CandleTiger
@CandleTiger@programming.dev
- Comment on China's humanoid robot firms make up half of exhibitors at CES 2026 2 weeks ago:
it is the only thing giving them an advantage over the USA
That’s really not true at all anymore. China is an absolute manufacturing powerhouse. Almost all of the industry that used to be the USA’s strength in the ‘50s is China’s strength now.
They haven’t been the cheapest labor anymore for a while now and they don’t need to be.
Don’t get me wrong, the USA has other, newer strengths now — tech and design, among others. But they do appear to be throwing them away and ceding to others — especially China — as hard and fast as they can.
On the other hand, humanoid shape for robots seems like an extreme waste of technical complexity and cost, so in my opinion this particular article is mostly showing up how China is also beating the USA at being faddish and dumb following tech fashion.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 2 weeks ago:
Is this for real? That’s incredibly stupid.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 3 weeks ago:
If you want to get advantage from a speculative fund making a bet on a popped bubble, then you need to be already invested now, before the bubble bursts. (And also, you/your fund need to be right that it’s really about to pop now, and not later)
Once the race is over it’s too late to bet on the ponies.
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 4 weeks ago:
I mean… it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.
<old man shakes fist at cloud> I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.
- Comment on Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company 4 weeks ago:
“Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 5 weeks ago:
Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.
- Comment on Be careful with this information 1 month ago:
And you’re not going to share the results of your research??
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 1 month ago:
I don’t know where you’re from but it’s clearly not Chicago.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 month ago:
Turns out that, taken as a topical behavior across the general population of library users, it’s really fucking intensely difficult.
- Comment on It's important! 2 months ago:
Insert Sartre
joke_serious philosophical statement _ here“I’m sorry, we’re out of cream. Would you like your coffee with no milk, instead?”
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 2 months ago:
Nobody’s fucking raw pasta, mate
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 months ago:
Mark Twain talks about tipping over outhouse and other pranks as the main activity on Halloween. So I guess if we assume he’s an honest narrator of his time (definitely in doubt…) then trick or treating is a mass extortion
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
I’m probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, “No actually do that more,”
No, ðere are two of us.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 2 months ago:
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
From the article:
we do not claim it is true
That’s some hard-hitting journalism right there
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 3 months ago:
I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.
For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.
- Comment on For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links 3 months ago:
Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.
- Comment on A miss communication 3 months ago:
It is a 1982 Lincoln or close enough. Damn, I’m good! But it’s a photoshop they stretched out a short segment through the corner lights to be unnaturally long.
- Comment on A miss communication 3 months ago:
Somebody ID this car for me? Make, model, and approximate year? I really want to know.
I’m thinking maybe 1982 Lincoln??
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 3 months ago:
I guess different people have different special talents.
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 3 months ago:
You really do. Have you tried it?
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 3 months ago:
Is eating erasers going to get you more ostracized than constant nagging from the teacher to not eat erasers?
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 4 months ago:
unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money
Do you really feel like inconveniencing us is unlikely?
A few years ago before I moved away, PNC bank had a few branches with new ATMs that made me tap through ads for loans and special checking accounts.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 4 months ago:
On direct vs indirect object, I’ve heard that before but it doesn’t make sense. None of the other pronouns in English work that way.
Best supporting authority I could find in 15 seconds of looking was Merriam Webster.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 4 months ago:
Pronouns! Whom is correct here.
Who / whom works like He / him —
“The Trump administration attempted to label him a terrorist.”
“The Trump administration attempted to label whom a terrorist?”
“He is the person whom the Trump administration attempted to label a terrorist.”
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 6 months ago:
If you’re really going to do this (questionable imo) then you’d need to find some kind of list that gets updated automatically. Because if you just make fox and OAN suck he’s more likely to find some other, worse thing you never heard of.
But if you do do this behind his back and he notices, you can pretty much forget about him ever trusting you for anything again. Those are the stakes.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 6 months ago:
Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 7 months ago:
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 7 months ago:
Do your guys benefit from all that team building? Or do they just get the same minimum wage no matter what while all the benefits of team efficiency go to the owner?
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 8 months ago:
Babbel is working ok for me for learning French.
Just lessons without all the hearts and ads and crap
