citizenpaul

Well i guess with the price of drives right now I learned one thing the drives i got in the last 5 years will probably hold out for a while longer. Maybe there is some hope of waiting out this supply shortage.

I personally think it's a form of tunnel vision to think that any sort of extensive space travel is anything other than a complete fantasy.The very laws of physics as we know them, say that it is essentially impossible.

We don't even know if it's possible for actual life just simply life itself, to exist anywhere except on Earth for any length of time. We have exactly one example. Earth. All tests to the contrary in space show that life dies for all kinds of non-obvious reasons when removed from Earth for any extended period of time.

I personally hope it's not true and I do enthusiastically watch the progress. However, math is really, really bad.

You would wear an oxygen mask for your entire visit to stay alive? along with the climb, that even with modern technology and accessibility, only a few thousand people have ever done?

because flying helicopter up there is incredibly dangerous and nobody would be willing to do regularly for a job. In fact, only one person has ever done it just to prove that it could be done.

I mean, I don't know you, but I feel like most people are not truly considering the level of discomfort, such a visit would entail. Much less being on the Moon or mars for any extended period of time.

You would essentially be paying tens of thousands of dollars to be an agony for several days. I've done such things just to say i did in my 20's but not for that cost.

We need to start thinking more like the average evil C-suite. We live in the golden age of fraud. Not my words. There's probably some sort of circular deal where the people that enacted this data sharing personally benefit in some massive financial way. The low financial benefit from the parent company side is probably to avoid regulatory eyeballs.

something around 50% of Uber's profits now come from their "private" owned insurance Company. That, of course, does not have to disclose how they are making money. Even though Uber is their only customer.

There is probably some sort of similar deal happening here.

No one has aspirations or desire to live on Everest. They just want to go there plant a flag and say they did it before rushing back to.Civilization. Hmmm kinda like the moon.

>bootstrapping a textiles business

Exactly what I came to say. This 100% is hippy dippy head in the clouds stuff. Sure if your product is 100% digital you can "be generous" in so far as it costs you nothing. Real products, real services. Hell no. You will get robbed blind if you give people too much slack or come off as willing to easily pay out.

I learned this the hard way early on doing contract work. Multimillionaires would actively try to take advantages of my naivety and inexperience to coerce free work out of me. Also I highly suspect many of them get a sick sense of pleasure out of it. Good luck being "generous" to those types.

Take a look at those donate for pain videos on tiktok if you don't believe there is significant population of sadists out there.

The most horrible part this crime is I read somewhere That the amount the car companies get for spying on your locations is some pathetic paltry amount like $1-$5 one time. These car companies sell you out to insurance companies and such so they can collect data and use it AGAINST you. Ghouls everywhere now.

Random Public data:

Honda sold data on roughly 97,000 cars to Verisk for $25,920—amounting to about 26 cents per car.

Hyundai sold data on about 1.7 million vehicles for roughly $1 million—about 61 cents per car

Im really concerned about what big tech is going to do the nezt few years. They have historically been on a good day mediocre stuarts of trust. This was when they had no competition and a money only flows in business model.

Now they are facing near unlimited CAPex expenses and possibly existential threat to their product. I think we will be astounded at how vile they become.

>The best case is no complaints and that the system is correct. It can never excel. There's no 10x RBAC system people rave about on Twitter. Access controls are a box a product checks, but not a killer feature.

This reminded me of the tine i said something similar to teammate whom asked why our work always felt so bad. They Lost thier mind went off on some 20m rant and refused to talk to me for weeks and we were never on good terms again. I broke something in them i guess. They ultimately left thr tech industry.

It was the first of a number of incidents in my life that I learned that there really are a certian set of people that cannot be told the truth.

not really relevant but whatever it was a weird incident maybe that will entertain someobe

I've met a few Ph.D Mathematicians in Academia socially. My unfortunate experience was that they were insufferable,borderline hostile people. I tried to genuinely engage with them too. I've met one Ph.D Mathematician that left the industry whom was very enjoyable to talk to. I have a feeling that my experience was not unique and the Math world is mostly a bunch of too good for everyone on their high horse a-holes that are now being knocked down a peg. They don't like it obviously.

I'm not a fan of knocking down things that work, however I also find it hard to be against death of the gatekeeping old guard of any industry.

I think math is just gonna have to suck it up like every other industry now. Math productivity is longer out of reach of the average grad student. Like every other industry they are no longer untouchable and are gonna have to adjust to the new way of things or market forces will do what they always do which is refuse to fund ineffectiveness.

I've had to accept that tech/IT will never be the same. Just how it is. You can thrash against it all you want.

How does every form of evil have some sort of apologist on the internet. I was near certian that even before AI there were very active automated or low paid workers astroturfing for companies anytime malfeasance is brought to light. In the age of LLM's I now know for a fact that its happening. I guess I found one.

OPERATING MARGIN (FY 2024 / 2025)

Payment Networks: Visa Inc. (V) 67.2%

Mastercard (MA) 57.8%

Major Card Issuer Banks:

JPMorgan Chase 33.5%

Capital One (COF) 24.1%

Bank of America (BAC)26.8%

Credit cards are the OG of rent seeking for the 21'st century. They recognized upfront that no one would pay their ridiculous middleman fees so they backdoor-ed the fee with the merchants and had them pass it on in price. Its on of the most insidious extraction engines ever made, Jesus would definitely flip their tables lol.

Now they do all kinds of accounting tricks to pretend that they have thin profit margins because they split up every part of the business into hundreds of 1-3% chunks of the profit. To sidestep regulation that already barely exists.

That was basically my point. You don't even know anymore even with a brand name. The second any brand gains traction they sell out quietly behind the scenes and rug pull the quality.

The amazon tax holds nothing to the credit card tax. Credit cards have been driving prices up for decades with their behind the scenes fees that are passed onto the customer. All for "convenience" of the right to buy something because now they have created a near mandatory purchasing system duopoly.

To me its a bigger problem. The concept of Brand was highly diminished during the manufacturing outsource phase to cheap countries. You could pay $10 for the brand name of a simple product or get the 100% equivalent for $1 from a Chinese Knock off. So people felt ripped off and abandoned brands. (reasonable since the brands were keeping prices high artificially)

However that has lead to a massive drop off in quality and price/value ratio of all products. Now the brands and the knock offs are in a race to the bottom for the lowest quality product/profit ratio so there truly is no difference and no quality products below "luxury" tier exist anymore.

Even some high'ish tier brands shoes like Hoka/Ons shoes have major quality issues even though they exist at just below the "premium" price point. I had two pairs of the same Ons last year, one lasted 3 months and started falling apart the other pair is still going 1y later. I wore them roughly the same amount switching between them. I looked up online and it turns out both brands avoid long term production contracts to bank profits from the lowest bidder at expense of their own brand they built.

The first time (and all others) I heard "data lake" my brain instantly translated it to "somone elses problem". As in the very name implies a carelessness to just dump whatever and somone else will take care of it.

This seems like some sort of bait style "news" that hurts the very real awareness of issues with flock. It is not only normal but standard practice for a company to try to get users to evangelize its products.

I am not pro FLOCK.

What is shocking to me is how can so many boomers still have a mortgage? They could buy a house when you could easily get one for <10 years of salary almost anywhere. You basically had to try not to pay off your mortgage, then constantly borrow against it.

>plant to do a Skip gen trip?

I have no earthy idea what this could mean but they just casually drop it in there. Thats how you can tell what social class you were born into.

I had a school friend whom's grandparents were one of these in the list it seems. The bought him a 3bed/bath house in the suburbs. He proceeded to do coke for the next 10 years and be a burnout,.but all good because he still has a nice house to live in while being a detriment to society. Yeah I'm bitter so what?

I've had much better experiences with the "budget" tier models than this test suggests I should. I rarely even consider the higher models due to price/use. Perhaps I'm just more vigilant about spec'ing my prompts out before submitting them? Am I just doing too pleb of work? I'm not trying to write custom cuda kernels or hardware integration.

Is it REALLY that hard for so many people to just stop drinking sugar water? I just don't get it. I can drink a soda or whatever once a year and thats more than enough for me, I usually don't even finish it. Is there something wrong with me or everyone else?

I have no personal experience. I've just read a lot of peoples experience around trying to do their own email hosting. It seems the majority give up after a couple years of nonstop blacklisting problems. It could simply be only people with issues post about it.

The stories have discouraged my from spending my time on it though.

Tell me if I'm wrong but it seems that if you cross borders a lot the solution is straightforward. Have a second set of disposable devices for out of country usage with nothing but a VPN to virtual desktop. Give them the password and your mailing address to return when they are done, or just consider it abandoned?

Can they force you to log into another remote computer in another country to examine it? I'm not discussing politics, simply the solution that you can actually do now side of things.

I don't have any hope of this situation improving globally and my gut says it will get much worse over time. I wonder if in the future you will have to not only give them your computer but have some sort of follow up investigation of your "real" computer if you do this two device method.

Yeah, this subject comes up every couple months. The problem is not getting it working. Its that email is a captured system at this point and the real work is various reputation management processes that the big providers control or you can't send email to/from them. They also have no real interest in letting you be your own email provider so its just pushing a rock up a hill grind, for what? To save <$100 a year piggybacking on another provider as a custom domain? or just use a free provider?

I'm surprised that the outcome was not much greater improvement. I'm glad though it removed one of my concerns about solar. I'm glad cleaning maintenance really is not really needed.

> I wish there's like a live query thing

There is. "Run a query" at the top nav bar.

This actually explains why I've never been able to get into his writing despite rave reviews and countless recommendations by people I know. Something about his writing always just felt tedious to me. Im an avid reader btw.

I live in SV. When I was at the grocery store last year I overheard a group of lawyers talking about their progress on litigation against AI companies and how they need more SWE help to progress.

I'd say that they have valid concerns about being cagey on the copyright stuff despite the obvious hypocrisy of it.

Stealing IP is effectively legal in China so they don't really have the same concerns.

This is the first time Ive ever been concerned that my next PC will be a step down from my current due to costs.

I think we are heading towards an AI apocalypse of disengagement. Like in that Idiocracy movie where the computer lays off the entire company because profits are down and not even the CEO can undo it because he got laid off too.

>just stop.

Thats not how AI psychosis works.