This is more an American regulatory problem. Throughout much of the world air travel is cheap, reliable and convenient. American carriers almost always get the lowest ratings when ranked globally. https://t.co/7crehSAm3b
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) September 11, 2022
Right. And this is something American libs wish were true, and are attempting to make real, but most people love air travel and don’t want to give it up.
Anyone who wants to take away long-distance air travel: fuck all y’all.
Russia losing in Ukraine — as they now very much are — really ramps up the chances of nuclear shenanigans happening.
I’m still glad they’re being routed, but it could get hairy. And fallout-y.
Hit the gym, people. I see you and you’re fat and weak. Or rather, stay out of the kitchen and get to the gym.
The only one who can stop you from wallowing in loserdom is right there in the mirror (revelation: it’s you).
I had a dream I was just coincidentally sitting next to Jessica Chastain at a movie theater and we were chatting amicably before the film. But then she got up and moved because she thought I was hitting on her. No, dream Jess, I was just trying to be friendly and treat you like a human, not a celebrity. You started talking to ME! Dream Jess you hurt me. You seriously hurt me. 😉
angel on my shoulder: filling cars with opaque electronics is bad. cars should be user-serviceable like the 90s. mandatory surveillance gps, breathalyzer locks, speed limiters are evil
devil on my shoulder: government mandated evil cars for cyberpunk diy ebike accelerationism— alice maz (@alicemazzy) September 7, 2022
It saddens and enrages me that the libs have gone absolutely gaga over surveillance and censorship. Authoritarianism is not exclusive to the Right. Not at all.
I hate the world we are creating.
This question about the existence of numbers is a pretty old philosophical conundrum, but I ask it for a modern reason:
To the degree that any number on the number line exists, that's the same degree to which every image exists in the space of all possible model outputs.
— jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) September 7, 2022
A few years ago I figured out that it was now possible to create and place into a database every single 500×500 pixel image that could exist with 32-bit color values. It’d take a good bit of computing, several months, and a petabyte or two of storage, but you could do it.
So…did those images already exist? If so, where were they? Now that they exist (if you did the above), what are they exactly? If a photo you create this way matches one pixel-per-pixel that someone else has taken in the real world, who owns the copyright? What does “copyright” even mean here?
Philosophy is all about discussing the “irrelevant” before it moves out into the world. It helps us prepare and understand, even if it offers no final answers. Philosophy was here already, biding its time, waiting for the unbelievable to become the inevitable.
I stole this idea from a friend, but women are objectified too much and men are objectified too little.
I mostly use a “normal people” browser on my work computer. And I see why y’all get scammed all the time and why people think smartphones are somehow “more convenient.” The web is a terrible experience and will only get worse — unless you use something like a highly-customized Waterfox.
They of course told you that they had to take away any useful capabilities for “security.” Anyone with half a brain cell knew that was 100% pure perfidy. The reason was so that they could continue to make the web be like it is now.
Too many people fell for it because propaganda works very well, and now here we are.
Ukraine Attacks Russia in the Kharkiv Region, Swiftly Making Gains.
Ah yes, that “defeated” Ukrainian military Ian Welsh told me all about. Certainly he wasn’t just spouting Russian propaganda, was he? WAS HE?
My ideal phone would have a 4-inch screen, a slideout keyboard, a removable battery that’s pretty thick (so it could last 4-5 days without being recharged), and have no Face ID tech (or anything like that) in it, and would have different OSes that could be installed on it.
And it would also have plug-in modules that could give you things like satphone etc.
I fully realize this phone will never exist though it’s easily realizable with technological capabilities we have today (or even tech from 10 years ago). But I want it anyway. In some ways it’s much sadder to realize something great could exist and never will than to know that it could never exist at all.
Also, why do people ever EVER use Face ID on a phone? Why would you do that? Just why? That’s a comically stupid thing to use. I suspect most of my friends use it. If so, I don’t care. Still comically stupid. If I didn’t say what I think I wouldn’t be me.
There’s no iPhone 14 mini, but the iPhone 13 mini lives to fight another day.
Fucking shit. I wish I there were an iPhone with a 4-inch screen. That’d be about perfect as it’d be around 20% smaller than my current iPhone 13 mini.
I hate big phones so much, and anything that can’t fit in my hand (and my hands aren’t small) and can’t be used one handed is too damn big. What is people’s obsession with having phones as large as the OED? I do not get it.
‘Rosalía is the truth’: How a Spanish flamenco singer defied convention and rewired pop
Been listening to Rosalía for years. WHERE Y’ALL BEEN AT? 😉
Seriously, she’s really great. Listen. Love. Or get thee away from me.
This is one of the main reasons it’s a terrible system. Another reason is that Kubernetes and containers in general pile complexity atop complexity without offering anything to help deal with this, or even improving the experience over what existed before.
They do incorporate some accidental complexity as I discussed around containers, but we can’t fault Kubernetes for the world that it was born into.
Oh yes we can, because it’s a horrifically bad design and system. It’s just an abysmal and poorly-conceived way of doing things that regresses tech 30 years. Someone on Hacker News said Kubernetes is like if you wrote a mainframe in software and I think that’s about perfect as a description of why Kubernetes and containerization in general sucks.
I believe much of the containerization and Kubernetes push is just money-making propaganda by the cloud providers anyway. Otherwise, it would’ve never gained the traction it has.
