[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

“In 2016, the Green Party played an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump,”

They'll blame anything other than the facts of Hillary being unlikable and Wasserman-Schulz being incompetent. Johnson took 3x as many votes from the Republicans as Stein took from the Democrats. In the end, Hillary was an electoral dud and Wasserman-Schulz' mishandling of the primaries led to faithless electors.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

The reptilian conspiracy theory can be considered at least antisemitism-adjacent, which makes its popularity with respect to Zuckerberg... interesting.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

You cannot just make it Smart iTraffic 3D without removing the major challenge from the game. Fixing some bugs and not having traffic that dumb like in the 1st game would be appreciated though.

AFAIK the way it worked in the first game, the pathfinding was a simple A* algorithm that used only the length & speed limit of each link in the network to determine the shortest path. The way this video makes it sound, travel time will be the most significant factor, which means traffic will make a difference in the pathfinding. Then they're also introducing factors related to the individual cim's need for parking, comfort, and risk-taking. It should be a lot more realistic and just as challenging, without the ridiculous situations where traffic would come to a complete standstill because everyone is taking the same route even though there are hundreds of alternative side streets to take.

As someone who's done some advanced coursework in traffic engineering, I'm pumped.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

So cims choose a route based on multiple criteria, now. That's how transportation network analysis is done IRL. AND they can turn around and reroute in the middle of a trip. Super cool.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

He claims environmental regulations are going to decimate (he must have just learned the word because he used it about 10 times) Michigan's auto industry, but Rivian manufactures in Michigan, among other places, and all the big US auto makers have electric vehicles.

He says Michigan doesn't make electric vehicles, but China does. So instead of encouraging development of products that will keep our auto industry globally competitive, he wants to eliminate regulations so auto makers can lazily continue making ICE vehicles and stagnate technologically. Real big brain stuff.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

TL;DR, they broke apart compounds produced by different processes and performed spectroscopy to determine the constituent molecules. They counted the constituent molecules to determine an "assembly index" and found that compounds produced by biological and technological processes had a characteristically larger number of constituents. The implication is that a certain level of molecular complexity is only produced by living systems.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Storm(y Daniels)

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Was playing guitar on and off for a decade and then started seriously practicing around the end of 2019. Got to the point where I was fluent enough that the melodies and chord progressions started just appearing out of the ether as I was noodling. I wrote one full song and have stubs of a few others, but now my hands have rebelled against me after 3 and a half decades of abuse. Don't know if they'll ever get back to normal, as I can't even figure out what exactly is wrong with them.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Interesting quote from the article... I'm certainly of the opinion that the fediverse is the way to go, but I've seen misgivings on lemmy about the complexity of the multiple servers. Maybe it's just an issue of unfamiliarity? Or is it truly too complicated? It doesn't seem that Byzantine to me, but then I do have a background in IT.

It started in October with a wave of defections to Mastodon, an open source, ad-free, decentralized community that was hosted on an archipelago of independent servers. For the briefest of moments, everyone seemed to agree that this brainy successor was destined to save social media. But the enthusiasm quickly waned as people struggled to navigate the platform’s sprawling “Fediverse,” and the Twitter exodus flowed elsewhere. Media obsessives gravitated toward Post, a news-heavy platform founded by Noam Bardin, the former CEO of Waze. “Mastodon is complicated and unsatisfying,” tweeted Kelda Roys, a Democratic state senator in Wisconsin. “Post could be a winner if there were a critical mass there.”

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to hear what the dealership has to say when I ask them how to access my telematics data.

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

The suffering makes it taste meatier.

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It's an interesting question and one of Rick Beato's favorite topics. He tends to lean on Spotify trends quite a bit as proof. What do y'all think?

[-] SwampYankee@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Curious about your thoughts on the Greta Van Fleet "they're a Zeppelin ripoff" stuff. I like their music and I'm hoping they are able to shake that reputation a bit. Also, apparently I've only listened to From The Fires and Anthem of the Peaceful Army, so apparently I've got some catching up to do.

Also, first post on lemmy, lets gooooooooo!

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