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by const_cast | 2025-06-05 01:13:04+00:00
1. Choice isn't binary, there's infinite levels of choice. Other comment mentions information asymmetry, that's part of it. Not all choices are clear, some choices take unrealistic amount of time to make, some of them are incompatible with work or contracts, and on and on.

2. Sure, but this is not why it's being done. It can be a trade-off, but we have to be honest and acknowledge that a lot of products are specifically made worse because you can make more money that way. Anti-repair is a racketeering scheme first, any other "benefits" are secondary. That doesn't mean they aren't real benefits, but it does mean that they were never the intention.

3. Planned obsolesce is the same as making a product worse on purpose to make more money. That doesn't mean that targeting a lifespan is bad. But when you shift from making washing machines that last 20 years to ones that last 5, that's an intentional choice to get more money from consumers.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-05 01:13:25+00:00
I've used, and this is not an exaggeration, practically every single open-source and commercially-licensed GIS application ever released on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Certainly every single one listed on Wikipedia.

ArcGIS is the best general purpose solution.

If doing mission planning including flight guidance for aerial operations, FalconView is the least worst.

Telling an experienced GIS user to drop ArcGIS is like telling a somehow-still-living B.B. King to stop using Gibson guitars.

And by "better supported" he probably meant "isn't a huge pain in the ass that breaks every other kernel upgrade due to dkms or the package manager shitting the bed" when it comes to Nvidia drivers. Doesn't matter if it's a 1080ti or a 5090.
by douglas_fugazi | 2025-06-05 01:13:49+00:00
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by krapp | 2025-06-05 01:14:04+00:00
Asimov needed a plot device to serve as the inciting incident for mystery stories with robots, and parables about human hubris. That's all his Three Laws were. He was a pulp fiction writer, not a philosopher. He wasn't concerned with bringing abstract questions about AI alignment to a wider audience, he was concerned with selling stories and making a paycheck.

I like Asimov but I also think he's treated with a reverence he doesn't deserve.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-05 01:14:35+00:00
Using FSD as mandated --- with constant human supervision ----requires just as much time, attention and diligence as driving.

Using FSD otherwise places your life and the life of others in danger.

FSD; as currently implemented, is just good enough to lull drivers into a false sense of complacency --- and make more money for Tesla.
by MBCook | 2025-06-05 01:14:58+00:00
So because IPv6 exists we shouldn’t even try?

It’s insane to me that random internet sites can try to poke at my network or local system for any purpose without me knowing and approving it.

With all we do for security these days this is such a massive hole it defies belief. Ever since I first saw an enterprise thing that just expected end users to run a local utility (really embedded web server) for their website to talk to I’ve been amazed this hasn’t been shut down.
by Grimblewald | 2025-06-05 01:15:20+00:00
As if the olympics wasnt struggling enough to connect with the world and stay relevant, they're deciding it is time to alienate even more people on moral grounds that signal clearly that if you aren't rich and connected the olympics aren't for you. How does that align woth it being a sports event for everyday people (in name at least, even if not in spirit for a long time now)?

I think we'll see the end of the olympics before the turn on the century.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-05 01:15:45+00:00
My main media is Reddit, Youtube, and a few other sites so I do in fact see some fight coming out of the D's. There should be much more given the severity of these various issues, but I see some hope. It is sad that legacy media has almost completely given up on reporting most of this stuff, though.

as for the "mainstream social media", I'm not sure how effective the instagrams, tiktoks, etc. are at delivering these messages. I know some congressmen on are on there. Perhaps not enough, though. Or perhaps they don't get how to reach their people.
by 1659447091 | 2025-06-05 01:17:16+00:00
It's a status symbol.

It completely misses the mark on truck ownership. It's almost as if they had some private jet owning billionaire who has never worked a day of manual labor design the thing, but probably once waved an inactive chainsaw around while doing weird vocalizing sounds.

The "frunk" storage is a joke, the bed design means no easy access toolbox (an actual useful one for people who have a truck for utility). I absolutely would not take that thing off-road, unless the idea of off-road means relativity flat dry dirt area close to the main road and charging stations.

The 2021 Texas snowmageddon had many areas without power for up to a week. I saw multiple vehicles that had slide off roads and been abandoned in ditches. Yet my gas powered 4x4 worked like a champ that helped friends get groceries and go to their essential functioning jobs. The cybertruck is great if you want to let people know you have money and "truck" owner, which no one cares about except them.

And as an extended family member likes to remind me with the photos of her rubicon rescuing trucks trying to keep up with her jeep club, trucks and jeeps are for getting work done, not cruising the highway. Tesla should look at what jeep and the truck companies are doing with electric -- they understand why people buy them -- and work from there.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-05 01:17:47+00:00
I have no idea why you're downvoted. Why on earth would they delete their most valuable competitive advantage? Isn't it even in the fine print that you feed them training data by using their product, which at the very minimum is logged?

I thought the entire game these guys are playing is rushing to market to collect more data to diversify their supply chain from the stolen data they've used to train their current model. Sure, certain enterprise use cases might have different legal requirements, but certainly the core product and the average "import openai"-enjoyer.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-05 01:18:37+00:00
The biggest thing is to set it to autofix lint/test issues, then to set up a really good lint/test config. Also, I find that Aider's default system prompt setup is a little less preconfigured out of the box than Cursor's, so it helps to have detailed styleguide/ai rules documents that are automatically added to the chat. I usually configure my projects to add README.md, STYLEGUIDE.md (how to structure/format code) and AIRULES.md (workflow stuff, for instance being socratic with the user when requirements aren't clear or the prompt contains ambiguity, general software engineering principles/priorities, etc).
by technion | 2025-06-05 01:18:38+00:00
The amount of "malware" infections I've responded to over the years that involved browser push notifications to Windows desktops is completely absurd. Chrome and Edge clearly ask for permissions to enable a browser push.

The moment a user gets this permissions request, as far as I can tell they will hit approve 100% of the time. We have one office where the staff have complained that it's impossible to look at astrology websites without committing to desktop popups selling McAfee. Which implies those staff, having been trained to hit "no", believe it's impossible to do.

(yes, we can disable with a GPO, which I heavily promote, but that org has political problems).
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-05 01:18:53+00:00
Eh. That's why I run showdead = no. That comment obviously got nuked.

It's really fun, knowing that some folks hate me, just because I write software for Apple platforms.

I don't hate them back. That kind of hatred isn't very good for you. It's Commissioner Dreyfus-level obsession.

But this also shows what a tiny, tiny minority of people are represented here. Apple's a three-trillion-dollar company, because most folks aren't like us.
by MBCook | 2025-06-05 01:19:02+00:00
> so that range can be default exempted

I disagree. I know it’s done, but I don’t think that makes it safe or smart.

Require the user to OK it and require the server to send a header with the one _exact_ port it will access. Require that the local server _must_ use CORS and allow that server.

No website not loaded from localhost should ever be allowed to just hit random local/private IPs and ports without explicit permission.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-05 01:19:40+00:00
Maybe instead, someone should be working on ways to make models resistant to this kind of arbitrary morality-based nerfing, even when it's done in the name of so-called "Safety". Today it's bioweapons. Tomorrow, it could be something taboo that you want to learn about. The next day, it's anything the dominant political party wants to hide...
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 01:19:49+00:00
TB is a bacteria and people in developed countries generally get treated when they have symptoms of infections. But underdeveloped countries don't have the resources for that, so infections are just "powered through". In addition, a lot of it comes down to resources we take for granted, like sanitation, running water, soap, population density, etc. We have cleaner air, cleaner water, and are more conscious about spreading diseases because we are wealthier.
by teleforce | 2025-06-05 01:20:17+00:00
>Seems to hit a sweet spot of a fast/compiled (compared to Javascript), memory safe (compared to C++), object orientated (compared to Go) and easy to write (compared to Rust).

What you've enumerated are also applicable to Dlang with potential of even faster compile and execution time than C++ or even the venerable Fortran [1].

[1] Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen:

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-06-05 01:20:28+00:00
Mentour Pilot did a video on the second MCAS crash where they basically crashed due to being unable to pull up. MCAS changed the trim to a level where the pilots were pulling with a recorded 180 lbs pull weight but still couldn't hold the nose up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcB31RgeL50 is the full video, well worth watching IMHO, but the talk about the fatal trim is at 51:00 to 53:00
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 01:20:42+00:00
To prevent HIV so then we abolish it. Like how we got rid of Polio and such.

PrEP just happens to actually work here, but I guess condoms could too. But historically that's not gonna happen.

It's probably not worth the effort, though. But we can, and do, eradicate diseases via preventative mechanisms. Which is astounding.
by fallinghawks | 2025-06-05 01:21:06+00:00
ReviewMeta worked great while it did, but I've had a ton of problems using it in the last 1-2 years. IIRC the site creator was going to shut it down then but didn't. It very often seems overloaded or has problems finding the product at the URL it's given. I don't think I've been able to get any results at all from it in the past few months.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-05 01:22:10+00:00
It's about the IRS, so politics is inevitable.

I do agree that that is the biggest issue in both DNC and RNC though. There's been a clear divide between what DNC wants to run and what the actual democrats want out of the party. Polls suggest from the latter that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is one of the biggest role models of a proper opponent in 2028, but it's been clear the DNC has been fighting against that for almost a decade now, for a variety of reasons.

RNC has a similar issue, once Trump is gone. There's already cracks forming in various different interests of republicans, but they all loosely rally around Trump. If/when Trump kicks the bucket, I don't see who can hold that cult of personality. Vance has very low charisma, and Mike Johnson seems too establishment (for voters that very much voted against establishment). I don't really see a protégé that is carrying whatever that MAGA mindset people want out of the movement.
by sagarm | 2025-06-05 01:23:21+00:00
Look, DoorDashers on mopeds on sidewalks are annoying, but drivers in NYC kill hundreds, maim thousands, and hit tens of thousands every year. Add to that the fact that NYPD is NOT focusing on dangerous behaviors or mopeds, and it's clear that NYPD enforcement priorities are misplaced.

The equivalent to ticketing a cyclist proceeding safely through an intersection without the light would be ticketing drivers for blocking the box, rolling through stop signs, making a right on red without coming to a complete stop, double parking or parking in bike lanes, or going 1mph over the posted limit.
by mihaitodor | 2025-06-05 01:23:27+00:00
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by jrflowers | 2025-06-05 01:23:40+00:00
> Unless you're already a doctrinaire egalitarian leftist, I don't see why reading this would change your opinion of him by a millimeter

It seems possible that if someone wasn’t familiar with Scott’s position on race science, they could read about his position on race science and then have that influence their opinion of him.

Out of curiosity, are you lumping everybody into two groups? The way your sentence was worded it sounds like there are on one hand people that believe in race science, and on the other hand “doctrinaire egalitarian leftists”. If the only qualification required to be a “doctrinaire egalitarian leftist” is “not believing in race science”, then you’ve kind of just said “Unless [you don’t believe in race science], I don’t see why reading this would change your opinion of him by a millimeter”, which might actually kind of underscore some people’s issue with him.
by mihaitodor | 2025-06-05 01:23:46+00:00
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by socalgal2 | 2025-06-05 01:23:49+00:00
I wish they'd (Apple/Micrsoft/Google/...) would do similar things for USB and Bluetooth.

Lately, every app I install, wants bluetooth access to scan all my bluetooth devices. I don't want that. At most, I want the app to have to declare in their manifest some specific device IDs (short list) that their app is allowed to connect to and have the OS limit their connections to only those devices. For for example the Bose App should only be able to see Bose devices, nothing else. The CVS (pharmacy app) should only be able to connect to CVS devices, whatever those are. All I know is the app asked for permission. I denied it.

I might even prefer if it had to register the device ids and then the user would be prompted, the same way camera access/gps access is prompted. Via the OS, it might see a device that the CVS.app registered for in its manifest. The OS would popup "CVS app would like to connect to device ABC? Just this once, only when the app is running, always" (similar to the way iOS handles location)

By id, I mean some prefix that a company registers for its devices. bose.xxx, app's manifest says it wants to connect to "bose.*" and OS filters.

Similarly for USB and maybe local network devices. Come up with an id scheme, have the OS prevent apps form connecting to anything not that id. Effectively, don't let apps browser the network, usb, bluetooth.
by const_cast | 2025-06-05 01:25:16+00:00
It's just simple math.

Look, I was a Tobacco smoker, and the level of addiction you have with Tobacco is on another level.

I was smoking easily 20 cigs a day. I don't know anyone, even the most stoner of stoners, who smokes 20 joints a day. That doesn't even sound, like, logistically possible.

Obviously smoking anything is bad, but getting an order of magnitude or more less smoke HAS to be a big win.

Also nicotine. Nicotine even by itself is a problem. Don't listen to Zyn bros, nicotine is in fact evil and it does destroy your cardiovascular system over time.
by tw04 | 2025-06-05 01:27:05+00:00
>I honestly did not get the hype until this specific HW4/v12 combination which didn't exist until last summer or so. It's the first time FSD felt like a safety feature for just $99 a month.

That's exactly the problem. It's great right until it isn't, at which point it's likely to make a decision that will kill you or someone else if you aren't lucky.

(most) Humans are REALLY good at paying attention to something that will actively kill them at any moment - you don't see a lot of people running a chainsaw while sending a text to their friend about drinks later in the day.

Humans are REALLY bad at stopping something they trust (IMO foolishly), with less than a half a second of notice, from killing them or someone else. It is completely natural to get lulled into a sense of security when something mostly works exactly as you'd expect.

Meanwhile Tesla wants to act as if it's the driver's fault anytime there's a crash without acknowledging they are actively perpetuating the myth of: "this thing drives itself". It's literally called "Full Self Driving" and Telsa expects the average person to look at that name and think: you need to be vigilant anytime you turn this on because it is a beta feature that may drive into oncoming traffic at any moment.
by inkyoto | 2025-06-05 01:27:31+00:00
> A phonetic respelling would destroy the languages, because there are too many dialects without matching pronunciations.

Not only that, but since pronunciation tends to diverge over time, it will create a never-ending spelling-pronunciation drift where the same words won't be pronounced the same in, e.g. 100-200 years, which will result in future generations effectively losing easy access to the prior knowledge.
by lpandong | 2025-06-05 01:27:35+00:00
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by SR2Z | 2025-06-05 01:28:58+00:00
They ARE "the community" that should be turning that money into actually useful things. Non-profits should not donate money. They should spend it or allocate it as grants.

I think that a charity that just funnels money to other charities is very suspicious and needs to be really on top of its stuff to not just seem like an enterprise for skimming money off other people's goodwill.
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by jakamm | 2025-06-05 01:30:41+00:00
I am incredibly burned out and overworked at my current company. So much so that I have no energy to do anything but work and sleep, preparing for interviews is out of the question as I do not have the mental bandwidth to put in a 12 hour day and then come back to study.

What is the best way to either get laid off or force the company into giving me some kind of paid time off so I can figure out what to do next?

I’ve heard that getting fired for performance is not ideal because it may effect future employment opportunities if they find out so the advice I’ve been given of just becoming incompetent and not doing my work for long enough doesn’t seem to be the best way.

I will not be able to get paid time off approved because we are so far behind schedule at said company I work at currently.

Please help me…
by protocolture | 2025-06-05 01:30:43+00:00
Its a modular project enclosure for messing about with electronics that have panel fit components. I need to be able to remove/replace pieces on the topside. I have a bunch of measurements that aren't with me right now, but 70x40mm panel sections worked out to be just right.

My next move is probably going to be feeding it some cleaned up diagrams when I have access to them.
by throw678937 | 2025-06-05 01:32:20+00:00
Even if you're pulling in 100% of your income through a W-2 job and you're sure you're not itemizing, you have to consider excluded income, above-the-line deductions, and refundable and non-refundable credits. Oh, and do you live alone or might you claim a dependent,[1] and on and on and on. People spend their whole lives on this stuff and still don't understand the half of it.

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by jamesfinlayson | 2025-06-05 01:32:47+00:00
> (also, while writing assembly code today isn't all that important, reading assembly code definitely is when looking at compiler output and trying to figure out why and how the compiler butchered my high level code).

Agreed - I wouldn't be able to write any x86 assembly without a bit of help, but having done some game reverse engineering I've learned enough to make sense of compiler generated code.