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once you have mastery, you can half ass things correctly, because you know which half of the ass you need
A city passes the Bikedel Test if there are two safe and reliable ways to get where you’re going other than driving a car.
Coming back to this, what I find lacking in most of the research and discussion about LLM use is any consideration of motivations, why people are engaged in a task, what their goals are, why they might choose to use these tools.
Inevitably many of the answers to these questions point at overarching economic dynamics that we will need to engage with if we want to mitigate the harms caused.
How to Keep Beverages Cool Outside the Refrigerator
April 25, 2012
"In the industrialized world, we know only of one way to cool beverages: place containers in refrigerators. This practice, which occurs on a massive scale, is utterly dependent on fossil fuels.
"However, people obtained the same result much more #sustainably before the advent of the Industrial Revolution. In hot, dry climates, we used porous earthenware jugs that were not only re-usable, but also kept water cool by taking advantage of natural energy sources.
"The best known example is the Spanish ‘#botijo’, an unglazed ceramic container that cools beverages by evaporation. Similar drinking containers can be found in other Mediterranean countries, as well as in Mexico (where it is known as a ‘#búcaro’) and on the Indian subcontinent (where it is called a ‘#ghara’, ‘#matka’ or ‘#suhari’).
"The ceramic water cooler probably originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, which would make it 5000 years old."
Read more:
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2012/04/botijos.html
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#Amtrak marketing department has hit this one out of the park.
I reported a gas leak in the roadway today to DTE using their hotline. (There's a smell of gas every time I bike past the same stretch of road).
No hold time, no phone tree, no AI, just a competent person asking questions. It was refreshing. Hype up AI all you want but no one is gonna put it in charge of answering the most important calls.
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