itsoktocry

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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Right now on HN it almost seems like "AI shaming" at work. HN leans "old school". It's the Angry Nerd trope; Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. The people doing "AI shaming" or claiming that "AI
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
That explains why people here are against it, because everyone is above average I guess.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Because there's always some new thing that will bring infinite wealth, and shareholders believe Tesla will be the leader in it. Now it's robots, $10 trillion market.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Or like the solar roof, battery, swap, Cybertruck best selling vehicle of all time...you know, things people said wouldn't work, and didn't. Elon has a good track record, but he has some duds in there too.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Yes, you know exactly what you're getting: processed garbage.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Top two ingredients: engineered soy and sunflower oil. Yummy.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Unless they have some rare condition that doesn't allow them to eat meat, they can satisfy the cravings by having the odd burger. It won't kill them. I honestly don't understand the vegetarian who constantly craves meat.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
If you're going to eat vegetarian, eat vegetarian. There are lots of foods out there. The idea that normal, healthy people are going to eat ultra processed vegetarian slop so they can pretend they are eating meat was never going to wor
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
And yet, despite all of this, in most of my country (Canada) we have a construction labour shortage. Getting anything built is hard (and expensive).
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship, it is quite expected that systems of total control will be actively implemented there. And what is better for total control than digitalized things? Ah yes, the reason the US is years behind most
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets And of the remaining desktop/laptop users, 90% of their work is being done in a browser. Which makes Linux distros like Ubuntu suitable for more pe
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Why were you so hung up on whether it had a laptop or not? You know that it doesn't, don't you? Get it to write the code, then you test it.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> the previous model retroactively becomes total dogshit the moment a new one is released Keep writing your code manually, nobody cares.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> which the salesman tried to haggle me for more options and told me he thinks we should raise the price a bit "to make sure it gets approved" as I'm signing the paperwork. If you're walking into a store to spend ten
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Just pitching to VCs...why would any person want that?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Low tire pressure affects: - Gas mileage (pollution) - Tire wear (pollution) - Handling (safety) It's wins all the way around.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> So now everyone's car costs $3k more. $3000 for a backup camera, okay.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
I often wonder what it's like to think everything is some grand corporate conspiracy.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't owned a late model car. > I can put it one that is better than the factory one for a cheaper price As someone who used to be involved in the car audio competition scene, those days are long gone. Mod
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
This might be true, but unrealistic. If you run amiss of US (or EU) regulators, they will never say, "well, it's in space, out of our jurisdiction!". They will make your life hell on Earth.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Slower is usually better for thinking. Yeah, I see people talking about listening to podcasts or audiobooks on 2x or 3x. Sometimes I set mine to 0.8x. I find you get time to absorb and think. Am I an outlier?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> They're closer than ever to solving driving at scale. Well, yes, if by "closer than ever" you mean marginally closer than they were yesterday, sure. It's a big step, but there's still a ton to prove. The gap
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Shorting it and berating it just seems like you're pushing your position. This is the Robinhood generation's way of seeing things: everything is a grift. If you think Tesla is crap, saying so and backing it up with your doll
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> There’s that word again: ”drugs” - you just know anyone using that word in earnest is suffering from a narrow and naïve world view Do you know what a drug is?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> The Bullshit Jobs jobs theory has been widely discredited by researchers, but you probably won't believe them. Consider that most business is B2B so it makes sense that the casual observer would not know what it's for. I&#x2
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Companies can lay off thousands of employees and not have it affect growth, profits or, really, the workload of remaining employees. How could that be possible if everyone's work is so crucial?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Yes, that is tremendously important aspect here - the US tech would look better on paper It's completely unimportant. Nobody is getting fooled "on paper" by amortized salaries.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Don't put stock in business relationships. If this is your mentality, is it any wonder you aren't valued? People post things like this and I'm not sure they have any emotional intelligence whatsoever. Sure, your work&#x
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Young people today job hop like there's no tomorrow.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
And prior to 1870.

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