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What do you do when your rear tyre gets a flat?

Same thing you did sixty years ago when your Cadillac got a flat: take the cover off the wheel well.

https://photos.classiccars.com/cc-temp/listing/165/1814/3484...


These were so fun to drive.

1973 had some of the longest Cadillacs in decades.

Not everybody was aware at the time, but the turning radius was actually smaller than the Volkswagen beetle.

Not the turning radius of the whole car, just the wheelbase ;)


I’ve not looked it up, but I’d venture to guess that a ‘73 Fleetwood was one of the longest cars made. And, as you alluded to, absolutely bonkers length from wheel center to each bumper.

Our Hyundai has the opposite problem. Because the flat battery pack allows the wheels to be shoved to the corners, it looks smallish but has a longer wheelbase than Hyundai’s large Palisade SUV. Which makes it a pig to park.


No different than the front tire, same thing as any modern car which does not carry a spare tire either.

The panel over them called a fender skirt comes off usually, this is far from the first car with skirts or spats. They used to be quite popular.

Presumably the faring panel comes off, just like on an early-model Honda Insight

Very bleak. I think like most people, I would prefer for stories not to be written by AI. I value human creativity, and believe that an LLM cannot truly produce art.

This article suggests that when people are lied to that stories were not written by AI (when they actually were), they prefer them.


"Art is in the eye of the beholder" - it is me, who enjoys art and how it affects me and works with my emotions that is affected by it. Who or what the artist is, should be irrelevant, unless the artist imposes some monetary value I want to profit from at some point.

I don’t think the artist should be irrelevant - the art is the expression of the artist’s emotions. Knowing about the artist unlocks a lot of depth in the art, it’s an attempt to share and express their perspective through creative means.

Not to say how you decide to consume art isn’t valid (there is no proper definition after all). However, you’re doing a disservice to a lot of artists by dismissing their role in it all.


> However, you’re doing a disservice to a lot of artists by dismissing their role in it all.

That is a false assumption. I do not dismiss the artist role, but I also would not be interested in the artist if their art does not move me. People generally do not know who Banksy is, but he is being defined by his art, not by his persona. That may very well happen for an AI agent sometime in the future.


It does - but does this not potentially suggest that an LLM can produce "art"?

To me "art" is the communication of something from the artist, through arrangement of reality, to the person experiencing the art.

Define art?

For practical questions, I always prefer Claude's answer to a human's. Non-narcissistic and to the point. For entertainment, I'm less impatient, although unsurprisingly, most people view reading as homework and are happier to blow through a book written at a YA level. Brandon Sanderson a'int the king for nothing.

Counterpoint: building integrations for SAP is not art.

For sure it wouldn't be a Sagrada Familia, but maybe in ballpark of a single stroke bathroom stall dick doodle.

Perhaps it's just bad art.

Not that anyone needs any validation of how dumb this all is/was, but high testosterone levels don't necessarily mean you're going to be a burly muscly macho man. https://youtu.be/1162ouPHH3Q?si=ZAy5vo3loo0EfYbu&t=84


Ctrl-F load-bearing. 1 hit.


> A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic

Good God I am sick to the back teeth of the neutral aesthetic. If you're going to spend all that money, can we have some _opinionated_ typefaces please? Especially against the backdrop of AI making everything look and feel exactly the same everywhere, the last thing anybody needs is another neutral, characterless, soulless typeface.


There's something so ... bland about this typeface. I get no feeling from it whatsoever. It's like the textual embodiment of the AI conversational style.


Its very boring. This trend started with the Nazis taking away Fraktur. Bland typefaces=nazism (this is what Adorno would say probably).


I definitely agree with your sentiment in general. However, I'll note that I find this sans serif to have a nicer feel than many I see these days (even among humanist ones) and it's cool that they've managed to achieve that while being acceptably inoffensive for mainstream use


I thought the picture on your home page was very cool, and then I moused over it. Absolutely incredible.


The 3Blue1Brown video on holograms is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4


Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.


> "Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."


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