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editing a config file is hardly a “brick wall”.

No it’s not but it’s also not something I’m prepared to put up with. When I turn my computer on it’s because I have something I want to do and the thing I want to do with it is not mess with the basic configuration.

why the fuck do you wanna do that? Go back to Windows.

Yeah that is basically my concern. However I figure I can always just buy a Windows licence if it doesn’t work out.

I spent a couple of weeks trying to get used to vim and in the end I just figured that whatever performance boost I’m supposed to get by not having a UI, I lose by having to learn vim.

People who use it need to be on some kind of government watch list.

I’m building a new gaming PC and it’s going to be a Linux build and if it doesn’t work the way you guys keep insisting it will, I swear to God.

My last experience with Linux was with Ubuntu about 10 years ago and I can’t say it was a particularly great experience I’m hoping that in the last decade it’s improved its user experience.

Nothing wrong with typescript

Oh yeah I’m definitely going to use that. He’s a marketing genius.

Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that… Tis a mystery

Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.

They famously taught it on Reddit. So it’s not surprising that it just comes up with nonsense.

You would have thought that they would use a more stable data set. Although it does mean it’s very good at explaining the plots of movies badly.

I’m pretty sure this internet thing is going to turn out to be a fad.

It isn’t about who knows who the Elon Musk is it’s about who cares who Elon Musk is.

Why should I care who some random CEO is? If you can answer that question you will impress me because CEOs don’t have a lot to do with what the company does, they have a lot to do with how the company is perceived. Think about Tesla is that for whatever reason they decided to be a 100% perception company and a 0% results company. Presumably because their results are unimpressive.

Most people don’t research the CEO of a car company before buying a car. Who is the CEO of ford no idea he could be a complete lunatic as far as I’m aware, I don’t know because his personal attitude isn’t relevant to my car buying decisions.

It’s ridiculous to expect people to not buy a Tesla simply because it’s CEOs in the moron most CEOs are. It’s practically part of the job description.

For the same reason people need SUVs, for moving large amounts of stuff around. In my case I would just throw the bike in the back rather than having to faff around laying all the seats flat and then having to put down the tarpaulin so they don’t get dirty.

I could get a van but then I’ve got a stupid van with all its limited visibility. A pickup truck would actually solve the problem if it weren’t for the fact that all the manufacturers are American and seem to think that they need to rival the size and weight of a tank.

Realistically though what are they going to do about it? They probably can’t sell the vehicle because of the now stigma attached to it and if they don’t sell it they probably can’t afford a new car.

It’s no worse than some of the stuff Nissan has come out with over the years. Remember the cube?

The problem with the Tesla truck is that it is ugly without purpose, all the other oddly designed vehicles look the way they do because they have a particular unique feature (been small, having sliding minivan doors on a vehicle otherwise two small for them, having gull wing doors, removing a-pillars from the design, etc), but the cyber truck just looks like that to be contrarian.

It’s actually the one pickup style truck that might actually be viable in Europe.

I think we can do even better so it’s interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

It’s not that we think the human form is the optimum, it is simply that we don’t want to have to modify human accessible areas for robots, partially because this increases the cost of automation and also partly because we need the environments to still be human accessible. In environments where you will only have robots, then the robots have freedom to be whatever design we want, but a general purpose robot needs to exist in a human-built environment, an environment with things like stairs, lips on curbsides, and boxes with handles designed for human hands. There are videos out there with the spot robot trying to do something simple like open a door with its weird giraffe neck arm thing, it’s not graceful and it’s not quick, because it is interacting with an object that was not designed with it’s body shape. It is much easier to build a human-shaped robot than it is to redesign all doors to have an interface to allow a robot of any arbitrary shape to operate it.

Also aesthetics do matter, if humans are going to be interacting with these robots they need to look like something that’s at least sort of friendly, if it looks like a multi limbed weird techno spider no one’s going to want to interact with them.

That is a weird take.

The robots are human shaped because the human shape is a good shape to be to interact with our environment. And environment that by definition has been designed to interact with human shapes.

They are implementing AI at work next week. I’m super excited to see how wrong it goes.

Yeah but when the AI overlords are writing up their kill list I’m not going to be at the top of it am I. Because I’m polite.