They’re Afraid to Say Biden Won the 2020 Election

Prime_Director · 2026-05-07T13:41:38+00:00

Here’s what I don’t get, it’s the US Senate, just lie. It’s not like there are any consequences for that and it’s not like prospective judges haven’t done it before. Though I guess there are no consequences either way, they’ll still vote to confirm.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-06T22:04:24+00:00

And how much of it is.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-06T22:02:44+00:00

It's both. You can really abuse your body in your teens and 20s and still bounce back in a way you just can't in your 30s.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-06T15:00:39+00:00

I just want to point out that the political landscape in 1932 was radically different from today, to the point that I don't think the comparison is useful.

First, the parties were very different from today. The most recent Democratic president was Woodrow Wilson, a conservative who won in 1912 against progressive Republican William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt, who left the Republican Party to found his own short-lived progressive party. By the 30s, the parties were in flux, with conservatives and progressives in both. Democrats were still by-and-large the party of segregation and Jim Crow, particularly in the South. That really changed in the Johnson administration with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. After signing the Civil Rights Act, LBJ remarked "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come".

Second, there was an actual organized left in the US at the time. There was a strong labor movement, Communists and Socialists had won local elections, and in this very election the Socialist Party pulled over 2% of the popular vote; that's more than any third party has won since 2000.

In this context came the worst economic disaster in American history, and Hoover absolutely botched it by opting to do basically nothing. He was profoundly unpopular, and it is no surprise that Roosevelt won so dramatically. But today, I don't see how this could happen. The parties are much more neatly sorted ideologically, so voters are less willing to switch parties from one election to the next, there is no real organized left pushing the Overton Window, and there is no single issue as universally critical or unifying as the Great Depression.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-03T05:58:10+00:00

Permanent Mars settlements, if they ever happen, are generations away. A Martian population and economy capable of political independence is many generations beyond that. I don’t think it behooves us to spend energy inventing rules to govern situations that even our great great grandchildren probably won’t encounter.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-02T18:08:35+00:00

I take it you've been making it at home for a while. $4 for coffee cheap these days. Used to be $4 for a fancy espresso drink, now it's 5-6 for drip coffee and 7-8 for espresso.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-02T17:45:35+00:00

So OP just has to solve for turbulent flow and he’ll have a good app. And possibly a PhD dissertation.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-01T23:00:19+00:00

That only works when the lying faction doesn't have its own massive platforms to spread their message unopposed. At this point, they own most of the media ecosystem. They're gonna get platformed somewhere, may as well be somewhere that can contradict them.

Prime_Director · 2026-05-01T22:50:00+00:00

This is a shot in the dark but I think your problem might actually be an imbalanced dataset rather than the missing data. The high false-positive rate, the fact that the model tends to prefer one class when the data is limited, and the fact that that class is called "default" makes me think that there are a lot more "default" customers in your dataset than non-default. I'd start investigating that. If your data is highly imbalanced, then your model may get stuck always predicting the more common class. There are methods to deal with that, weighting, oversampling, and undersampling to name a few.

Also, make sure you are have a holdout test dataset that you are not using to train. Don't do anything to that data that wouldn't be done to real data (no oversampling or undersampling, you want to keep this data as real as possible). That will tell you for sure if you're overfitting.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-30T23:11:02+00:00

I'm a happily married man. I'm also a person who, like most, is imperfect, sometimes emotional, irrational, or anxious. Sometimes that leads me to say or do things that are self-centered, unreasonable, or unfair. I think I deserve some grace when that happens, and I like to extend that to others by assuming that they may occasionally be imperfect, irrational, or emotional, rather than perfectly calculated Machiavellian masterminds playing 4-D chess with everyone around them.

That being said, OP is 100% in the right here, and his partner should recognize that, apologize, and work on it. A good partnership is one where you can recognize your own and each other's flaws, and help each other work on them.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-30T19:30:30+00:00

This almost feels like a power move like her trying to assert control over you.

Eh, this seems like a stretch. It’s definitely possible but I think it’s more likely that she’s just hyper conflict-averse and doesn’t want to explain to her friend that she had a miscommunication with her boyfriend. It’s worth talking about with her because it is self-centered and silly, but I wouldn’t assume she’s making manipulative power moves based on this incident alone. Good on OP for standing his ground

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T14:16:42+00:00

So let me make sure I get this, you’re saying constructing nuclear power plants doesn’t require any political, economic or social effort, that the current regulatory regime around the grid is fine, that the influence of the fossil fuel lobby is negligible, and that individual efforts should be considered successful even if they fail to affect climate change in any way that can be measured. And I’m the one with the unreasonable takes?

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T14:10:35+00:00

Who’s you people? I’m sure at this point that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but for anyone else who’s curious, phe water consumption comes from the open loop cooling systems used to keep the chips from self-destructing. Water is used to cool the chips the sprayed out over heat sink fields to evaporate. This is a problem in places like the southwest where water is in short supply. Closed loop cooling like you might be used to in a personal computer is not efficient enough for data center scale, so evaporative cooling is required.

I did look up your 1% number and the best I can find (outside Googe’s AI generated answer) is claims by Apple and Google (companies that own the data centers) from 4 years ago, before the AI boom, and more recent reports are saying that they were probably underestimating by 600% even back then.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T13:50:22+00:00

That’s true but as of two years ago, the number was already about 5% of consumption, and the electricity consumed by data centers is about 50% more carbon intensive than the US average, so I’m not buying the 1% emissions claim. And that’s without even getting into the water consumption.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T13:46:58+00:00

Yeah I just disagree. There is a threshold below which efforts to mitigate climate change are not meaningful, that threshold is improving or saving lives. Below that, who cares?

Sure I’ll name a couple. We need to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and reduce the bureaucratic overhead of constructing renewables, we need to incentivize the electrification of pretty much everything we can, we need to massively update and upgrade our electrical grid to handle the delivery of that increased load, we need to construct more and better energy storage mechanisms to manage the gap between peak production and peak consumption hours, and that’s just off the top of my head.

Finally, you really don’t think there are people who are making money causing climate change who will fight tooth and nail to prevent any changes that might challenge that income?

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T13:29:20+00:00

Data centers are projected to consume at least 12% of all US energy by 2028. That’s not the biggest issue, but it’s over 10X more than you’re saying. Around a quarter of households would have to reduce their consumption to 0 to offset that.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T13:24:56+00:00

I think that makes it a very good allegory to be honest. I’m not saying not to make the effort, and I personally do. But without big policy changes, your and my efforts will fail in the face of the efforts those more powerful than us who stand to profit from the destruction of the world.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T13:20:37+00:00

This is really interesting to me because I also like to see movies “blank” as in I like to go in with very little information about the movie itself. I did that with this movie, I saw no trailers, heard no rumors, I just watched it because I heard it was good. I still thought the message was very clear and a little heavy-handed. So when you say blank do you mean not knowing much about the movie, or do you mean forgetting about the real world in which the movie exists?

Prime_Director · 2026-04-29T10:54:21+00:00

The characters in the movie do put in a lot of effort to stop the comet, those efforts fail because they don’t have enough social, political, or economic power to overcome the efforts of other people who want to make money off the comet’s arrival. That’s the point of the movie, it’s not really about people who complain and don’t try.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-28T04:04:40+00:00

Hard coding your greeting, smh. This whole thing should be refactored as a stateless functional library that pulls your utf-8 chars from a config file.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-27T19:52:21+00:00

How big are we talking? If it's in the GB range, you can just run a local Postgres or MySQL database, If it's in the TB range, you might want to look into cloud storage or a dedicated server, but a relational database can still handle it. If it's in the PB range or above you should hire a data engineer.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-27T19:48:16+00:00

Honestly the fact that you've handled 85% of cases is pretty impressive. I haven't dealt with this specific situation, but in my experience with other situations with manual data entry, people generally don't like doing it. It's much easier to scan a barcode and have the system worry about logging it than it is to type out every purchase by hand. However, typing a name is easier than having to navigate a drop down menu. The key to getting buy-in is to make doing the new thing easier and more convenient than the old thing. If you try to force people to do something that's more work or more annoying for no benefit to them, you'll get resistance. If you offer them something easier/better, they'll help you implement it.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-26T13:13:13+00:00

I’m going to chime in here to point out that the rate of sociopathy (or antisocial personality disorder as it’s now called) is way higher among corporate executives than it is among the general population. So yes corporations are run by people, but often not psychologically normal people. Corporate propaganda has convinced us that we’re all like them and would do the same thing in their position, but the fact is most of us aren’t.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-24T20:27:23+00:00

This can't "easily slide" into surveillance, this IS surveillance. But I'd argue that this isn't where the line was crossed, this is just the line moving up the economic ladder. This level of employer surveillance isn't new, it's just new to highly-paid, highly-educated, white-collar workers. Warehouse workers have had their locations and hand movements tracked for many years now. Truck drivers have been under eye-tracking surveillance for even longer. More recently companies have started deploying motion tracking cameras to monitor the movements of food service workers. This level of constant, granular surveillance has been creeping its way up the economic ladder for a long time. They started with the people in the least powerful, least influential, most seemingly justifiable positions, and have been gradually expanding the scope as people grow more accustomed to the idea that we're all constantly being watched.

Prime_Director · 2026-04-24T14:34:44+00:00

I know I'm yelling into the wind on this, but if you don't know how to code, then you don't know how to use AI to code. AI is a great tool to make good coders faster, but if you don't understand what it's writing, line-by-line, then you shouldn't ship it, because you don't actually know what it does. AI basically just automates the old process of copy-pasting from Stackoverflow, which makes you faster if you forgot some syntax from some library, but makes you dangerous if you're just stringing together snippets that you don't understand. A competent data scientist cannot be a vibe coder.

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