theneverfox

joined 2 years ago
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes, electronics are very cheap... But remember the part where they also have a mechanical mechanism? They have two systems, where most cars have this very simple lock that connects to a tiny motor assembly. It's literally a piece of plastic and a few wires

The tablet thing is true, they've changed cars to computerize everything, and once you've done that you can connect everything over a network. Every button needs to do back to a chip to become a digital signal, so before you had these complex one-off wiring harnesses for everything

But the tablet thing is again, common. It makes sense, it's just worse

But Elon is a unique case. Elon likes to actually make decisions, because he thinks he's Tony Stark. He actually goes down into teams and hangs out, and they have to just work around whatever decisions he makes. It's present in all of his companies, but you can see it most in Twitter, because they didn't have time to build a team to strategically distract him when he comes to visit

This absolute idiot has spent the last month trying to get grok to be a literal Nazi. First, he added a bunch of white genocide to the prompt, making it change the topic to that from any question for a few days.

Now it's responding all confused, and saying things like "I never gave Jeffrey Epstein tours of spaceX or Tesla" when asked it Elon did it. Seems to me they fed Elon's tweets in the RAG system in a amateur way

He micromanages and meddles constantly... That's what he does at his companies

For a counterexample, Jeff Bezos. He was heavily involved in the fire phone, and had some genuinely cool ideas... But the priorities were all wrong, so it flopped. He learned his lesson

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 5 hours ago

They don't stop speeding just like harsher penalties don't stop most kinds of crime

If you want people to slow down, you paint the lanes smaller, make them narrow regularly, add roundabouts and plastic bollards between the lanes - you have to actually address the problem, which is the speed people feel natural driving at on any given road

The ones you can go after are the people weaving between traffic and racing, but I doubt a letter in the mail is going to do much

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

No, the problem is they engineered something they didn't need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it's cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

Maybe it's something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something... But even that they could've done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

Let's be clear... The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 7 hours ago

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It's individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That's where loose candy lives.

So of course other people, who maybe don't do laundry and don't often see tide pods, are going to go "oh, look, candy!"

And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 9 hours ago

It's this neat thing called lying

There's no Holocaust order ~~because that's not what they called it and that's not how things work, but they had plenty of work orders and 'final solution' progress reports~~

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 10 hours ago

Surely the prosecutor was there though, right?

They can also recommend a sentence, which is very problematic since the judge often uses it as a baseline. Especially since they're also the one negotiating for plea deals

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Yup. We need to purge every seat

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 20 hours ago

People aren't illegal. Even fucking Reagan wanted to legalize the people that were already here, living and working

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol... Chuck Schumer actually celebrated getting the bills name changed procedurally as Trump toured the first concentration camp

Democrats should have a non-stop parade of victims telling their story already. Instead, they're making speeches to empty rooms on cspan

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago

Recycling isn't real. I love when I get scolded by my parents for not recycling when it's just going to the landfill

Reduce and reuse are real through. Single stream recycling is basically always a lie though

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

If you can't tell, are you actually bi? Or just enlightened

Attraction is attraction

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

Nah, they're actually fantastic at brain numbing tasks. I like to feed it sql tables and have it act like an ORM, but without the tradeoffs of an ORM. I'd never do it manually, but it's far more readable and easy to work with

I also love using it for api's. You can feed it a response, say "hey, I just want the id, status, and amount" (or whatever) and it'll restructure the data for you

These are not hard problems... They are tedious ones though. They solve a problem by brute force, a problem we "solve" over and over because at the end of the day: programmers are lazy.

You can over engineer complex bindings until the cows come home, but a simple pattern with each field explicitly mapped is the best solution. It's just really, really annoying to actually do it

 

For the last week or so, I've been waking up several hours earlier than normal and not being able to get back to restful sleep. I've never had this problem before, I'm just getting more exhausted by the day because I'm not getting to sleep much earlier

Then I find out other people are experiencing the same thing, same timeframe - around a week ago it just started for seemingly no reason

 

Between wanting to do more with local LLMs, wsl annoyances, and the direction tech companies have been going lately, I think it's time I start exploring a full Linux migration

I'm a software dev, I'm comfortable in the command line, and I used to write the node configuration piece of something similar to chef (flavor/version agnostic setup of cloud environments)

So for me, Linux has always been a "modify the script and rebuild fresh" kind of deal... Even my dev VMs involved a lot of scripts and snapshots. I don't enjoy configuration and I really hate debugging it, but I can muddle through when I have to

Web searches have pushed me towards Ubuntu for LLM work, but I've never been a big fan of the window Managers. I like little flourishes like animation and lots of options I can set graphically, I use multiple desktop multiple monitors

I've tried the one it comes standard with, gnome, and kde (although it's been about 5 years since I've last given them a real shot).

I'm mostly looking for the most reasonable footprint that is "good enough", something that feels polished to at least the Windows XP level - subtle animations instead of instant popups, rounded borders, maybe a bit of transparency here and there.

I'm looking at Ubuntu w/

  • kde w/ plasma (I understand it's very configurable, I don't love the look and it seems to be a bigger footprint

  • budgie (looks nice, never heard of it before today)

  • kylin (looks very Windows 10 which is nice, a bit skeptical about the Chinese focus)

  • mate (I like the look, but it seems a bit dubiously centralized)

  • unity (looks like the standard Ubuntu taken to it's natural conclusion)

  • rhino Linux (something new which makes me skeptical, but pretty and seems more like existing tools packaged together which makes me think the issues might not impact actual workflow)

  • anything the community is big on for this, personally I'd pick opensuze, but I need to maximize compatibility with bleeding edge LLM projects

My hardware and hard requirements are:

  • nvidia 1060ti
  • ryzen 5500u
  • 16g ram
  • 4 drives nearly full, because it's a computer of Theseus running the same (upgraded) vista license that came with the case like 15 years ago
  • multi desktop, multi monitor
  • can handle a lot of browser Windows/tabs
  • ideally the setup is just a package mana ger install script with all my dependencies
  • gaming support would be nice, but I'll be dual booting for VR anyways

I've been out of the game for a while, I'd love to hear what the feeling is in the community these days

(Side note, is pine as cool a company as it seems?)

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