Being able to draw what you can describe, or steal from prior art, isn’t a solution to real world challenges. The hard part is coming up with novel design solutions.
On top of this good design requires control of every line and curve (G2, G3, radius?)
The things these tools do for you and don’t allow you to easily control ruin their work.
If you do manually edit the output for precision they aren’t actually providing any value.
The point is that a single company is making a deliberate effort to create a false impression about a technology which is now a key part of the US economy.
This is equivalent to overt stock market manipulation.
The technological aspects are much less important than knowing it’s the result of a single company.
That the company is Israeli and likely has ties to that government is just another layer of alarms - given that countries existential reliance on US aid which requires ongoing leverage to apply to US governments.
It would be naive to think that someone is doing this “to” those companies. They are not children, and they know exactly what they’re doing. They’ve repeatedly used the strategy of telling everyone how their models are too powerful to release to the public, shortly before launch. This is just another flavor of the same thing.
Not a civil engineer but as far as I know, the space is part of the point. If you keep the roads straight but just draw a circle in the middle, you don't have a roundabout. It only works properly if the drivers have to curve in and out of it.
You could keep the same space I guess by pinching the roads tighter near the entries/exits but I don't think anyone is talking about that.
I contest that drivers always treat it the same. They often go through the circle/cut th corner when there is low traffic, and I know at least one mini roundabout where traffic is way less frequent in one direction and the other direction is treated as the "main road" without slowing down.
> You can draw a circle on the road and have “roundabout rules” without the need for any car to even turn their wheels.
If it's physically possible to "skip the roundabout", if it's just a drawing rather than hard barriers, people here (Spain) will just skip it straight up, unless there is a ton of traffic. I think lots of these driving rules and infrastructure has to take local culture into account, as it differs from "We follow laws like our collective lives depend on it" to "We see laws more like suggestions" depending on the country.
That approach fall down flat on nontrivial traffic amounts. Also it requires an actual hindrance in the middle to enforce compliance, and then bigger vehicles won't be able to turn left.
For example, the one at [0] regularly sees bendy buses[1] traverse it without any issues. The trick is that there's an outer ring of asphalt and an inner layer of paving stones: cars the asphalt as it is far more comfortable to drive, but longer vehicles like buses and trucks can let their rear wheels ride over the raised paved area as well.
And yes, it works the same when they are completely round instead of oval - this just happened to be the first clear example I came across.
I don’t think it’s trying to distill life in the way you say. It’s the opposite. It’s impossibly thin slices of lives, the length of a conversation at a bus stop, which accrete meaning over the episodes.
You are constantly reminded of what you only know because of earlier episodes, and how much goes unsaid.
It’s something only empathy can make sense of and it challenges the viewer to empathize across time and culture.
The class resonances mean it’s a different experience when watched as a British person too.
It's not hero worship to think he knew what a customer was. It's pretty basic, and given he won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he probably knew more than the basics.
If your heart rate has been in the 40s for years your cardiovascular system is at the peak of what’s possible. It’s not “pretty good”. A resting heart rate in the 30s is the kind of thing Olympic distance runners touch on. You are either exaggerating or your assessment of what’s normal is way off. Most very fit people have resting rates in the 50s and 60s.
Or, like me, who has never been a runner, a heart rate in the 30's can mean that you have heart block, an electrical problem with your heart where beats are gradually spaced further apart and then there is a longish delay before a reset. In a recent 2-week heart monitor test, my longest delay was 3 seconds and I had 4 of these. There are different types of heart block: mine is type 1 Mobitz/Wenckebach. Not really dangerous - I've had it all my life and known about it for ~35 years. It shows up on all of the modern automatic heart/blood pressure machines because the delays cause unusually low readings whereas a nurse checking your pulse may miss it.
My average heart rate on the test was 58, lowest was 21 (for 3 seconds), and highest was 250 (for 6 beats). A few minutes after getting in bed, my heart rate regularly is in the 40s and sometimes low 30s.
I never implied my cardio fitness was poor, just that some metrics are relatively better than others. My RHR (currently 47-48 per various fitness trackers) has always been pretty elite. I don’t think about it and it doesn’t change much except in response to stress.
I’m more interested in getting into the 90+ percentile range on the cardio metrics where I’m closer to the average. I don’t obsess over it, it is just interesting to see how different activities that I was going to do anyway move the needle.
A better result at lower cost would come by making the entire piece from wood. You would need a few handtools and nothing else. Plenty strong and totally gap free.
Plus the huge bonus of acquiring some woodworking skills if you don’t have them.
They now claim that any area with a sufficient large number of people they deem are “terrorists” is a legitimate target.
They use that to “legitimately” target villages, hospitals and schools.
These are crimes. The point of defining war crimes is to compel state not to take “opportunities” at the cost of innocent lives. It’s never okay.
The irony of course being that Israel deeply embedded me military facilities in cities and civilian areas itself.
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