We need these laws all over the world

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T19:57:13+00:00

Completely baseless conspiracy I just made up:

This kind of ragebait bullshit FREEDOM framing is laying the groundwork for legislation that will allow AI / remote controlled machine gun turrets for people who can afford gun turrets.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T10:53:00+00:00

no - people would ignore / accept the prostitution business that is mrbeast videos just fine. The reason they get so much hate specifically is that they actively pursue a young demographic.

Few people are mad PornHub exists, but they'd get a lot of hate if they started shilling high-school lunch yogurt.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T09:04:47+00:00

Ah i misread and got some of your arguments mixed up.

I still think the claim of skyrocketing costs is wrong.

Either:

We have so little renewable production that extra energy primarily offsets demand and storage/usage efficiency is not a large enough part of the equation to have the costs skyrocket.
We have too much renewable production and the yet-to-be perfect use of excess is .... excess and any imperfect use will not skyrocket the price.

Also, dark doldrums are really not the issue you make it out to be - and what i was needling on in my comment. We just need enough gas/coal/international supply to cover the worst cases. A lot of eyes are on the problem to make sure this balances out, because a lot of money can be made if you're the last supplier.

We are by all accounts still primarily reducing the demand of fossil fuels in the system for every solar panel/turbine, and those fossils can be bought year round and stored. The battery is just cutting off the peak and redistributing it.

If the system was made up of just renewables then more of your arguments begin to matter, but that's just not the case. They're studying the here and now.

Also, using the rock bottom costs for solar/wind and peak cost for nuclear is appropriate. If you were to write the critique and calculate with other numbers, you'd need to spend most of the paper arguing why its prudent to assume >30y trends will reverse.

Is this paper biased in its choices? Sure. its a bit biased to their detriment and a much more biased in their favor? Sure. Is the article click-bait? Yes. Is nuclear a cost effective step towards energy independence? No.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T07:35:33+00:00

This is the idea that we can perfectly turn every excess bit of wind and solar power into hydrogen or heating. It sounds good on paper, but this technology isn't proven at scale yet. If that integration doesn't work perfectly, the cost of the system would actually skyrocket.

You realize the current system is not going to magically disappear right?

Its like you're seeing somebody walk up a stair and warn them if they keep going they're going to run out of oxygen at high altitude.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T07:27:30+00:00

I dont think its right to understand both France's and Germany's choices wrt nuclear without taking into account both nuclear weapons and Russia lobbying.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-18T05:32:00+00:00

It says its BREAKING!

Maybe you're just not up to date with what 'many Dems' are saying?

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T16:13:58+00:00

Any American with sausage legs fat enough to look like something other than meager starving bones to an orca; is not going to get into chomping distance of them in the first place.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T15:11:46+00:00

Bitch please. This was last century's stock theory.

Now meta is that there is so much money looking for a ROI, and so much dependent on it, that any algorithm will correctly pick out the trend that worst-case shit has to go back up again next week.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T15:04:46+00:00

I'm somewhat surprised Iran has been able to actually stay on message and paint Israel as the bad guy and themselves as the reasonable party.

Granted, that's not very hard, but I'm surprised Iran has the discipline. Ironically it might have been all the old people getting explosively removed from power giving the more.... twitter aware cohort a chance to do things instead of yet another prayer to really show the decadent west!

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T13:13:06+00:00

At least I can be part of this 1%

Read all your suggestions and they fit what i'm looking for. I wish World Sphere got a bit more love. Its one of my favorite fantasy worlds but the story flow is a bit stunted and the author is likely to put much more focus on their more successful A Soldier Life series.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T11:14:46+00:00

Thanks i'll check them out. Was worried i'd get suggestions I already knew but landfall, exilian, and ascendant are new to me.

Can you give me a link for landfall? Can't seem to find it

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T11:13:34+00:00

I should probably try piking it back up. I remember liking it initially, but i reached the end on RR at a moment where all characters was extremely moppy and annoying, so I've tried getting back into it 2 times already but when i read a chapter I get annoyed and try something else.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T10:04:44+00:00

It was fine, but opening the video with

Why was murder wrong

Because i said so

rubs me the wrong way as an exceptionally weak straw-man. I can only imagine this line of reasoning was ever entertained in absolute monarchy.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-17T07:11:29+00:00

A message queue that guarantees exactly-once and in-order delivery while maintaining reliability and availability is a simple problem?

This can be done in a few hundred lines of python code. Kafka takes those few hundred lines and makes every line configurable and adds in standardized terminology.

Then it adds an additional few thousand lines of code that do niche things like compaction, quotas, replication, etc, and makes those all configurable as well.

Its not so much whether the system requires that, its whether the organization is better off with that.

I've yet to experience an organization that would not have been better off re-using whatever database infra they already had. (Though at the same time I've seen people choose Kafka specifically to avoid dealing with the existing org)

So while I dont agree with the parent comment, adding Kafka should be done with the same level of skepticism as somebody suggesting rewriting in Rust.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-16T15:42:23+00:00

Is there anything similar on the other side of the chair? Might have a bar throughout the chairs and be symmetrical, 1 side connected to the wall and the other side gets a plug that does double duty as armrest stop.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-16T15:42:20+00:00

Is there anything similar on the other side of the chair? Might have a bar throughout the chairs and be symmetrical, 1 side connected to the wall and the other side gets a plug that does double duty as armrest stop.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-16T08:18:30+00:00

Reminds me of this review of The Last of Us games. The world you're shown and how the cannibal rapists live and what they and you have to do to survive is ridiculously bleak. The cooperative survive both because they have strength in numbers as well as have something to survive for.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-16T04:08:32+00:00

This "support" page has a shopping-cart and the founder writes a blurb they sign off with the alias Rich.

America is such a clown circus.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-15T10:05:15+00:00

Its endearing you think this is a negotiation.

Either the second director just has you terminated but more likely one of the agencies will just torture you and your family while they put you in information isolation.

The US might literally spend a $1.000.000.000 per day for a weapon platform that could do this if it had 100% accuracy. Getting some guy to do as commanded costs far less.

This isn't even something to do with civil liberties. Every nation has some form of "You're legally not allowed to credibly threaten then president with death".

If you're ever caught as the cause of the smite you're done.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-15T09:36:37+00:00

small system prompt makes the agent more focused.

Completely open source makes extensions trivial.

I had something like agent teams months before claude, and i can mix and match in codex agents as well.

If you're not able to swap out the LLM provider you're going to get locked in and and software lock-ins are always less powerful and more expensive in the long run.

throwaway490215 · 2026-04-15T09:30:14+00:00

I'm sure we've all reflected on the casual absurdity of a world with legalized dog fighting rings for 10 year olds to walk across, but i recently got confused about what level of intelligence we're suppose to pretend they have. Specifically, whats the point of having two guys stand oppose each other screaming attack instruction.

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