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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right.

  And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

  Wake up. The decline has already happened. It’s now a game of compromise.

  You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

  It’s ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y’all look petulant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My point still stands.

  You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

  But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

  Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can’t say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

  The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

  They’ve done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

  A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Weren’t you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the issue we are talking about today and calling Ars an “internet rot site” is a huge leap. Yeah, they post shit articles from Wired and such, (they are owned by Conde Nast), but their core writers are still great and have plenty of good articles.

  You want credit for what? Over exaggerating an issue then whining about it?

  You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then spitting on the baby. It makes no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genes be crazy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My anecdotal experience.

  I was in SERE school, in the US Navy.

  We were in the field portion of the training, the low mountains of SoCal.

  I would periodically get this weird, almost bitter smell. Fast forward a day and I realized the smell was when there was an ant on me.

  I don’t know if it was a combo of the environment, the type of ant, the lack of food or showering for a few days, but it was pretty reliable.

  After SERE was over, I have never experienced it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There should always be a rental market of all sizes.

  I was thinking you should be capped at the number of residential properties you own regardless of size.

  Maybe increase property tax rate of subsequent properties by a multiplier?

  Second property, additional 10%, third property 15%, and so on. Maybe 10, than 20, then 30, etc… Whatever drives down ownership and home costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes did the same, but I grew up on a dairy farm and had milk that wasn’t homogenized.

  We used these old one gal apple juice bottles that had a narrow neck, so the cream would float to the top and collect in the narrow opening.

  When I got older, I actually liked getting that first dollop of cream on my cereal.

  Now though, anything over 2% just tastes too heavy. Growing up on unpasteurized milk, I am amazed at what I got away with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It causes the fat to separate. Maybe she got skim milk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Milk is ruined if it is frozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many people at work are having frustrating issues with Windows now.

  It takes so fucking long to start up. Sure, you get a desktop and can open a program, but it just keeps locking up repeatedly for a good 20 minutes while whatever bloatware is running in the background during startup.

  They cram OneDrive down your throat and it has constant issues.

  They put so much shit in your way, in the name of “productivity” it makes your actual productivity worse.

  FUCK COPILOT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not all hostile, but that one sure is acting like you pissed in his cereal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not me, it's you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I were enjoying sexy time and she was on top. My mouth was hideously dry because of a new medication I was on.

  I REALLY want a drink, but I don’t want to kill the moment. She and I are both fully in. So I get the idea, “Baby, spit in my mouth.” Not only did it relieve my dry mouth but it threw me over the edge like Thelma and Louise. I did not expect to react that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point seems very valid to me.

  I don’t even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.

  The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).

  It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I eat moldy cheese all the time!

  But I imagine bleu cheese mold doesn’t have the toxins these other types do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

  When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

  Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

  I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just whitewashing eugenics.

  If he said they were trying to create a super race, everyone we would be up in arms.

  But when they frame it as trying to cure babies, they get away with a lot more.

  There is a reason this is illegal in the US and UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naturally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite thing about Laplace and Fourier transforms was making a fabulous looking F and L.

  Their functions are so fucking spectacularly useful, but I just loved writing it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

  It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

  They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reaction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reaction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say, “That’s not a burger.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.

  It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I don’t trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t about deporting people.

  This is about new H1-B’s coating $100k.

  Companies want their H1-Bs back on the U.S. so they can avoid paying the additional cost as long as they can.

  I do think companies abuse these visa’s, but this is a really fucking stupid approach.

  MAGA really has gone full retard. There is not two brain cells among them.

  They are absolutely incapable of affecting any change without causing consequences that are worse than the perceived initial problem.

  I guess it doesn’t matter when your base, all the way up to the VP, are a bunch of bootlicking morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man show was a left wing attack on incels.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s still on. He is just not getting his contract renewed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man show was a left wing attack on incels.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You may be right.

  I only have time for one show though, and for now, that is Colbert.

  I do think what happened to JK is beyond fucked up and it is just another peg on my radicalization meter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man show was a left wing attack on incels.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This show is the reason I have always dislike him.

  He was kind of funny on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”, so I initially looked forward to this show.

  But then I watched it and it kind of pissed me off. Like, is this what a “man” is supposed to be? A sexist douchebag with a terrible sense of humor.

  It was a TERRIBLE show. Glorified womanizing and binge drinking.

  Despite what he says now, that was who he was. He shouldn’t have had a career after that.

  But he’s just a talking head. He doesn’t write his material, he just reads teleprompters and has celebrity friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Pea Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. It does pull some in, but not directly at earth, and the majority is either “eaten” by Jupiter or slung out of the system.

  Jupiter’s pull is so great, compared to earth, that the ones that do get past or then pulled more towards the sun.

  At least that is how my professor described it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Pea Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a shield for earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can attest to that. I am an EE that moved into Construction Management (much more fulfilling).

  I am running projects that I used to engineer the designs for.

  I fucking hate my engineers.