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- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 3 days ago:
I wish I could boycott them, but haven’t gone there in years
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 3 days ago:
That may be true and is certainly a well known concern …. Yet given the US government’s recent history, I have a hard time believing much of what they say
Cheap Chinese routers as a risk being true doesn’t prevent it from also being true that the current us administration is full of shit and likely more concerned about enriching someone connected to them
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 3 days ago:
I mean the point is there’s a convenience factor where you might have twice as many ports as you’re willing to use
It’s not just that you might have more devices or want to leave them plugged in, but you may find some of them undesirable to use
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 4 days ago:
In my state, cafeteria food is free. There are no longer any pay choices so you either take the free food or bring your own
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 4 days ago:
My kids gaming pc tower has a set of usb ports on the back and a set on the front. It’s great to have options, but he’s not going to use them all. Ie he has ten usb ports for the five he uses
- Comment on Bird-kake? 6 days ago:
Maybe the birds got there first
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 1 week ago:
Chuck Norris isn’t waiting at the pearly gates to be judged, the pearly gates were waiting to be judged by him
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 1 week ago:
Chick Norris didn’t die, he was too much for this world
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
Why not? Universities are also required to be ada compliant. It’s not retroactive, so older infrastructure is always an issue, but modern facilities should be fully accessible.
If you mean disabled should go for free, why? Some disabled are advantaged and some not. My state is one of those offering free public university based on economic need, a much better choice.
But yes, it’s by state, and most do not
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
Just like being proud of your family means helping them do their best, being proud of your country is a duty to understand what it does well and poorly, and do whatever you can to help it do its best. I’m proud of the mythology we’ve built around the US being the “good guys”, so it’s my duty to call it out when it doesn’t live up to its ideals, and do whatever I can to help it move in the direction of those ideals. If we’re not the first to call out the gaps, then we have failed our country/family/city/corp, and our pride is meaningless blind obedience
NONE of these cases should be blind trust or blind love.
- Comment on Traffic Lights 1 week ago:
Same in DC. I was going through the roundabout, a bit fast, secure in the knowledge I have right of way …… and suddenly there’s a red light.
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 1 week ago:
Chuck Norris won’t have died, he’ll have found another realm to dominate
- Comment on Gaysadilla 1 week ago:
But a hot dog in the bun is not?
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 1 week ago:
Supply and demand, along with historic sexism.
- teaching (up to high school) has historically been predominantly women. And yes women used to be paid much less. That gap has narrowed a lot but “women’s work” still tends to pay less
- there are hundreds of thousands of teachers. There are huge numbers. There’s always another
- while it takes a lot to be a good teacher, it’s not so much to “teach”
So I think we have a history of low pay, the vast number militants against that changing, and to appearance anyone can be a “teacher”
Don’t get me wrong my family has significant history in the field and deep respect for the importance and to the huge impact a good teacher can make on someone’s future. But when my kid wanted to teach, after saying I would be so proud as would the vast array of ancestors, I added that you need to be aware of poor pay. To translate to video game, it’s doing life in hard mode
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 week ago:
I find it hard to believe the software gives a yes or no answer. It almost certainly gives some sort of score and it’s up to the human to interpret that
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 week ago:
A more believable story might be blackmail/extortion. Why kill the source of income?
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 week ago:
Have you ever watched the news? We have many highly publicized examples of rich people being addicted to drugs.
Personally I like the approach they took on the tv show House. Maybe not rich but certainly privileged enough to get away with an addiction that would have tuned anyone else’s life.
But maybe a good approach to your story is to imagine an unusual dealer:: a wealthy person is not costing the neighborhood crack house. For example Michael Jackson’s addiction was fed by an actual doctor authorized to write prescriptions so his drugs were “legal”
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 2 weeks ago:
IANAL obviously, but a game beta seems like the perfect legitimate use case for an nda. It’s time limited, very specific, you have legitimately volunteered.
NDAs are all different but ask yourself
- is this nda limited to a specific time period or is it indefinite?
- is it very specific to what it covers or generic enough that it say, prevents you from working? -was it a legitimate choice or mandated but an unequal power such as your employer?
If you have any such questions, you should definitely consult a lawyer before assuming
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 2 weeks ago:
It’s meant to be scary. I really think a lot of ndas are abused exactly because they are scary. The problem is they are expensive and uncertain.
Their validity is by state and enforcement is through the courts. Is a specific nda enforceable in your state? Is the other party likely to enforce it legally? Can you afford to defend yourself?
Don’t get me wrong,there are also many legit and enforceable ndas, which makes things complicated
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
More like,print lots of money to give to defense companies and enrich themselves so they can gaslight the rest of us by claiming the numbers are good, the economy is great
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
I still find it hard to believe it could happen, and certainly dont want to be proven wrong. Probably helps that I wouldn’t be eligible.
So the average person is out of shape, overweight, and knows nothing about the military or how to use weapons. Army boot camp may be only 10 weeks, but you have a very unready population and war has gotten much more complicated than it used to be. I find it hard to believe even the war-mongering fools currently running the us, would get us into something big enough and long-running enough for a draft to make a worthwhile difference.
Look at Iran. They might have started a never-ending war, but the approach is to sit back and bomb it. That won’t lead to a draft
Stepping back a bit, what about Iraq? That’s a bigger question since I don’t think we have the readiness to do that again, and it did require a ton of people. But they never instituted a draft, and the buildup was far too quick for one to be useful.
Then we get to Putin. Look at everything he’s gone through to avoid a draft, despite getting his country bogged down starting an absolutely brutal war resulting in hundreds of thousands of Russians killed or maimed. We all make the agent krasnov jokes, but there’s far more in common from one tyrant to another than any of us like
- Comment on Keeping the tally of suicides. Pedestrians vs those in cars 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hunting tram. You’ve heard of a “hunting lodge” but those were never successful because they can’t move. The next step is to add wheels
- Comment on When the Category Leader Stalls : Postman and the Future of API Tooling 2 weeks ago:
That all sounds like a nightmare. I use curl api calls from DevOps where I’m not really doing much and time isn’t usually a concern. But I can’t imagine our product developers using it, it just doesn’t seem scalable, maintainable or performant
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
The problem is this is the way it’s being pushed. This is how it’s being sold. There are no guardrails.
…… and that’s the biggest problem. I’m frustrated as hell on the commits I’ve had to unwind because someone doesn’t know how to check the changes before committing, then has it try to fix itself, again without checking on the changes , then again. It’s horrible.
…… and I’ve seen it too. Trying to have it do only code reviews - the ai points out useful things but then wants to commit a crapload of changes without going over it with me first.
…… and people are playing with mcp agents, which are really great for letting the ai get data from systems and integrate with those systems . But with few to no guardrails. There’s no no review, the user doesn’t necessarily follow what’s changing, it just gets done. Sometime badly very badly
We’re all focused on whether the ai works, and it does do a pretty good job with coding but the tools don’t keep the human in the loop, or humans don’t know how to stay on the loop
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if ai can actually help here. As the industry abandons consumer hardware in favor of datacenter equipment to profit from the ai bubble, perhaps ecc memory will become cheaper
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
I remember the rise and fall of icq. I laughed from the real internet as you kids played, knowing it was a fad wouldn’t last, not worth taking seriously.
I played online before the internet, when it was scattered individuals, or when you needed access to separate telenet and arpanet, when you could keep in your head all the accessible nodes
Now get off my lawn
- Comment on As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester" 2 weeks ago:
For sure, any longer term presence outside orbit will hinge on finding resources. And i don’t think it even matters if we’re able to harvest helium-3 or something that might be worth bringing back, but to be able to use enough resources to make it affordable. Every pound lifted from earth to outside orbit will always be too expensive and local resources much much more affordable. While it starts with shelter and radiation shielding (ie live underground), we’ll need to generate bulk consumables like water, oxygen, fuel, and we’ll need to grow at least some of our own food
But we don’t even know if we can live on the moon. Microgravity has bad long term health effects such that we really don’t want to spend more than a year there. Does the moon have enough gravity to be substantially better?
If we do establish a larger off earth presence, we’ll have to compromise on enough gravity for long term health and livability vs as little gravity as necessary to keep space accessible
- Comment on As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar "harvester" 3 weeks ago:
I agree that large colonies are an enticing science fiction image that doesn’t look likely.
But we’ve proven that we can support an “international space station” to maintain a continuous scientific presence in space. A great next step is the same but on the moon. It seems quite possible with relatively little technical development. This is desirable to advance our technology, our science, our society, to use our imagination to look forward , to have hope, to see a positive future for humanity.
Here’s the problem with fixing local problems first: you can’t. You either stagnate, looking within, looking behind, looking down, and still have the same local problems or you take a portion of your civilizations product and also move everyone forward.
Here’s the problem with using those resources: it’s not enough to matter. The space program is a tiny percentage of the government budget, almost invisible next to what is needed to fix our problems. If you want to fix our local problems, it starts with social justice, environmental justice, safety nets, quality of life and most importantly equity in taxes, and greatly reduced income inequity. Elon musk’s wealth will soon be 40x NASA’s entire annual budget yet is barely taxed
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 3 weeks ago:
True, it doesn’t have the side effect of continuous hunger, feeling deprived, constant cravings, until you explode with binge eating. That would never happen
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 3 weeks ago:
Fast chargers aren’t the only option
- Tesla already has fast chargers with megapack, and with solar. There are fast chargers that don’t impact the grid much
- we definitely need to build out destination chargers. Charging at work is no different from at home, except for when. And build out of solar can make peak energy available just when needed
- there are proposed answers such as streetlight chargers
Obviously we don’t have an answer yet, haven’t built out the infrastructure, but we do have options