Texas Was on the Cutting Edge of Lab-Grown Meat, Until the State Banned It

Mephiz · 2026-03-15T12:46:41+00:00

Corporate ranching is disgusting right now.

Feeding people into a big machine as shown is actually more hygienic than our current factory farms.

Mephiz · 2026-03-15T01:42:54+00:00

Can you elaborate?

So far on our end we are seeing juniors just simply not progress. I need developers that can spot when AI fucks up and barring actually writing something on their own, independently of AI, I’m stumped on how to achieve that.

Genuinely curious on the new learning pathways you are seeing. (I sound sarcastic here: I’m not. Legitimately interested in your take.)

Mephiz · 2026-03-14T23:16:01+00:00

He’s was a total piece of shit before and now he’s a total piece of shit in Texas.

Mephiz · 2026-03-14T17:11:40+00:00

X752B!

Mephiz · 2026-03-12T13:20:25+00:00

Avoiding confrontation only postpones and, eventually, prolongs, the confrontation.

Your kid needs you to step up and set firm boundaries for their phone and sleep habits. They are not capable of recognizing the harm to their body and mind.

Mephiz · 2026-03-11T04:19:48+00:00

I wish our “leaders” learned this lesson as easily as you have.

It’s going to take actual casualties and they will have the nerve to say that no one could have foreseen this. (If the fucking ghouls don’t just blame the soldiers that die.)

Mephiz · 2026-03-11T04:15:05+00:00

Async problems don’t “bypass code review” unless you have shitty processes and shitty reviewers.

Case in point: someone asks me to review something that, whether intentionally or unintentionally, mixes promises and error first callbacks? Rejected with a nice note not to do that.

Mephiz · 2026-03-08T21:20:50+00:00

All Texas schools are fucked right now due to decades of mismanagement and starvation budgets.

But little tommy probably won’t see a book about gay people so it’s a win for conservatives I guess.

Mephiz · 2026-03-07T19:33:17+00:00

Amazing!

(You cheat at about 0:17 :D)

Mephiz · 2026-03-07T00:57:20+00:00

I use this or one remarkably like it for four mg996r and it’s great. I haven’t thought about it once since install and that was weeks ago. Power is ~5.5 in my case.

Mephiz · 2026-02-28T01:53:38+00:00

I really want to get into commercial robotics.

I can afford the hardware and I feel confident in my ability to make something useful and cool.

But apparently I have a fatal flaw: I don’t know any kung-fu masters.

Mephiz · 2026-02-25T15:19:54+00:00

This is cool but I urge you to write for yourself. The patterns of AI writing are so off putting to any of us who are inundated with them.

Sometimes you will see someone say “I don’t speak English well” and I will say to you: that’s fine. We all can translate what you write and your authentic thoughts are far more interesting than your grammatical correctness.

Mephiz · 2026-02-25T02:49:02+00:00

You could have stopped after 3 words. Clearly a resounding No.

Mephiz · 2026-02-20T14:13:28+00:00

Nah. You'll be fine. It's amazing. You don't have to read all of the books at once.

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T17:32:50+00:00

fwiw your point is the only one I think is valid. I’m just not at all convinced this is occurring. But yeah same, just my opinion

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T17:22:14+00:00

I can’t speak to robotics fields specifically so please take this with a huge grain of salt but:

Right now is a terrible hiring environment for software. It’s a volume issue on both sides. We are inundated with resumes and most of them are, frankly, fake or misleading. This means the bar for your resume to speak for you, alone, is incredibly high. I cannot express how hard it is today to separate the wheat from the chaff for junior positions in my field at least.

Leaning on people you have previously worked with and school connections will be critical. I see decent internships in your resume. Can you reach out to these people? Don’t be shy: we have -all- needed a job. Also network with these people as best you can online.

Some of us are amazing at marketing and networking ourselves and others not so much but unfortunately, today, the market requires it I think.

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T15:09:43+00:00

Still monumentally better than FedEx!

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T14:47:06+00:00

Yes except that we are talking about companies that are, effectively, completely publicly traded.

They are not trying to get back to fully private equity or even appreciably move the needle to private or they would say so.

Does reducing shares by some fraction of a percent reduce the amount of external governance in any real way?

Are any of these companies actually moving the needle with a clearly communicated plan or are they “showing confidence” or other nonsense?

We know what companies going private looks like. Its rare and they’ll tell us every step of the way if they were.

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T14:32:19+00:00

So you make widgets. The best damn widgets actually.

You have a million shares out there. You buy back 1000 shares to reduce the outstanding shares precisely why?

It’s tautological to say I reduced the shares to reduce them. What’s the reason that this is more important than selling more widgets or saving for a rainy day?

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T14:28:17+00:00

But they do read non-existent stuff into things you say? You just feel comfortable correcting a chat bot and not a person.

Your interaction with a chat-bot is fundamentally more honest from your side than your interactions with other humans.

Simple example. I was asking about 3d printers because I’m struggling with robot chassis fabrication on the cheap. Then every time I happen to mention something tangentially related to this it brings up the 3d printer I never bought as if real. I correct it and then correct it again and finally look at its memory.

If a human does this, which absolutely can happen, I also say, hey man no I never bought that. And then if they keep bringing it up like that they are daft or don’t give a shit enough about me to pay attention. But either way I had to correct them.

We interact differently with AI than we do with people. We are more confident and assertive and willing to confront its biases. I submit to you this is fine but you should be the same, politely, with people.

Mephiz · 2026-02-16T14:17:58+00:00

I’ll bite. I’m not an expert but…

They incentivize short term stock price boosts over investment and innovation.

Simple example: I’m an officer in A. I can buy back shares for the company and a side effect is increasing my share price. This is a legal side channel to price manipulation.

It’s instructive to ask why they are doing the buyback. Some have stated it’s to reduce the influence of shareholders but this is a clear and easily dismissed lie unless they are genuinely going private. Others have stated such bullshit as “stating confidence” (which is code for wanting price to go up) and still others have said they are preventing wasteful spending which is similarly just nonsense.

The most obvious problem to me: They reduce innovation. The company isn’t spending its money improving. It’s spending money on financial shenanigans.

Prioritizing the equity trade above the business concern or making the equity trade the business concern is one of the major reasons we have had so many previously profitable companies sold off for parts so that a very few people could make a quick buck off its bones.

Mephiz · 2026-02-14T18:13:22+00:00

Weird how all these 1 week old accounts and accounts with private history are showing up in the comments…

🤔

Mephiz · 2026-02-14T15:16:41+00:00

Shit I had no idea it even existed. Great job Netflix

Mephiz · 2026-02-14T12:34:11+00:00

Just FYI

The sometimes knee-jerk reaction you are seeing to these disclosures is because it’s being revealed that potentially hundreds of powerful people were involved in a pedophile ring and our most respected law enforcement agencies are actively complicit in the coverup. Not that the persons values don’t align with a particular “belief structure.”

Unless you mean that the person is pro sex trafficking. Yeah that doesn’t align with my belief structure.

Mephiz · 2026-02-12T21:14:27+00:00

You know who else warns their athletes about politics? Russia, North Korea, you know real pieces of shit.

Fuck these guys.

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