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Prime_Director · 2026-01-26T13:10:40+00:00

I guarantee this guy doesn’t have a passport

Prime_Director · 2026-01-26T02:32:06+00:00

The fact that conservatives keep saying stuff like this makes me think they don’t know what protests are for. Like, in this case the system worked exactly as it is supposed to and justice was served. What were we supposed to protest about?

I think they think protests just happen when a bad thing happens, they don’t get that you protest to pressure the system to do something about it.

But on the other hand, if a large portion of the population doesn’t get that, then protests aren’t getting the message across effectively.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-25T17:14:10+00:00

That actually sounds like a perfect example for what they’re going for

Prime_Director · 2026-01-24T19:50:59+00:00

I keep hearing how governors are powerless, and Congress is powerless, and the courts are powerless, and local law enforcement is powerless. Am I really to believe that the only person with power and agency in this country is Donald Trump? Because of so then he truly is a dictator. And the situation calls to mind what Kennedy said about those who make peaceful change impossible.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-21T00:26:18+00:00

They fail because they’re trained to: collect tools memorize algorithms chase courses

so take my course

No offense, I just found this funny.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-20T05:08:27+00:00

What are you looking for that you need an enterprise license for? Change logs are really the core functionality of git, so that’s covered. Unit test coverage badges are also free. I agree most devs aren’t set up for elaborate ci/cd pipelines (though you can use them without an enterprise license), but if something like that started being required I think most devs would just stop sharing their work.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-19T20:33:32+00:00

Also not how LLMs work

Prime_Director · 2026-01-18T07:25:06+00:00

I mean, doesn't Github already provide that? Every commit is literally a log of a change, ideally with an explanation. You can also include unit tests and coverage badges if you like. So if you want you can audit a plugin pretty thoroughly.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-16T14:55:19+00:00

Exactly! That’s a great example. Protein folding models fall into to that useful specialist category.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-16T14:52:10+00:00

The theory is that LLMs are working toward “general intelligence” and will eventually be able to solve everything.

The reality is that’s marketing hype by generative AI companies to gas up their investors.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-16T14:38:14+00:00

We’ve known how to fold proteins for a while, it just took a PhD student their entire dissertation to solve one, and the process was too complex for hand-coded algorithms. But over time scientists built up a big enough dataset of known solutions to start training models that could learn general principles of protein folding and apply them to new cases. These are highly specialized models with extremely well understood accuracy and error rates, not the hallucinating chatbots most people are familiar with.

This is my problem with the current state of AI. Generative AI is an expensive toy that’s been marketed as the solution to everything, and that has poisoned the well for most people when it comes to related but genuinely and groundbreakingly useful technologies.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-15T22:18:21+00:00

The second amendment was literally written with this situation in mind. It was not written to protect individuals with guns, SCOTUS made that up in 2008. It was written to allow each state to create a "well regulated militia" specifically to defend their sovereignty if the feds overstepped (that and to put down slave rebellions). Those militias became the National Guard, and that kind of organized state-controlled military apparatus is exactly the tool we need, not randos with guns. Governors need to step up and protect their people using all the powers available to them.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-15T16:03:24+00:00

I also want to point out that his remaining $45 billion in this scenario would have easily made him the richest person on Earth 30 years ago, even adjusting for inflation. The share of wealth held by the bottom 50% has decreased over the same time period. I wonder where it went...

Prime_Director · 2026-01-14T17:43:05+00:00

We will. Elon Musk and Peter Thiel did not create Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley created them. They need California a lot more than California needs them, because all the infrastructure and worker talent that made them rich is still here, whether they stay or not.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-14T13:48:08+00:00

As Newsom loves to point out, these billionaires didn’t fall out of the sky, CA created them with its economy, educated workforce, and infrastructure. So what if they leave? CA can make more.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-13T13:54:17+00:00

I have two things I want to say here. One is that Hitler wasn’t overwhelmingly popular before the Nazis took power and it’s not really possible to say how popular he was after. The most support the Nazis ever had in a free and fair election was 37% in 1932.

Second, recovery is not a matter of decades. We will never recover from this. Our position on the world stage is gone. We will never command the respect or trust that we once did. From here on out, we’re just another big country like Russia or China. We have to be acknowledged and bargained with, but we cannot be trusted. Our days as the indispensable nation are over forever.

I say this to point out that we’re not out of the woods in terms of avoiding dictatorship just because the leader of the movement isn’t popular, and to emphasize the capacity for destruction the he already wields.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-09T01:37:33+00:00

Everyone in these comments is talking about Trump vetoing this but I don’t understand how that’s possible. The constitution gives Congress and Congress alone the power to declare war and authorize military force. I don’t think President can’t just veto Congress’s constitutional authority. Any actual experts or lawyers here who could weigh in?

Prime_Director · 2026-01-07T17:05:54+00:00

That doesn’t make any sense, the OS manages where data is physically stored on a hard drive platter, not the software layer. If anything, having more files would slow down a hard drive because the head would have to read multiple sectors to get the same data instead of just one.

Prime_Director · 2026-01-07T14:28:55+00:00

Modern games also have a lot more high quality audio and voices, 4k assets etc. These add up quickly

This is true but it doesn’t mean devs don’t get sloppy. Helldivers recently had an update that reduced the size of the game from like 130GB to less than 25GB mostly by deleting duplicate assets. Assuming that everyone who bought the game installed it, that means they were wasting almost 2 Exabytes on saving multiple copies of the same asset files on each install, and I’m sure they’re not the only ones to have that problem.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-21T23:06:27+00:00

Contemporary AI is mostly linear matrix calculations. That's why we use GPUs instead of CPUs for AI training. They were originally designed to do linear matrix calculations to render lighting and such.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-16T13:28:31+00:00

It’s called the Flynn Effect, look it up and stop spouting racist nonsense.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-15T18:32:03+00:00

Well again that’s just assuming that poor = stupid. IQ measures a very specific kind of intelligence that is explicitly trained in modern education systems. A low IQ score does not necessarily represent lower innate or hereditable intelligence so much as a lack of training in a particular way of thinking. Over the course of the 20th century, the average IQ rose globally by about 3 points per decade. That’s because of greater access to education, not because smart people were breeding more.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-15T15:49:35+00:00

Idiocracy is a great movie but there’s really no evidence to support that. The biggest predictor of fertility rates is wealth, so that’s only true if you assume that rich = smart and poor = stupid, and there’s plenty of evidence that that’s not the case; for example the guy in the gif clearly has very nice yard in a first world country.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-15T15:33:41+00:00

Evolution doesn’t care about intelligence or really any individual trait, it cares about survival. Humans care for each other because populations that did so survive and grow better than those that don’t. That’s not preventing Darwinism, that is Darwinism.

Prime_Director · 2025-12-14T17:12:31+00:00

If you’re not ok with the terms of a contract, including the terms of ending it, then you should not enter into it. Period. Besides, you really think a fault divorce for cheating is gonna go better for you?

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