Vorticity
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- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 days ago:
That’s how I read this, too. The government isn’t a monolith that just agrees with every law they have to follow. They do have to follow the law until it is challenged, though. Hopefully courts in KS knock this down.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 1 week ago:
I haven’t really looked at Facebook in a long time but also haven’t deleted my account because I do use Facebook marketplace sometimes.
I just logged in and looked. I actually saw no AI generated content except the few examples that were posted by people I know. I’m sure other’s experiences are different, but the algorithm isn’t feeding me slop for some reason.
- Comment on DHS asks tech companies for names, email addresses and phone numbers of accounts that criticize ICE 1 week ago:
How have I never heard of this? In the digital age the 4th amendment really means nothing…
- Comment on DHS asks tech companies for names, email addresses and phone numbers of accounts that criticize ICE 2 weeks ago:
Not that I disbelieve you but, source please?
- Comment on Kubernetes for beginers? 2 weeks ago:
As the guy whose comment you added to, thanks for pointing out
podman kube play. I’ve ever used it before and it looks worth playing with. It’s a bit limited in terms of what resources it can create if you’re used to k8s, but it definitely looks useful for testing and quickly standing up simple apps. - Comment on Kubernetes for beginers? 2 weeks ago:
Kubernetes has a hell of a learning curve. Once you get your head around it, it can be great but it is a huge lift to learn. For self hosting I’d lean towards docker-compose rather than kubernetes but kubernetes can be nice once you get past the super steep learning curve.
To answer your questions:
- Any Linux flavor will do the job.
- No, windows doesn’t really play nice with containers to begin with. Kubernetes is another layer of complexity that will make it tough.
- Yep, definitely! This is typically done using helm charts. Helm is basically the package manager for kubernetes. There are many helm charts that you can just install into kubernetes and they’ll work for you. You can also roll your own if you have custom applications. Argocd can also be helpful depending on how deep you want to get.
- I’d start by looking into videos on helm charts. That said, you will need a very strong understanding of docker containers and may need a good understanding of networking.
I would strongly recommend looking into deployment using docker-compose over kubernetes until you understand containers inside and out. While Kubernetes can be nice it akso adds another layer of difficulty. I say this as someone who uses kubernetes daily for work, uses off the shelf helm charts, and writes their own helm charts from scratch.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 2 months ago:
I agree with you that this should be illegal. I expect this was in the terms of service, though. Since we have no laws restricting this kind of bullshit, the company can argue that they’re within their rights.
We need some real legislation around privacy. It’s never going to happen, but it needs to. We need a right to anonymity but that is too scary for advertisers and our police state.
- Comment on Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely 2 months ago:
This is the weirdest way to say this. What a weird bot.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 3 months ago:
I got an MS in a STEM field and wasn’t able to buy a house until I was 36, supervising multiple employees, and married to someone who also contributed.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 months ago:
How the fuck is Kid fucking Rock still relevant in any way? I thought he would have just disappeared into obscurity after the 90s ended. Do some people actually still give this guy their money for some reason?
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 4 months ago:
That’s a super smart strategy. It reduces the amount of thinking required and speeds up your ability to answer.
- Comment on AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.' 5 months ago:
What does it mean to be “on the brink of frustration”? It sounds like “almost frustrated”.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 months ago:
It typically is pasteurized if it comes from a woman other than the baby’s own mother. If it is donated milk, for example.
- Comment on In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements 5 months ago:
This man and those enabling him are going to get soooo many people killed. The number of deaths from preventable diseases is going to spike for decades after these policies are enacted. I guess childhood death to terrible, completely preventable diseases is just “part of the human experience”, though.
Fucking evil ghouls. I hope they directly feel the effects of their policies.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 5 months ago:
As I keep telling people, they’re not upset about it because their media aren’t telling them about things like this, at least not in the same terms.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 6 months ago:
Here’s a really interesting article on how it was discovered that citrus would help. They were also able to preserve citrus and citrus juice with alcohol. They could also turn it into a concentrated syrup without too much loss of vitamin C.
From what I just read, they didn’t do this, but dried citrus, when dried at a cool temperature, retains the majority of its vitamin C.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data 6 months ago:
Being that they’re in low earth orbit, they do require some human intervention for station keeping. They also need to monitor the orbits and move the satellite at times to avoid collisions with debris. Lastly, they need to monitor for anomalies so that, if something does go wrong, they can safely dispose of the satellite before the satellite itself becomes another piece of debris.
That, plus data collection and dissipation are the reason the satellites cost $15M/year to operate. The administration wants OCO2 deorbited. I’m not sure what they want done with OCO3 since it is attached to the ISS.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data 6 months ago:
We spent around $1B to develop and launch OCO 1 (failed launch), 2, and 3 combined. Continued operations of OCO 2 and 3 cost about $15M per year in total. Destroying them would be like destroying a skyscraper that is a few years old and costs $15M in annual maintenance. That would be a very cheap building to maintain I’m guessing.
Once on orbit, satellite are extremely cheap and it is our best interests to keep them alive as long as possible.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 6 months ago:
I get why they’d use something like this to save money and time but, is suspect that correct use would include a human check before charging people.
We need to start pushing for laws on this kind of thing. Automated checks are fine if you, as the company, trust they won’t have too many false negatives. If you aren’t checking for false positives, though, you should be heavily fined for each false report. $25,000 per false report sounds like a good place to start. Hopefully that would be large enough to not just be the cost of doing business.
- Comment on Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower 7 months ago:
Ad a fairly senior developer, I’m not at all surprised. AI speeds me up in some circumstances like writing boilerplate; things like kubernetes manifests. It does not speed up my coding, but it does help me explore options, expand my knowledge, and point me down the right track on new methods and packages. It also lets me do things I wouldn’t normally bother with, but which are good practice like finding edge cases for unit tests, packaging for multiple architectures, writing scripts to profile my code, etc.
Essentially, I’m likely slower writing code with AI assistance but I think the code is higher quality because it let’s me quickly assess many options and implement best practices that are normally tedious to implement manually.
I almost never accept code AI has written without modification, but I think I gain a lot from its use.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 7 months ago:
I don’t think so. I think they’ll either use it for very benign tasks or they’ll get a LOT of people killed.
- Comment on oops 7 months ago:
If these aren’t microplastics, what are? “Micro” just means “small” in this case and doesn’t mean “microscopic” or have anything to do with “micrometer”. The definition of “microplastic” is " Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long" according to NOAA.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 7 months ago:
You know, I get it, they’re probably just an asshole. Maybe they’re having an emergency, though. How about just letting them get around in case there is a good reason for driving recklessly? Or maybe just in case they’re nuts enough to make things violent?
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 8 months ago:
Okay, I didn’t look at the image closely enough. Yes, definitely AI. The knobs look like they’re melting. The buttons are all off-kilter. Non of the text is actual text, just AI blurs.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 8 months ago:
Everyone is saying it’s a washer. Couldn’t it be a gas dryer? The combination makes a little sense if they’re both gas appliances. Maybe many apartments only have one gas line and this is the easiest and cheapest way to install a dryer. Add it where there is already gas for the stove.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 8 months ago:
Thank you for providing the extra context. That’s very helpful.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 9 months ago:
I used fakespot a lot. It used huristics to attempt to determine how authentic a product’s reviews are. It analyzed the reviews for things like repeated phrases, odd review activity like bragading, and other things. It then gave a letter grade to the veracity of the reviews and an “adjusted” aggregate review score after removing any reviews that it considered to be suspicious.
I’m going to miss fakespot. I don’t know how accurate it was but it definitely informed my decisions.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 9 months ago:
I think the disagreement here is semantics around the meaning of the word “lie”. The word “lie” commonly has an element of intent behind it. An LLM can’t be said to have intent. It isn’t conscious and, therefor, cannot have intent. The developers may have intent and may have adjusted the LLM to output false information on certain topics, but the LLM isn’t making any decision and has no intent.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 10 months ago:
Be Shapiro is a shit head and deserves all the flack that can be hurled at him. Where does the no chin thing come from, though? He seems to have a pretty normal chin.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 10 months ago:
If true, this is a huge step! Congrats to China!
“Strategic stamina” is something that the US used to have but which has disappeared as the country just tries to catch its breath.
