you want to advertise to.

Third, my understanding is that some stuff


like "business news" articles, where one just wants a summary of earnings reports or someone talking about the general movement of stocks and a vaguely-plausible explanation attached


became largely automatically generated some time back. This predates the LLM boom as well:

searches for an example

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/automated-earnings-stories-multiply/

The Associated Press, working with Automated Insights and Zacks Investment Research, is now automatically generating more than 3,000 stories about U.S. corporate earnings each quarter, a tenfold increase over what AP reporters and editors created previously. Here, Assistant Business Editor Philana Patterson, who has been overseeing the rollout of this process in the newsroom, gives an update on AP’s automation efforts that began last summer.

That might sound like something happening today, but...that's a story from June 2015, over a decade ago.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

roughly 3,800 internal repositories

I suppose that part of the moral here is to compartmentalize information internal to a company. Like, if you're not on the team working on X, then you probably shouldn't have repository access to X.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv06KicxKdc

Biologist: Norwegian lemmings are different to other lemmings and to other voles in that they are very, very aggressive.

BBC Narrator: Like the Vikings, these Nordic inhabitants are bloodthirsty, hairy berserkers.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it’s the ram

The reason this CPU is interesting is because it can use DDR4 DIMMs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's an interesting thought.

thinks

Tax revenue would be less-frequent, and there might be potential to create a misincentive to encourage people to unsafely drive on threadbare tires longer than they otherwise would. But I could see that being done.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

But is $130 actually fair?

Well, a flat fee doesn't take into account vehicle weight or annual mileage, which the gas tax more-or-less does. And the road maintenance cost is a function of those two things. A flat fee would penalize drivers of infrequently-driven small vehicles.

But...I suppose that gathering that data would also add some privacy concerns and costs, like the government needing to record how many miles your vehicle has traveled in a year.

EDIT: The really obnoxious thing is that everyone else is grabbing movement data on vehicles to make money off. Automakers via integrated cell radios. ALPR network operators. I assume that charging station operators do too


fast DC connections like NACS transmit the vehicle's VIN, and I'd be very surprised if charging companies aren't monetizing that data.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't think that they have much to do with the shortage one way or another. The companies described in the article aren't AI companies or even memory chip manufacturers (I wouldn't have called them "RAM makers", personally). They're companies that buy memory chips and assemble them into things like DIMMs.

EDIT: The mentioned seven companies all appear to be Taiwanese, but the American PNY is a company that also operates in this space that I could name off-the-cuff.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It wasn't called "the broccoli haircut" then, but it reminds me a lot of some haircuts from around 1990-ish, and WP says that that it's just a revival of some 1980s/1990s styles (though none of the WP examples look that close to the broccoli haircut to me, or quite like what I'm thinking of). I don't find it objectionable. It feels a little disconcerting to see so many people that look like they're out of the 1980s running around all of a sudden, I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli_haircut

During the early and mid 2010s, the permed undercuts of the 1980s and 1990s underwent a revival.[10] The trend was inspired by hairstyles popular during the New Romantic movement of the 1980s, such as mullets and shags.[6] By 2018, possibly having been popularized by rapper Little T (Joshua Tate), the hairstyle had gained recognition in the UK as the "Meet me at McDonald's haircut".[2] The hairstyle achieved media exposure after a school in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk banned pupils from possessing the style.[11][12]

During the COVID-19 lockdowns of the early 2020s, many younger Gen Z boys in the UK and United States experimented with new hairstyles at home before the barbers reopened. In 2020, Dillon Latham, a then-15-year-old TikToker, posted a clip of himself getting a perm in the style of the broccoli haircut, which prompted its early spread among teenage and tween boys. It soon became more a trend in 2021 after being worn by TikTokers such as Noah Beck, Bryce Hall, Harry Jowsey, and Jack Doherty.[5][4] That same year, it became an Internet meme and a subject of scorn online, beginning with a 4chan thread that coined the phrase "Zoomer perm" to describe it.[13]

The broccoli haircut was especially popular by 2022 and gained further attention online in 2024 when a photo of American actor David Corenswet on the set of James Gunn's 2025 film Superman showed him with what many online described as a broccoli haircut, which was mocked by social media users.[6] GQ's Alex Nino Gheciu argued that the broccoli haircut had reached its peak by 2024.[5] Also in 2024, Marie Claire's Samantha Holender called the haircut "the TikTok tween boy hallmark".[4]

EDIT: What I'm thinking of looks more like this "taper fade French crop":

To my eyes, at least, looks pretty similar.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Gotcha. Yeah, the stuff in fstab is just a convenience; it's equivalent to running a bunch of mount commands at boot. You might be able to just run "mount" again without the '-o remount" option. I was just listing that in case you were seeing some kind of errors in trying to manually mount it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada and the US see much more considerable temperature extremes than does Europe. Water moderates temperature, and in the middle of a continent, far away from the oceans, you get wider swings. Europe's basically a bunch of peninsulas.

The largest swings are in inland Asia, where you can get a really long distance from the ocean.

searches

I can't find a map I've seen before that shows summer-winter temperature difference, but here's one that shows it for a country's capital which...is a very rough approximation.

https://brilliantmaps.com/capital-temp-difference/

Being close to the poles and being further away from water.

The UK is an archipelago, so it's pretty much all near the water.

EDIT: Here's a map with more resolution data for the US


shows how the summer-winter variation grows as you move away from the coasts.

https://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/08/annual-temperature-extremes.html

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Japan recorded the highest ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, beating the previous high of 41.1 C marked in 2018 and 2020. Authorities are strongly urging people to take precautions to avoid risks of heatstroke.

The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, at 14:39, while two cities — Fukuchiyama in Kyoto and Nishiwaki in Hyogo — also recorded extremely high temperatures of 40.6 C and 40 C, respectively.

 

Some quotes that people might not expect, given their originators and the political views and groupings of the present day:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.


Karl Marx, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in London, March 1850

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.


Adam Smith, Chapter II, Book V, The Wealth of Nations

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermingling with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior. I am as much as any other man in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.


Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas debates, October 13, 1858

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