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- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 4 days ago:
Why would this be my first time reading about the stock market? Do you think this is the first bubble?
Yes, hype and bubbles are common on the stock market, that’s not all it is, and that doesn’t make them okay. The dot-com bubble led to a crash. Other bubbles led to crashes. This one will too. How long that will take? That depends on the number of greater fools, or on how long they can keep inflating this with financial trickery.
Teslas are still the gold standard of EVs. They’re not the cheapest, but they’re what everyone wants.
That was years ago. Tesla sales are dropping in many places, while other the other EV sales are growing. Tesla has peaked, there’s no sign of anything that will reverse it. And their sales have never justified their stock value.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 5 days ago:
Have your wife buy it and gift it to you.
But yes, this sort of price discrimination is weird and deadly for any sort of free market.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 6 days ago:
However you like. Download it straight from the publisher, buy it on cdrom, buy it on gog, epic or any other platform. There’s no enforced monopoly for PC games, and the only one who could enforce one is Microsoft.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 week ago:
But that’s all bubble. Tesla isn’t selling even enough cars to justify its current valuation, and sales are slowing down. The current valuation of Tesla is based entirely on hype, and has been for years. For ever, really, but in the early years it could be justified because it was the fastest growing car company ever, and EVs were new and hot. Now everybody is building EVs, and more than Tesla.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 week ago:
They’re investing this much because they honestly seem to think they’re on the cusp of super intelligent AGI. They’re not, but they really seem to think they are, and that seems to justify these insane investments.
But all they’re really doing is the same thing as before but even bigger. It’s not going to work. It’s only going to make things even more expensive.
I use Copilot and Claude at work, and while it’s really impressive at what it can do, it’s also really stupid and requires a lot of hand holding. It’s not on the brink of AGI super intelligence. Not even close. Maybe we’ll get there some day, but not before all these companies are bankrupt.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 week ago:
It’s magic that will magically transform the world and make everybody rich and magically do our work for us. Like in Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 2 weeks ago:
What a great idea to test this on paying customers’ live production websites.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
Filming someone naked inside their own home? I don’t see how that’s within her rights. If she was outside, or she had an automatic body cam. Or if he was actually threatening or assaulting her and not asleep. Those are the only excuses I can think of.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Look, if the guy is a creep and set this up intentionally, then shame on him and I hope at the very least he gets banned from door dash. I’m just saying we’re only hearing one side of the story, and there seems to be some questionable aspects to that side, so I’m a bit reluctant to judge the guy based on that.
I’m all for condemning creeps when it’s clear that they are creeps. I’m just a bit reluctant to judge someone on so little and somewhat vague evidence.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
Naturists are often naked in their home. Lots of people are naked after a shower. He could have gotten home tired, order food, have a quick shower, and crash on the couch after that.
A deliverer should just ring the doorbell and wait at the door, not enter uninvited or try to peer inside.
I mean, it could have been an intentional exhibitionist setup, but it doesn’t have to be. And entering someone’s home and filming them sleeping naked, sounds a lot creepier to me.
I mean, the guy could be a creep, but he could be innocent too. She might be the innocent victim, but she might also be the creep here. We only hear her side of the story.
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
The fact that she filmed him inside his own home certainly sounds iffy to me. Do door dashers carry a body cam that films everything? That could explain how she accidentally filmed him. But if she filmed him intentionally, inside his own home, then doesn’t that technically make her the sex offender in this story?
- Comment on A young woman was sexually assaulted while out DoorDashing. Two days after she reported the assault to DoorDash, they deactivated her account and she can't access the money she's owed. 3 weeks ago:
Is she the victim, though? From what I understand, the guy wasn’t at the door, but asleep (or pretending to be) in his own home, which should be entirely legal. The “more info” link says the door was ajar and she filmed him. If she pushed open the door, entered his home and filmed him there, she might be the sex offender here.
Of course if he set this up intentionally, that’s exhibitionism (not voyeurism, as the article incorrectly calls it), but still, inside his own home.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry too much about the rat race. Take time to enjoy life and experience things with people you care about. The best moments in life can be really small things.
At the same time, don’t waste too much time doing nothing either; use your time well, but use it to develop and improve yourself, learn something useful. Get a job you enjoy or consider important, at least. Doing work that you enjoy or consider important is far more valuable than the money you make. But don’t ignore the money either. Just don’t sacrifice your soul for it. Don’t work yourself to death for a boss who doesn’t appreciate you. Don’t burn your relationships for money.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Wait, is Jutta Leerdam dating Jake Paul?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 4 weeks ago:
They lucked into it. They made their cards for gamers, and various groups, AI researchers, bitcoin miners and others, discovered that they those gamer GPUs were really good for other tasks too. I think it took a while before Nvidia started making specialised cards for those purposes.
I can’t really blame them for serving that market that they just lucked into. I can and will blame them for their terrible Linux support.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 4 weeks ago:
Well, they now control all the money, so they can decide all the value.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
We should make dazzle makeup standard when going outside. It’s the perfect fashion trend for today.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 5 weeks ago:
What it needs most of all, is a fairly complete intuitive model of how the world works. LLMs only have book knowledge. They have no body, perception or experience. I think that’s incredibly limiting.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 5 weeks ago:
We need to get the right to privacy and control over our own devices enshrined as fundamental rights, like so many other rights the EU protects.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 5 weeks ago:
The main thing that AI has shown, is how much bullshit we subconsciously filter through every day without much effort. (Although clearly some people struggle a lot more with distinguishing between bullshit and fact, considering how much politicized nonsense has taken hold.)
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
I’ve found it’s pretty good at refactoring existing code to use a different but well-supported and well documented library. It’s absolutely terrible for a new and poorly documented library.
I recently tried using Copilot with Claude to implement something in a fairly young library, and did get the basics working, including a long repetitive string of “that doesn’t work, I’m getting error msg [error]”. Seven times of that, and suddenly it worked! I was quite amazed, though it failed me in many other ways with that library (imagining functions and options that don’t exist). But then redoing the same thing in the older, better supported library, it got it right on the first try.
But maybe the biggest advantage of AI coding is that it allows me to code when my brain isn’t fully engaged. Of course the risk there is that my brain might not fully engage because of the AI.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
If you know what you want, its automatic code completion can save you some typing in those cases where it gets it right (for repetitive or trivial code that doesn’t require much thought). It’s useful if you use it sparingly and can see through its bullshit.
For junior coders, though, it could be absolute poison.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
Sounds like vibecoders will have to relearn the lessons of the past 40 years of software engineering.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 month ago:
I’ve read that Mohammed even wanted to merge his movement with Judaism, but Jewish leaders rejected him, and apparently that set some bad blood.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 month ago:
Are you sure about that 3000? I thought at the time it was mostly the 6th year of the rule of some king, emperor or governor (Herod, Augustus or Quirinius, most likely), although the Bible doesn’t even provide those kind of dates.
As far as I’m aware, having a single universal reckoning is something that Christianity invented in the middle ages. But still based on the rule of Jesus as king, of course.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 month ago:
I’m a Christian in the Calvinist tradition, but I try to follow Jesus more than Paul. Paul was in my opinion very much a pragmatic who tried to spread Christianity in Greece, and was willing to compromise a bit with Greek sensibilities (which included slavery and misogyny). When in doubt, I look to Jesus instead.
Also, I think Calvin went a bit too far overboard on some things. The reformation was a good thing, but that doesn’t make him right about everything.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 1 month ago:
Cool. A couple of decades ago I read about former astronaut/physics prof Wubbo Ockels working on something like that but with kites. I’ve never heard of any production version of that coming off the ground. I hope this does better.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 1 month ago:
They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 month ago:
That’s indeed a bad development I wasn’t aware of. Even more so if they base their own software on others, and then block others from their platform.
- Comment on Need help with printer recommendations 1 month ago:
I’ve got a Bambu A1 mini that I’m quite happy with. Bambu studio works perfectly fine on Linux, and I can import lots of different kinds of designs from anywhere, but I think you do really need Bambu Studio to prepare the print for this specific printer. I have no idea if there’s any way around that, but is that necessary?
The a1 mini is very good at small details. The main downside is of course that it’s not very big, so not suitable for large prints. It calibrates automatically and is very low maintenance.