Takumidesh
@Takumidesh@lemmy.world
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 days ago:
I completely disagree.
For example, you are using the hand brake as an example. 95 percent of people (including you, evidently) don’t even understand that the handbrake is not an emergency brake, they don’t get how the behavior works, or the fact that it’s meant to be used as a parking breaks, I consistently see people slam their parking pawls verytime they get out of their car. (Not to mention that it doesn’t even work while you are driving on most modern cars and has no modulation, as it’s just a button)
If not being an idiot was good enough to drive a car, then it wouldn’t be so deadly. It’s also possible to fly a plane with common sense, but you wouldn’t be happy if your pilot told you they don’t have training.
Driving isn’t easy, it’s just that we accept an absolutely catastrophic amount of accidents as a cost of doing business.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 days ago:
I find the scariest people on the road to be the arrogant ones that think they make no mistakes.
- Comment on Child support 1 week ago:
Because you bought the bait of an obviously photoshopped picture?
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
The stock went down already when all the insiders learned about these risks and scenarios months ago.
Now it’s bouncing around because the derivatives market capitalizes on volatility.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
But is it really?
A 2000 mile road trip with 30 minutes charging breaks is gonna add what? 3 and a half hours on top of 30 hours of driving?
Unless you plan on doing a bunch of meth and speeding across the desert, I don’t see a scenario where a regular person does 8+ hours of driving and doesn’t take a 20 minute break.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
I commonly will be in a call with friends, where we all stream the games we are playing independently to each other.
Another use case, one person screen shares YouTube for group watching
And one more, we will often play chess and screen share so others can watch.
This is for a group of 3-10 people typically
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Free means a hell of a lot when you are a child with approximately $0 in expendable income.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Most countries don’t have birthright citizenship.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
100 in rent - 100 in mortgage cost = 0.
The gains are by the inherent value of the asset. You would need to tax the sale of the property because that is where the profit is realized.
My point isn’t about a semantic difference in the definition of a word. It’s that blanket policy that isn’t well thought out doesn’t actually solve any problems, it’s helpful to take some time to actually think things through, get a better understanding of what is at play and come up with real ideas that can be actioned if you want change.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Fwiw, while this would be a disincentive, the ‘real’ money from this is the ability to leverage at a high amount.
If you mortgage a property you effectively get to leverage your capital 5:1, and your return is made by someone else paying the interest on your margin, any below the line profit is a bonus.
So if it’s costing my business $100 month (mortgage, losses) and the tenant is paying $100 (rent, profits), your net profit is 0 but you are effectively earning $80 on that $100.
So you would need to also reclassify what it means to be a real estate professional, to prevent business from being able to claim real estate expenses as a loss. (As well as the tons of other aspects like depreciation which give you time value of money over the life of the property, depreciation of assets within the house, and other tax benefits.) in fact it’s possible to take a ‘loss’ on a house and rent it for less than your mortgage, and still come away making money
Just sayin there is more to it than just black and white P/L
- Comment on Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told 3 weeks ago:
“I take seven {kids} from {Columbine}, stand 'em all in line Add an AK-47, a revolver, a .9 A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time (Ahh-! Ahh-ahh-!)”
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
Is this still true, it was my understanding that you need a visa from the onset as of last year, also, I am pretty sure it’s 90 days not 180.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 weeks ago:
What is this post even? One of the main plot points of one of the books was about how the students are so engaged that they made an underground secret class to study and learn.
Harry literally stays up all night studying his books during summer break in the earlier years, the book describes how it’s all he can think about. (before schooling became a lower priority due to the active war).
There are always going to be boring classes, and the book describes that even Hermione is bored in some of them, but typically the students are always engaged, it’s clear that Hermione is a hard worker with doctor parents that expect a lot from her, not that she is some hyper genius.
Harry is a rich jock and a literal child, he is the common trope of the school athlete that slacks in classes occasionally and likes trouble making.
I think it’s very clear that the students were generally engaged in engaging classes with good teachers (hagrids classes, PE / flying, defense against the dark arts, the gardening class with the screaming plants), disengaged in classes that would have equivalent perceptions of boringness (history of magic).
- Comment on Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 4 weeks ago:
If buying a new video card made me money, yes.
This doesn’t really work, because the goal when you buy a video card isn’t to have the most possible processing power ever and playing video games doesn’t scale linearly so having an additional card doesn’t add anything.
If I was mining crypto, or selling GPU compute (which is basically what ai companies are doing) and the existing card got an update that made it perform on par with new cards, I would buy out the existing cards and when there are no more, I would buy up the newer cards, they are both generating revenue still.
- Comment on fingerme 4 weeks ago:
My work does first initial last name, which even internally results in tons of jsmith2@company.com.
I don’t really get why I can’t just choose from a list of accepted combinations or something.
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 1 month ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you, I just want to say, the reason the terminal is helpful in these types of scenarios is never communicated properly in my opinion.
The reason when you ask people for help or Google stuff and get terminal commands back is because they are clear, concise, and reproducible. It’s really hard from the perspective of the people helping, to communicate, usually over text, how to navigate UIs that are ever changing and cart depending on the users hardware and setup. This is true for windows too, and it’s why getting any help beyond very simple troubleshooting will devolve into powershell commands.
As for this scenario, it’s just inflammatory on purpose, would anyone mention or care if one person at Microsoft who was a project lead retired after decades of working? There are literally thousands of contributors to the Linux kernel, this is just one of them retiring. A maintainer is only one role in a project and can (and will) very easily be replaced. If not by a volunteer, then in a paid position from one of the many companies that pay developers to maintain the Linux kernel. Regardless, there is already people maintaining the the ath10k, ath11k, and ath12k drivers. This is really just a non issue of a temporary vacancy for one position, the same thing that happens at every single software organization every day.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 1 month ago:
You don’t pay all at once, you need to pay quarterly tax estimates or you will be constantly paying penalties.
I really wish people would stop giving bad tax advice to strangers.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 1 month ago:
Just so you know, you will likely face underpayment penalties doing this.
I suggest you avoid giving 16 year olds tax advice.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 month ago:
If the lesser evil were consistently voted in year over year, the evilness would slowly decline.
The problem is that doesn’t happen. The lesser evil is often not selected, that’s the part that shifts the scale.
- Comment on The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries 2 months ago:
They pulled the game from all the markets that don’t have it, so the concern brought up by the article still stands.
- Comment on The Last Of Us Part II will require a PSN account to play on PC, making it unplayable in over 100 countries 2 months ago:
I think a lot of people here on social media need a reality check about who is actually participating in the market.
Most people simply do not care about this stuff, they don’t need to learn, because the outcry of an infinitely small minority doesn’t mean anything to them.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 months ago:
Funny how nuclear power plants are taboo, but building thousands of nuclear warheads all over the globe is no issue.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 4 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 4 months ago:
Well, a lot of stock trading isn’t as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.
Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren’t trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.
The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it’s underlying)
What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.
Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 4 months ago:
You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don’t need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.
Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 4 months ago:
Damn, you just SLAMMED me.
- Comment on Nintendo's new music app is a clone of YouTube Music. 4 months ago:
Yes, honestly the fact that ‘youtube music’ is literally just a different frontend for YouTube drives me nuts, it goes both ways, the YouTube app for TV doesn’t have proper features either, it’s unclear if you are getting the music or video version and the most egregious of them all imo, on the TV app, you can’t freaking browse for a different song while music is playing, you have to stop the song to go to the search bar.
- Comment on I present: Managarr - A TUI and CLI to help you manage your Servarr instances 4 months ago:
Cli doesn’t make much sense to me either when the *arr suite has a well documented rest API already.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 4 months ago:
They don’t convey the same information.
Infinity isn’t really an amount of something.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 5 months ago:
With docker it’s quite easy (assuming you are familiar with docker)
But docker / containerization is a skill that becomes really really helpful to learn if you are interested in this type of thing.