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moogly··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
This comes off like "I never understood why not everyone still uses landlines".
moogly··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
Amazon planned on doing it. Trump got mad.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxg7xpr2j0o

moogly··on Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub
Henry Kissinger though?
moogly··on The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
He's not a journalist. He's an "entertainer", and a total non sequitur in this context.
moogly··on Launching the Handmade Software Foundation
I agree it's vague.
moogly··on Launching the Handmade Software Foundation
I don't see why you'd ever want to use File Pilot over Directory Opus on Windows.

I'd like something better than Dolphin for Linux though, because Dolphin is absolute garbage. I'm going to have to write my own there.

moogly··on Launching the Handmade Software Foundation
https://handmade.network/manifesto
moogly··on Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine
Not to mention the energy needed. Greenland does not even have a national grid. Lots of untapped hydro but that's not something you build in a fortnight.
moogly··on Cloudflare threatens Italy exit over €14M fine
Big Tech vs. Big Sports... I just can't pick a side.
moogly··on [dead]
Well, that's one thing he said. He also said

> It seemed like she was out of her f*ing mind to begin with. That lady seemed crazy. Right?[1]

And the rest of the podcast, skimming the transcript, is just insane conspiracy theories and misinformation.

So, broken clock, I guess.

[1]: https://singjupost.com/joe-rogan-experience-2437-with-rand-p...

moogly··on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones
How does this interact with this[1] recent decision? Maybe I'm stupid but I don't think the article really explains the US Commerce Dept. decision outcome when the FCC ban is still in effect.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-commerce-department-d...

moogly··on X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
Full Self Driving?
moogly··on Statement from Jerome Powell
The presidential pardon is clearly something that needs to either be heavily reined in or removed. How you do that I don't know, but turns out the US Constitution is something you can ignore, so...

The entire system of checks and balances needs some rethinking because it's clearly not as "perfect" as we've been told over and over again.

moogly··on BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech
> And if he still doesn’t realize and admit he is wrong then he is just plain dumb.

The absolute genius made sure that he can't back out without making it bleedingly obvious that old cars can never be upgraded for a LIDAR-based stack. Right now he's avoiding a company-killing class action suit by stalling, hoping people will get rid of HW3 cars, (and you can add HW4 cars soon too) and pretending that those cars will be updated, but if you also need to have LIDAR sensors, you're massively screwed.

moogly··on Statement from Jerome Powell
His orbiters/handlers are totally throwing all kinds of stuff at him to see what sticks to his cooked brain. It's clear he's barely aware what's happening anymore. The only coherent things he can focus on are things from the 80s and 90s heydays and old and recent grudges.
moogly··on Statement from Jerome Powell
Probably the mantra Chuck Schumer recites before sleep every night.
moogly··on Statement from Jerome Powell
> Even the republicans will not be able to ignore this

GOP: "Hold my beer."

moogly··on OLED, Not for Me
They've just have had issues manufacturing it, but there were several monitors from MSI, Asus and Gigabyte with Samsung's latest gen QD-OLED display announced (and reviewed) this week with RGB stripe subpixel layout, so we are there now (as soon as they are available), and this article is somewhat poorly timed.
moogly··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
Connecting these two concepts like Netanyahu et. al. are constantly (insincerely) doing, is actually breeding real antisemitism. I wish more people realized this.
moogly··on ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods
It's been building for a long time; it's not recent per se, just accelerated.

2025 showed that you can't just go "ok, it's over now, we'll go back to business as usual" (like I know the limp-wristed Dems will want to do) or it'll repeat after every other election until it's successful. You just cannot have this many people constantly being convinced they live in this alternate reality for much longer without civilization collapse.

But I think it's gone too far and we're witnessing the fall of the empire in real-time. I'm just hoping that fall won't screw up the rest of the world too much, but I'm pretty sure it will.

moogly··on Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders
"Political agenda" does indeed stick out like a sore thumb there. "Policy" is the word they should have used.
moogly··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
"Hate"? For flagging a UX-hostile submission. Who is overreacting here?
moogly··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
Oh yeah, I also like post-scarcity SF like Iain M. Banks. Funny names for those ships, right? So we're betting everything on infusing humanoid robots with "AI" and abundance will automatically follow? I'm missing a lot of steps here inbetween. Will we live in harmony or will it be a massive scramble by the various nations to extract every single piece of natural resource by way of PvP? Oh right, the robots will fight. It'll be like that ancient robot-fighting show. We'll have that show too, but it'll be AI slop now, and it'll be entertainment for the robot warfighters while they charge their batteries.

Can't we just make the billionaires buy everyone a robot from China instead? Oh wait, their money will be useless in a post-scarcity society and they will just be like any regular Joe. Wait a minute. That seems like a massive conflict of interest. Hmmm.

moogly··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
Bringing energy costs down. I see. While I'm not super well-versed in the US energy market, and I understand it's a bit complex, I do believe it's a mix of regulated and deregulated private monopolies under a bunch of regional ISOs, but there's an energy trading market down there somewhere setting spot prices, correct? So are you saying the US energy market should be, if not fully re-regulated, regulated harder, or perhaps abolished and everything should be brought back to being state or federally run (I'm not sure the US ever had that)?

It is not always in energy producers' interest to have really low energy prices, after all.

moogly··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
That was Howard Lutnick. He's said a lot of, let's say "out-of-touch", things. He's not living in the real world, though.

Motorola tried that not too long ago. Didn't go well. If you want to decimate American wages, you could do it, but if you at the same time deport people who were the most ready to work for a pittance, it's going to be hard to do this without riots. Then again, Stephen Miller wants those riots, so maybe you're right.

The crux of the matter is that those workers won't be able to afford the iPhones they're assembling, however.

moogly··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
He is not causally connecting "AI" with industry and manufacturing here. Building data centers isn't manufacturing. He says in this piece that energy production needs to come first, and manufacturing later and not the other way around. Is he saying that AI will require building out energy production and the increased energy production will be used for... manufacturing? But it'll be used for the data centers.

What, exactly, is the kind of manufacturing he's envisioning AI will bring? He's not saying. Is it perchance weapons systems? It's weapons isn't it[1].

That will only make sense if we go back in time a few decades and some assholes instigate more wars and global destabilization, because manufacturing weapons and stockpiling them is pretty pointless and resource ineffective otherwise. We know this from before.

Or is he saying chips? So is he against offshoring all chip manufacturing to TSMC? That's basically been a huge part of continued security guarantees (if you can call them that when they are unproven), and also he's Taiwanese isn't he? I don't get it.

Now, one of my errors here could be that I'm trying to make sense of the things Jensen Huang says, because he rambles incoherently quite a lot, after all, to such a degree I am not sure he's "entirely there".

[1]: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4370464/se...

moogly··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
True, but the site owner clearly despises their prospective readers. I found it more prudent to close the tab and flag the submission.
moogly··on Monads in C# (Part 2): Result
Is this similar? https://github.com/amantinband/error-or

What's some of the "preprocessor magic" that makes this[1] more ergonomic to use?

[1]: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/status...

moogly··on Monads in C# (Part 2): Result
That works somewhat for 2 levels of exceptions. When you start having dig into several levels of inner exceptions, gods help you.
moogly··on Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic
Mexico and Brazil? Probably. Venezuela and, say, Peru? Nah.
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