ryandvm

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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Oof. Good thing they're a "robot company" now. At least until an Optimus decapitates somebody and Tesla has to pivot to monorails or whatever...
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
I don't get it. A trillion here, a trillion there and all the AI companies are also telling us they're planning on wiping out 2/3 of jobs in the next 10 years? Nothing about the economics of the AI boom makes any sense. I&#x2
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
The real breakdown in the rule of law occurred when the US Supreme Court made the specious decision that amoral business entities (corporations) had the same rights in a democracy as citizens. All this shit flows downhill from Citizens Unit
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
It does if you assume there is somebody dumber to buy your stock.
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Wait until they announce that Optimus is only going to have ears because "bats get by just fine"...
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Why don't all the other automakers wise up and just start promising full self driving "next year" as well?
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
I think the only people that don't think we're going to see AGI within the next 70 years are people that believe consciousness involves "magic". That is, some sort of mystical or quantum component that is, by definition,
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Yegge is smart guy but, I get the impression that he mostly works real hard to not work too hard. And while I'm sympathetic towards that tendency, I feel like most of the advice in this space is about using multi-agent configurations t
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Ask HN: Is "make me laugh" the next Turing Test?
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Show me some full theaters. Various GOP organizations have a well documented history of buying books to get them onto the best sellers lists.
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Don't worry, after a decade or two of having Windows reinstall and re-enable it every couple weeks against their users' wishes I'm sure they'll get the market penetration they're looking for...
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
As a US software engineer that is worn out from the last 10 years of politics here, I'm just waiting for the EU countries to start dropping Tech Worker Visas and fast-tracks to permanent residency...
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Exactly. He can croon about DOGE all day, but the reality is his entire fortune was built on feeding at the trough of government largess. That's why he talks about Mars all the time. He's not stupid enough to think we could actual
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
He just says shit that sounds smart and then rides the vibes to financial success, but it's not working anymore. 10 years ago when Tesla actually revolutionized the retail EV industry everyone took his word for it. Then after a few f
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Absolutely true. Especially so with poorly abstracted software design. This is why so many new teams' first order of business is invariably a suggestion to "rewrite everything". They're not going to do a better job or ge
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Tesla has completely fumbled a spectacular lead in EVs and managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And instead of turning it around, we're supposed to believe they are going to completely pivot and then take over a market wi
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
Citizens United. It's always Citizens United. The insane conclusion that amoral and mostly unaccountable conglomerations have the right to direct US legislation and policy without limit is why we are in this mess. Until we sentence an
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by ryandvm 8mo ago
The longer I develop software, the more I realize just how awful most software engineering it.
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
Your logic is exactly why Trump's gambits always work. Everyone knows that individually standing up to a bully is a good way to get the raw end of the deal; so nobody stands up and the bully continues racking up wins. It's certain
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
I mean, I understand the frustration, but this like asking why don't the Russian citizens just, you know, make Putin stop invading Ukraine. I did my part, but I have 70 million compatriots that are just all too willing to allow the ear
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
We would see exactly what people in the US have been dealing with for 10 years. Everybody would wring their hands and say "unbelievable!" and then nobody with the actual capability to do anything about it actually does. The entire
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
Honestly I think he's right. This is all for one man's vanity and the Republicans are fine with letting him do whatever he wants as long it means they get their policy wins and, more importantly, he doesn't post something nas
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
There are a lot of problems with age verification schemes, but you are doing your position a disservice by suggesting that anybody that doesn't want their kid to be bullied on Snapchat is actually just a puppet of fascist regimes tryin
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
Adderall OR finding a job that 100% matches your interests.
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
The entire arc of Scott Adams is a cautionary tale. To go from a brilliant satirist to becoming terminally online and just completely falling off the far right cliffs of insanity is incredibly sad. And unfortunately, this is plight is not u
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
You could certainly create a pro-user EULA that specifically locks in your company's ideals and forbids reneging on them in the future. This is essentially what the GPL is - it's an end user license agreement that is exceptionally
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” -- Norm MacDonald
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
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by ryandvm 9mo ago
MS has been doing shit like this for decades. Every couple months I log into my dusty Windows account and lo and behold there's a bunch of weird shit like Candy Crush or Copilot or whatever that's just decided to reinstall itself
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
The extra price of Apple products was never about not having advertising. The extra price is the feature. It means you have enough money (status) to have a green bubble. It means you can afford an adorable little infotainment gewgaw. Appl

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