winterayars
@winterayars@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
The American auto industry could also produce EVs, if it so chose. Nobody has to lose their jobs.
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 3 weeks ago:
My work moved to that model, to get promoted you have to first work at that level for free.
Then, of course, they don’t promote you because you’re already doing the work for them. Why should they?
- Comment on Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure Apple was dragged, kicking their feet and screaming all the way, into banning all the competing services too…
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 2 months ago:
This is like the best actual answer.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 2 months ago:
Maybe cars should not be so easy to steal… I thought we came to an agreement on this.
- Comment on Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages 3 months ago:
This is kind of a survivorship bias kind of thing (with the WW2 bombers): NOT getting the news is the actual indicator of lack of quality control. Getting reports of them finding things is an indicator they’re actually looking. We know they had problems due to the whole, you know, planes falling out of the sky.
Of course it’s not black and white, what’s in the news isn’t really the important thing either way. It’s just what we can see.
- Comment on Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages 3 months ago:
I know Boeing is kind of fucking everything up right now, but safety delays are an indicator of safety, not the opposite.
- Comment on Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs 3 months ago:
Layoffs fundamentally change the tone of a company in a serious way. I think “chilling” is a good word.
- Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 3 months ago:
I keep seeing people say this and
- The CEO is not alone responsible for the culture, especially when he was only CEO for 4 years
- He wasn’t the guy who oversaw the 737 Max development. That would be his predecessor, James McNerney, an MBA.
Obviously Muilenberg didn’t fix everything wrong with the company during his time there, for all i know he made it worse. However, i keep seeing this cited as some kind of own to the critique of modern Boeing and it isn’t. It just isn’t.
- Comment on CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 3 months ago:
I mean we saw this in 2023. Companies fired people and replaced them with AI that was unable to do the job.
- Comment on Yeah, I'm gonna take a second opinion on that... 3 months ago:
Turn a bowl upside-down and slap this bad boy on top of it. Boom, proof the bowl is a plate.
- Comment on Should this be in unethical life pro tips 4 months ago:
That’s basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 4 months ago:
That depends on what your definition of “publicly available” is. If you’re scraping New York Times articles and pulling art off Tumblr then yeah, it’s exactly stealing in the same way scihub is. Only difference is, scihub isn’t boiling the oceans in an attempt to make rich people even richer.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 4 months ago:
Man, imagine how much better the world would be if accountants would face consequences when their decision was to blame?
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 4 months ago:
I look forward to the courts being very normal about that argument.
The law in NC (not sure about the Utah one) doesn’t care about where the login is coming from. It only cares about where the user is located. The user concealing that information, on purpose or by accident, does not mean the website can ignore its requirements under the law.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 4 months ago:
Even that would not be enough to protect Pornhub, too. Some kid gets on their parents’ account? Bam, lawsuit. Even the total ban is not enough. Some kid uses a VPN to access the site? Lawsuit.
It is not physically possible to comply with these laws. (The NC one at least.)
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 4 months ago:
No way was i missing a Ferrari Enzo.
- Comment on When you used all the cheat codes in GTA 4 months ago:
I saw the Ferrari and the plane immediately but not the tank. I guess camo works sometimes even if it’s in a stupid environment for it.
- Comment on Task failed successfully? 4 months ago:
I guarantee his death is listed as “suicide” in the official report.
- Comment on Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises 4 months ago:
But what if i want to do all my work inside a JavaScript “application” inside a web browser inside a desktop?
(We really do have do much CPU power these days that we’re inventing new ways to waste it…)
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
“The paradox of tolerance” as originally stated is not “in conflict with itself”, it is pointing out a conflict that exists within the idea of “tolerance as a moral good”. The point is that “tolerance” will eventually give way to “intolerance”… one way or another. So: pick your side wisely.
I think there are problems with the concept as it is started (others have proposed some in this post) but it’s trying to address the conflict.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them
-Dril
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
Who the fuck feels safe sleeping among Nazis? That’s a good way to get robbed.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
“I don’t like Nazis… but you have to understand, they’re very profitable.”
- Comment on My hand are normal, and loook 4 months ago:
This could be Devilman.
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED 4 months ago:
Dude’s fucking a significant chunk of Hawaii for his hobby.
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 5 months ago:
Yes of course GM only has its customers’ data’s best interests at heart i’m sure…
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
There is, for better or worse, authoritarianism on the left. “You will be fed and given a place to stay and personal safety… or else!” Even in its more benign forms (ex Bolshevism) it’s kinda bad imo. When it gets extreme it gets… well… being an English speaker i’m sure you’ve heard all about it.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
I mean that’s a very wacky and stupid opinion but go on any one of those servers in that list and you’ll probably see much, much worse things being claimed about gay people and not just by one person.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Places like Lemmygrad and Hexbear are actually pretty benign. They’re just on the verge of being acceptable to people so they make a lot of noise and cause a lot of drama but in terms of the actual bad actors… well, as you can see, they don’t even rate.