> Windows in public areas (subway cars, elevators) that display advertisements or animations.
I would say this is even more distressing, they are literally trying to invade every damn steradian of your field of view. Soon you won't be able to look out of a train window without ads.
Dunno, feels like not being constantly manipulated should be a more fundamental right and not just a local issue. If a person does it it's harassment. If a company does it via technology it's business as usual.
Even assuming that you can inconvenience large, double digit percentages of the population to use bikes as transportation, other large, double digit percentages of the population will fight bike infrastructure tooth and nail because for them it's worth (statistically) killing some people rather than slightly inconveniencing them.
Let alone fighting the car and oil and gas lobby.
I say this as a bike fan. I think bikes will ultimately win out a large share of transportation in most countries, in urban areas, but will be a long tough fight and I think we'll be where I hope everyone would be (the Netherlands) right about when I die, in 30-40-50 years...
There's many conditions that must be met to make cycling a good option.
Thie distance must be fairly short. You must be relatively young/fit/healthy/able-bodied. The weather must OK (not frequently too cold/hot/wet). The terrain must be fairly flat. The traffic conditions must be not-suicidal. There must secure bike storage at both ends. Ideally, shower/changing facilities at both ends for bad-weather days.
Not really a factor in dense urban environments. Everything within 5km is easily reachable within ~15 mins. Especially so once you factor in ebikes.
> You must be relatively young/fit/healthy/able-bodied.
Relatively is doing a lot of work there. This is not true for the most part and again, ebikes.
> The weather must OK (not frequently too cold/hot/wet).
The weather is mostly ok in most places most of the time. Frequency barely matters, you can always leave your bike home and walk/use public transportation instead if the weather that day isn't suitable.
> The terrain must be fairly flat.
Gears exist. Ebikes nullify this regardless.
> The traffic conditions must be not-suicidal.
This is the only real problem - dedicated biking infrastructure, physically separated from cars is required. However, it's usually an excuse more than a real issue. Biking infrastructure is astoundingly cheap compared to anything else.
> There must secure bike storage at both ends.
Depends on the trip type. It's usually not a problem due to extremely low cost - 5 U-shaped pipes attached to the ground gives you 10 bike parking spaces in a tiny area. If popping into a shop for 5 mins it's usually enough to just lock the bike to itself. It's unlikely a thief would carry off a bike in that time. Otherwise, keep the bike is naturally secure at home/workplace.
Plus, if it does get stolen, bikes are cheap and a dime a dozen.
> Ideally, shower/changing facilities at both ends for bad-weather days.
Unnecessary for most people in most conditions, but if it is an issue, usually cycling slower or getting an ebike works fine.
"I'm a blacksmith and I expect every chef to be at least able to forge their own knife."
Uh, no? You are completely out of touch on other (non-programmer) people's backgrounds. They don't know what a kernel or even a terminal is. It's more than just copy-pasting commands from SE.
A chef, that for whatever reason cannot forge their own knife, better make friends with a blacksmith, and think about what they want when they want them to make them a knife.
They should not expect blacksmiths around the world to read their mind and make them knives for free. They should expect it's their own responsibility.
Oh those silly ground-based astronomers. Just give 'em a JWST so they stop yapping! Maybe you should tag along with the next Starship so I don't have to read garbage comments like this anymore.
What I haven't seen done well by these generative AI's so far is structure (having a chorus, a verse, a bridge, ...) and harmonic movement/progressions (except for maybe a V-I or I - VI - ii - V) And those two be things are exactly what makes a song interesting and non-repetitive.
A digital signal processing network? A bit annoying to introduce an acronym without defining it. Great article otherwise.