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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I’m going to make a new nutritional supplement: “oops! all electrons!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On this specific point, I’d say that neither side seemed poised to pull that again. GOP has historically kicked off the biggest conflicts, but Trump’s rhetoric and even his first term seemed consistent with “it’s not worth risking American military over foreign crap” in a break from the broader GOP.

  His second term seems to have shifted that and you can see it as it fractured his base, to the point where Trump supporters threw “America First” in his face and he petulantly declared HE gets to decide what “America First” means because he "invented’ it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely, you can’t have a house, you have no credit.

  Fine I just paid off a 1.50 loan for a hot dog.

  Ok, now you can borrow 500k because you proved yourself responsible with $1.50

  Reality isn’t too far off, back in the day I couldn’t get a loan because I had zero credit history, but then could get a mortgage after a few months of getting a credit card with like a 500 dollar credit limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind this is a system with millions of miles under it’s belt and it still doesn’t understand what to do with a forced left turn lane in a very short trip in a fairly controlled environment with supremely good visual, road, and traffic conditions. LIDAR wouldn’t have helped the car here, there was no “whoops, confusining visibility”, it just completely screwed up and ignored the road markings.

  It’s been in this state for years now, of being surprisingly capable, yet horrible screw ups being noted frequently. They seem to be like 95% of the way there and stuck, with no progress in reality just some willfull denial convincing them to move forward anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That safety driver did not give a single fuck about driving on the wrong side of the road…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which brings up an interesting question, when is a driverless car ‘parked’ vs. ‘stopped’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Navigation issue / hesitation

  The video really understates the level of fuck up that the car did there…

  And the guy sitting there just casually being ok with the car ignoring the forced left going straight into oncoming lanes and flipping the steering wheel all over the place because it has no idea what the hell just happened… I would not be just chilling there…

  Of course, I wouldn’t have gotten in this car in the first place, and I know they cherry picked some hard core Tesla fans to be allowed to ride at all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that strikes me about both this story and the thing you posted is that the people in the Tesla seem to be like “this is fine” as the car does some pretty terrible stuff.

  In that one, Tesla failing to honor a forced left turn instead opting to go straight into oncoming lanes and waggle about causing things to honk at them, the human just sits there without trying to intervene. Meanwhile they describe it as “navigation issue/hesitation” which really understates what happened there.

  The train one didn’t come with video, but I can’t imagine just letting my car turn itself onto tracks and going 40 feet without thinking.

  My Ford even thinks about going too close to another lane and I’m intervening even if it was really going to be no big deal. I can’t imagine this level of “oh well”.

  Tesla drivers/riders are really nuts…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who am I, Parker Lewis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.

  But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the Pentium 60 botches your blockchain with some bad floating point operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m making a note here: Huge Success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly the online stuff doesn’t get to me, but I could see how the generalizations could leave a person succeptible to a narrative. Online interactions tend to have some people taking the easy way and espousing simplified generalizations and on the receiving end are a lot of people that may take the online stuff too serious.

  The false dichotomy works because those are the two loudest viewpoints online, that men are villains without a clear path to being accepted or to embrace horribly harmful toxic masculinity to get some screwed up sense of belonging and success. Young men online are at risk of being ill equipped to navigate the nuance That tends to be quieter over the noise of the two more passionate perspectives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize in advance if I missed some very bad0 comments by not going into the deeply down voted comments.

  But at least some of the concerns are about the young men being declared the “villains” and the other side declaring them to be the victims of injustice and they will gravitate toward the more workable message.

  Like bystanders seeing the people making life hard for women and being jerks, but not themselves participating and the commentary is less “that guy is a dick” and more “why are all men so terrible?”

  Sure a lot of guys are terrible, but the generalizations can make it feel like you can’t win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a whole lot of convoluted bullshit to use Plex locally and “looking local” through VPN solutions when you could just roll a Jellyfin instance and do things a more straightforward way…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If a protest of a billion people happens, then it cannot be ignored by the media.

  I know, it was hyperbole, but the point is that if 12 million people are on the street, it’s not that the 12 million people need to get people’s attention, they are indicative that the people already have that perspective and are showing it in the streets.

  A small protest has a goal of getting attention on a problem that people may lack awareness. A multi-million person protest isn’t about a need to raise awareness anymore, it’s about showing the awareness and commitment that is already there. For whatever volume of people actively protest, you can be sure there’s a singnificant multiple of that number of people who agree with the protestors but didn’t take it to the streets for one reason or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I meant the more rhetorical “pushing”, but yes, some of the activity of the claimed non-violence seems a bit violent.

  I would say that I doubt you can have millions of people protest and manage to be completely non-violent. Some folks will take it to violence in the name of the cause, some will opportunisticly do it under the cover of the movement, and finally some might “false flag” to try to discredit the movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, most of those incidents cited were in the face of a regime that also didn’t want to care. Just hard to ignore circumstances if 3.5% of your people are out on the streets and likely most of the people off the streets agree with them.

  On the other hand, they base this on very few instances, so it’s hardly a statistical slam dunk, it’s vaguely supportive of some concepts, but anyone taking note of specific numbers is really overextending the research beyond what it can possibly say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s not “3.5% of people want an outcome” but “protests of significant magnitude to have 3.5% actively on the streets pushing” correlate with a very very large population that agrees, but not enough to be out on the streets.

  So even if 40 million people want single payer, there are not 12 million in the streets.

  But again, this is based on a scant handful of “movements”, so it’s pretty useless on specifics. Most I can see as a takeaway is perhaps that a violent movement may be too high stakes for people and a largely non-violent movement can attract more people and more people usually matter more than more violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the article “no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of a population has ever failed” has the caveat of “we only look at 3 of them, and those 3 worked”.

  So their overall sample size is small, and the 3.5% sample size is just 3. Further, those 3 had no idea someone in the vague future would retroactively measure their participation to declare it a rock solid threshold.

  I think the broader takeaway is that number of people seems to matter more than degree of violence, and violence seems to alienate people that might have otherwise participated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing left unclear is how the determination is made about emergency versus non emergency.

  If it’s a separate number, ok, seems clear cut enough.

  If it’s human always answers and if it’s some bullshit they just click a button to punt to AI instead of just hanging up, ok.

  If they are saying the AI answers and does the triage and hands off immediately to a human when “emergency detected”, then I could see how that promise could fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being able to just cut off access to the application means a customer has little choice.

  For a competitor to pass them, they first have to catch up. To catch up, the customer needs to be able to extract the data from the application to give competition a chance. If they get closer to catching up, they tend to be bought out. Lot of speedbumps to discourage competition. Also, to get funding those competitors have to pretty much promise investors they will also do “as a service”.

  For assets versus expense, I see a pendulum, largely based on how appreciation/depreciation pans out versus acquisition cost and loan interest rates, as well as uncertain start up versus steady business. I’m not sure software is giving enough choice in the matter the let that swing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While “any” is a bit much, I do anticipate a rather dramatic decline.

  One is that there are a large chunk of programming jobs that I do think LLM can displace. Think of those dumb unimaginative mobile games that bleed out a few dollars a week from folks. I think LLM has a good chance at cranking those out. If you’ve seen companies that have utterly trivial yet somehow subtly unique internal applications, LLMs can probably crank out a lot of those to. There’s a lot of stupid trivial stuff that has been done a million times before that still gets done by people.

  Another is that a lot of software teams have overhired anyway. Business folk think more developers mean better results, so they want to hire up to success, as long as their funding permits. This isn’t how programming really works, but explanations that fewer people can do more than more people in some cases can’t crack through how counter-intuitive that is. AI offers a rationalization for a lot of those folks to finally arrive at the efficient conclusion.

  Finally, the software industry has significantly converted transactional purchases to subscription. With perpetual license, you needed to provide some value to drive that customer who bought from you 5 years ago a reason to upgrade. Now with subscription models, you just have to coast and keep the lights on for those customers. Often with effective lock-in of the customers data to make it extra hard or impossible for them to jump to a competitor, even if competitors could reverse-engineer your proprietary formats, the customer might not even be able to download their actual data files. So a company that acheived “good enough” with subscription might severely curtail investment because it makes no difference to their bottom line if they are delivering awesome new capability or just same old same old. Anticipate a log of stagnation as they shuffle around things like design language to give a feeling of progress while things just kinda plateau out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think AI is a component of the decline.

  For decades, companies have operated under the misunderstanding that more software developers equals more success, despite countless works explaining that’s not how it works. As a result many of these companies have employed an order of magnitude more than they probably should have and got worse results than they would have. However the fact they got subpar results with 10x a good number just convinced them that they didn’t hire enough. Smaller team produce better results made zero sense.

  So now the AI companies come along and give a plausible rationalization to decrease team size. Even if the LLM hypothetically does zero to provide direct value, the reduced teams start yielding better results, because of mitigating the problems of “make sure everyone is utilized, make sure these cheap unqualified offshored programmers are giving you value, communicate and plan, reach consensus along a set up people who might all have viable approaches, but development into arguments over which way to go”.

  AI gives then a rationalization to do what they should have done from the onset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh Proxmox install w/ full disk encryption—so install Debian first, then Proxmox on top?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use one of a few ways to use the TPM to auto decrypt on boot without passphrase. Systems crypt enroll is my favorite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh Proxmox install w/ full disk encryption—so install Debian first, then Proxmox on top?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it says to do so?

  Proxmox uses Debian as the OS and for several scenarios it says do Debian to get that done and just add the proxmox software. It’s managing qemu kvm on the normal Debian kernel…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were people happier in the past?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note this experience is specific to the US and Western Europe. A great deal of relief and prosperity. Things get more complicated for the former Soviet centered world as they tried to navigate the new situation

  Putin came to power basically because post soviet Russia failed to reach the sort of prosperity they hoped for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were people happier in the past?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He mentions creating more problems than we’ve solved, which like you I disagree, but on the other hand he asked if the world was, presumably on average, “happier”.

  I think that could be a tougher call. On the one hand, the average life experience is by any rational consideration better now, but as communication has advanced now everyone gets to know about the most miserable news that they would have previously been completely oblivious to.

  So while atrocities always were happening, 50 miles away people would have no idea. Now any such event on the other side of the world has instant awareness.

  So we get exposed to harsh realities constantly and if we have any shred of empathy we get burdened with that. Those realities may be smaller compared to the population than before, but their emotional impact is far broader.