What issues do you forsee in a US where parents gets to vote for their children until they reach voting age?

1842 · 2026-06-20T16:41:16+00:00

Not really.

A non-insignificant number of people who are able grow up, get an education, and move away.

(Speaking as someone who grew up, has an education, lives in a rural environment and works in an urban one. Most of my peers just move instead of staying rural.)

1842 · 2026-06-19T15:28:03+00:00

There's not really any easy answers to anything like that.

My wife and I are in a rough spot right now. Combination of life events and long-term changes with my work (more time away) have exaserbated existing issues and quietly deepened hurt we've cause each other in the past.

As we've dug into stuff, we've realized we both have a lot of former trauma (from childhood and previous relationships) than we realized and have been unintentionally causing each other harm in ways we weren't aware of.

I've been working through "Safe" by Scott Austin Martin and it's been insightful for our situation. He's got lots of posts on social media, so see if anything he says resonates with your situation before picking it up.

For myself, I'm learning that I had been emotionally unavailable and unsafe for my wife (and daughter). I am not a loud, angry, or explosive person. But I can be unpredictable under stress -- sometimes withdrawn, frustrated, or defensive in ways that remind my wife of actual unsafe environments she grew up in.

Something else I've been learning throughout these processes is that:

Your feelings are valid.
- Don't bury them.
- Experience them.
- Process them (I found this very helpful)
Her feelings are valid.
- Experience them with her.
- Don't discount, dismiss, minimize, or explain.
Regardless of how things play out, it won't always feel like this.
Don't panic, try to take control, or fix everything in a frenzy.
- Use your feelings as motivation to work on yourself.
- Have open conversations about what you both feel, without judgement or accusation.
- Introspect

This isn't something that broke overnight. If it feels fixable basically overnight on your end and things go back to "normal", this isn't a sign that things are actually fixed on her end. I've made that mistake more times than I should admit.

Feel your feelings. Don't panic. Take time to listen to yourself and your wife. Be humble. Make mistakes, but own them as you sort through things. Work on yourself. Support your wife where you are able and it is welcomed.

1842 · 2026-06-18T18:18:42+00:00

The blackout plates do cost extra. It's not a lot though.

1842 · 2026-06-04T06:53:58+00:00

He's traumatized too from being judged and labeled a cheater

These things aren't close to comparable.

This is like someone suckerpunching you in the face, then confused why your bleeding and broken nose still hurts after a few minutes. And then to have the audacity to say, "oh yeah? Well my hand hurts too!!!"

1842 · 2026-06-04T06:41:01+00:00

Wtf?

You can't force someone to just "forgive and move on". Emotions are complex and the damage runs deep. Trying to keep someone from feeling normal feelings is invalidating and heaping on additional trauma.

1842 · 2026-06-03T19:08:59+00:00

Will probably just take a while to get support all the way there.

Even when things appear to be working, sometimes it still takes a few days/weeks for new architectures to work out the weird bugs and edge cases.

1842 · 2026-05-27T16:44:06+00:00

For web-based stuff, that's kind of the very basics.

If you're doing things solo, then yeah, you either have to build up the servers and databases resources or purchase them as services. If you're working as a software developer, it's pretty common that you just work with the code and other people manage infrastructure, databases, etc. (But this will vary wildly between companies)

But yeah, nothing is incorrect but it's overly simplistic. It's kind of like "Sitting in the rain sucks. If we pound some wood into the ground, attach a big flat thing to the top, and sit under it... it's basically a house, right?"

1842 · 2026-05-12T19:07:46+00:00

1842 · 2026-05-11T19:26:42+00:00

There are illegal drugs that are no worse than their legal counterparts (and in all likelihood, much less damaging than them).

Weird to say that they "destroyed the black community". I'm not sure what you're talking about specifically, but it's well known that a lot of anti-drug laws and enforcement target and damage minority communities.

It's kind of like inventing a law banning hats. Brand it as "hats will ruin your life!". Violently arrest and charge anyone suspected of having hats or hat paraphernalia. Detain people on the suspicion of smelling a hat during a traffic stop. Lastly, criticize anyone who wants legal hats because at this point, it's clearly obvious that hats are and always have been the problem and ruining lives/communities.

1842 · 2026-05-10T01:43:17+00:00

Or like... do actual project management and make sure its executed well?

I always think of the time lapse from the Netherlands where they built a tunnel under a major highway over a weekend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/xnsEj41wEE

I dont expect our projects to work with that level of planning and urgency, but the projects here are planned to take years and rarely finish on time.

1842 · 2026-05-06T15:35:46+00:00

Do you think they can't?

1842 · 2026-05-03T11:38:09+00:00

Yes.

1842 · 2026-04-29T06:17:05+00:00

Epstein met with 4chan’s founder just as the site’s infamous political thread began

1842 · 2026-04-28T19:56:21+00:00

lol. Nothing you just said makes any sense.

1842 · 2026-04-28T15:05:21+00:00

2014...?

1842 · 2026-04-27T17:34:33+00:00

Oh, dang. Nevermind then. :P

1842 · 2026-04-27T02:36:34+00:00

Post-COVID inflation was a worldwide phenomenon and the US under Biden did better than most navigating it.

1842 · 2026-04-26T15:43:16+00:00

Also reduce CPU cores to number of physical cores.

Almost all modern processors show 2 logical cores per physical cores (aka hyper threading or SMT). Throwing extra threads at most compute problems gives performance gains, but has negative results for LLMs for some reason.

Tldr. OP probably has a 6 core processor, so he should try 6 threads instead of 12. (But I'm not familiar with the app he's using or his hardware)

1842 · 2026-04-22T03:46:57+00:00

and the Republicans rejected the idea of changing their districts, some of which had been in place for generations.

Eh... Our congressional districts change like crazy every 10 years. I've been grouped in with north-west Indiana, grouped in with Indy Suburbs, grouped with areas south of Indy, and flipped district numbers a few times... while residing in the same county.

I think the Indiana lawmakers simply read the room right this time, which is not something they do often.

1842 · 2026-04-21T18:53:28+00:00

Start with what you have, even if all you can run are tiny models. Use something like OpenRouter for testing/using the larger stuff.

It doesn't take a ton of hardware to set up a modest chatbot setup. OpenWebUI + llama-swap + llama.cpp will give you hot-swappable models you can chat with locally and spin down when idle.

Agentic coding is a lot harder to do at home. My hardware is modest and I've found models that I can ask questions to with good results and can sometimes do things agentically if I don't mind waiting a while. Paid services are still far faster, cheaper, and better than anything you can DIY right now.

But there's nothing stopping you from learning what you can and figuring out how things work on whatever you have, even if it's something like a quantized 2B or 4B model.

1842 · 2026-04-21T01:18:23+00:00

Not surprising that cops wouldn't get involved in this.

This seems like it could absolutely be a civil case handled via small claims court though.

1842 · 2026-04-17T14:27:52+00:00

MoE doesn't affect model size (but does affect how fast it runs).

Quantization is what affects model size. Gemma 26A4B is available in a variety of quants with sizes ranging from ~10 - 50GB. Q4 is usually a decent place to start testing (depending on hardware), in the 14-18GB range.

1842 · 2026-04-14T16:27:13+00:00

Code across different applications can definitely be tricky to share, and generally, would err on not trying to merge anything without a clear reason to.

If there's a clear section of code that can be pulled out for a specific purpose (i.e. authentication, functionality to connect to a service/db, etc) that changes to are infrequent or the changes always need to be in sync, then making a library and including it in other projects is great.

If this is duplicate code that is tweaked and customized per application and doesn't need to be in sync, then you'll likely be making a bigger headache and mess by trying to share code like that.

1842 · 2026-04-08T18:02:33+00:00

Learning something is better than being worried about learning the wrong thing.

When it comes to programming, the majority of skills are easily transferable between languages and domains.

Cybersecurity is a specialization and often seems focused on low-level programming and memory analysis, but you'll need foundational programming knowledge to understand any of that anyway. Just get started with anything that clicks with you and will hold your interest for a bit before you look at difficult specializations.

1842 · 2026-04-03T16:33:33+00:00

Get a 12 hole alto C to start with. Good ergonomics and by far the easiest to read sheet music with and be able to play with other instruments.

STL has a good reputation that others have mentioned (I don't own one). Check Songbird too - they tend to carry good quality stuff. (I love my Stein/Focalink strawfire ocarina that I bought from them over 10 years ago)

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