Our trip from #Brno to #Prague and back (420 km) cost 300 CZK (€12) with #EV. A family (2+2) train ticket would cost 2000 CZK (€80). Sadly a no-brainer from a family budget perspective.
IMO individual transport with all its negative externalities shouldn't be so cheap compared to public transport.
@vadim yes, if you don't have a car and are deciding whether to purchase one or rely on the public transport, it makes sense to count total cost of ownership of the car. But if you already have one and you're only deciding if you want to leave it home and go by train or not, it makes sense to only count costs incurred by that particular ride, everything else is a sunk cost. IMO public transport should be attractive for families with cars, too.
I'm always astounded by this exact fact. How can it be cheaper for me to get to where I want to go in a metal box with 4 people compared to a string of metal boxes with hundreds of people? Can someone with better understanding if economics and maybe the railroad system explain this?
@miroslavbucek TCO is definitely much more than 300 CZK, but once you already have the car it's a sunk cost which shouldn't be considered when you're deciding whether you go by car or leave it home. And if you count it, it actually motivates you to use the car even more because the more you drive it the lower the cost of ownership per km is.
If the car cost one million CZK and you don’t plan to drive one million kilometers—more likely around 250,000—then you need to add at least 4 CZK per kilometer to your costs.
@miroslavbucek Sure, but what I had in mind is a situation where a family already has a car (because most of them do) and they're deciding whether they want to go by car or use public transport. For that decision making it isn't longer relevant what they paid for the car beucase it's already been paid, a sunk cost. The decision won't increase or decrease the cost. I know it isn't a fair comparison because the family can omit it as a sunk cost while the tickets have to cover amortization, but it's a decision families face all the time and if the public transport costs 7x more it will push the families into relying on their cars even more and increase individual transport with all its negative externalities.
You have a massive train that is fully utilised only a few hours a day at best. It cannot be cheaper than fully occupied car designed for efficient ride.
Btw: I will ask you six months from now how many times you sit into the other car voluntarily 🙂
From the city. this may not be so obvious, but if im on a village, with close to zero public transport connection, having a car or two is just a must and calculating amortization to each ride does not seem to even the costs. Car makes it possible to get there AND get back.
With family of 5 + dog, any car is always cheaper then any public transport and usually it is the only option anyway
beyond the comparison of operational, ammortization and subsudy impact, there is tje not so direct overhead of R&D between rail & EV R&D: eg BYD has currently ~48.000 EV patents & 100.000 R&D FTEs
this hidden R&D cost + the positive impact of EVs usi.g existing electricity grid propably does not allow for like for like comparison between eventual costs we pay as users
if we're gonna be stuck with vibe coding, might as well try to have some fun with it
("anti-vibe coding" would be my standard schtick: stuff like invariant-based programming, assertions, testing, fuzzing, CI -- all the stuff we do to try to make software actually work)
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I decided to try the new Suno 4.5 model which is new at the time of recording.Feeding it one of my own creations in the form of a piece of music called '23A-...
I'll take a look at this, but have you heard what Google has been doing with AI music recently? They have a new product called Music AI Sandbox, and have been testing it over the last year with different artists. Here's Jacob Collier playing with a slightly different take on Sandbox called MusicFX DJ. youtube.com/watch?v=GmtPA1jZCR… Unlike Suno or Udio, these don't create hole songs for you, but instead allow you to get little ideas that you can then sample into your own tracks. Sandbox is also really interesting because you can import your own audio, kinda like Suno, then transform it in a number of ways. Here's a link to learn more about Sandbox, you can sign up to give it a try, will be doing this as well and report back. deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
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Ah strange, I just saw they added a sign up page a few days ago, so mabey try again with the link I posted. Most people who wanted to try it had to contact Google before IIRC.
Ok so just reading through the article I sent, looks like it's US only for now, but I'll sign up and will post lots of demos. If you have anything you want me to try it with just let me know. I'm sure access will expand to more countrys sooner rather than later.
Yeah I'm really not sure why they do things like this, makes no sense to me. Something else you can try though, Google has a cool project called Magenta that uses machine learning to generate Midi. You can input a melody for example, then get Magenta to continue it for you. It runs offline on your machine, and all the apps are fully accessible.
Here's the main getting started page. Give Magenta Studio a try first. They have plug-ins designed to work in Ableton, however the version you want is standalone. Just note that they don't seem to support the standalone versions anymore, but you can still download them. magenta.withgoogle.com/get-sta…
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You know my little self was not going to comment on this, but since a human with 0 compassion just spoiled the fun conversation about AI music, I must say, REPORT! Report is all in caps, by the way. Get a life, kindly asking you to please do so. Your unwanted, unnecessary reply had nothing to do with the posts I was reading, now you spoiled it, and the two of me are not very pleased. Also, these dudes are cool, they are acquaintances, and no one talks nasty to my friends, especially not humans lacking manners and compassion. If you have nothing nice to say, keep your silence, thank you.
@ZBennoui I tried it (google sandbox)and found it pretty bad. Suno has generated two versions of every prompt I've tried in 20 seconds with full lyrics that rhyme and are coherent. -I would NOT do this, but I think for $8, you generate the max (500 tracks in one month), put 'em out in 50 albums with non-AI graphic covers and probably make money.
@randulo Ai Sandbox is not for people that like Suno, it's meant to be used to get ideas for your own music that you produce in a DAW. I've signed up and am waiting to be invited to try it, but am excited to see what it can do.
@ZBennoui Gosh, Jacob makes it sound so easy, but I do wonder what the return on time investment really is given that the final product was something that Jacob could probably put together without all the AI involved. No doubt, interesting stuff though.
You must, try, try, try. LOL. See? I@m such a good encouragement giver. I wonder if there's a music AI that would beat or compare to Suno, because I have not really heard others.
@menelion @tardis I haven't tried them for a long, long time but I didn't like their site that much, certainly when I last looked. Also I'm a paid member of Suno so I won't be looking elsewhere for now lol
Okay now this, was pretty cool. You can notice harder it's an AI, but it's noticeable. You also gave it a track of yours, but seriously, it was quite impressive. Especially that piano solo it did, was pretty cool, would imagine quite hard to learn as well. LOL. All in all, good job you, and credits to the AI for experimenting with your good job. Haha.
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Professor Stephen Whittle OBE, famed UK Trans Legal activist from Press for Change, probably the most reputable trans person in the UK in regard to the law and affecting it, has put out the action plan guide stating that the best chance of influencing things is for trans people and allys to each write physical letters to their MP and 6 copies to specific other members of parliament.
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I'm in the UK so shame that's not gonna be available, would save me and my mum the effort of going to Iceland Foods to get the stuff and then carting it back to the car and then getting it up to my apartment lmao.
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@YaLTeR oh man, I remember using Finale on Windows to transcribe handwritten partiture, back in the ‘90s. All keyboard driven, using key combos like chords
![JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries 2 Cor 8 "Hence he [Christ] has consecrated poverty in his own person, that believers may no longer regard it with horror. By his poverty he has enriched us all for this purpose -that we may not feel it hard to take from our abundance what we may lay out upon our brethren."](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/664087 "JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries 2 Cor 8 \"Hence he [Christ] has consecrated poverty in his own person, that believers may no longer regard it with horror. By his poverty he has enriched us all for this purpose -that we may not feel it hard to take from our abundance what we may lay out upon our brethren.\"")
Vadim Rutkovsky
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •you specifically go to drivers school, spend a lot of time and decide to buy a vehicle vs. leasing with the intent to save money later though.
Quite a few cases where you can't use it too - i.e hangover or just some temporary disability
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in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳 • • •I know it isn't a fair comparison because the family can omit it as a sunk cost while the tickets have to cover amortization, but it's a decision families face all the time and if the public transport costs 7x more it will push the families into relying on their cars even more and increase individual transport with all its negative externalities.
🔩 Adam Štrauch
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •You have a massive train that is fully utilised only a few hours a day at best. It cannot be cheaper than fully occupied car designed for efficient ride.
Btw: I will ask you six months from now how many times you sit into the other car voluntarily 🙂
Jachym Cepicky
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •From the city. this may not be so obvious, but if im on a village, with close to zero public transport connection, having a car or two is just a must and calculating amortization to each ride does not seem to even the costs. Car makes it possible to get there AND get back.
With family of 5 + dog, any car is always cheaper then any public transport and usually it is the only option anyway
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