Yeah, fuck you

Congrats! Now you guys can use collective bargaining to ensure you’re paid for every single bug you code. This is huge!

Seriously though, unions are good for the industry, I’m happy to see this is continuing at ever more software companies.

How many predators can take down prey 50 times their size? How many species can thrive in tundra, jungles, plains, forests, mountains and deserts? How many species can be found on every continent? How many species figured out how to fly despite never developing wings? How many species developed hundreds of distinct methods of communication? How many species have been to the moon?

Humans are fucking badass…

Very well said. I think you make your point quite effectively!

I totally agree. I know a teacher who who likes to say:

“I believe there really is no such thing as a dumb question. As long as it’s an honest question (not rhetorical or sarcastic), then it’s a genuine request for more information. So even if it’s coming from a place of extreme ignorance, asking a question is an attempt to learn something, and the effort should be applauded.”

My son caught his first fish! A 3 inch bluegill, we have an incredibly adorable photo!

Also, to quote another poster in this thread…

And thank you for the question! I include this opportunity to share my joy as a good thing that is going on with my weekend.

The legend of Zelda Twilight princess.

I finished the last dungeon, collected all the extra stuff and every side quest I could find. I literally got right up to the lead up to the final Gannon fight… Then I was like “meh, I’m done”.

I don’t think we ruin everything… We’re also the best around at improving things, certainly improving our environments.

I know it’s easy to be pessimistic about these things, but humans are evolutionary badasses. We’re capable of amazing things. I wouldn’t count us out just yet.

Besides we haven’t really ruined anything. We haven’t done any damage to the earth that won’t heal eventually. The earth has seen many heating and cooling cycles and plenty of mass extinctions before and it will again (with or without humans).

Yeah, I’ve got one of those too. Plex is great.

See the problem is, you don’t know how to do it without injuring civilians,

Fucking diplomacy.

Israel is being like a five year old… Learn to use your words, you’ll get better outcomes.

How exactly do you fight a terrorist organization who uses children as both soldiers and human shields without any sort of civilian casualties?

Probably with more nuance than bombing entire neighborhoods…

Seriously, there is absolutely no possible ethical excuse for what Israel is doing. Right now the IDF is pretty indistinguishable from the SS. Genocide is genocide and Israel has come all the way from victim to perpetrator. The irony and reality of it is making the rest of the world sick, the only question is, why isn’t it doing the same to the people of Israel?

Well, basically that whole post is simply incorrect.

SpaceX is definitely 1 company the whole company has the same CEO (Gwynne Shotwell) who oversees the whole operation. And for what it’s worth, the highly successful falcon 9 definitely was one of those “Lame brained” ideas once. “Landing an orbital class rocket is ****impossible” that was the prevailing wisdom, because it had never been done before. SpaceX is experimenting, figuring out what’s actually possible and redesigning a rocket from the ground up. The falcon 9 was the first phase of redesigning, it proved that you can make a rocket cheaper and you can further optimize a staged combustion cycle rocket engine, more than anyone has in the past, and finally it proved that you can land a booster and reuse it. The starship is phase two of that process, (Reusing the whole thing). They’ve switched from kerosene to methane, a change that will make engines much more reliable for extended use. They’ve figured out how to make very large rocket bodies out of sheet metal. And they’ve figured out how to mass produce the first ever reliable full flow staged combustion engines (That’s a very big deal)! In short, nothing about Starship is “Lame brained”.

The Boca Chica SpaceX is burning money … This siphons off money from the Falcon SpaceX which takes away from improving the Falcon 9 launch system,

The boca chica facility is not taking money away from development of falcon 9, there is no development of falcon 9, it’s done, the design set in stone. Ever since they started ferrying astronauts NASA needs them to stick with a set design. They got that design (called block 3) approved for crew use by NASA and from this point on they’re only allowed to make very minor changes to the rocket.

Musk is an idiot but no one can tell him no at his companies.

I actually agree that Musk has some problems and seriously needs some people who can tell him “no”. He needs that in his companies and he needs that at home, I think he’s got some addictions he needs to deal with before they ruin him.

What’s the advantage over signal?

Yeah, that’s a problem with all trucks and SUVs though. Personally I think we should take them off the road. Or require a different license to drive them.

If anything is dumb it’s limiting your diet.

Right, but I legitimately love the taste of coffee now. Am I wrong? I know I didn’t like it as a kid, but does that mean I was correct to not like it then or correct to like it now?

I don’t know, but my instinct is that being able to enjoy the flavor of coffee is a real benefit. For instance, I can taste the nuance of coffee flavor in tiramisu. Without gaining an appreciation for coffee flavor, many foods that use that flavor would just taste bad.

You really think they only have one problem to solve? If that were the case this would be relatively easy.

I’m not sure that’s accurate.

Take video for example. Using different algorithms you can get a video down half the file size of the original. But with another algorithm you can get it down to 1/4 another can get it down to 1/10. If appropriate quality settings are used, the highly compressed video can look just as good as the original. The algorithm isn’t getting rid of noise, it’s finding better ways to express the data. Generally the fancier the algorithm, the more tricks it’s using, the smaller you can get the data, but it’s also usually harder to unpack.

Neurons work in analogue data, I’m not sure lossless algorithms are necessary.

Isn’t this all already possible in Germany? I’m pretty sure I remember a story about valve losing a lawsuit some years back so in Germany people are allowed to transfer their games.