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- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
They can do pre-fabricated architecture, but they haven’t cracked it.
Current prefabricated construction (especially in the context of homes / housing) is still limited in terms of customization and/or requires a huge amount of manual architecture / engineering work, and the consumer facing customization software is still pretty garbage.
People still often use contractors because they want the level of customization they bring, even when off the shelf options are available.
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
It really feels like the wrong technology for the job.
What 3D printing is great at is having one machine, that can produce a billion different parts.
i.e. with my one printer, I can print hooks, or replacement parts that no longer exist or custom organizer that fit exactly my stuff and situation.
It’s fantastic for printing a massive variety of low volume parts / one offs.
It’s not great at printing those things cheaply, or in modular parts (it can be done but it’s often not because it’s a lot of extra effort for one offs). Which in housing, people want cheap (because it’s the most expensive thing they’ll buy), and they want it to be adaptable and changeable.
If anything I suspect an actual housing revolution could come from pre-fab housing, made of a highly customizable and modular component system, but no one has cracked all the pieces require dto implement that yet.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
That makes him Reagan not Hitler.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and at that point, both sources will be meaningless in the context of who the most hated president is.
They will also be meaningless because the same polls were not carried out during previous presidencies, so there is nothing to compare them to.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
or steal billions.
Yes, billions of dollars was funneled from the US government, to defense contractors explicitly to prop up the corporations of Bush and his friends like Cheney.
He is responsible for over a million US exes during COVID. over 1.2% of Americans did not survive his first administration and died directly due to his ego.
I mean fair point, but his COVID policy was also a direct reflection of the will of a huge amount of the American public. Fox News has more deaths in their hands because of COVID then Trump does if you want to be honest about the origin of the anti-vax attitude. It certainly didn’t start with Trump.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
A historian 30 years from now will see them about the same.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly at this point this is the most rationale take I’ve seen in this thread.
I think he’ll be somewhere between Nixon and Gorbachev, like you said, seen as a scumbag that no one will defend, and someone who made the world worse by breaking longstanding traditions and norms that won’t get unbroken, but unlike Nixon and more like Gorbachev I think he’ll be seen as someone who inadvertently caused American power and standing in the world to crumble.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
So this point will become relevant if the hypothetical scenario you imagine in your head comes true? Great argument.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s why historians examine things through hindsight and evidence not flash polls on CNN designed to get headlines.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Lmfao, are you fucking kidding?
Do you not remember the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? The constant bombing of the middle east and the trillions of dollars wasted over decades?
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Lmfao, there not a chance in hell you’d make that argument in real life to a real person.
They would mention the deaths at a single concentration camp, hell they could just mention the deaths from Kristallnacht, and you’d look foolish.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Lmfao, honestly, this thread is making me realize that Trump has a point when he talks about Trump derangement syndrome.
Multiple comments now have compared him to Hitler, which makes you either ignorant of present day reality or grossly ignorant of history.
Like honestly, “casually murdered 150 schoolgirls”. Do you know how many fucking innocent civilians Bush got killed in Afghanistan and Iraq?? It’s more than 150.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
At this point, claiming this is absurd and makes you look foolish.
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 3 weeks ago:
I’m system design there’s almost always a tension between efficiency and adaptability / robustness.
You can write software where code is very isolated and not shared and it makes it really easy to update it quickly and ship it and know that it will run properly, but the cost is usually that there’s more boundaries in the software that create little slowdowns and cause things to have to repeat and it adds up to a slower or more bloated program.
You also have instances where you write your software and it has a bug, and you later go to fix that bug, and you don’t realize that a whole bunch of other software relied on that bug being there.
For instance the Node.js team recently released a security patch that caused them to emit a proper .closing event. Unfortunately an old version of a very popular fetching library breaks when it receives that .closing event because is thought it was supposed to close. It’s fixable but it would be very hard for the node team to know that they would break another piece of software that was listening to undocumented events.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 4 weeks ago:
Socialism might also seek the direct redistribution of wealth via wealth taxes.
The difference is primarily in collecting taxes after the fact rather than having a central body try and actively redistribute everything before payment.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t simp for shit, I called you a divisive dipshit, because your acting like a divisive dipshit, dipshit.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
The irony of calling someone a “lib-shit”, over what is, in the grande scheme of things, a minor quibble, in the literal same sentence they talk about how people are dividing the population intentionally to control them.
Lmfao, you’re the one dividing the population you unselfreflective dipshit. Grow up.
- Comment on What exactly is a third party launcher? 1 month ago:
You asked if you were wrong about what is a third party launcher, and they are pointing out that you were.
Your point of view does not matter when it comes to the definition of ‘first party’, ‘third party’, etc, because that is not how those words are defined.
Whether or not you like games insisting on you using the game developer or publisher’s launcher is separate question from what is or is not a first vs third party launcher.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 2 months ago:
It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.
In my experience:
- Architecture / Engineering / Construction industry (Canada): 9-6, summer hours, loosely enforced.
- Software Industry (Europe): 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
- Software Industry (America): 9-6, fairly enforced
- Software Industry (Canada): 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced
- Comment on Tesla Has 39 Unsupervised Robotaxis Nearly a Year After Launch. At This Rate, They’ll Catch Up to Waymo in 85 Years. 2 months ago:
Honestly, this just exposes how bad the author is at math.
Like congratulations, you’ve heard of a linear trend line, surely all systems can be modelled with nothing more than an unchanging straight line right?
I hope nothing but the worst for Tesla, but this kind of guffawing at the most basic possible extrapolation just makes the author look dumb.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
I mean sure, but that’s an argument against where you locate data centres, not necessarily to stop them entirely. i.e. evaporating that water is a problem in a region that’s already over populated and doesn’t have enough water
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
It doesn’t just disappear. If falls back to he ground.
- Comment on When did programming become "coding"? 3 months ago:
If you’re a user who grows up using one, and then starts following instructions on how to build one, when are you going to come across the word program?
It will be app, maybe application, saas software, functions a service, compute as a service etc etc. Hell what most people think of as an “app” is really a collection of applications all working together.
- Comment on When did programming become "coding"? 3 months ago:
It’s probably predominantly because of the switch to mobile computing / smartphones being dominant, and everyone referring to them there as “apps” / applications instead of programs.
i.e. If you write a mobile app with a function-as-a-service backend, you will never compile what someone would refer to as a “program”, so calling yourself a “programmer” (as-in, someone who makes programs) feels inaccurate and a not helpful description for people. “Coder” (as-in, someone who writes code) is a vaguer in terms of the type of code you write and more accurate in terms of what you spend your time producing.
- Comment on When did programming become "coding"? 3 months ago:
In your specific circles.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 3 months ago:
It’s honestly worth keeping the principle behind crumple zones in mind with everything:
If energy can go somewhere else, then less of it will be transferred to what matters.
For cars, the energy going into bending and breaking the materials of the crumple zone then doesn’t get transferred to the interior compartment.
For Xbox controllers, they’re designed so that when they drop, the batteries shoot out and go flying, which means less energy goes into the controller shell and internals.
And with a lot of laptops these days, you’re seeing the actual toughest, most survivable ones not be built out of heavy rigid metal and glass like Apple does, but out of light flexible aluminum composites. A) they weigh less so there’s less potential energy involved in a fall, and B) some of the energy gets transferred into bending the shell which will then snap back to form.
- Comment on If someone is involved in illegal stuff... like say you built a drug empire... do they every get like... therapy for all the times they have to murder someone or almost get murdered? 3 months ago:
This isn’t an explanation, it’s a thought terminating phrase. Youre just othering people as psychopaths/monsters/inhuman.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 3 months ago:
I mean, to be fair, electrical engineering is one of the most notoriously difficult to grasp disciplines.
People don’t generally have a great intuitive sense for how pulsed electromagnet waves propagate through 3d space and time.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 3 months ago:
I’ve used the advanced systems analysis math I learned in university as an actual calculation in my job precisely zero times.
I roughly think about how it applies to situations and how that will effect the various likely outcomes and behaviours etc on a literal daily basis.
University isnt just about training you to do a job.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 3 months ago:
If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.