PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them? 2 days ago:
To me, that’s the killer flaw of these things.
It would be great if they were designed from the ground up to be good machines for running models, say with a GPU that had a copious amount of memory that didn’t cost $1,500 for an add-on. Unfortunately, to do that they’d have to create something from nothing, so instead they’ve added something that is worse than most GPUs, added some dumb software which is designed to pair with the ultimate result of disappointing people, and called it a day.
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 4 comments
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Can I set your car on fire, and only let you out once you’ve shown me the fuse box?
- Comment on ‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high 3 days ago:
ourworldindata.org/…/annual-co-emissions-by-regio…
Pointing fingers isn’t helpful in getting us a solution. But it’s also not helpful to say “no sign” without qualifying it to say that the EU and US have been showing small signs, and their small steady reductions in emissions are being counterbalanced by big increases elsewhere.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
There are a lot of safety situations where you need a mechanical release, where you won’t be able to find the mechanical release if it’s a separate control. Obviously the door itself is mechanical. What people are unhappy about is that it doesn’t easily open in some types of emergencies. Case in point.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 218 comments
- Comment on Russia Faces a Wave of Bankruptcies as Borrowing Costs Skyrocket - The Moscow Times 5 days ago:
I’m not saying I want to copy their model here. I’m just saying that materially, they’ve got it figured out and got their operation working, with most of their people living reasonably well and supportive of the state, and a big place on the world stage.
I’ll put it this way: Look at the war between Russia and Ukraine, with the mouse absolutely tearing up the cat for 2 years and counting now, and then imagine how a war between Russia and China would go.
- Comment on Russia Faces a Wave of Bankruptcies as Borrowing Costs Skyrocket - The Moscow Times 5 days ago:
Guys: You know that if you ruin the US with Trump, then even if you can undo the sanctions, you still won’t have access to all these Western markets that you’re so upset you can’t have access to. You won’t become any better at war, and all of a sudden start being able to win against a modern army. All you’ll do is replace lack of access to a working market with working access to a broken market.
There’s a maximum size that any nation-state’s operation can grow to, under a king. It’s just not sustainable to make it work on a big scale if people have no reason to care because it’s all under someone else’s thumb. It’s why all the European powers were always fractured from each other like a big game of Civilization. The Soviet state at least pretended to care and take care of its people, and had people loyal to the cause, so it was able to grow to half the world. Once it was all under King Putin, it collapsed to its present sorry state and then just stayed there.
The US is way above that size limit. If Trump’s movement succeeds as remaking it as a kingdom, which it has a pretty credible shot at doing, the west is fucked. But that still doesn’t mean you’ll all of a sudden have silicon valley and Hollywood. It just means no one will have it.
You’ve had 25 years to make your thing thrive. Plenty of people have done it. China did. It’s not just us being mean to you.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 6 days ago:
They’re part of a wide community that saw a bunch of messaging about how “I will NEVER vote for Kamala Harris because (reason), I just feel like (thought-terminating cliche)”, and got suckered by it. It happened that the reason was “Palestine” and the thought-terminating cliche was, “genocide is a red line for me” or one of the other flavors. I think you’re right that the Palestine audience was pretty small, but the total of all the audiences was absolutely massive. I think that was what cost Harris the election. They just know how to do manipulation of the public on a whole new level.
The messaging was even often contradictory depending on the audience being spoken to. She enabled a genocide, and she betrayed Israel, and she’s soft on crime and crime is everywhere, and she’s a cop who locked up black men for possession of a joint, and she’s even more cruel than Trump on immigration, and she wants to wreck our country with open borders, and she ruined the economy.
Only a tiny fraction of it was ever true, but if you’re the target audience for some piece of it, and got exposed to the messaging every day, it starts to sink in. It’ll resonate with you.
The one thing that’s darkly comic about this whole situation is that Netanyahu hasn’t yet realized what a terrible partner Trump is for anything. He’s going to rush into a full-scale war with Iran, and then ask Trump to be sending all the aircraft carriers and weapons and doing all the agonized diplomacy Biden has been doing for him that always shields him from consequences, basically try to guilt trip the US into winning the war for him. And someday, instead of doing that, Trump’s going to say, “I tried but they wanted me to put it in writing or something, I don’t know, this is hard” and stop returning his calls.
- Comment on community not federating 2 weeks ago:
How long did you wait? Sometimes it takes some time for things to get federated.
As long as someone is subscribed to from your home instance, it should get there, though.
- Comment on A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding 2 weeks ago:
If they link directly to {instance}/c/{community} but not to !{community}@{instance} it can chime in with that second thing.
Most people link to something, but they don’t always link to the thing that works everywhere.
- Comment on A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding 2 weeks ago:
There should be a bot.
Actually, do you want me to make a bot? It wouldn’t be hard.
- Comment on A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding 2 weeks ago:
!lemmy_check@lemmy.world
- Comment on X makes its basic API tier more costly, launches annual subscriptionsh 2 weeks ago:
Somebody pointed out that when he does that weird jumping thing he’s started doing in stage appearances, he’s sticking his arms and legs all straight out spread apart, like he’s trying to make an X with his body.
I don’t know if that’s his goal, but a lot of people are saying it.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
It is an an immune system against the normies.
I am dead serious. I think it’s a good idea. It won’t last forever before they think it’s cool and start adopting it, but it’ll work for a while.
- Comment on X makes its basic API tier more costly, launches annual subscriptionsh 2 weeks ago:
Fifty four THOUSAND dollars?
Are you high?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A lot of Lemmy mods, especially on Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world, see themselves as arbiters of what people are and aren’t allowed to say.
It’s very weird. It is the Reddit model that they’ve inherited, and you can avoid it to a certain extent by just avoiding those communities and instances that tend to do things that way. But I think at the end of the day that this model of moderation is simply always going to have this failure mode attached to it. It’s a silly thing for anyone to agree to who is an adult who can speak their mind unmonitored by a chaperone who is approving or banning each message like some sort of schoolmarm overseeing the class discussion and ordering someone out if they get out of line. We only put up with it because most mods are fine, the damage is slight most of the time, and it’s hard to find an alternative.
I wrote more on the topic in this exact community a while back if you want to read. I plan to write up a part 2 which includes some guesses for what could be done about it. If you want, I can send you a note when it’s written.
- Comment on Update on my plant. Unfortunately it might be sick, it has been getting worse every since I brought it home 2 weeks ago:
Check for bugs on the underside of the leaves. Sometimes mealy bugs can look almost like flat stationary spots on the leaves, not like bugs at all, but you’ll still see them and you can separate them from the leaf like a little scab.
If it’s dying near the “trunk” but alive at the edges, it might be root rot. You can try splicing one large section of it into a vase of water and then into a new pot with soil, if that’s it, since there’s not a way to reverse that as far as I know.
If it’s just losing leaves but nothing else is wrong, it might just be shock of moving around or something. It might be fine.
Don’t overwater.
This is my only advice, I hope it works out okay.
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- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Because cheaper. And now, I know why.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
It’s basic economics in its ugly application.
Usually, the people who are buying stuff come in different tiers: The people who want to pay the least at all cost, people who are careless enough to get fleeced out of a few dollars for the same crappy product if paying less is difficult, and people who are willing to pay a premium for really good stuff. There’s an art to structuring your service to catch all of the tiers, and make sure that they’re all going to pay the highest price they will accept, and I think “basic economy” is a new technological development in drawing a more effective distinction between tiers 1 and 2.
What makes it ugly is that they’re designing deliberately punitive features into the service to push people up into tier 2 who would otherwise be going on Kayak and just clicking the “cheapest” button. If you have any willingness to pay $40 more, they want it. They’re going to put you to the test a little bit, to make sure that you’re committed to the lowest price, and then if so they’re going to punish you a little for it, while still taking your money.
American and United are now both on the no-fly list for me, I think. I may have to see what airlines are decent, when you fly them one tier up.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
The same thing happened in Australia. It is a tragedy.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
You used to be able to carry on one reasonable size bag, and they didn’t stress about it because the total load of luggage / purses / backpacks and so on was fine. You could do what you wanted and they’d fly you where you were going.
Then some genius realized they could charge people $40 for checked bags, so everyone started carrying everything on, so it became a problem and they had to start checking everything at the gate for everyone who didn’t feel like paying the $40 extra for no reason fee, which was the majority of people.
This is just the natural end point of that evolution, where they initiate open hostility to the customer and try to force you into paying $45 more than the ticket price and actively fuck with you to try to bully you into submitting to it.
It’s partially the fault of everyone who just goes on Kayak and hits whatever is the cheapest option. That’s what I do, anyway. Or did, until this week, when I learned my lesson about it.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
That’s why almost everyone who uses Comcast uses Comcast.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Same reason I have Comcast internet.
You lost me. I was with you right up until that point, but then you went off the deep end.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 97 comments
- Comment on BRICS leaders adopt joint declaration following summit in Kazan 3 weeks ago:
No kidding. At least Biden had the commitment to “call for” a cease fire in Gaza the last 8 or 10 times we just barely missed having one for some reason, instead of just noting them with appreciation.
Doing worse than that cannot be anything other than a deliberate choice of messaging, which sorta undercuts their central message about how unfairly mean the whole rest of the world is being to them with sanctions and etc.
- Comment on A little essay I wrote about "mods are power tripping" 3 weeks ago:
Hey, thank you! I appreciate it. I like to put down these thoughts, I have been thinking about it since tinkering around with my own little corner of the operation.