I mean… I can think of a lot worse things in recent days

This one is just extra transparent, because they’re panicking

Yeah, because we call it “climate change”. What does that even mean? Sounds long compromise to me

We’d be better off calling it “climate destabilization”

Anti semitic remarks are not the same as anti Israeli remarks

I feel nothing when that guy changed “death, death to the IDF”. Well, maybe a mix of amusement and concern. But I have nothing, at all, to do with the IDF and do not support what they do

When you say, in this context, “I’ll cool it with the anti semitic comments when war criminals are brought to justice”, how do you think that feels?

Don’t take this shit casually, anti semitism goes back to biblical times. I’ve experienced it growing up. And now, they’re asking new York Jews what they think of “their” prime minister? They’re “othering” us already

They just built a concentration camp. In America. The Holocaust wasn’t the first time they targeted the Jews as the enemy within. I’ve always reminded my family who start flirting with conservatism… We’re always second. When they run out of people that look different, we’re next

I know what you meant. But that’s not what you said, and words matter

So I, a jew who has never even been to Israel, who’s ancestors left centuries ago, am responsible for the state of Israel in any fucking way?

Jewish does not mean Israeli… At all.

He worked really hard to thread the needle between capitol and some actually progressive policies

Which, in the effort to avoid making enemies, just basically pissed off everyone, because it took a nibble of the profits for the tiniest wins possible

But I’m sure it was a lot of work

When an actual Jewish person comes out against Israel, they just call them a self hating Jew. Yup. Nothing antisemitic about that. They must just really want to protect Jewish people from… checks notes… ourselves.

This is scary to me. Like when reporters started going up to random Jewish people in New York and asking about “your prime minister”

I didn’t think they would start “othering” us so fast

Amateur. My dream job was just to exist in nature without a job, just creating to create, and instead I’m constantly tempted with employment

Yes, electronics are very cheap… But remember the part where they also have a mechanical mechanism? They have two systems, where most cars have this very simple lock that connects to a tiny motor assembly. It’s literally a piece of plastic and a few wires

The tablet thing is true, they’ve changed cars to computerize everything, and once you’ve done that you can connect everything over a network. Every button needs to do back to a chip to become a digital signal, so before you had these complex one-off wiring harnesses for everything

But the tablet thing is again, common. It makes sense, it’s just worse

But Elon is a unique case. Elon likes to actually make decisions, because he thinks he’s Tony Stark. He actually goes down into teams and hangs out, and they have to just work around whatever decisions he makes. It’s present in all of his companies, but you can see it most in Twitter, because they didn’t have time to build a team to strategically distract him when he comes to visit

This absolute idiot has spent the last month trying to get grok to be a literal Nazi. First, he added a bunch of white genocide to the prompt, making it change the topic to that from any question for a few days.

Now it’s responding all confused, and saying things like “I never gave Jeffrey Epstein tours of spaceX or Tesla” when asked it Elon did it. Seems to me they fed Elon’s tweets in the RAG system in a amateur way

He micromanages and meddles constantly… That’s what he does at his companies

For a counterexample, Jeff Bezos. He was heavily involved in the fire phone, and had some genuinely cool ideas… But the priorities were all wrong, so it flopped. He learned his lesson

No, the problem is they engineered something they didn’t need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

Maybe it’s something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something… But even that they could’ve done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

Let’s be clear… The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.

So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”

And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

Yup. We need to purge every seat

People aren’t illegal. Even fucking Reagan wanted to legalize the people that were already here, living and working

Lol… Chuck Schumer actually celebrated getting the bills name changed procedurally as Trump toured the first concentration camp

Democrats should have a non-stop parade of victims telling their story already. Instead, they’re making speeches to empty rooms on cspan

Recycling isn’t real. I love when I get scolded by my parents for not recycling when it’s just going to the landfill

Reduce and reuse are real through. Single stream recycling is basically always a lie though

Nah, they’re actually fantastic at brain numbing tasks. I like to feed it sql tables and have it act like an ORM, but without the tradeoffs of an ORM. I’d never do it manually, but it’s far more readable and easy to work with

I also love using it for api’s. You can feed it a response, say “hey, I just want the id, status, and amount” (or whatever) and it’ll restructure the data for you

These are not hard problems… They are tedious ones though. They solve a problem by brute force, a problem we “solve” over and over because at the end of the day: programmers are lazy.

You can over engineer complex bindings until the cows come home, but a simple pattern with each field explicitly mapped is the best solution. It’s just really, really annoying to actually do it

Well, seeing as it already flooded…

And that’s why Zohran is great. He answers questions like this so well that interviewers stop asking, because they’ll just be teeing him up to explain his platform in simple, easily understood detail

This is fucking stupid. It’s when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it’s, it’s always horrible

Yep… It’s amazing how hard it is to convince people that China is just capitalism and the government doing things

Things the US (and most) governments have explicitly defined authority to do already, they just pretend that it’s unthinkable

You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)