You just did what some chatbot told you to do? One provided by the people whose profits you were trying to minimize?

I wouldn’t have expected that to go well.

Zach is awesome

The guy mentions that he’s never been to Tennessee and I believe him. Clearly he’s not aware of how low the population density is if he thinks trains make for sensible transport there.

Tennessee’s pop density seems to be a little lower than Ireland’s. Now, Ireland is not known for its good public transport, but just Dublin’s commuter lines have something like 100x the peak capacity of the Dollywood train.

And Ireland’s anemic rail network is more a result of no investment from the 50s til the 90s than a density thing, really; there is clearly demand for far more capacity and they currently can’t build it fast enough.

The DART (Dublin's commuter rail to and from its suburbs) is great (as are the Luas trams around the city). The inter-city trains going to Limerick, Cork etc. (which many Irish I've met don't even know still run) remind me of Amtrak and not in a good way.

Ah, the Cork one isn't _that_ bad.

The Limerick one is very, very bad, granted. The Galway one is actually now slightly slower than the bus! (Though still far more pleasant than the bus.)

AIUI nearly all rail travel volume is on the Dublin and Cork commuter lines these days; the intercity ones are kinda an afterthought (the only one to even manage hourly operation is Dublin to Cork at this point, I think).

I'm from Tennessee, and it could easily support light rail systems in the metro areas of each of Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, and a regular rail route between those cities. Maybe not a lot more than that, but just having that would make life a lot easier.

Audiophiles are forced to finally admit that their real hobby is just spending money.

This would be awesome wrapped in an MCP server/tool call :)

whoa - i haven't yet played with MCP - might be a good first project!

My experiences have been the same… that is to say nothing like what is reported here. This is more pitch than info.

Odd timing, too given flash 2.0 release and its performance on this problem.

We use Claude 3.5 sonnet to OCR and structure tabular data from PDFs and it’s virtually flawless… orders of magnitude better than Textract (or pretty much any other LLM).

??? There are lots of examples of this.

They want war? Someone else’s, at that?

Crazy.

I think it’s the opposite. They want the US to defend Taiwan

The CCP keeps saying that Taiwan is part of China.

I love just! Any way to avoid remembering things is great.