Mniot

@Mniot@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is when there’s an owner-class controlling production via capital. It doesn’t really matter what they’re producing or at what cost or who’s consuming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because cross-country trains and heavy use of them to move goods and people predates cars by quite a bit. Trains were a key component of the North winning the Civil War, for example.

  Lots of existing train infrastructure needed to be torn out to make room for car infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you suggesting that’s why the US hasn’t improved trains? Is there something about train improvements specifically that you think is harmful?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Working hard, or jerking hard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It’s good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don’t bother you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at the code, it reads like it was written by LLM: chatty commit messages, lack of spelling/capitalization errors, bullet points galore, shit-ton of “Fix X” commits that don’t read like they’re increasingly-frustrated, worthless comments randomly scattered like “i + 1 // add 1 to i” without any other comments on the page.

  No security review because none of the code has been reviewed and he doesn’t know what’s in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The title of this post is disappointing. The given answer is sound and it seems safe to assume it was arrived at by thinking mathematically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhubarb⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people think, “oh this witch leaving a note means she’s really powerless and I can keep taking the rhubarb.” It’s not going to be so awesome when she forecloses on his first-born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commercial software has advertising: people whose job is to advertise it. That means TV and web ads for Bluesky, influencers talking about it. It also means a team of software engineers building parts of the system specifically to draw people in, whereas non-commercial software often rejects that (lack of infinite-scroll on Lemmy’s default UI, for example).

  Activity Pub also requires a different mind-set that doesn’t exist elsewhere on the internet today. You need to decide which instance to join, or maybe to host your own instance. But it doesn’t really matter, because you can federate with other instances. But you have to drive some of that federation, so it does matter a little. It’s pretty complex and confusing and its a problem that only exists in this one niche of software.

  Bluesky gives you an infinite feed that feels like you’re connected to the entire Internet without you doing any work. I think the AP service are doing really well, considering what they’re up against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the article, it seems like cult-follower behavior. Not everyone is susceptible to cults (I think it’s a combo of individual brain and life-circumstances), but I wouldn’t say, “eh, it’s not the cult’s fault that these delusional people killed themselves!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an answer to your question, but I thought this was a nice article for getting some basic grounding on the new AI stuff: arstechnica.com/…/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-ho…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a former president some feedback⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m holding out hope that we can still turn it around and defeat Santa Claus