Well, I can take some guesses. Do you mean US residents of Indian nationality? I know this will sound racist and I don’t know if I can articulate that that’s not my intent, that I’m talking about a national/regional culture, and that none of this is inherent to any individual. Even still, I’m aware I’m an outsider and I only have a small sample of their lives. It’s based on being near a large immigrant community, talking to immigrant adults, befriending many US-born/young-when-immigrated people, and briefly traveling through India. I’m sure many aspects are derived from both pro- and anti-British movements over the centuries so its not like it’s all self-fueled. And if anyone has differening opinions based on anything tangible, I’m all ears.

If you come from a country with more prevalent misogyny and visible corruption and were in the top 20% of wealth there, it’ll skew your impression of the effects of what half the US population is considering a humanitarian crisis. The vast majority of Indians in the US come from 2, maybe 3 states (Gujarat, Punjab, and I forget the 3rd). They’re much wealthier than the other states, hence the ability to afford a $1,000+ flight (think about how 1k is a lot for us, now think of how the average Indian wage is 4kUSD/year). The absolute most common theme I’ve heard from the adult-immigrated that are outspoken politically/economically/socially is it doesn’t matter who the president/majority party is as far as social progress goes (tons of apathy) but stocks need to go up (personal gain is the primary concern). They buy into the idea Republicans boost the economy and lower taxes. Many of the matured-in-India immigrants [say they] have no qualms with going back to India if the economy tanks in the US. They’ve profited in the US and have access to the higher levels of living there. I lived like a king in a marbled hotel that cost less than my mortgage. The political apathy extends into the quasi-political/social realm as well, with Musk causing zero hesitation in them for buying the new-Gen Tesla (they’re visually distinct ~2023+). There’s also blatant racism with them against southern Indians and black people, so it’s not like the racist ideology of Republicans upsets them.

This is far from the impression I’ve gotten from the majority of US-born/immigrated-young Indians I’ve met. My circle probably has bias about their social leanings since it’s probably a moderately successful, reasonably diverse circle. I’ve met several that lean to the right, but that’s just as common for any milktoast white guy when they feel the social welfare system is robbing them of individual success. That’s the whole platform, isn’t it? They’re being robbed? Regardless, I’m proud of being part of a very diverse area because it shows that origin culture is the most defining part of a person’s personality. Race has overlap, but it’s not a defining feature. Not at all. No wonder cities go left. Throw a mix of people in tight quarters and you realize we’re all getting fucked and your ancestry doesn’t mean shit.

Tangent: The prevalent origin-states of Indian immigrants makes me think about how skewed the world must be about Americans. I understand the US likely is more global presence in the news/social platforms to spread our interior culture, but I wonder how New Yorkers and Californians skew the world’s impression of the average American in other cities.

Blow horn please stop ok Awaz kado / awazdo

I take it you’re also reading the back of the trucks, too. My experience is West Bengali. Honk to tell car you’re approaching. Honk to tell car you’re next to them. Honk to tell them you’ve passed. Honk at scooter. Honk at crosswalk. Honk at turn. Honk at red light. Honk at green light. Honk at any car in front of you. Drive on shoulder. Drive on walking path. Honk at pedestrians. Honk at train. Honk at bus.

Oh no

The buses

Fuck

deDeDEDede deDeDEDede deDeDEDede alllll fucking night. Sequential 3-tone horns in any sequence. My hotel faced the highway.

I can deal with aggressive driving. The horns made me sorely miss the inoffensive chaos of Mexico.

Hopefully, it told you that’s not a sign of a worn clutch. Assuming no computer interference and purely mechanical effects, then that’s a sign the clutch is dragging. A worn clutch would provide more of an air gap with the pedal depressed than a fresh clutch. If you want to see a partial list of potential causes, see my reply to the other comment that replied to you.

Your questions are still not proof that LLMs are filling some void. If you think of a traditional encyclopedia, of course it’s not going to know what the colors of one manufacturer’s sandpapers mean. I’m sure that’s answered somehow on their website or wherever you came across the two colors in the same grit and format. Chances are, if one is more expensive and doesn’t have a defined difference in abrasive material, the pricier one is going to last longer by way of having stronger backing paper, better abrasive adhesive, and better resistance to clogging. Whether or not the price is necessary for your project is a different story. ChatGPT is reading the same info available to you. But if you don’t understand the facts presented on the package, then how can you trust the LLM to tokenize it correctly to you?

Similarly, a traditional encyclopedia isn’t going to have a direct answer to your clutch question, but, if it has thorough mechanical entries (with automotive specifics), you might be able to piece it together. You’d learn the “engine” spins in unison up to the flywheel, the flywheel is the mating surface for the clutch, the clutch pedal disengages the clutch from the flywheel, and that holding the pedal down for 5+ seconds should make the transmission input components spin down to a stop (even in neutral). You’re trusting the LLM here to have a proper understanding of those linked mechanical devices. It doesn’t. It’s aggregating internet sources, buzzfeed style, and presenting anything it finds in a corrupted stream of tokens. Again, if you’re not brought up to speed on how those components interact, then how do you know what it’s saying is correct?

Obviously, the rebuttal is how can you trust anyone’s answer if you’re not already knowledgeable? Peer review is great for forums/social sites/wikipedias in the way of people correcting other comments. But beyond that, for formal informational sites, vetting places as a source - a skill being actively eroded with Google or ChatGPT “giving” answers. Neither are actually answering your questions. They’re regurgitating things they found elsewhere. Remember, Google was happy to take reddit answers as fact and tell you elmers glue will hold cheese to pizza and cockroaches live in cocks. If you saw those answers with their high upvote count, you’d understand the nuance that reddit loves shitty sarcastic answers for entertainment value. LLMs don’t because they, literally, don’t understand anything. It’s up to you to figure out if you should trust an algorithm-promoted Facebook page called “car hacks and facts” filled with bullshit videos. It’s up to you to figure out if everythingcar. com is untrustworthy because it has vague, expansive wording and has more ad space than information.

You said exactly what the parent comment said and ignored the secondary part of OP’s intent. But thanks?

The question isn’t just about upstarts, it’s asking how we got here. We can’t start Ovidia in a garage, but Nvidia did at one point. So where’d everyone else go? What partnerships and preferences put Nvidia on top?

Asking questions is great. Testing ideas is fantastic. Discussion is healthy. Getting so combative and argumentative with repaonses to ideas you’re posing as the obvious solution that 8 billion people wandering the Earth now have missed? That’s nowhere near as constructive for the world is it will be for you, in an inverse manner, in a few years.

Micro was weak and largely people’s first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don’t last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It’s death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.

I can tell you that doctors will not trust the claims of anyone slurring their words. If they can’t identify the person and pull up their records, they’ll do their own diagnostics.

What problem are you trying to solve? In what instance have you experienced an actual doctor say they wish there was an acronym for everything? Frontotemporal dementia is 3 precise bits of data. Two bits tell you what type of dementia, one bit to tell the majority of doctors this isn’t their specialty and just “dementia” is sufficient. And, more importantly, is rooted in Latin - the common root of medical terminology. It’s pronunciation carries further across the world than writing.

I’ve had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I’ve never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they’re packed with lint. It goes with the “click” getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.

Sure, because what we need in medicine is more acronyms to occlude meaning.

I guess we couldn’t have a female president because we’d have war only every 28 days

So it is important to recognize that “nations” are constructs.

I’m so tired of state/country pride being touted as definitive cultural (and ethnic) traits from places that have straight fucking lines and swimmable rivers for borders.

Same fear with some legal, offroad motorcycle/snowmobile trails. Every once in a while, some dick head moves in and doesn’t like hearing two-strokes in the backing property.

Currently-new Teams just closes itself on me. It’s a great feature for those urgent messages

Too much corruption in RAM, need a power cycle

What, and I mean this with all my heart, the fuck?

My COBRA cost $100/month less than ACA, so I guess I’m grateful?

Anyway, you can negotiate COBRA reimbursement when changing jobs. I’ve done it twice. Just throwing it out there. Can’t help you if your next job is retirement or something

Neat, airtime for Channel 5/All Gas No Brakes/Andrew Callaghan. Callaghan and Co have gotten into some true, deep journalism as they’ve evolved. Actually going places? Actually talking to people there? Waltzing through the Minnesota riots, getting ferried by a coyote across the southern border, all in the name of journalism? Awesome to see him catch some headliner work and mainstream coverage.

I haven’t watched this interview. It’s not exactly a topic I care about. I saw some comments saying it was soft. If that’s true, then I hope Andrew stuck to his routine where he let’s people talk and gives them the airtime to make or break their appearance. If the flak comes from proper news outlets, then stfu and go do it yourself.

If you haven’t been following but know the original owner (not content creator) of All Gas No Brakes had a falling out and took the name, FYI, Andrew owns it again. Seems like the theme moving forward will be AGNB will go back to its goofy event roots while C5 will lean towards political/news events.

Aren’t you just a shining beacon of logical, data-driven level-headedness. The fuck is she supposed to do, mentally recite each sign she saw on her way in as her spouse is being crushed before to determine if her request is feasible? Crawl out of the MRI, past her dying partner, and go read the manual to see if the MRI has an emergency stop capability before asking the technicians to intervene?

I wish you the best in your future human interactions. I hope very few of them are life-threatening because clearly, you’ll be of no help if you deem the situation avoidable or deem help unlikely to be successful.

The overuse (and overtrust) of LLMs has made me feel ashamed to reference video game NPCs as AI and I hate it. There was nothing wrong with it. We all understood the ability of the AI to be limited to specific functions. I loved when Forza Horizon introduced “drivatar” AI personalities of actual players, resembling their actual activities. Now it’s a vomit term for shady search engines and confused visualizers.