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- 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. 5 days 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. 5 days 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. 6 days 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. 6 days 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. 6 days 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?? 1 week 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] 1 week ago:
Wait, is Jutta Leerdam dating Jake Paul?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week 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 1 week 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... 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 1 month ago:
Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 1 month ago:
VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 1 month ago:
Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 1 month ago:
All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.
Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 month ago:
I like the idea, but I’m annoyed by the inconsistency.
The þ is the th sound in “both”, but not the th sound in “the”; that’s a ð.
Ðough, ðat, ðere Þorough, boþ, þree
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 month ago:
Dude, if you’re going to do this, you should really be spelling ‘that’ like ðat.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 month ago:
Why?