simplyluke

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by simplyluke 5mo ago
Would you be excited about technology when it appears based on their stated intentions and revealed track record over the past 15 years of your young life that those driving it fully intend to use it to disenfranchise you further, not empow
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
This is broadly true of a bunch of jobs/fields with LLMs, but particularly true for programming. They raise the floor to a point where a generally capable person can put something like that together, or come up with a passably okay v
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
> your CC payments help track Not only that. Them and the point-of-sale vendors (aptly shortened PoS), sell that data. They tend to attempt to do this anonymized. How successful they are in anonymizing that is very much so up for debate.
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
> will result in a shrinking workforce Jevons paradox is already rearing its head, I've seen data suggesting open roles in tech are at their highest since the post-pandemic slump [1]. If you're a senior leader at a company and
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
I don't want my refrigerator or my table saw to require a server connection to China either, though.
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
I'm in a similar boat to you. I understand the current drama, but for my intended use case (an occasional-use tool sitting on a workbench in my garage) LAN mode has been fine and entirely removed from the drama. I don't want an
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
I think we're just arguing semantics at this point. From an economic definition you, me, and everyone else who has to exchange money for goods and services is a consumer. I'm referring to consumer culture/consumerism, which w
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
But you can spend endless time reading forum debates about whether the OEM specification is the optimal one for any given car, complete with lab test results, which was the point I was making.
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by simplyluke 5mo ago
> If Consumer is your identity yet you fear executing its labors This is an interesting take. Spending hours min-maxxing the "best" combination of product/price in every given category has always been peak consumerism as
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
We should do both, aggressively! That's exactly the point I'm making. It's always been shocking to me how this discussion immediately goes to a fixed-pie "solar OR nuclear" discussion. You build both! They solve d
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
South Korea produces power plants at almost exactly the same cost and is not a single party command economy as far as I know.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> if your model require a world where it is not the case to work, then your model is stupidly unrealistic And yet, our world contains multiple cases where it is the case that nuclear is being built today, at reasonable costs, and with
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> Technology has changed over 50 years Technology sure has but through a confluence of outsourcing, bad policy, NIMBY attitudes among the boomer generation, and weaponized lawsuits US infrastructure remains somewhat frozen in the 1970s.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> The far bigger fight for climate these days isn't electricity: it's car-centric living All of transportation, including commercial + aviation, in the US is 28% of greenhouse gasses, electric generation is 25%. They're fu
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> suggest climate change only exists if you like nuclear That is a very uncharitable reading of what I'm saying. What I am saying is that if you're serious about believing climate change is a large threat (I do), you should be
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Believing we're in a climate crisis and also being anti-nuclear are mutually exclusive positions in my mind, and opposition to nuclear from environmentalist orgs should be viewed as a massive historical mistake as it set us back decad
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Podcasts are still short form if we're talking about something as complex as "is this company ethical". Issues involving human players and disagreements over philosophy/ethics take a huge amount of information to under
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
As someone who relies on it for all of my workflows at a normal job, core functionality issues result in me not being able to get work done on at least a weekly basis reliably at this point, and it's been that way for months. The thing
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
The current sentiment within basically all of silicon valley is to remove every possible guardrail and accelerate AI adoption as fast as possible, consequences be damned. The uptime of major websites recently should be a tell of how well th
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Basically every diesel engine after the early 2010s needed to have several emissions systems (EGR, DPF + DEF). You can do some reading on them if you're curious, but they basically all reduce reliability, efficiency (DPFs choke exhaust
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> My assumption are farmers are trying to skirt the eco rules for vehicles in some way. They're using remanufactured 90s cummins for this reason. They're pre-DEF. Modern regulations have killed the diesel engine as a reliable w
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> if there is some real competition They can't scale this model up because they legally have to use rebuilt engines from the 90s to do it to get around modern diesel emissions regulations. It's illegal to build this kind of e
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
That's most of it. It gets lost in the right to repair conversation, I think because many of the same individuals who care about that also tend to be very pro-environmental-regulation, but one has to take a step back and acknowledge th
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
> Some Chinese companies should take this niche or maybe not-niche field, sell at a premium A friends dad sold his existing business and has been making $$$ in semi-rural texas importing and selling Chinese skid loaders. This market alre
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Late to the party here, so I don't expect this to get a lot of traction, but I'd like to point out that part of the reason this hasn't existed until recently as an option in the US is because it's functionally illegal
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Yes, just like spreadsheets and email have been the ultimate killers of many startups run by smart people; the modern smartphone, laptop, and to a lesser extent tablet, have been the killer of many cool hardware ideas. After a ~decade of ve
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
I won't pretend to be a mind-reader of the executives involved. I was a line engineer, so effectively watching from the sidelines. It was temporally close to Sheryl Sandberg leaving her role as COO, but I have no insights into how much
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Every software team ships bugs. That is not exclusive with a strong engineering culture.
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
It's absolutely their right, but it's a dramatic cultural departure from the history of the company. In the late 2010s/pre-covid it was very common for employees to port their personal cell phone number to their work phone an
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by simplyluke 6mo ago
Like the experience of opening any website for the last decade and being greeted with a cookie popup is more the direction the parent comment was intending I'm assuming. Some regulations are good, some are bad, all have second and thir

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