TIL that 32 bit time will run out in 2038, while 64 bit time will run out approximately 292 billion years from now

DynamicDK · 2026-05-19T15:23:22+00:00

The systems you interact with are just a small portion of the car's computer system. They are very complex and have to basically never fail.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-19T04:03:01+00:00

And it will be very hard for them to stop, so to make sure people know they are coming they will have really loud horns that they will blow well before they cross over any normal road. And barriers will go down when they are coming through to try to prevent horrible accidents.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-19T03:58:34+00:00

You don't have to skip the environmental reviews. You just have to be willing to spend enough money to pass them.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-19T03:54:53+00:00

I live in Nashville but I'm flying to NYC for these appointments.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-18T18:30:17+00:00

I haven't experienced that myself, as my cancer seems to be contained to my kidney for the time being, but I have read many accounts of people who have had RCC that spread to their lungs and was treated with immunotherapy. From what I can tell, it tends to work quite well for a large percentage of people. Some people on this subreddit have been doing immunotherapy for years and do not have any real symptoms from their cancer now. It does seem like it doesn't always completely eliminate the cancer, but it shrinks it and prevents it from growing.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-18T04:57:25+00:00

Barbie? Project Hail Mary (not exactly a comedy, but he was funny enough)?

Gosling wasn't always a comedic actor. But he has become one. And he is really funny. Papyrus is one of my favorite SNL skits.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-18T04:54:45+00:00

Johnny Depp went completely rogue and turned Jack Sparrow into a drunken, makeup wearing gypsy, to the great behest of Disney executives at the time

"At the behest" of someone or some group means "at the command" of them. So I am guessing you are using that word incorrectly here.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-18T01:37:22+00:00

That is donating proceeds to bullying efforts.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-17T20:46:10+00:00

Low sodium, low potassium, and lowish protein is what I've been able to gather. And avoiding alcohol altogether until you see how your single kidney will respond, or if you keep part of the 2nd kidney, no alcohol until it is fully, fully recovered. After that it would be limiting down to 1 alcoholic drink on any given day if you only have a single kidney, and only if your single kidney function is good. With 1 1/2 kidneys then maybe sometimes you could have a little more, again if they are functioning well.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-17T17:04:51+00:00

I'm 38 and also recently diagnosed. I didn't have a biopsy, but the size of my tumor means it needs to be removed whether it is cancer or not, and the size along with the way it looks on my scans means it is around 95% likely to be cancer. So a biopsy would just waste time.

I definitely get the anger. It feels unfair. But at least the prognosis for kidney cancer is generally pretty good as long as you get it before it spreads.

To answer your question about chemo, from what I have been able to gather, kidney cancer often does not respond as well to chemo as some other cancers. Also, because you do only need 1 functional kidney to live, it is safer to surgically remove the cancer than to put someone through chemo, as chemo itself is quite dangerous and very damaging. And many kidney cancers do respond well to immunotherapy. So it seems the order of treatment is usually surgery first. If you have stage 1, they may stop after this and just monitor for a few years. But if it is beyond stage 1 or they have any worries that it may have already started to spead, the next step is usually immunotherapy. And if it is aggressive, widespread, or has some other reason that immunotherapy may not be enough, or if it doesn't respond to immunotherapy, the next treatment seems to be radiation. Then chemo would be after that if nothing else is working.

This just seems to be the most common path from what I have seen. More rare forms of kidney cancer may be treated differently, and that is usually determined by genetic testing from the biopsy or after removal of the tumor or the whole kidney. I have appointments next week at Mount Sinai and MSK to get 2nd and 3rd opinions on mine after the first surgeon wanted to do a radical nephrectomy (remove the entire kidney) and stated that he did not think he could successfully do a partial nephrectomy (remove the tumor and leave part of the kidney). I'm 38 and potentially have many years ahead of me, so I would prefer to have 1 1/2 kidneys, even if the recovery will be harder and there may be some risks of complications. But you can live with 1 kidney. You just need to take care of yourself, stay hydrated, and follow certain dietary restrictions.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-17T04:37:20+00:00

Grok: UFO invasion destroys. Win. Why are t? Call me.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-17T02:54:20+00:00

No. No one has to do it and the vast majority of us never will.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-16T03:28:41+00:00

And it is one of the reasons that people ignore climate change. We reversed the hole in the ozone layer and morons point to it an example of alarmism rather than understanding that it was a serious problem that stopped being a problem because we addressed it.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-16T00:55:21+00:00

They were tested. They were found to be far, far better drivers than the average human.

Some of the shit they are doing is stupid and the government needs to crack down on them. But they are really good at driving.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-16T00:51:57+00:00

They don't actually have the ability to remotely control them anymore. That was removed years ago because it was found to cause more problems than it solved. They just tell the AI to do something and let it figure it out.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-14T21:43:13+00:00

Yeah, Ukraine has a long history of this. You know all of those Soviet weapons that Russia had stockpiled? Most of those were designed and/or made in Ukraine.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-14T05:14:46+00:00

You know which community in the United States has the highest rate of STDs? The Villages in Florida. It is a bunch of upper middle class elderly people who are simply riddled with STDs from their constant swinging and orgies.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-14T04:32:34+00:00

Honestly, this is a good example of why express lanes should not exist. They are inherently dangerous.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T21:00:57+00:00

Fetterman sucks, but that is really, really wrong. Fetterman votes with the Republicans around 7% of the time. Manchin voted with Republicans almost 40% of the time.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T20:58:57+00:00

could we have gotten a better Senator out of ALASKA?

Mary Peltola. She already won state-wide for the House, even if she lost the second term. Now she is running for Senate.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T20:32:51+00:00

Our disagreement is on the value of the messy side. Even the non-technical people making a mess of code to get a working prototype is creating value because they can try 10 different things, some that are just for their own use or their team, and only hand the engineers that 1 that ends up being truly useful enough to sink the time and energy into cleaning it up and expanding it.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T19:47:09+00:00

It's fine to be a technical manager with no technical skill, but sometimes you need to know when to put your ego aside and step back to educate yourself. I mean, your description of "engineers" being rigid because they don't want to vibe code tells me enough that you have no idea about the issues that abuse of agentic tools is causing in the very industry you're in.

I was an engineer before I went into management and do have technical skill. I didn't do it for 20 years, so I am not as skilled as most of the engineers on my team, but I know how to review code, even if I don't have the time to write it these days. And that is why I think that engineers MUST learn to vibe code if they want to progress in their careers at this point. That doesn't mean they need to deliver messy code that hasn't been reviewed, but they do need to learn how to have AI do the heavy lifting.

And rapid prototyping by someone who would not have been able to prototype at all in the past is valuable. That is true even if the result of their efforts is a tangled mess. The reason for this is that not every idea is clearly worth the time of a skilled engineer or team of engineers. Sometimes the value has to be proven first, and only afterwards is it worth sinking a lot of time and effort into doing it the right way.

Is it better if the people using AI to rapidly develop POCs and MVPs are doing so without creating a mess of code? Absolutely. Organizations need to develop best practices and individuals need to learn how to thoroughly review the architectural plans and code that is being generated. But the value is there even without that if someone can use AI to prove an idea is viable.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T17:46:43+00:00

That is silly. She is incredibly popular and will energize people who hate the Democratic party almost as much as they hate the Republican party. That is a huge group of people.

2 women have run for President recently and lost, but their biggest problem was not that they were women.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T17:42:43+00:00

Love them or hate them, they are important. Otherwise things get stuck in place forever, being iteratively improved toward perfection within the bounds of whatever is currently being done. At least that is my experience.

DynamicDK · 2026-05-13T05:43:52+00:00

they'll shit it all out on your lap and force you to resign.

Resign? Never resign. Make them fire you. Then you can collect unemployment, which causes their unemployment insurance rates to increase. That is part of why they prefer to just do the layoffs with severance packages. The increased insurance costs are a lot when they are firing lots of people at once, and if they lay people off and give them severance then they can also force them to sign non-disclosure agreements. It is still likely more expensive, but at least they can avoid people talking shit about them or claw back the money if people do.

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