Every subreddit becomes the same once it gets big enough to routinely get posts to /r/all

Nah, just nearly unusable and nearly unmaintainable.

If you show this with the right framing to a chess engine programmer, I bet you could get them to have an aneurysm.

Great work.

at whoever photographed this, or maybe at me, or both

Isn’t that how you usually eat communion wafers?

I’m hopeful for fusion too, but I don’t think it’s viable under capitalism.

The problem with (fission) nuclear power is that, with for-profit companies financing power plants by mortgages, which is what we have, it takes so long to build the plant that the mortgage has accumulated so much interest that it’ll take forever to pay off. So even though they’re more profitable than a gas powered plant once completed, that extra profit is going towards paying off a huge mortgage for a very long time, before finally actually paying off.

By any reasonable future forecast, a fusion power plant is going to be an even larger up front cost than a fission one, so it just can’t work without state planning.

You can see a big difference with solar though, which absolutely does not have this problem. Setting up a new solar plant is fast and cheap now, and now that it’s cheap, companies and countries are itching to get in on it. But of course there are oil lobbyists and anti-environmental death cultists in the way of that. But they’re actively fighting against what’d be more profitable, so even under capitalism, there’s only so long until solar power wins.

(But the timeline for solar power winning under capitalism still sucks and anything that averts climate change faster is better.)

Nah, I really think a global socialist revolution tomorrow would be enough to do net zero in 10-15 years. Like 5 years to build as many solar and nuclear power plants as global production allows, then in the next 5 years most of the actual progress gets done because we’ve built out more production capacity and learned all the boneheaded mistakes we’re making, then the last 5 is whittling away the most difficult sources of emission and building out enough excess power to use highly inefficient carbon capture technology.

But that’s still on top of the miracle of the bloodless socialist revolution already, yeah.

China’s a hybrid economy so it only count as communist when it’s doing things I don’t like.

Checkmate, atheists.

I remember hipsters dressing like lumberjacks and 1920s flappers, more than farmers.

I associate the peak of hipster culture with people opening up boutique cocktail bars with cutesy themes, trying to turn arts and crafts and manual labor into a profit, when the post-2008-crash economy meant jobs were scarce and retail rents were cheap. It was a rebellion against the housing and finance based economy, but not against capitalism as a whole.

People hated hipsters because they were a bunch of fresh out of college kids dressing weird and “refusing” to get a normal job (because the economy was fucked). Also because a lot of them were gay. Also because those hipster bars were a huge gentrification vector.

I can’t be as sure about cottagecore, because it’s still happening, and I’m less in the thick of it. It is also an arts and crafts movement. But it mostly exists in pinterest mood boards, because it doesn’t have a weird economic moment thrusting it into reality (except all the farmers markets in my area doubled in size this year for some reason, what the fuck is that, and is it cottagecore?).

Comrade, the joke is that I’m proposing a bad idea.

I like how in Trump’s mind, Apple Maps and Google Maps are the authoritative source here, not the official government policy he set.

Not just that, preemptively building a rail track up a mountain, in case we need to move something up that mountain at some later time.

I stand by my absurd proposal.

no, but I’ve quit smoking turkey cold weedy

something that a blimp, a single helicopter, or an airplane can’t do.

Build a train.

Fox aiming the hate train at something other than trans rights is fantastic. Thanks Hasan.

Every old time software dev knows that sometimes you have to resist management and go do the thing that makes the software actually work, which they were able to get away with when the market for software engineers was so strong that putting up with them was easier than hiring a new one.

When the software engineering market collapsed (a little before the AI craze), software quality also started to collapse, because now nobody has the job security to tell their manager to fuck off.

LLMs? Generating spam lol.

The programming stuff is waaaay overblown. It’s less accurate than copy/pasting shit off Stack Overflow, the thing we used to say was the sign of a bad programmer. Everyone using it is miserable, and nobody using it has actually delivered the results they keep saying they’re getting (it’s been 6 months since you all said you’re 100x more effective, where’s the 50 years worth of new software, AI bros?)

There are occasionally these huge bursts of things AIs do, but they’re all predicated on having a huge budget dedicated to finding reasons why a huge AI budget is a good idea. There was a wave of security vulnerabilities being found by AI at the start of the year, but there are existing security scan tools that are just not being used If you spent the same amount of money scanning everything on github with AFL-Fuzz, you’d find billions of security bugs. There’s now a wave of math proofs being generated now, but AI companies are spending millions of dollars on this. For a million dollars you can hire a small team of math postdocs for two years. Heck, for a million dollars you can fund a permanent grant.

bofa deez threads

bofa deez jokes

I’ll shit your pants tomorrow.