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blks commented on Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
wqaatwt · 4 days ago
Why are they all building factories in places like Arizona and Texas?

Aren’t there plenty of areas where water is ample and land prices relatively cheap.

blks · 4 days ago
Taxes and labour laws/no unions
blks commented on Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub   github.blog/news-insights... · Posted by u/ben_hall
blks · 16 days ago
I wonder how much crime the ms has committed by training their AI on someone else’s code. I wonder if they dipped their fingers in private repositories, too.
blks commented on The current state of LLM-driven development   blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez
credit_guy · 17 days ago
Sure. But it happens that I have 20 years of experience, and I know quite well how to code. Everything the LLM does for me I can do myself. But the LLM does that 100 times faster than me. Most of the days nowadays I push thousands of lines of code. And it's not garbage code, the LLMs write quite high quality code. Of course, I still have to go through the code and make sure it all makes sense. So I am still the bottleneck. At some point I will probably grown to trust the LLM, but I'm not quite there yet.
blks · 17 days ago
> Most of the days nowadays I push thousands of lines of code

Insane stuff. It’s clear you can’t review so much changes in a day, so you’re just flooding your code base with code that you barely read.

Or is your job just re-doing the same boilerplate over and over again?

blks commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union   laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
blks · 17 days ago
What a load of politicised rubbish.
blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
reliabilityguy · a month ago
What exactly is misrepresented?

It’s hardly a rebuttal when I have to go and find all the evidence to prove myself wrong.

blks · 25 days ago
That he did, in fact, hit her, and that she is not a crazy woman as some media outlets painted her.
blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
Levitz · a month ago
But you are just explaining why you are bigoted, bigotry which, in turn, you imply explains why you don't think it's wrong to be sexist. Sexist enough to disregard the importance of publicly sharing people's information.

Do you not see how this is deeply wrong?

blks · a month ago
I’m a man myself, I have dated both men and women, and I did once experienced sexual assault by a men.

From a personal experience, I know for example a person in my friends group who turned to be a person that forces himself on drunken women at parties after they say no. And I don’t see anything wrong with letting all my friends know about this.

I don’t really understand why you here feel so afraid of people gossiping online. I’m a man that sleeps with women and I am not afraid about them talking about me. Even if they loose some platform, you know, they will still talk to each other.

blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
reliabilityguy · a month ago
Heard of Amber Heard?;)

I mean, I think it depends what you claim in this post.

blks · a month ago
Your memory of Amber Heard trial is probably largely misrepresented by the media. Reading wiki article about it should be enough.
blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
tpmoney · a month ago
I think groups in general feel personally attacked by things that attack people on the basis of their immutable group characteristics. Notably women dislike and feel attacked by unqualified statements like "women are crazy" or calling someone a "karen". Black people dislike and feel attacked when people talk about "ghetto trash" or "welfare queens".

Sure any individual discussion about an individual might justifiably refer to that person as "crazy" or "ghetto trash". But the nature of online spaces, and the nature of the public discourse that tends to bring these phrases and discussions into the public eye very quickly starts painting people with broad brushes.

People also feel attacked because often times discussions tend to confuse useful rhetorical devices for conveying a point with justification for a behavior that has harmful impacts on the broader group. For example, it was pretty common to here the "bowl of M&Ms where one M&M is poisoned" analogy in the height of the "Me Too" movement. It's a useful rhetorical device for explaining why someone would fell cautious about a strange man, and why they wouldn't start from a position of trust. But it's also a terrible way of generally treating men in your life, and a terrible broad philosophy for organizations and governments to follow.

And we know this rhetorical device makes bad policy and at large is harmful to innocent people because another time in recent history when that analogy was really popular was immediately after the Sept 11 attacks when talking about Muslims in general and immigrants from Muslim countries. Surely no one would find it strange that Muslims might dislike and feel personally attacked by "people talking about crimes and terrorism done by other Muslims" in the same way that many online spaces talk about "sexual abuse/harassment done by other men". Surely we wouldn't be surprised if people felt attacked or disliked an app for sharing anonymous and private information about suspicious Muslims right? Or let's say someone noticed that black people are statistically 2x as likely relative to their population to be the offender of a violent crime[1]. You'd reasonably expect people to be bothered by an app that excluded black people from signing up and was entirely about strangers providing un-verified experiences with black people under the premise of keeping people safe.

Ultimately, people are bad at statistics and really bad at understanding the degree to which a small minority of individuals can affect a large majority of people by virtue of repeat offending. So it can be true both that lots of people have completely valid awful experiences with members of a given broad group, and that members of that group feel unfairly maligned when discussion about those experiences paints with broad, unqualified strokes.

[1]: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv23.pdf

blks · a month ago
Women talking about their history sexual violence do not attack you or group you are a part of. Bringing some of these normalised actions to light do not attack you unless you’re a rapist yourself.
blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
b59831 · a month ago
> Because we live in patriarchal culture

It's crazy how often this is used to justify awful behavior.

At what point do you have to define and actually prove the existence of "patriarchal culture"?

blks · a month ago
“awful behaviour” such as?
blks commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan   404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
exiguus · a month ago
A gray area in my eyes. As a father, I think it's good that my daughter uses the app. You only need to look at the statistics to see how many women are killed by their male partners every year.
blks · a month ago
Online men-dominated forums often dislike and feel personally attacked by people talking about sexual abuse/harassment done by other men. I guess they immediately imagine themselves being falsely accused of such acts, rather than being a woman that is attacked.

u/blks

KarmaCake day46January 22, 2025View Original