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electrondood commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed   steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo
senkora · 3 months ago
Do you mean a red flag for the quality of the article, or for the actions of the department? "Department of War" is currently a real name for the department:

> On September 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing "Department of War" and "secretary of war" as secondary titles to the main titles of "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense." The terms must be accommodated by federal agencies and are permitted in executive branch communications, ceremonial settings, and non-statutory documents. However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.[10][11] Trump described his rebranding as an effort to project a stronger and more bellicose name and said the "defense" names were "woke".[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

electrondood · 3 months ago
It's an alias that only applies to Federal employees.

The Congressionally-legislated actual name of the department is still Department of Defense.

electrondood commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed   steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo
spiritplumber · 3 months ago
Can we please keep calling the DoD with its actual name and not humor the stupids? Thanks.
electrondood · 3 months ago
Exactly. "Department of War" is guidance that applies only to Federal employees, and the Department of Defense was named through Congressional legislation. That is still the department's name, whatever Trump decrees.
electrondood commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed   steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo
electrondood · 3 months ago
Fun fact: The Department of Defense was named through legislation.

Trump's EO that "renames" it only applies to Federal employees as guidance. No one else needs to call it that, and it's still legally the Department of Defense.

electrondood commented on How to rig elections [video]   media.ccc.de/v/why2025-21... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
monkeyelite · 6 months ago
What do you think about the 2020 election?
electrondood · 6 months ago
It was well-litigated by the Trump administration, and none of their frivolous claims held up. They lost ~60 of their 63 court cases, and the 3 they won were technicalities.

2020 was a free and fair election.

electrondood commented on Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool   validationly.com/... · Posted by u/kptbarbarossa
electrondood · 6 months ago
Oh sure... I'll just give you my idea to make Uber but for dogs.
electrondood commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
0cf8612b2e1e · 6 months ago

  Over the last six months, capital expenditures on AI—counting just information processing equipment and software, by the way—added more to the growth of the US economy than all consumer spending combined. You can just pull any of those quotes out—spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program.
Wow.

electrondood · 6 months ago
For context though, consumer spending has contracted significantly.
electrondood commented on Eleven Music   elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
tlaverdure · 6 months ago
I've played guitar for 23 years, and there is something just off-putting about most of the music on that page, but particularly "Yellow Bus Jam".

The guitar solo sounds very unnatural, especially the phrasing, which is totally random. Blues musicians are actually attempting to say something through their instrument. This was just a random number generated solo played by a 6 finger three handed robot. No thanks, lol.

electrondood · 6 months ago
I had the same sentiment, but also recall what generated human hands looked like a year ago vs. now.

The solo was pretty funny though.

electrondood commented on Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/duxup
rfwhyte · 6 months ago
Sounds like the new owners of this already morally and financially bankrupt company are going to go bankrupt all over again if they are trying to pull this kind of scam bait and switch on their small and shrinking user base.
electrondood · 6 months ago
Seriously. Who is going to buy another Futurehome product knowing that they feel entitled to extort their customers, whose only alternative is to remove the devices integrated into their home?
electrondood commented on US AI Action Plan   ai.gov/action-plan... · Posted by u/joelburget
electrondood · 7 months ago
Morality and religion are entirely independent dimensions.
electrondood commented on Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts   axios.com/2025/07/08/elon... · Posted by u/12_throw_away
salawat · 7 months ago
You misunderstand. There is no Quality Control you can do for these things. They're ill-conditioned function imitators. Small changes in input, yield massive changes in output. You can't QC that. You can only clean up after it.
electrondood · 7 months ago
That's completely false. You run evals.

edit: you're supposed to run evals.

u/electrondood

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