um, you know the landing softly is optional. lithobreaking is totally free and as easy as it gets. no one can stop you from lithobreaking. and an icbm usually doesn’t… land…

oh look another bullshit startup intended only to appear game changing long enough to enrich some greedy founders. im sure this will fundamentally change the world of heat pumps for the better. totally.

I’m an engineer so actually yes. I prefer a unit system that doesn’t require magic constants to be functional.

this is a pretty poetic counterpoint to people who think Idiocracy is prophetic. nature doesn’t give a fuck about what you think or how you feel, it is what it is. being an ignorant fucking moron meant death for the majority of human history, either for you, or as in this case your children. there’s a large evolutionary pressure for humans to be intelligent and well educated, and the worse things get the more that will be true.

How would you rank competent malice, incompetent malice, and incompetent benevolence in order of existential danger to society? I imagine the existential danger increases with both incompetence and malice, but maybe somewhere in there there’s a combination of incompetent malice that becomes unintentional benevolence.

Thats fucking crazy

I think in this case it’s valuable to do the study. A lot of these conspiracy theories are based on the idea that common thing could be harmful in some way, but assumes that it really is and that they know the effects. Some are more plausible than others because chemistry is complex and biology is a lot of chemistry, so it can be hard to say that something is harmless without doing a lot of scientific research.

The fuck you mean tons of reasons. It’s administrator pay. At some point universities decided they needed to pay CEO salaries to “attract the best talent”, which just means giving the dean or whatever everyone’s tuition money. Many of them get paid tens of millions a year while grad students barely survive and professors spend most of their time applying for grants and still making much less than they could in industry. Basically everything bad in our society is caused by some greedy leech cunt stealing from normal people.

For me it’s the movie Jumper for some reason lol. I’m almost to a ratio of 300.

Nice! I’m getting close to an overall ratio of 6.9 and I’m hoping to eventually get to 69.

Won’t anyone think of the poor poor capitalists? What would they do if we didn’t give them a decade to lobby for the law to be castrated or repealed while they develop a new worse chemical that falls outside the law they can switch to in case they fail? If we made them change something now it might reduce quarterly growth. It may even benefit the public!

only an idiot would use ai for code cleanup or review. thats just asking for bugs.

In all seriousness using AI for codegen is at best shortsighted negligence. You know that problem huge long running software projects have where it becomes a nightmare to change anything? That’s some proportion of poor architectural design, lack of cleanup or refactor time, and poor understanding of the code by developers. Poor architectutal design can be repaired by cleanup and refactoring, so both of those issues end up being management/planning failures more than anything. Not understanding the codebase is much more complex. It can be caused by attrition causing loss of institutional knowledge, the code base growing faster than anyone can keep track of, the team being so large no one can stay on top of things, too much time passing since anyone has looked at or changed parts, lots of reasons. The only solution is doing a long audit and associated cleanup and refactoring. If you don’t it just takes forever to change anything because of all the knock on effects that no one can predict, meaning delays and bugs. When you use AI tools the code base grows very quickly, too quick to really comprehend, and you get shitty architecture to go along with it. You’re just speedrunning enterprise software or spending all your time reviewing slop code. It’s like a drug, the first time it does something fast and well you feel it’s so great, but it will never live up to that because it secretly sucks and can only ever suck. Best case it slows you down and you get good software at the end. Worst case you spend all your time wrestling with it and never get a finished product.

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( ) Yes

( ) Remind me in 3 days

I like it so far. In the words of Worf, it serves me. I definitely miss some of the settings I had available on my old phone, but this one is much snappier. The os is basically the same as normal android but without the builtin google garbage. I still have the android app store. I guess the main thing is since its a fairphone repair and battery replacement will be much easier so hopefully I can just keep it for a long long time.

I just upgraded to a fairphone 6 with e/os preinstalled after holding on to my LG G6 for at least 7 years. The thing that finally pushed me to upgrade was the camera, which was fine in 2019 but now is such a potato. Also the battery life was ass, the usbc port was super loose, and the micro sd card slot was broken so I was perpetually almost out of storage.

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You had me going there in the first half. Glad you brought it back around in the end.

They’re saying the company may be selling the device for less than the cost to produce it expecting the low price to draw in consumers while their predatory ads rake in much more money, so buying it and never connecting it means they took a loss. I’m skeptical that companies would do that these days. More likely they overcharge for the physical hardware AND have predatory ad software, you know to maximize shareholder value.

I have a mounting suspicion that a civil war is what they really want. Anyone know if that’s in Project 2025?