AI slop.
Readit Newsalphabettsy commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz
Simple, do not purchase LG TV.
They’re fantastic imo. Don’t connect to them to the internet.
alphabettsy commented on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far grocerydive.com/news/krog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Probably because you then need pillars throughout the entire building to support the second floor which you are loading down with a ton of weight. The average forklift weighs 3x or more the weight of the average car, and then adding racking and stock on top of that. Yeah if you completely redesign your storage system to not require forklifts you save weight there, but you end up adding the weight back with all the heavy duty track systems and extra heavy duty racks that are required to eliminate the forklifts. Plus there is liability of having that weight up top, a rack failure on a second floor could take down half the building.
It is possible, but you end up spending 10x as much on the building.
Then put the warehouse on the first floor and put the store on top.
Lots of big cities have grocery stores with parking garages under them, doesn’t seem much different.
Glad you mentioned "Cursor has been a terrible experience lately", as I was planning to finally give it a try. I'd heard it has the best auto-complete, which I don't get use VSCode with Claude Code in the terminal.
You should still give it a try. Can’t speak for their experience, but doesn’t ring true for me.
alphabettsy commented on Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
The guy threw a sandwich at a cop. Is this something that should be legal and have no consequences? Is there a limit to the size of the sandwich? What kinds of ingredients are allowed?
I find it strange that people can go from this man was over-charged for a minor assault to thinking of him as a victim. The man was a bystander who assaulted a police officer - do you think that should be allowed if you agree with the bystander about the law?
Come to think of it, I disagree with a lot of rules about driving, particularly the price of a city sticker for a motorscooter. What can I throw at the woman who works at the DMV?
The man was prosecuted and the jury found him not guilty.
I would be curious to know what their reasoning was.
I think mine would be that since these agents seem to face absolutely no consequences for their far more egregious actions. Why should something so minor result in jail time. To be clear, I’m not talking about their lawful actions. I’m talking about them assaulting and abusing people and excessive use of force that’s been captured on camera all across the country.
alphabettsy commented on Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
> He also threw his Subway sandwich at Gregory Lairmore, an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Lairmore, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, told jurors the sandwich exploded and he smelled onions and mustard — though he wasn't hurt.
This entire administration is fragile as can be. They tried to make this sandwich throwing situation a felony.
The agents statement was also apparently a lie. Photos showed the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after according to other articles like this one https://reason.com/2025/11/06/d-c-jury-acquits-sandwich-guy-...
It seems like a double standard. If you approached a random member of the public that you didn't like the look of, shouted at them that you don't want them in your city and violently threw a soft object at them, you could easily be convicted of assault and receive some minor punishment. I think most people would accept that you should be. Should people have greater rights to assault policemen than other types of people? Or should assault be legal if the victim's workmates find it funny?
Fair question. The jury in this case decided it wasn’t assault.
My hypothesis is that people generally feel that police face little to no accountability and so there is a more serious double standard to contend with.
alphabettsy commented on Why aren't smart people happier? theseedsofscience.pub/p/w... · Posted by u/zdw
I recently encountered someone who spoke like this and I researched what might be the issue.
I came across narcissism. The idea that you’re smarter than everyone else. Comes from a grandiose sense of self importance. But the truth is most people are smarter than you in some ways and less smart in others, but you’re unable to see it because you’re in this black and white mode where preserving your ego relies on you being the smart guy amongst the idiots.
It’s very common in tech to see this. Maybe because we were all exceptional at maths when we were young and got the idea that meant we were super smart and this compensated for our nerdiness.
I worked with a bunch of physicists and every single one of them was smarter than me at maths and physics, I wasn’t even close. But they sometimes talked about politics and current affairs, which I’m very well read in. I didn’t say anything, but I was shocked at how little they knew and how overconfident they were.
None of those folks were narcissists, thankfully they were lovely people, but for sure it highlighted how poor people were at judging their own expertise in an area.
It’s so easy to dismiss people, criticising is easy, and so hard to see just how stupid you can be yourself.
Are you sure you’re not conflating knowledge with intelligence?
The whole situation reeks of the kind of thing that'll be mostly solved with technological progress over time (one of the german makes already has something that exempts a car in front of you from having the LEDs focused on it, I assume development is ongoing) and it really just remains to be seen if we get some law (which probably won't be decisive since this is a fairly subjective issue with no "obvious" answer) along the way.
GM vehicles had been notorious for having poorly adjusted headlights from the factory. The fact that Xenon systems seemed to always come with auto leveling and LED often does not is crazy.