FeloniousHam

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by FeloniousHam 2mo ago
Counterpoint: I'm currently employed building many apps for an enterprise you'll never visit. React+Typescript rewrite of our legacy "lean" Javascript has measurably improved the productivity of the team and the mainta
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
Dig deeper into the expansive definition that led to that "2/3rds".
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
from teh AI sources: https://www.kff.org/uninsured/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-... https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/releases/20250624.html
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
And whatever can be said about the US, at least with democracy you get a chance to fire the leadership every four years (or even sooner the closer you to the place you live!).
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
I read comments like this, they’re all written in broad language I assume to people already nodding in agreement. The world today is not perfect: the smartphone and social media have rapidly and I think negatively changed society, empoweri
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
My Y has the stalk, but the touchscreen gear selection is no issue. (Ignoring the fact that I rarely manually drive the car) I only touch the screen to put it in gear once, maybe twice on a drive, and I'm stopped in any case. Add in t
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
Capitalism also spent the last 10 years burning billions to create affordable electric cars, reliable regular spaceflight, efficient delivery of everything everywhere, and the (well, probably) greatest technological invention in human histo
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by FeloniousHam 3mo ago
> It's nowhere near the quality of hand-crafted expert human code As of June 25th, 2026. Read your comment in four years, and tell me you believe what you've posted. Maybe one year? Four months?
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
If it makes you feel any better, efforts to "disenfranchise" eg. by requiring ID or "enfranchise" by making it easier to vote with same-day registration/voting, mail-in ballots, early voting, etc. have minimal effec
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
Approval voting is the only workable RCV.
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
I read the Isaacson biography a few months ago. Quit reading before he buys Twitter.
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
I don't disagree, and most of what I know about Tesla early history comes from the Isaacson biography, but: it seems pretty clear the "actual" founders would never have been able to clear the hurdle of scale production withou
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
What astonishes me about singularity skepticism: every argument was, from when it was released, "but it can't do X", "it's impossible/too expensive". The benefits AI -> AGI are staggering, the competit
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
I don't own shares in any Musk company, and agree that Tesla as a car company is grossly overvalued. But as the parent states, dude gets shit done. It is _hard_ to start a successful car company, let alone one on an untested platform.
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by FeloniousHam 4mo ago
I've never understood Tesla's valuation as greater than the entire automotive industry combined. But as a 95% FSD user, I'm living (and loving) the Full Self-Driving lie.
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
> is that current "conservative" politicians are actually more neoliberals than conservatives. I suppose "neoliberal" means whatever anyone wants it too, but perhaps you were looking for "postliberal". From
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
The AI numbers are huge, but I remember similar arguments about residential high-speed internet. According to Gemini, the "price for internet" is down 12% in real terms (ugh, capitalism!), while speeds are staggeringly faster. Th
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
We always called it "the nubbin"
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
"hellscape" Ugh, capitalism.
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
We tried it, it was fun. Conspiracy mode just sounds like talking to my kids.
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
I only use Grok through the "Gork" personality in the Tesla, but find its responses to be very realistic, often genuinely funny, and occasionally useful.
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
It was a weak joke I made-- I _could_ quit or go without, but I was always nearby to real addicts and ended up smoking a lot for a long time. Also, I didn't inhale deeply or hold the smoke like the "professionals".
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
+ all the complexity that makes the stuff coming out the backend less polluting
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
> And cars lasted much longer back then and were much easier and cheaper to maintain. I lived through those "amazingly affordable" decades, and while the engines were simpler (if you're driving a '68 Caprice 327 V8 wi
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
Totally agree. I was non-professional smoker for a long time, and quit many, many times. Even after years, I'll get this "you know what'd great?" tap on the shoulder. One cigarette is not a slippery slope, it's a
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
100% on sleep. I drink regularly, and very much enjoy it, but I'm always cognizant of the price I'm going to pay in good sleep. I've started not drinking at home as simple way to curb consumption without giving it up entirel
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
I acknowledge the complaints, I love a good complaint! My issue is that these superficial, and in many cases, easily remediable annoyances add up to a "crappy OS". MacOS has to satisfy a very diverse userbase from Paris Hilton-t
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
It has been a while. And I should say when I stuck to distro-tested options, I didn't have many issues. But I always ended up installing and configuring things that ended up causing conflictions, and all too often did clean installs
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
> Apple appears to be chasing Microsoft down the toilet. Its exhumation of the circa-2002 "transparent" UI fad is one example, coupled with other baffling UI regressions. Windows 11 is perfectly cromulent. I don't prefer
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by FeloniousHam 5mo ago
Crappy? I use MacOS everyday, and it's a goddamn delight compared to the (perfectly reasonable) experience of Windows 11 + WSL. Anything that doesn't "just work" was replaced by very thoughtfully written third party so

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