I read comments like this, they’re all written in broad language I assume to people already nodding in agreement. The world today is not perfect: the smartphone and social media have rapidly and I think negatively…
My Y has the stalk, but the touchscreen gear selection is no issue. (Ignoring the fact that I rarely manually drive the car) I only touch the screen to put it in gear once, maybe twice on a drive, and I'm stopped in any…
Capitalism also spent the last 10 years burning billions to create affordable electric cars, reliable regular spaceflight, efficient delivery of everything everywhere, and the (well, probably) greatest technological…
> It's nowhere near the quality of hand-crafted expert human code As of June 25th, 2026. Read your comment in four years, and tell me you believe what you've posted. Maybe one year? Four months?
If it makes you feel any better, efforts to "disenfranchise" eg. by requiring ID or "enfranchise" by making it easier to vote with same-day registration/voting, mail-in ballots, early voting, etc. have minimal effect on…
Approval voting is the only workable RCV.
I read the Isaacson biography a few months ago. Quit reading before he buys Twitter.
I don't disagree, and most of what I know about Tesla early history comes from the Isaacson biography, but: it seems pretty clear the "actual" founders would never have been able to clear the hurdle of scale production…
What astonishes me about singularity skepticism: every argument was, from when it was released, "but it can't do X", "it's impossible/too expensive". The benefits AI -> AGI are staggering, the competition is intense…
I don't own shares in any Musk company, and agree that Tesla as a car company is grossly overvalued. But as the parent states, dude gets shit done. It is _hard_ to start a successful car company, let alone one on an…
I've never understood Tesla's valuation as greater than the entire automotive industry combined. But as a 95% FSD user, I'm living (and loving) the Full Self-Driving lie.
> is that current "conservative" politicians are actually more neoliberals than conservatives. I suppose "neoliberal" means whatever anyone wants it too, but perhaps you were looking for "postliberal". From the AI…
The AI numbers are huge, but I remember similar arguments about residential high-speed internet. According to Gemini, the "price for internet" is down 12% in real terms (ugh, capitalism!), while speeds are staggeringly…
We always called it "the nubbin"
"hellscape" Ugh, capitalism.
We tried it, it was fun. Conspiracy mode just sounds like talking to my kids.
I only use Grok through the "Gork" personality in the Tesla, but find its responses to be very realistic, often genuinely funny, and occasionally useful.
It was a weak joke I made-- I _could_ quit or go without, but I was always nearby to real addicts and ended up smoking a lot for a long time. Also, I didn't inhale deeply or hold the smoke like the "professionals".
+ all the complexity that makes the stuff coming out the backend less polluting
> And cars lasted much longer back then and were much easier and cheaper to maintain. I lived through those "amazingly affordable" decades, and while the engines were simpler (if you're driving a '68 Caprice 327 V8…
Totally agree. I was non-professional smoker for a long time, and quit many, many times. Even after years, I'll get this "you know what'd great?" tap on the shoulder. One cigarette is not a slippery slope, it's a…
100% on sleep. I drink regularly, and very much enjoy it, but I'm always cognizant of the price I'm going to pay in good sleep. I've started not drinking at home as simple way to curb consumption without giving it up…
I acknowledge the complaints, I love a good complaint! My issue is that these superficial, and in many cases, easily remediable annoyances add up to a "crappy OS". MacOS has to satisfy a very diverse userbase from Paris…
It has been a while. And I should say when I stuck to distro-tested options, I didn't have many issues. But I always ended up installing and configuring things that ended up causing conflictions, and all too often did…
> Apple appears to be chasing Microsoft down the toilet. Its exhumation of the circa-2002 "transparent" UI fad is one example, coupled with other baffling UI regressions. Windows 11 is perfectly cromulent. I don't…
I read comments like this, they’re all written in broad language I assume to people already nodding in agreement. The world today is not perfect: the smartphone and social media have rapidly and I think negatively…
My Y has the stalk, but the touchscreen gear selection is no issue. (Ignoring the fact that I rarely manually drive the car) I only touch the screen to put it in gear once, maybe twice on a drive, and I'm stopped in any…
Capitalism also spent the last 10 years burning billions to create affordable electric cars, reliable regular spaceflight, efficient delivery of everything everywhere, and the (well, probably) greatest technological…
> It's nowhere near the quality of hand-crafted expert human code As of June 25th, 2026. Read your comment in four years, and tell me you believe what you've posted. Maybe one year? Four months?
If it makes you feel any better, efforts to "disenfranchise" eg. by requiring ID or "enfranchise" by making it easier to vote with same-day registration/voting, mail-in ballots, early voting, etc. have minimal effect on…
Approval voting is the only workable RCV.
I read the Isaacson biography a few months ago. Quit reading before he buys Twitter.
I don't disagree, and most of what I know about Tesla early history comes from the Isaacson biography, but: it seems pretty clear the "actual" founders would never have been able to clear the hurdle of scale production…
What astonishes me about singularity skepticism: every argument was, from when it was released, "but it can't do X", "it's impossible/too expensive". The benefits AI -> AGI are staggering, the competition is intense…
I don't own shares in any Musk company, and agree that Tesla as a car company is grossly overvalued. But as the parent states, dude gets shit done. It is _hard_ to start a successful car company, let alone one on an…
I've never understood Tesla's valuation as greater than the entire automotive industry combined. But as a 95% FSD user, I'm living (and loving) the Full Self-Driving lie.
> is that current "conservative" politicians are actually more neoliberals than conservatives. I suppose "neoliberal" means whatever anyone wants it too, but perhaps you were looking for "postliberal". From the AI…
The AI numbers are huge, but I remember similar arguments about residential high-speed internet. According to Gemini, the "price for internet" is down 12% in real terms (ugh, capitalism!), while speeds are staggeringly…
We always called it "the nubbin"
"hellscape" Ugh, capitalism.
We tried it, it was fun. Conspiracy mode just sounds like talking to my kids.
I only use Grok through the "Gork" personality in the Tesla, but find its responses to be very realistic, often genuinely funny, and occasionally useful.
It was a weak joke I made-- I _could_ quit or go without, but I was always nearby to real addicts and ended up smoking a lot for a long time. Also, I didn't inhale deeply or hold the smoke like the "professionals".
+ all the complexity that makes the stuff coming out the backend less polluting
> And cars lasted much longer back then and were much easier and cheaper to maintain. I lived through those "amazingly affordable" decades, and while the engines were simpler (if you're driving a '68 Caprice 327 V8…
Totally agree. I was non-professional smoker for a long time, and quit many, many times. Even after years, I'll get this "you know what'd great?" tap on the shoulder. One cigarette is not a slippery slope, it's a…
100% on sleep. I drink regularly, and very much enjoy it, but I'm always cognizant of the price I'm going to pay in good sleep. I've started not drinking at home as simple way to curb consumption without giving it up…
I acknowledge the complaints, I love a good complaint! My issue is that these superficial, and in many cases, easily remediable annoyances add up to a "crappy OS". MacOS has to satisfy a very diverse userbase from Paris…
It has been a while. And I should say when I stuck to distro-tested options, I didn't have many issues. But I always ended up installing and configuring things that ended up causing conflictions, and all too often did…
> Apple appears to be chasing Microsoft down the toilet. Its exhumation of the circa-2002 "transparent" UI fad is one example, coupled with other baffling UI regressions. Windows 11 is perfectly cromulent. I don't…