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some-guy commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds

wnevets · 2 days ago

> Farmers also want solar panels is the thing. It brings their costs down.

I am a little curious to know what percentage voted for this.

some-guy · 2 days ago

Most polls hover around 75% [1]

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g-s1-52362/tariffs-farmers-tr...

some-guy commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy

OhMeadhbh · 8 days ago

It's the kids. They all like the anime. Not at all like the serious teams I worked with at IBM and DEC that slapped trek logos over everything.

some-guy · 8 days ago

Define kids? I know plenty of Gen X and elder millennials into anime

some-guy commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

minimaxir · 17 days ago

The marketing copy and the current livestream appear tautological: "it's better because it's better."

Not much explanation yet why GPT-5 warrants a major version bump. As usual, the model (and potentially OpenAI as a whole) will depend on output vibe checks.

some-guy · 17 days ago

As someone who tries to push the limits of hard coding tasks (mainly refactoring old codebases) to LLMs with not much improvement since the last round of models, I'm finding that we are hitting the reduction of rate of improvement on the S-curve of quality. Obviously getting the same quality cheaper would be huge, but the quality of the output day to day isn't noticeable to me.

some-guy commented on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB

xedrac · a month ago

Comcast is notorious for exploiting places that don't have any other real options. Just before Google Fiber was activated in my area, Comcast stepped up their game big time. The only problem is that they had spent years nickel and diming me for actual connection speeds that didn't even come close to their advertised rates, and their latency/jitter is garbage compared to fiber. Comcast clearly doesn't want to have to compete. In their defense, their connection was rarely down.

some-guy · a month ago

When I lived in downtown Oakland CA, Comcast literally could not keep up price-wise with the competition. Their customer service jaw would drop when I told them our local fiber offered a flat fee cheaper than theirs for 10 gigabit symmetrical fiber. On top of that there was another local microwave wireless option that wasn't too terrible.

The only thing in the end their salespeople could do was offer TV bundles but still wasn't cost-competitive. Not sure what their offerings are now but it was such an easy decision to switch.

some-guy commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs

emodendroket · a month ago

I think it’s most useful when you basically need Stack Overflow on steroids: I basically know what I want to do but I’m not sure how to achieve it using this environment. It can also be helpful for debugging and rubber ducking generally.

some-guy · a month ago

All those things are true, but it's such a small part of my workflow at this point that the savings, while nice, aren't nearly as life-changing to my job as my CEO is forcing us to think it is.

Once AI can actually untangle our 14 year old codebase full of hosh-posh code, read every commit message, JIRA ticket, and Slack conversation related to the changes in full context, it's not going to solve a lot of the hard problems at my job.

some-guy commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe

fourside · a month ago

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years.

It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

some-guy · a month ago

Dumpster fires are unfortunately entertaining.

some-guy commented on Solar becomes top source of electricity in California pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/... · Posted by u/martinpw

adenta · 2 months ago

Is there an expected date we can start doing industrial scale desalination with excess electricity?

some-guy · 2 months ago

Sadly I think AI is going to push that further out if we ever get to that point.

some-guy commented on Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors electrek.co/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/apayan

blindriver · 2 months ago

Tesla has lost a lot of their lustre this year. Sales plummeting is incontrovertible. Just based on that alone is devastating. But this robotaxi lack of success will not be treated the same anymore.

some-guy · 2 months ago

If the market was actually rational the stock would have tanked already. The small number of people who hold the most stock have every incentive to keep the price high.

some-guy commented on Brian Wilson has died pitchfork.com/news/the-be... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2 months ago

RIP. What a creative titan/genius. When these giants pass away who replaces them? Who are the Brian Wilsons of today?

some-guy · 2 months ago

Quite a few exist, there are just so many more of them, and most of them aren't making the top of the billboard charts.

Sufjan Stevens comes into mind for me as a songwriting workhorse with a wide array of styles but with a central theme, and amazing poetry / lyricism.