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- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 15 hours ago:
I admit I didn’t watch the video — I’ve trained YouTube’s algorithm well at this point and don’t want Tesla content — but what the fuck is a predictive odometer? The tires roll a certain distance. We’ve had odometers for like 75 years.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 17 hours ago:
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 1 day ago:
/s
- Comment on The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next? 1 day ago:
They could just shut down Meta and it would take a week for everyone to adjust.
- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 2 days ago:
I don’t want to know who any of you people are. None of us saw anything. And if so much as a squirrel asks, I’m asking for a lawyer.
- Comment on A New Form of Verification on Bluesky 2 days ago:
Probably but they’ve designated others to do it. Like a trusted organization can verify people. Some of the developers seemed hostile. But who gives a fuck about a blue check anyway? Even before Elon, it was a gag on Twitter that it some fucking moron who interned at Reason or some shit and got a big head about.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 2 days ago:
I’m glad we’re putting all our eggs in this alpha-ass-level software (with tons of promise! Maybe!) instead of like high speed rail or whatever.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 2 days ago:
Thank you for doing the math.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 2 days ago:
The advancements in battery tech are obviously great news but I still have no idea how you’d power a “traditional” charging station (with several terminals) for EVs.
There’s plenty of time to find a solution to that before today’s experimental battery tech becomes ubiquitous in cars but power generation and infrastructure seems like it’ll be the bottleneck. I haven’t done the math or anything but it just seems like 5m charging of more than one or two cars at once would strain the grid that exists today.
- Comment on Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects 3 days ago:
I guess the 2019 coup backfired on Tesla if the contracts went to China and Russia. Or maybe he paid off enough people and will get a cut?
And people say he only recently went nuts.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 4 days ago:
Teenagers do all those things constantly.
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
Telling 15 year-olds what to do famously always works.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 1 week ago:
Follow up: check out this bountiful harvest. It came in two boxes.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
I have never heard of HP sauce but thank you for giving me something else to search online.
Google doesn’t work anymore but it seems like ketchup but Worcestershire? Is that close?
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
I don’t think steak sauce is a thing in South Louisiana. Prime rib gets a horseradish/sour cream sauce. Au jus is common with steak. But we also tend to eat more seafood than beef so the standard sauces are something like Crystal Hot Sauce, Tabasco, etc. Ketchup for making cocktail sauce. (A lot of places serve oysters or whatever with a little cup of horseradish and you decide how spicy your cocktail sauce will be by adding ketchup and stuff.)
I’ve definitely eaten more calamari than steaks. So, by no means is this a universal concept. I’ve just never seen anyone put A1 on anything.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bottle of A1 sauce in real life. What is it? I’m American but from Louisiana and we have different sauces.
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 1 week ago:
They’re going to be light years ahead of us at making pregnant Sonic images.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 1 week ago:
Definitely showing both sides of their ass.
- Comment on Renewable Energy Is Still Alive And Kicking In The US 2 weeks ago:
I also would be better off if someone else chose how much bread and alcohol I was allocated. But that’s a personal issue and not something to build whole economic systems around.
- Comment on Renewable Energy Is Still Alive And Kicking In The US 2 weeks ago:
To the degree I defend the Soviet Union, it’s mostly about space and not Stalin being good. Even as an American, a tip o’ the hat for going from subsistence farms to Sputnik in less than a century.
- Comment on Renewable Energy Is Still Alive And Kicking In The US 2 weeks ago:
Fighting economics is a fool’s errand. People have tried it and believe me, I hear about it every time I say something nice about the Soviet Union or China. (I’m not a Tankie. My political leanings are “Scandinavian model” where I just want a safety net and recognize markets are a tool, not a goal. Plenty of ostensibly leftists were just authoritarian dipshits.)
My Econ philosophy is partly based around Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, especially the “Household Responsibility System.” It wasn’t ideal but The world, for maybe the first time ever, consistently produced enough food ever year for no one to starve and distribution became the problem.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 2 weeks ago:
I think Weee probably already imported the Ramen and it’s in a warehouse, not being made to order. But it’s ok. I can probably afford the tax on ramen noodles. I’m partial to the spicy kimchi ones anyway so they’re probably South Korean. I also love the cheapest, finest shrimp flavored packets that are like $1 each. (I ate them as a kid so they’re a comfort food.) Those might even be made in America.
Also, Master P has a gumbo-flavored Ramen product and there’s always yaka mein. I live in New Orleans and those could be made here for all I know. (Yaka mein is definitely made here. It’s basically ramen noodles but with Creole New Orleans broth and seasoning. The legend is that Chinese laborers building the railroads introduced the concept of ramen to black laborers in New Orleans and a new, cheap dish was born. It was eventually marketed as a hangover cure and called “Old Sober” but it’s called yaka mein now.)
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
If anything good comes from this, it’ll be reforming that. Even if tariffs were still a couple percentage points instead of based on a formula zero economists endorsed, you shouldn’t be forced to pay (or the companies able to avoid) tariffs by using a distribution center in a third country. It should all be based on country of origin and final destination.
A Chinese (or American) company setting up a factory in Vietnam is an entirely different thing. I’m not talking about that. The product was made in Vietnam and real foreign direct investment happened that’s beneficial to everyone. I just mean logistics hubs should be irrelevant when calculating tariffs.
The “ideal” solution if we must use tariffs would be to take into account where it’s all made but that’s way too complicated to implement and easy to game^1^, unfortunately. An iPhone is assembled in China but using parts from all over Southeast Asia (and elsewhere) and with a substantial portion of the actual value coming from California and the UK. Where is an iPhone really made if a Taiwan Semiconductor fab makes a bespoke processor based on ARM but designed in California? “Made in China” is what’s stamped on the box (actually they put “Made in China, Designed in California).
And that’s just the processor and a few other advanced chips. I think Samsung makes the screens in South Korea based on technology developed in the U.S. by Corning. If Apple wanted to skirt tariffs under that sort of regime, they could plausibly argue that the assembly is worth $10, manufacturing is worth $90, and the design and software are worth $900. I mean, smartphones are commodities now. People use iPhones because they like the software.
Tariffs based on the final step of assembly don’t make sense for complicated products made by multinational companies in the 21st century. The world makes an iPhone. Accounting for it all would be impossible.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 2 weeks ago:
I, similarly, ordered a shitload of ramen noodles from sayweee.com/en before the tariffs kicked in. They haven’t arrived yet but when they do, it’s going to be a box so big, my neighbors are going to assume I got new furniture.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Most Apple products are assembled in China — some in India and Vietnam — from parts made in the region so there’s no new tariffs involved. Only Americans will have to pay more. It’s sort of like how Toyota and Honda having plants in Alabama won’t pay import tariffs.
Cars might be a bad example because their supply chains are so complex. They’ll still be more expensive because the components are often made overseas and Trump, idiotically, has tariffs on those parts (and steel and aluminum to boot). But a “foreign” car that rolls off the assembly line in the U.S. won’t have tariffs while an “American” assembled in Mexico will.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
Not currently. I used to be.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t dismissing the problem that they exist. That’s the first problem. I was saying uncertainty prevents as much investment as do tariffs. No one knows what the tariffs will be in a month. His brain is a non-Newtronean fluid at this point.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
A big problem with Trump’s tariffs isn’t that they exist; it’s that they’re subject to change at any moment. To be clear, they’re idiotic. But no one can invest in anything long term in America right now.
Imagine opening a restaurant in the U.S. right now. Half your kitchen equipment is subject to steel or aluminum tariffs. You don’t know if you can import anything. Or you can wait a year and see how full Trump’s diaper is. He also looks half dead without makeup and might have pissed off the Yakuza (or worse). The smart move is to wait to open your restaurant.
Now imagine any business bigger than a restaurant.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
Even if it does the basic shit at the expense of me working one less hour a week, it’s not worth paying for. And that ignores the downsides like spam, bots, data centers needing power/water, and politicians thinking GPU cards are national security secrets.
I don’t think we need a Skynet scenario to imagine the downsides.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
I use it in software development and it hasn’t changed my life. It’s slightly more convenient than last gen code completion but I’ve never worked on a project where code per hours was the hold up. One less stand-up per week would probably increase developer productivity than GitHub Copilot.
