frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Clean butt 10 hours ago:
I like the bidet’s we have at home, but I don’t get the ones that are separate from the toilet. Saw this type when visiting San Juan, PR once. Their plumbing system can’t handle toilet paper very well, so it’s all bidets with a stack of washed towels.
Not only do they take up extra space in the bathroom, but are you supposed to waddle over to this thing with a dingleberry hanging out?
The one argument I’ve heard in their favor is from people with vaginas who don’t like the idea of the built-in sprayer catching bits of poop that’ll get in their cootch.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 3 days ago:
I think a lot of the reports of high bandwidth/cheap rates around Europe are cherry picked. When I looked a nationwide averages, it doesn’t seem particularly better or worse than much of the US. At least, not in the populated areas of the US. Rural access is another issue.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 3 days ago:
A router is also a open-by-default device. It’s not something you would usually use at home unless you’re into that sort of thing. Things we tend to call a “router” are all-in-one router/firewall/switch/access points.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
That level of precision in a resistor would literally be thrown off if you breathed on it. If you actually needed that, then you need to build an extremely controlled environment around it. Even then, the heat from the electricity itself would throw it off. Maybe in a liquid nitrogen bath?
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 days ago:
It has to function the same. It has to follow the same laws as before.
Bur more likely, they know this and it’s all part of privatizing social security.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 4 days ago:
Can-Am Spyders don’t roll over easily. You have to put them into reverse while cranking the wheel and pulling the e-brake.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 5 days ago:
You’re not wrong that the law should change, but there is one thing here. Generally, when we say that 3-wheelers are unstable, we’re talking about one in front/two in back. The opposite configuration, which is what Aptera is using, is generally pretty stable. That one picture of a guy on a recumbent trike is unusual. You almost have to try to do that on purpose.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
“ROFL”
Signed, everyone who has been involved in migrating a codebase before.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 5 days ago:
They won’t, because then it’s legally considered a proper car that has to have air bags and crumple zones and such. They can only make it small and cheap because it’s three wheels.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 6 days ago:
Raising the standards would result in 20-50% of the worst drivers being forced to do something else. If our infrastructure wasn’t so car-centric, that would be perfectly fine.
- Comment on "Meritocracy" 1 week ago:
“Mike colors outside the lines, but doesn’t eat the crayon. He does his best.”
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
It’s nothing of the sort. If nobody had the capital to scale it through more power, then the research would be more focused on making it efficient.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Large power consumption only happens because someone is willing to dump lots of capital into it so they can own it.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
If gigantic amounts of capital weren’t available, then the focus would be on improving the models so they don’t need GPU farms running off nuclear reactors plus the sum total of all posts on the Internet ever.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
Both AI and social media are a shit show because it’s owned by a few people.
Unironically, the best social media is Fetlife. Not that it’s perfect by any means–not by far–but it is designed to facilitate bringing people together.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
The delusional maniacs are going to be surprised when they ask the Super AI “how do we solve global warming?” and the answer is “build lots of solar, wind, and storage, and change infrastructure in cities to support walking, biking, and public transportation”.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 3 weeks ago:
The source code on these models is almost too boring to care about. Training data and weights is what really matters.
- Comment on The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD 3 weeks ago:
These models are trained on human creations with the express intent to drive out those same human creators. There is no social safety net available so those creators can maintain a reasonable living standard without selling their art. It won’t even work–the models aren’t good enough to replace these jobs, but they’re good enough to fool the C-suite into thinking they can–but they’ll do lots of damage in the attempt.
The issues are primarily social, not technical. In a society that judges itself on how well it takes care of the needs of everyone, I would have far less of an issue with it.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
Worst example of tail wagging the dog. Trump says stuff, and followers think it’s a good idea because Trump said it. Nobody actually wanted this.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
I agree, but I understand the temptation. It can take your company from 0 to 100 almost instantly, since you have the budget to hire social media and SEO experts to take you to that magical “viral” status. Not doing this often means toiling in obscurity and never going anywhere. If you do manage to make enough money for your whole team to quit their day jobs, then it almost certainly took longer.
Quick and easy path leads to the Dark Side.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
I personally believe it’s due to lack of public investment in education and technology in western countries.
And you are correct, but why do you assume there’s any eugenics-themed arguments above? There is nothing of the sort. Everything the other poster says is completely compatible with Taiwan investing in education and technology that the US failed to do.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
And still is, so your point is still bunk.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
The US supported Taiwan for ideological reasons long before TSMC was a thing. Your reading of the situation is completely bunk.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
Why would people from Taiwan be deported to China? Even if the US wanted to punish them, Trump hates China more than anybody else.
With a growing number of ARM and RISC-V manufacturers out there, people with these skills are in high demand. You’re completely off base.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
It’s exactly how it works for people with highly specialized skills.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
Engineers from Taiwan that have chip design skills? Yes, they can walk at any time.
You’re taking a general case of H1B visa abuse–which is completely valid in broad terms–and applying it to a specialized case where the materials conditions are different.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
Lots of the Musk Administration stuff has zero constituency. It’s just stuff him, Trump, and a few Heritage Foundation guys thought up. This is one of them. Nobody was asking for tariffs on the whole world or thought it’d be a good idea.
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 weeks ago:
Right, Dolphin had an encryption key in there for the Wii that was hardcoded in. That is apparently the one bit of legal leverage Nintendo has to keep it off Steam, though being Nintendo, they would likely fight it, anyway.
In any case, the key could be a user provided configuration option, or tools for ripping games could do the decryption on their own. Either should keep the code safe from Nintendo being able to win a case. Though again, doesn’t stop Nintendo from trying and exhausting your ability to fight it.
- Comment on Alphabet's Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source says 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft got off the hook when Bush II took office. Tech in general took that as a sign that monopolies were fine. That was just starting to be reversed when Trump took a second term and here we are.