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Open-source software isn't a moral good

Yes it is.

I was a little radicalized when ChatGPT literally refused to translate parts of 1000+ year old religious texts and told me it was due to copyright concerns.

I live in Calgary. Both major airlines cost the same. There is no difference in sorting. Both airlines use the 737.

I lived in Tokyo. I used to spend more to avoid getting accosted at the US border. A lot more.

You can't call it choice when your vendors all offer the same product for the same price.

If human activity is taxed, AI activity will be taxed. It's just inevitable. It will be taxed at multiple levels until we figure out the right level to do so. Some of it will be detrimental to AI development but that's normal - in Canada we had a hidden manufacturing sales tax until the 80s which made exports more expensive.

A technology that puts X% of people out of work is going to be taxed.

Your ships would have been sunk during the 2002 Millennial challenge and an entire bureaucracy would defend you for the next 20 years.

Even Cargo Bicycles cost more than $10k. I think a 6 seater people mover is worth far more than those.

I'd buy a 6 seater with this range but not with the speed limitations (I think it is like 50-60 kph which is a non starter)

No one is "grateful" for being labelled a security risk. The statement reads more like a Chinese "Ah Q" story than a real response.

(Unless they are piping the F1 Mercedes theme song in the announce system at anthropic, in which case maybe you are right)

I own a Model 3 and I like driving it, but I scratch my head at everyone who claims there are no mechanical problems. I'm glad you didn't have any, but there are some repairs that are almost obscenely common.

In the past year, the heater failed (PTC Heater had to be replaced), and the lateral link ball joint ball joint had to be replaced. That is about CAD5000$ worth of work. There is also an issue with a wire in the rear center seatbelt that broke (but after a check, it doesn't really have any safety concerns wrt airbags so it is OK to leave as is), and the top roof glass cracked. (I also had to replace the front windshield, but that's normal in Calgary and I don't hold it against the car)

I'm not "rough handling", I have a Toyota Sienna without any of these problems. On the bright side, the battery has no problems and no imbalances so fixing it will keep the car running for years (hopefully).

I bring this up because I find it very annoying that people were painting hagiographies of these cars when they have real issues. None of the issues above should be happening. Moreover, there are no 3rd parties providing parts (supposedly because of patents).

In the end, I'll never buy another gas car again but my cute tiny car has a bigger turn radius than my Sienna. It's lost more value than my Sienna. I agree with the poster who said that it isn't even clear if Tesla is interested in cars anymore.

If BYD is also creating cars that are expensive to maintain, then hard pass. I'm ok with having legislation to fix this.

I see this on all sorts of non tesla cars and it makes no sense. I saw it even on brands like Fisker (although that was a solar panel that apparently didn't work).

Just a nice metal roof that won't make me expend more electricity for nothing would be nice.

Windows did not even support Final Fantasy 7 between two versions due to their broken Direct X design. Let's bury that turkey; just because there are compelling blog posts doesn't mean they are a legitimate reflection of Microsoft.

As a customer I expect my software to work, permanently. Don't expect me to cry for the richest companies in the world.

Please eliminate the glass roof. Why do EV companies keep making this customer hostile decision?

On my 2019 Model 3, a stress fracture showed up overnight and everytime I look up I see a 3000$ fix for a car that is worth 10k max.

I have no idea who wants it. It is hot in the summer, cold in the winter and you can have a sudden bill related to a rock on the street.

Somehow everyone, from Tesla to Ferrari has this insane design decision and for something that only makes sense in a very small part of the world.

Please stop.

Should they have supported PPC emulation forever

Yes.

The idea that people did not thank the US is laughable.

I have literally met Japanese people who have been thankful to the US for dropping nukes on them while pissing themselves about North Korea having missiles. The difference is that they perceived the US as an enlightened hegemony, and this is in part because of the relative pennies spent on Africa.

Incidentally, There is an animated series called Gasaraki with an endearingly simplistic and worshipful view of the US that aligns with how they viewed the US, especially at the end.

Good luck with AI hunter killers replacing good will.

For what it is worth, I live in Calgary and the McDonalds near me does not have deals like that. There is apparently a huge range in prices across McDonalds in a city, so there may be geographic limitations.

I don't go either, and the price is part of the reason. (I would go for the ice cream in summer, or for their cheap drinks promos).

I've been doing level 1 charging for the past 3 years or so. It is fine even in cold Calgary (albeit in an unheated garage)

Unless you are regularly doing upwards of 150 km/ day, it's fine.

Is there?

I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver.

When I bought my house the agent turned up her nose about the wood furnishings instead of "millennial white".

The resale value of macs is one of their selling points, just like cars. Generic colours win. I contend there is no pent up demand.

This is surprising. Has Canonical built something recently that requires "math geniuses with top grades at school"?

The last time I remember using any of their software was Unity. I'm not a Unity hater, but where is the headcount going?

For those who were immediately curious; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

Spoiler: That whole thread is probably an excellent troll ("I might make this a startup"), except a ton of mid(dle brow) people had to ruin it.

I still have 4 of these, even one of their bluetooth ones. They all work, except a 15 year old one whose USB cable got frayed and fell apart. (I bought a USB-C port to see if I could fix it, yet another incomplete project)

I agree with op who said that they aren't getting better but calling it stagnant is more than I would say. The build quality was quite high and they clearly focused on that, and the price reflected that. I own another mechanical keyboard that I bought from Amazon during the pandemic and I already started getting ghost tapping (I only used it for dev work so I was more than a little annoyed to see it).

Not saying it is perfect though. They clearly were a Windows-first shop and that never changed. I've never managed to get the 変換 key and the other Kanji keys working in Linux or on Mac, much to my annoyance.

Chronic absence numbers are misleading. We all know that they are just placeholder stats for other factors and we should focus on those.

My 3rd grade daughter was unlucky with various illnesses and missed about 12 days this year (so far). I got a letter from her principal attempting to guilt trip me for her "Chronic absence".

I wrote an angry response (in retrospect it was too angry since he had no choice about the letter) where I asked if he would prefer my sending sick children to school.

Her grades (for whatever value grades have in 3rd grade) are fine. I'll take the chance on her reading her "Diary of a wimpy kid" book when sick, or when a sane system would have given a snow day.

Dunno how it is in Germany but quite a few of my non white friends wound up in the Canadian Army.

I don't know why immigration is brought up in this conversation at all.

We make plenty of stuff at scale. We just haven’t designed any of military around it since WWII.

When people claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs, you get the "Oh we produce high value products, mostly military".

Then you get posts like this. How is one to reconcile these ideas? Is Lockheed Martin the Ferrari of weapons?

Somewhat hilariously, the US adopted the same Wolf Warrior diplomacy.

Maybe public diplomacy is simply adjacent to local politics to the US. I still think this will backfire spectacularly over the medium term.

It's not just the EU, you can see these organizations in Canada and in Japan. For example, I watch youtube channels ostensibly created to discuss Japanese Real Estate (I'm thinking about Rakumachi) which suddenly pivot to posting American right wing talking points in Japanese on their shorts channel. (Their long form RE content is usually interesting)

I don't know. Using Reddit mode like that is often a waste of time for me.

The LLM does pokes holes but often it is missing context, playing word games, or making a mountain out of a molehill. In a conversational chatbot setting it is just being contrarian, I don't find it helpful.

I prefer using the LLM to build out an idea and then see if it makes sense before asking someone else.

In the end though, I usually DO get pushback from ChatGPT and Claude. Gemini, not so much, but it is still worthwhile.

9 MiB

I'm glad people still care about stuff like this. It drives me insane that the simplest form-based software that I build and compile ends up being 50-100 MiB; several times video games from the 80s that I grew up with that did much more complex work, graphically and computationally, on a tenth of the space.

Alberta is imposing a charge on EV registrations, and they increased it again this year. At some point I'm hoping courts curtail their attempt at imposing gas cars but given how Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights issues in places like Quebec, I doubt they will do anything about Alberta either.

Cool cool they can pay more for gas then. As an Albertan I approve completely.

Side note - My 2019 Tesla Model 3 is worth 8000$. Canadian.

A rich person does not drive a Tesla.

In this past year I've gotten 2 bills for more than 1500$ for my Tesla Model 3, a car whose trade-in value is between 5 and 9 thousand dollars.

When I complained, I was told that the parts are only produced by Tesla and are patented (true or false).

As I always say, I love the car but getting an old beater whose heat stops at the end of winter is no fun.