jakeinspace (u/jakeinspace)

jakeinspace commented on Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying chameth.com/fixing-a-loud... · Posted by u/sprawl_

doubled112 · 14 days ago

I ran into this same setup with a microwave that failed in a few months after purchase and Walmart.

Tried to deal with the manufacturer, but they couldn’t help and sent me to the retailer.

Went to the store, popped it up on the counter, had a short conversation and got the expected “you have to deal with the manufacturer”.

Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Actually yes. Can you throw that out for me?

The confusion on the guy’s face was great.

Spent more than enough time on the $100 microwave. Their problem now.

jakeinspace · 14 days ago

My experience with cheap modern microwave failures has been the door sensor failing, which for safety ofc prevents the magnetron from running. I had one fail in about 2 months, thankfully fixable with a $10 sensor and 15 minute of work. Same goes for a lot of appliances, repaired a dryer that had its door sensor fail (in fact, they all tend to use identical door sensors as far as I've seen, dryers and washing machines and microwaves).

jakeinspace commented on Why Grok Fell in Love with Hitler politico.com/news/magazin... · Posted by u/vintagedave

mingus88 · 2 months ago

Yes, exactly. An LLM that is trained on the language of Twitter users and interacts solely with Twitter users is deplorable. What a shock.

Who knows if Elon actually thinks this is problematic. His addiction to the platform is well documented and quantified in the billions of dollars.

jakeinspace · a month ago

1. Buy Twitter

2. Remove moderation, promote far right accounts, retweet some yourself

3. Allow Nazi speech to fester

4. Train LLM on said Nazi speech

5. Deploy Nazi-sympathizing LLM, increase engagement with Nazi content

6. Go to step 4

jakeinspace 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

moomoo11 · 2 months ago

The engineers who worked on the Death Star probably thought they were pushing engineering ahead and that it was “cool epic tech”.

Never forget that so called normal people are the ones who support some of the worst people, whether fiction or reality.

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

Engineering has for a long time had these sorts of issues, mainly with weapons manufacturing. I honestly have more sympathy for a 20th century mechanical engineer choosing to go work for a defence contractor than a 21st century software engineer taking a lucrative job at a company like Palantir or today's twitter, because there are so many decent paying more ethical alternatives.

There's not even anything especially technically interesting about working for the evil side of silicon valley! At least working for Lockheed can mean helping design an amazing beautiful death machine, and lead to some complicated feelings on one's deathbed. But if you worked on Nazi Grok? That's just embarassing. Forget the banality of evil, it's the cringe of evil. Nobody is going to look at you like some kind of Oppenheimer tormented genius at a dinner party.

jakeinspace 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

dzhiurgis · 2 months ago

This is not extreme lol.

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

The "no true racist" fallacy, I see.

jakeinspace 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

archagon · 2 months ago

Flagged because, apparently, a $50b+ AI company (incidentally headed by someone YC enthusiastically invited to their AI Startup School) tinkering with one of the biggest and most prominent LLMs to blurt out full-on Nazi rhetoric is unworthy of discussion.

Somehow, this is both an evil and deeply unserious industry.

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

Maybe we should've made CS majors read a book or 2 after all. Maybe that wouldn't have helped, perhaps all it takes is $200k/year for people to stop caring about anything outside their immediate best interest.

jakeinspace 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

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

If you work for one of his companies, please find work elsewhere.

jakeinspace commented on Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHer... · Posted by u/theandrewbailey

crazygringo · 2 months ago

I couldn't disagree more. Their "bad" example:

> To download W3C's editor/browser Amaya, _click here_.

Is extraordinarily clear. I'll click the link and it will either download directly, or it will be a download page.

In contrast:

> Get _Amaya_!

That suggests a link to the Amaya website, not a download page. That's not effective for a download.

Similarly:

> Tell me more about _Amaya_: W3C's free editor/browser that lets you create _HTML_, _SVG_, and _MathML_ documents.

This is terrible. It's not about downloading, and "tell me more" is the command, but not linked! For all I know, the "Amaya" link goes to a corporate landing page, not the "tell me more" information I actually need.

The conventional uses on the web are totally fine:

> To download W3C's editor/browser Amaya, _click here_.

> _Download Amaya_, the W3C's editor/browser.

The idea that links shouldn't be verbs seems very silly to me. Links should absolutely be verbs, when they involve an action like downloading or finding out more. Obviously that's different from "reference" links like in Wikipedia, where you're finding more about a topic.

And "click here" makes it exceptionally clear that a link isn't merely a reference link, but an action link. When I see:

> Get _Amaya_!

That... doesn't tell me how to get Amaya. That tells me "Amaya" is a reference link, not a download link.

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

Besides screen readers, using a single descriptive noun as the link text might help for maintainability in some situations. First, it reduces the chances of a given link accidentally getting copied to another section by an unscrupulous maintainer. Second, in case of a dead link with a non-obvious URL (like maybe some ancient sourceforge link to a now renamed project), the link text is an extra bit of information to remind you if and how the dead link should be updated (assuming no comment exists). I admit that's a pretty minor benefit.

jakeinspace commented on Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory arxiv.org/abs/2503.01800... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

baxtr · 2 months ago

In my perception Sabine’s quality degraded over the last year or so.

Maybe it’s also the topics she covers. I’m not sure why she is getting into fantasies of AGI for example.

I liked the skeptical version of her better.

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

Agreed, she's pumping out too many videos I think. Perhaps she's succumbed a bit to the temptation of cashing in on a reputation, ironically one built on taking down grifters.

jakeinspace commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

Coping with the meaningless splendor of the universe is daunting, but I will do my best!

jakeinspace commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

EMM_386 · 2 months ago

These type of 'theories' I dislike only because they don't get to the root of the problem.

It is the same for 'multiverse' where that is used to explain literally anything 'it's like that in this universe but not the others'.

Sure, we can get creative and explain the Anthropic Principle by mentioning the multiverse.

But none of this answers how something comes from nothing.

Not the vacuum of space and its 'quantum foam' where particles jump in from nowhere.

Because that's not 'nothing'.

One of these nothings ... such as level 9. No possibilities.

https://closertotruth.com/news/levels-of-nothing-by-robert-l...

jakeinspace · 2 months ago

I won't touch level 8/9 nothings, other than to say I don't think they're coherent. But I am of the metaphysical camp that thinks there will be at least some small ground truth which physical law or object which cannot be reduced, an axiom of nature. Physics unfortunately will probably always be limited in distinguishing between basic facts which are truly irreducible, and those which are simply limits of our observational abilities. That's the thing that bothers me; even if there were a single beautiful law of nature that just IS, one which we actually manage to postulate based on evidence, we will never know for sure. GR definitely has a beautiful mystique, it's a shame that it's most likely just a mathematical approximation.