KennyBlanken

Every time I see some vibecoded AI slop project announcement where there is almost 1 emoji per line I want to reach out across the internet and punch the "author" in the face.

This shit is infesting every online discussion forum I'm in.

Or Kobo, given how shit the stock firmware is and how little the hardware has changed over a considerable period of time. Should be easy-peasy.

Mill owners like him are precisely why New England states have child labor laws. My state prohibits anyone under 18 from operating any kind of machinery.

Why? Because mill owners would send kids into running machines to keep them running, and they'd get turned into hamburger.

Also, they'd grow up knowing how to do mill work but be useless to society for anything else.

gestures at southern coal states

gestures at midwest farming states

You're removing human interaction, though.

Nerds seem to forget that entertainment venues and sports are social spaces, interaction with staff matters, and is one of the more distinguishing features of a venue.

Unless you've got someone walking up and down the lanes introducing themselves as the manager/owner/whatever...

In the US they're just slippery enough to keep you from wrenching your ankle, the bowling lane knows they will have clean soles, and the soles won't damage the floor.

I cannot think of a logical reason to not provide that information.

Because it's to an extreme degree a landlord's market and thus none of them have any incentive to do more than the bare minimum?

Even if it was listed everyone would "stretch" things by including closets and the like. The only way it would work is if the city did the measurements and maintained a database...but then you'd have people bribing the inspectors. they already do it over fire code.

Renting an apartment should require at a minimum registration, inspection (fire code - window/egress, detectors, and ideally an extinguisher and fire blanket), proof of insurance, and some sort of bond per unit that the city holds onto and uses for emergency code compliance repairs.

I suppose, but for home automation, esps are best for getting the audio to something more powerful. If this lets a raspberry pi do voice recognition really fast, that alone is worth it.

This is 10 year old ebook technology for the sake of being "open", when one can just install KOreader on a Kobo.

KOreader fixes nearly all of the annoying bullshit in Kobo's firmware, which frankly, is terrible. The UI is poorly organized (why the hell is night mode so hard to get to!?), crashed routinely (just like it did ~10+ years ago...), and page changes are painfully slow, barely any improvement from the much older Kobos. It also provides support for remote libraries and a slew of other features. The UI isn't very clean, but it has a ton more features.

I've never understood how my much newer Kobo is just as slow as my first Kobo reader which was 10+ years ago, or why both of them rather frequently hang and have to be power-cycled.

Stuff happens.

There is the famous case of dropping the NOAA N-Prime weather satellite on the ground. They were trying to turn it from vertical to horizontal and they forgot to bolt it to the adapter. Worse: multiple people signed the paperwork attesting that they verified that it was bolted down correctly.

That wasn't a case of "stuff happens." It was a case of systemic issues with defense contractor employees not doing the work they were supposed to be, cutting corners, and "not giving a shit because if it breaks the government will just order another one from us."

It was basically fraud/grift/incompetence, not "stuff happens."

If I remember it right because the man who usually assembled that part had to leave during assembly because his wife was giving birth. Someone put it together but appearantely not correctly.

And why was the process so poorly documented only one guy could do it right?

Why didn't someone check the assembly?

Answer: defense contractor laziness and incompetence.

Since it went into space with the stepped-on part, clearly nobody DID write it up.

They really don't care. If the satellite blows up or fails, they get to build another.

Precisely. GLM 5.2 Thinking is pretty damn good - but it regularly does something nonsensical. Or even spits out what looks like a fragment of its memory cache. Or returns a bunch of Chinese.

I find myself having to resubmit a query very often...so it being a third of the cost of other AIs isn't really relevant.

There are numerous iPhone apps that don't need push notifications and sync just fine.

"Open source programmers do not understand how to code properly for iOS" != "doing things in the background is IMPOSSIBLE on iOS!!!!!"

People just love to screech about iOS/Apple being evil.

The village is heavily Christian. This is about forcing their religious views on everyone else in the village. The bit about tourists is just a smokescreen.

Is there any evidence any of the people convicted were actually executed or imprisoned?

If any of those people were politically connected, they probably just got a new identity and shoved off to somewhere else in the country.

I played TLoU and while the story was interesting, the feeling of being steered, forcefully and constantly, was very frustrating.

"Press this button exactly when the game tells you" and "as soon as you cross this exact point, this exact enemy will appear" - that's year-2000-ish (or worse) gaming tech.

The final confrontation was essentially ruined because the designers apparently never thought you'd use a sniper rifle, so you can set off a deafening shot that kills an enemy and the other enemies don't even notice the shot because it apparently happened outside their detection range.

That's pointless when ADF scanners will do a dual-side scan, at around 2-3 seconds per page, and more importantly, can do so with a stack of pages.

They've been around long enough that you can find them all over the place used for quite cheap and they likely only need a cleaning.

Thirteen models that all look nearly identical and a website that doesn't even remotely help you distinguish between them.

I see the same people have been in charge of product design and marketing at Brother for the last twenty years...

RMS wasn't "cancelled" (a reminder that "canceling" and "canceled" is a snarl word.)

His decades of incredibly shitty behavior came to be more public knowledge as both men and women in CS realized the behavior they'd witnessed wasn't some outlier once a few women who were well-known came forward and disclosed his behavior.

What brought it all to bear was him repeatedly, on a technical mailing lists, defending sex with underage girls, which in turn led people to actually go looking through material on his own site where he pontificated that sex with anyone over 14 should be legal, or even younger. These are his exact own words:

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)"

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

Add onto that decades of stories of creepy, manipulating, harassing behavior toward girls/women as well as incredibly sexist comments about women's technical abilities...among a lot of other really anti-social behavior, like an apparent refusal to bathe...while expecting anyone who hosts him to read a 40 page long missive about exactly how treat him.

It's been pretty well proven that social media companies punish posts with links.

Social media was once hailed as how you attract readers, but social media platforms are interested in either a)revenue or b)keeping people on their platform. A link to someone's blog doesn't help with that.

Nobody is "missing" anything. There are migrations to the cloud, but AI growth is on top of that.

AI computing capacity is doubling every seven months. https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-chip-production.

More likely MSI just being MSI. They're infamous for being far more concerned about image than most vendors so don't expect much info.

The Chinese are using AI in a fundamentally different way from the west.

Oh, they're trying alright. Google has been spamming Twitch with ads of teens and 20-somethings talking about how Gemini helps them study or "research" their paper, and the casting call clearly was for urban progressive LGBTQ types

Bullshit. Nobody needs to "drive" resentment. "AI" is touching everyone's lives and in not in a good way. And nobody gives a shit what privileged, wealthy, financially-benefiting political leaders want.

AI was used by the Israelis to decide what homes in Palestine to bomb.

AI was used by the Trump admin to decide what buildings to target, including a school of ~200 kids.

xAI was deploying numerous gas-turbine trailers at their datacenters in urban areas where they couldn't get enough power. Turbines that pump out huge amounts of NOx and noise...not to mention these DCs are generating so much heat they're raising the temperature of the areas they're in.

In every social group I'm in both IRL and online people hate AI shit.

They hate the monumental waste of energy, water, and land.

They hate the noise and pollution created by gas turbine generators being deployed at DCs because the DC can't get enough power

They hate that DCs consume water treated for DRINKING and pay a fraction of what individual ratepayers pay

They hate that politicians are handing out freebies to these DCs, whether it is tax breaks of infrastructure or discounted utilities or all of the above.

They hate AI phone system 'agents' that routinely get things wrong.

They hate AI "news stories."

They hate AI "agents" they have to deal with to get support for things which somehow manage to be even worse than someone who barely speaks English and has a decision tree in front of them, despite the company clearly being able to train it on much more data and refine it.

They hate it when media outlets use AI for "artwork" and graphics that look idiotic / have basic mistakes and clearly took work away from a photographer, editor, or graphic designer. Or all three.

They hate it when businesses, acquaintances, coworkers, friends reply to them with obviously-written-by-AI responses.

There are endless stories here about how AI is swamping open source projects with garbage bug reports and push requests.

In gaming circles they hate how prices on SSDs and RAM have tripled or more.

The programmers I know see endless slop and people in their field being fired because management thinks AI can do their jobs.

The list goes on. The only people who "like" AI are AI DudeBros and investors.

A failure in these blades would be catastrophic, resulting in the destruction of the engine, likely followed by the plane itself.

Aaaaand the author just lost any credibility with me whatsoever. This is someone who knows big words, maybe did some research and ChatGPTing, and doesn't actually know shit about aircraft or their engines.

On passenger aircraft because passengers sit directly inline with the path a blade with insane levels of kinetic energy will probably go, the nacelle is designed to contain it.

The engine must be able to contain a "blade off" event where a blade snaps during full rated thrust. Two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcALjMJbAvU

The aircraft will not be "destroyed."

The blade could fail during takeoff climb and the plane would still be able to climb because all twin engine passenger jet aircraft must be able to conduct all phases of flight on one engine.

SWA 1380 had a passenger fatality not because of the blade hitting them, but because part of the cowling disintegrated, broke the window, and she was partially sucked out of the aircraft, which killed her.

If she'd been wearing her seatbelt, she would likely be alive today. As would several other passengers who, over the years, have been killed by debris breaking the window and them being sucked out.

The blade itself did not leave the engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

That article lists a number of incidents, in roughly half of which the blade was contained. All the flights made it back to an airport...

Are they MDM'd? If so that's the MDM's fault, not the OS.

sleep and hibernate states on my desktop are pretty finicky

That is not normal...

Also, if you're on Windows, unless you disabled Fast Boot, you're not actually shutting it down. It's logging you out and suspending to disk.

This isn't some magical GrapheneOS feature. iPhone and Android both do it as well.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/firing-the-right-custome...

...among many others. If you're too dependent upon them that you can't, that's a whole other problem, one that needs to be fixed anyway.

Coal? You mean that thing that the US has been rapidly phasing out for two decades and currently represents about 10% of US electricity generation?

Whereas wind and solar are around twice that, and skyrocketing?