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hatsix commented on Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost update.botghost.com/... · Posted by u/exists

koakuma-chan · 2 months ago

> is still ad-free

I use an adblock, so I don't see any ads on Reddit.

> I can't think of any way to look at this where Reddit is the lesser evil.

Reddit is the lesser evil for my personal use case because more and more Discord servers require a verified phone number to send messages. I can't get help if I can't send a message.

hatsix · 2 months ago

That's the individual server, not a standard Discord policy. Subreddits can also make gates that are exclusionary. So... not Discord the company.

Even if it was, "Requires a verified phone number" is not "Evil". You might not like it, it might be incomprehensible, it might be exclusionary, but it's not "Evil".

hatsix commented on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other fuelarc.com/news-and-feat... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames

xhkkffbf · 5 months ago

I can see that cutting out the LIDAR could qualify as "cheap." And maybe he's being risky on betting on lowering the cost by simplifying the technology.

But why make the jump to "fraud/charlatan"? Every system needs to be finite. We can invest in every bell and whistle. Furthermore, he's upfront about the decision. Fraud requires deception.

hatsix · 5 months ago

According to Musk, my car was supposed to be unsupervised driving by now. The shift to vision only has consumed all of their resources for the past several years, and my car has been left behind. There have been giant leaps in vision only, but it still isn't better than the vision+radar.

So, I was deceived. I didn't buy the car because of the deception, but I did buy FSD because of it.

Also, FSD disengaging when it gets sensor confusion should be considered criminal fraud. FSD should never disengage without a driver action.

hatsix commented on Palma 2 shop.boox.com/products/pa... · Posted by u/tosh

pclowes · 5 months ago

Im confused, how is a different technology the bar to meet for a given technology?

That feels like saying “my car can go 60mph so thats the bar to beat for a bicycle”.

Whats the battery like on the daylight?

hatsix · 5 months ago

Both devices focus on readability and rely on a reflective screen. Both devices are monochrome.

This is like comparing OLED vs MicroLED. They're technically different technologies, and each has it's own strengths. The OP is saying that "Never Seen on ePaper" is like saying "The Best iPhone Ever"...

hatsix commented on The Gen X Career Meltdown nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

mixmastamyk · 5 months ago

Wild. I've heard of the end of e.g. journalism for years, since Craigslist... but as a software developer I thought I'd be immune to these kinds of shifts. Never thought the (career) reaper would come for me, haha.

I have some friends in Hollywood... they say there's nothing left, and not even a side-gig in Albuquerque left to pay the bills.

Been looking for a job, but in this downturn there's nothing available. After the economy recovers I have ageism and LLMs to look forward to. My own career mistakes as well—they were teaching fortran in school and I wanted to hack on Netscape for pay instead. ;-) Seemed like the right call at the time, but turned out dead wrong.

hatsix · 5 months ago

This absolutely has not been my experience. I'm on the cusp of Gen X, but I had to turn away requests to interview after I added #OpenToWork on LinkedIn. I ended up with four full loops in a single week, and a hard choice between three offers. I definitely shook my network to get internal referrals, but once recruiting knows you are a real person, most companies move quick.

Submitting resumes without a referral is useless, you gotta work your network.

hatsix commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz

ergocoder · 5 months ago

Then, they would vote democrats. This might actually help democrats win presidency.

hatsix · 5 months ago

Just like Puerto Rico and DC?

hatsix commented on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

janalsncm · 6 months ago

I believe the stated purpose of the latest round had to do with fentanyl precursor manufacturing.

hatsix · 6 months ago

I believe that's the Mexico/Canada Tariffs, but it's really hard to keep it straight, by design.

hatsix commented on Thoughts on Daylight Computer jon.bo/posts/daylight-com... · Posted by u/3r7j6qzi9jvnve

hedora · 7 months ago

Yeah; I was really excited about this, but then saw it ran android.

Hard pass. I have an android tablet laying around, and never use it.

A Linux version / polished installable rom would make it compelling for me, especially if it included stuff from the kindle jailbreak community. Other than that, the ability to ssh, a shell with apt or apk, running vs code, and a web browser would cover a big chunk of my daily driver requirements. Bonus points for docker.

hatsix · 7 months ago

What do you assume that a non-apple tablet runs, if not Android. Why would running Android be a surprise to you?

hatsix commented on The Unbrickable Pledge usetrmnl.com/blog/the-unb... · Posted by u/MBCook

0xbadcafebee · 7 months ago

Is there an e-ink tablet that I can just make stupid simple apps for, that aren't some hosted, API-driven thing?

Give me wifi, e-ink display, and the ability to write a regular program that writes unicode chracters to STDOUT (and have that rendered to the display) and I'll give you my money right now. All it needs is a plain-old Linux TTY driver for the e-ink display (so you can set the fonts as you would in Linux). Then all you need for e-reading is a plain text file, the column tool for formatting, and the less pager for paging.

In terms of output more complex than text, there's this program dialog that takes command-line input and renders a UI in a console. That exact same thing, except rendering directly to the e-ink display, would work fine for 90% of e-ink apps. It could handle rendering fonts, styles, images, layouts, buttons, etc. Anyone who can learn basic scripting and use unix command-line tools could then make their own e-ink apps, and run them on the tablet, with absurdly low resource use.

hatsix · 7 months ago

I got my wife a Daylight tablet and she loves it. prefers the screen over any tech she has used... eink, OLED, whatever. It's standard android, so go ham.

hatsix commented on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/Leary

lukeschlather · 8 months ago

28% oppose the ban, and 32% support it. So a majority are either in favor or ambivalent. Two years ago a majority supported it: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/05/support-f...

Support has declined and opposition has increased. I don't think there's much of a disconnect here though, since it doesn't seem there are many people with strong opinions counter to what Congress chose to do.

hatsix · 8 months ago

"Not Sure" != "ambivalent". It's a mistake to lump "Not Sure" and "Opposed" together and declare a majority, as the group as a while does not represent a specific stance. Any attempt at nuance for either side gets bucketed into the largest category.

That group seems like the most interesting question... what sub groups do they fall into.

hatsix commented on Rails for everything literallythevoid.com/blog... · Posted by u/FigurativeVoid

dismalaf · 8 months ago

Ruby doesn't really have a learning curve... Maybe block syntax but that's super easy.

Rails gives you way more structure than Django.

hatsix · 8 months ago

I tell people that Ruby is a language optimized for reading. Things just make sense when you are reading what someone else wrote, but it can be much more difficult to write something from scratch with no guidance. Take dates, for example. Let's say you are fixing an issue, validation was set to accept one week in the future, but should have been one day in the past. 1.week.from_now becomes... well, how do you look that up? You head to the Ruby Lang site and look up Integer, but Integer doesn't have `.week`, so now you have to rely on Google-fu to find what you need, but you'll get a mix of base Ruby and Ruby on Rails, which modified base classes with some syntactic sugar. Eventually you find 1.day.ago and file that away, only to go through the same research for the next line you need to change.

It can be one of the most pleasant languages to read, but a lot of hidden knowledge is required to write it like Ruby wants you to.