JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Except that this is the kind of governance that American voters chose. They can't claim to have been misled. They explicitly voted for oligarchy and this is what they asked for. If you're waiting for American voters to wake up and
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It's the users doing the flagging. Musk and PG are both heroes in the startup / tech / VC world. For better or worse, it's hardly surprising that this forum is very supportive of them.
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Why does anybody want to host large scale Matrix servers anyway? Aren't they already helping just by providing infrastructure to run the software at all? Is anybody anywhere - Deutsche Telekom included - actually making money here?
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Plug in hybrids really remain the sweet spot for usability. If you can cover the 50 mile typical commute round trip range on grid electric and then switch to the ICE for longer trips, that's a lot more practical. It's like having
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There still exist a couple of nitter instances which provide RSS feeds for X.
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I'm being reductive, but there's a strong cultural element to vehicle ownership. To be less glib about it, vehicle ownership is very much tied to identity in sprawly rural America. In the south today, the big lifted trucks are bot
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I certainly wouldn't say that - I would say that here in "real America" they (meaning rich or "middle class" people with disposable income who engage in the culture war stuff) want to buy vehicles that are good at o
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> I don't see any way for Tesla to survive as a company unless they can completely disconnect from Musk. In urban/leftist/yuppie circles- the only people that actually buy high end EVs new- it is socially taboo now to buy
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It's reasonable I think to assume that the economics would shift if HFCS weren't so cheap. If say soda were 10% more expensive, how many sales would be lost? Would the risk of losing sales justify reducing the amount of sweetener
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It's worth mentioning that X's problems with toxicity are greatly enhanced by its current leadership, so even if everybody switched to bsky tomorrow it would be different. There are far better tools for users to manage their o
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I chuckle at the argument that you're entering an echo chamber when you leave X. News flash: X is already an echo chamber! Maybe the "oh no don't leave for an echo chamber!" assertion is a case of people remembering
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Right now, although it's possible to use Android with either root or a third party ROM, attestation breaks all sorts of little things. Today this is mostly banking apps, and anything that involves NFC, but this isn't where it&#x
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How can it possibly be the case that it's ok for meta to download and ingest the entire contents of libgen but it is not ok for an individual human to selectively download a single work and read it? Whatever legal contortions used to j
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It exists on a knife's edge: incredibly useful and powerful to those who are in the know, but obscure enough to avoid heavy handed efforts to obliterate it. I sometimes wonder how LLMs will impact this. They're much better at surf
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
They didn't have to announce shit, much less announce it right as the new regime is taking over. If they wanted to sunset these programs they could've slowly ramped these programs down without saying anything and nobody would&#x27
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Parent post is about capital not workers . Companies are filled with workers, and plenty of them do care. But unless they work for a co-op employees are disposable , and ultimately they serve at the whims of capital. When capital deci
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I'm also a middle aged programmer and I don't think parent's observation is really about age per se. Rather: we of a certain age grew up in a world before the optimized dopamine reward cycle of social media, and when the news
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I have both a Steam Deck and a (Windows) gaming PC. While the "happy path" in SteamOS is truly amazing, there are dark corners where it falls down. Third party launchers (like EA's garbage) are extremely janky. Hardware suppo
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I'm fairly sure this is either untrue or unknowable. If the official "Harris campaign" spent more than the "Trump campaign" that doesn't actually mean much, considering how many other avenues exist to spend mon
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Is it a "schtick" to report such brazen cronyism? I agree with the parent that Americans in general seem not to mind corruption, but we can't become so jaded as to think that it's not even worth mentioning that this is a
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
> A 58% voter turnout is a statistically significant sampling of the population Voters are not randomly sampled so this is impossible to state due to selection bias. If a plurality of potential voters are saying "none of the above
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Right, this system of government is obviously not working very well at representing the will of the people currently, nor has it ever. You can debate why turnout is so low in this country for something so high stakes. The obvious things to
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I think we (tech workers) have seen this for a while. The tech bubble was real - surely we all noticed this at the time - and it stands to reason that a correction is well past due. But now, there are anecdotes of other sectors being hit as
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Key to know for people outside the US (if you don't already know this) is that here you almost always deal in 30 year fixed mortgages. The buyer will never see their rates go higher than this in the life of the loan, and in reality, if
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Yeah I use LSPs in vim and this is where I've landed. Really great for quickly showing you errors and providing passive feedback. I also autocorrect linter errors on save. But everything else about how I do work is basically unchanged;
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Mass psychogenic illness and the social network (2012)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
42 points by JeremyNT 2y ago|17 comments
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Eliminating Daylight Savings Time would make the average American’s life darker(natesilver.net)
28 points by JeremyNT 2y ago|60 comments
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Yeah I feel like this is just the beginning. I'm in my 40s with a pretty interesting background and I feel like maybe I'll make it to retirement. There are still mainframe programmers after all. Maintaining legacy stuff will still
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Yeah pretty bad example from parent but the point stands I think... I mostly just assume that for everything ChatGPT hypes/teases Google probably has something equivalent internally that they just aren't showing off to the public.
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It's not in the US strategic interests for China to control the most popular social media (aka propaganda) site, so from a realpolitik perspective this makes a ton of sense. Reliance on a foreign power for things that are so prevalent

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