I’ve tried to like it but I just can’t. How is it entertaining to just give your money away, literally without anything of value?

I’ll do Super Bowl squares and March madness, because it’s a social activity. Once every year or so I’ll buy a lottery ticket for one night of amazing dreams.

But organized gambling, like casino, inline, track, sports bets always just feels like they are robbing me. I did bet at a horse track and a dog track a couple of times but it’s just so sad watching these old people piss away their social security checks. Now we have polymarket which seems like mostly a way for immoral politicians, celebrities, business people to enrich themselves with insider knowledge

Yeah, we need to ban for-profit gambling

Regulatory capture should never be a part of a “Free Market” and that is one of the reasons it is failing us

Or you could have both. According to all the testing agencies, modern teslas are among the safest most reliable cars.

And it’s not just the huge amounts of instant torque that can be a blast, but the noise, or lack of! The silence even under hard acceleration just makes it seem effortless. I also used to feel a thrill with the noise of a powerful gas engine but that feels like an awful lot of effort just to not accelerate well. I seriously feel Ike it’s similar to a stream engine train: “full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”

We tried that. At least twice. One political party decided that investment was “fraud, waste, and abuse”, and shut it all down, driving manufacturing out of the country.

Google says 25% of the worlds oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, but it also says 55% off the worlds oil is used for transportation.

We should be able to fairly quickly (ie. Decade) cut oil by double what is impacted in trumps war

Yeah, let’s send thermodynamics to Guantanamo where we can violate them in freedom, FREEDOM! No interference from those pesky laws of physics, just FREEDOM

Unfortunately, that’s arguably still true, in the us. Given the current administration’s desire to roll back the calendar, outside EVs have been effectively banned, and many of the choices we were finally about to get were cancelled.

If I were looking for a new EV today, Tesla is still by far the most compelling choice available to me.

Australia is also central to renewables because of the number of articles on grid storage.

Oh I totally agree. They are not very useful and even if they were there is also not a market/customer base.

But Boston Dynamics Optimus is getting pretty decent. There are claims that even at an expected price of $200k, over its lifetime that is cheaper than human menial labor. It can swap out its own battery, so tHere’s at least one useful skill

The goal of Tesla-bot is to hit $20k. While that doesn’t seem likely, even double that price could be affordable for small offices …… if it could do stuff.

The problem with industrial robots is they really need scale. They’re not practical or useful for anything but very large manufacturing.

If humanoid robots become a thing, they promise to automate a lot of smaller scale manual work

My company is in there somewhere, however the layoffs weren’t that big and seemed well targeted. Especially the number of middle managers

And were spending way too much on ai. No guardrails. No limits. Reviewed partly on how high your ai spend is

I’m definitely worried, since I don’t spend enough

All the real developers are using Macs. BRO, do you even code?

I’ve been suffering from too short an attention span. I keep ending up. scrolling on my phone while waiting for ai to spew its slop, and have been caught too many times

Part of the scoring at my company is how many generated lines of code you accept.

Going back to the beginning of the year, I think I’m up to 6

Think of the language like units in a math problem.

“East” (English) is more literally “East”

Than “Leste”( Portuguese), even if it translates to the same

If you make an analogy with temperature:

• 212°F is more literally “212” than 100C even if they are both the boiling point of water

I would have liked it just for the integration with code reviews, but we didn’t even get a chance to try because “it’s too expensive” …… as we’re migrating from on-prem infrastructure licensed per site to cloud infrastructure charged per usage, and with no valid cost comparison

I hope not: we’re migrating from Gitlab to GitHub. I was never a fan because of the lack of enterprise features in GitHub (folders, with more granularity of settings and permissions, scalable usability), and certainly GitLab CI was extremely limited but wtf

I can’t comment on Plex vs JellyFin, but it’s an interesting perspective that $3/mon for remote access is too much

I use another piece of opensource software, where I consider that a plus. It takes the headache and security issues off my hands, while I can support the developers with a small contribution for an optional feature

I recently ordered a Trmnl, because it looks like they do what I want, and I keep not doing it as a project. I haven’t gotten it yet but ….

My impression is it’s more of a finished product, not a project. If there is a plugin doing what you want, then it’s a simple configuration. However if you want to customize, you may need to pay for a developer account

But there isn’t more space between the seats