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- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 8 hours ago:
Even in that case, it’s not like he’s killing them. He just said we’re not going to try to save them.
I’m against pretty much everything that guy has ever said, and would have chosen to greatly expand USAID for all the lives it was saving and misery avoided …… but there is a huge ethical distance between killing them and not going out of your way to save them. Wither way it helps if you’re a sociopath, but they are different
- Comment on Now just throw your hands in the air.....and wave em like you just don't care! 1 day ago:
Meanwhile here it’s false spring. We had a small snowfall like a week ago but ever since the temp has been 10-20°F so that little bit of snow never melted. Yesterday got above freezing so the snow is gone!
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 day ago:
If you are 20 years into your career and want to rank up to earn more money, an MBA is probably more expensive than it is worth.
Or the opposite. It’s still situational. My uncle had a long career at a large company and worked his way up to a very senior position. But he hit a ceiling where he would no longer be promoted without the appropriate degree. In his situation it was worth going back to college after 35 years in his career. Because it meant a promotion and raise, or not
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 day ago:
Sorry but it’s never a stupid idea. It’s only a situational thing where the question is whether you can make it work. That’s not necessarily age related.
Actually going through the other side of this right now with a kid not doing well at school. At what point is it a better idea to consider a gap year? The problem is any age after schooling is interrupted is much harder to get back. Some people make it work, fantastic, but once you hop off the treadmill you’ll probably stop running
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 days ago:
Since no one can afford health insurance, vaccines are apparently bad, and our government is prescribing horse dewormer …. We’re getting there
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 3 days ago:
Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 4 days ago:
I’ve wondered if people’s watch lists are prioritized to be pay videos. The first time I saw this I wondered why my watch list was mostly pay videos: I must have misunderstood something. Do I created it again with only free shows. A year later it was mostly pay
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 4 days ago:
In the us, Tesla has a much higher reputation for chargers that actually work when you need them. Usually the credit goes to better sensors and more responsive service, but an underrated factor is larger charging stations with many more chargers. One failing of twelve is less impact than one failing of four, for example.
As yet another anecdote showing how regressive/spiteful US treatment of EVs is …… over the summer I saw an article about a new vendor winning contract for New Jersey rest areas. Part of the contract was to replace 12 charger Tesla supercharger rest areas with “equivalent” four charger that cost 20¢/KwH more
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 4 days ago:
Yeah I think it’s mainly North America (us?) that’s the problem.
However the standards process worked, it created poor choices and was not effective. Twice. At least we’re finally coalescing on a de facto standard, and NACS is better than the previous two choices
But yeah the app situation is bad. While I appreciated using chargers that use my cars internal ID, and just worked, that clearly doesn’t scale. Now that we’re trying to scale out to general use so we really need credit card readers instead of a plethora of apps.
Not requiring an app was one of the prerequisites for federal incentive money, but the short-sighted administration retracted that
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
Rinse it in hot water
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
Yeah I think you’re just lucky. I also live in a masonry house and would describe the bugs I get inside as much less than your description. For the most part, sweets and stuff are in sealed containers.
But my weak point is dog food. Not the container, the bowl. If the dog scatters crumbs and we don’t notice or don’t clean it same day, we’ll get that line of ants cleaning it for us.
They’re always there, ready and waiting until you need their help cleaning something
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
You’re not going to see that until one of the scouts discovers the open honey jar and reports back
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
You don’t have to rotate a spoon
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
Just squeeze the little plastic bear and the honey spurts out the top of its head
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 5 days ago:
4, because I work partly remote so there have been occasions where I have no reason to leave the house or see another person for four days. I’m introverted so it’s kind of nice, but it’s probably not healthy
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
Sprint is an interesting example because I believe regulators did block previous merger attempts on exactly those grounds.
It’s yet another case subject to the whims of whatever administration is in charge, and we’re stuck with the fallout
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 week ago:
Fwiw I like ll beans. It’s quite expensive but really durable
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
You got it!
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
Isn’t there a movie with that premise? They survive but have to watch over a few months as radiation in the northern hemisphere works its way south. They’re already dead but have to wait months for it to happen
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 1 week ago:
If we wanted to to do that we’d say it wasn’t taking headphones off, it was throwing up its arms in panic that it was having a stroke. See the immediate collapse
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 1 week ago:
While I really don’t want to defend that flop, they didn’t. Their goal was to create identical tiles so the roof looked consistent but only some would be the more expensive solar tiles
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 1 week ago:
For anyone else interested, here’s a more complete list
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 1 week ago:
I want one, but only if it can move assholes that park on the sidewalk
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
Of the boomers I know
- one neighbor was a spiteful asshole, the other not
- my ex’s father is a fairly liberal vet
- my exs mother is not just liberal but is still at her age motivated by how much she can help people working at social services
- my mom is the most liberal in our family and frequently argues with my conservative brother
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 week ago:
And boomers are NOT all the same
Google search tells me 48% Democrat, 46% Republican and the remaining undecided
- Comment on "You let your dog sleep in your bed and on the couch?????" Yeah bro & I'd let him borrow my car too if he needed it 1 week ago:
6-7 miles walk, that’s a few hours
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 week ago:
It could probably do a decent job generating those scripts, given adequate prompting and a few cycles of feedback from you. But it’s almost never a final result. It’s still on you to know what it’s doing and whether it meets requirements, whether it’s sufficiently performant and scalable, whether it’s resilient and flexible. Most importantly it’s up to you to ensure good quality that future you can read and maintain.
- Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear? 1 week ago:
The east coast. When I lived in New York, I thought we could do better on our own. Now that I’m near Boston, I know New England could. But you know what? We really have a lot in common all the way down to DC, and the DC suburbs of Virginia.
Acela is not just a transportation system connecting us all, but a result of our shared values, wanting a better connection. We’re a huge percentage of the population and the economy. We’re mostly “donor” states instead of “takers” so our economy would be solid. We’re mostly “blue” except New Hampshire and Pennsyltucky, seeing the value of good education, caring about our citizens quality of life. And yes we’re mostly the parts of the country built out long ago so have in common many traditional town centers and relatively fewer car centered hellscapes. Many parts of the east coast have been derided as “European”: let’s embrace that
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 week ago:
Complexity or “complexity”? A couple months ago I had to accept a merge from a junior developer that is now flagged as the code with the highest complexity in my code base. It was in Groovy and he must have just discovered closures. Instead of breaking up the code in nice modular testable blocks, it was massive methods hundreds of lines long, and the most egregious use of closures
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 week ago:
My biggest objection is unit tests. LLMs can actually be a useful tool for populating out unit tests. But of you let them run amuck, you get vast quantities of tests that add no value but now you have to maintain in perpetuity
This one junior developer didn’t notice the ai brought in a whole new mocking tool for a few tests and didn’t understand my objection.