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And my comment. In a private window I can see that he replied to my comment as well, despite the fact that I blocked him, so blocks are still not working properly apparently.
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I'm not expecting perfection, but there hasn't even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to "tools aren't ready yet", but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.
10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it's a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.
Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don't know. But I don't particularly want to be on a site that I don't feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I'm taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.
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Ugh, and 10A somehow also hasn't been banned yet (and a quick check to his profile shows that he isn't just still making bad-faith arguments about "free speech" but is also still spreading xenophobia, fake news about the last election, and so on).
I'm out. Anyone know of a kbin (not lemmy) instance with reasonably good moderation?
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Republicans have traditionally been the party of "regulation doesn't work, elect me and I can prove it to you".
Maybe Musk is just taking the logical counter-part to this "regulation doesn't work, put me in charge of a heavily regulated company and I can prove it to you".
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On what basis would it?
Surely the government is allowed to teach what courses are run in government run schools by government employees in general. I mean, someone has to, and who else would it be?
Or if you're referring to the religion aspect of the first amendment... this seems religiously neutral?
The constitution doesn't ban bad governance, just some particularly easy to enumerate forms of it.
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The funny thing about religious fundamentalists is their beliefs frequently outright contradict the written word of their religion...
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Trying to grant fetuses rights isn't "supporting pregnancies", the line to restricting what pregnant people can do, including abortions, is direct and obvious. The fact that the sponsors of the bills have previously passed bills attempting to restrict abortion is a fact.
Supporting pregnancies would be doing things like passing more healthcare funding, better parental leave, literally just giving money to people with kids. That's not what this bill was about.
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Olive oil?
You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...
So, [#trump](https://kbin.social/tag/trump) was just charged with a crime that carries a maximum sentence of death (conspiracy against rights, given that someone died as a result, multiple people did during Jan 6). I feel like I'm seeing a lot of "oh wow, Trump was indicted for a third time", and not nearly enough "oh wow, look at how terrible the crimes Trump committed were. He could literally face a death sentence for his crimes". I mean he probably won't, sort of like how most murderers don't, but he could. It's pretty hard to commit a crime that bad.
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@candyman337 I'm glad to know I'm not totally insane in thinking that a heat pump is a good idea here :)
It doesn't seem obvious to me that it should need to be slower, or that heat-pump needs to be synonymous with ventless. Venting hot moist air to the outside should still make sense...
Yesterday I idly wondered why my (clothes) dryer has heating coils in it, instead of a heat pump based dehumidifier. The same amount of energy would generate the same amount of heat, in addition to extracting water from the air making the clothes dry faster. Turns out someone patented the idea. Apparently writing down what a non-expert can come up with in two minutes of idle thought is worth a 20 year monopoly idea, and if that makes peoples appliances less efficient, well fuck them and fuck the planet. The patent expires in 2025, maybe in a few years dryers will get a lot more efficient. Or maybe there is some non-obvious (to me) reason why it isn't a good idea, because someone patenting it doesn't mean it's a good idea, just that they wrote the obvious idea down.
> > > and EV charging locations don't shout their presence with 50-foot ad displays along highways. That's engendered a general sense of range anxiety among many car buyers > > Jonathan M. Gitlin telling it like it is for [@arstechnica](https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica) - I have to say I never considered the impact of the billboard like presence of gas stations on range anxiety.
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This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX
There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.
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Wtf.
Also wtf that murder has a maximum of 3 years?
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Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.
If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.
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Did you know that Pepsi briefly owned 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer?
Edit: On less of a technicality, the East India Company had something like 250k troops back in 1824.
I'm neither an expert nor an american, but the idea that RFK Jr running as a third party candidate will hurt the democrats seems strange to me. His policies, which can be summed up as "deny reality", align very closely with the modern republican party, not the democrats. It's hard to imagine that he would pull more votes away from Biden than Trump. Are there some people who would vote based on name recognition? Maybe... but surely it can't be that many? Meanwhile "Trump but not a rapist" must appeal to a number of the evangelical republicans... [\#politics](https://kbin.social/tag/politics)
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The word "potentially" is doing a lot of work there.
In many cases of piracy, the result of not pirating the work would not have been more income for the rights holder, it would have been the person just not acquiring a copy of the work at all.
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Yeah, I don't know what Colorado's laws are on this in general, but even if it's technically legal it seems like a huge risk that someone is going to plausibly allege that given the specific facts denying them time off was race/religion/family status/... discrimination. It might be legal (don't know), but it's a stupid policy for a number of reasons.
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@deegeese There is a rather large difference between "not pushing things on them unprompted" and "disallowing them from having things they're asking for". 1 year olds in particular aren't asking for any specific kinds of toys.
There is also a rather large difference between advocating for changing something as a society, and doing something just to your own kids that will make them different from other kids.
Today I was struck by how much time young kids spend playing with car and truck toys. If we want to move towards walkable cities, public transit, and micromobility it may be a good idea to stop indoctrinating people at the age of 1 that cars and trucks are fun. Of course they're natural shapes for toys. Extremely simple and stable, but slightly more dynamic then a literal wooden block... but it's not like they're the only things with that property.
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The entire paper is already sub-field (AI) in industry (software engineering) specific. No stats are perfect, but I think these ones are pretty damn good for something where peoples role are pretty poorly determined in the first place. Of course you're welcome to try and find better ones.
The "pure tech" companies I've worked at have been roughly equivalent or better than these stats, but at that point I'm sampling from software engineers in general (not having worked at an AI specific company), and my sample is unlikely to be unbiased anyways.
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Isn't the fact that he's repulsive sort of the whole complaint?
x.ai will "work closely with Tesla". Is this just a way for Elon to scam all the other Tesla (stock) owners out of the huge amount of money Tesla has invested into AI hardware? Tesla has invested a huge amount of money into it, designing their own very different custom silicon for their data center's even, something that only the likes of Google has done. It's hard to believe that "working closely with another company" and sharing the benefit of that investment is in Tesla's best interests. Sort of like how it's hard to believe that Telsa engineers "volunteered" to work at Twitter for weeks/months and that wasn't just Elon miss-appropriating Tesla resources... Or [a glass house costing millions of dollars in materials](https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-reportedly-suspected-musk-was-using-company-funds-to-build-a-literal-glass-house-193314854.html) is a good faith use of funds... [\#technology](https://kbin.social/tag/technology)
Apple's Vision Pro is incredibly cheap. Low in price, not expensive. It's easy to get sticker shock because so are all modern computers, and it's ever so slightly less incredibly cheap, but it's still incredibly cheap. The general rule of thumb for pricing is to start by asking "how much value does this provide to the purchaser" and try and price it just under that. The average professional uses a computer as their main tool of trade, it is absolutely necessary for their trade, and makes them $$$/year. Apart from competition driving prices down, that's how much computers would cost. The vision pro is an order of magnitude below that price. If you view it as targeted at the class of people that fly around the world constantly (and thus can't use a desktop) it might even be two orders of magnitude below that price. The average American owns 4/5ths of a car (including kids and so on in that statistic). The average price of a new car in the US is just shy of $50,000. That's an order of magnitude more than the Vision Pro costs. Indeed just the difference between the sale price and the base models of a car is an order of magnitude more than the Vision Pro costs. To suggest that there isn't a population that can afford to buy (new) computers at Vision Pro prices is ridiculous. While we're at it, for a good portion of the population computers are *more important* than cars, despite the fact that they spend an order of magnitude more on cars than computers. All this is to say, the money is there, Apple is just trying to capture it. Given that there are no serious (capable) competitors at this point, there's no reason to believe that they'll fail because of pricing. [\#apple](https://kbin.social/tag/apple)
Pet peeve of the day: Games with "puzzles" that can only be solved by trying a bunch of different plausible answers. If you know the right answer (but not that it is the right answer), and the reasoning behind the right answer, but you still can't tell that it's the right answer without engaging the games mechanic to check if it's the right answer, it's not a puzzle. It's just a game a brute forcing answers. [\#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming)
Reading car brained people make delusional comments about how a change that inconveniences them, but obviously makes everyone safer, is bad for safety is so fucking sad. It's obvious that they really have managed to delude themselves into thinking it despite how obviously stupid what they are saying is.
I really wonder what twitter's user statistics look right now. How many lurkers made or logged into accounts to be able to lurk? Can they distinguish between this and fake accounts being made to scrape twitter? How many people left because they don't want to tweet to a private audience? How many people hit the login-wall and bounce off? How much is Google's policy of not surfacing pages behind a log-in wall in search results hurting them? How much has the prevalence of embedding tweets in news articles been effected? It would be a fascinating look at how social media users actually behave, the kind of experiment that no one till now has been stupid enough to run...
Watching people get mad at MDN for including ChatGPT, and I'm mostly struck by how time-sensitive PR crisis management is. It was a clear mistake, yes. Everyone would have forgotten about if it was promptly removed after that was pointed out, or even if the promise to remove it was made. Instead, because they've let this sit for an eternity (4 hours), we're already seeing reactions like > > > I am warning my team about this feature and letting them know not to trust it. > > and > > > By implementing and deploying this "feature", MDN has convinced me to stop contributing to MDN and cease donating to the Mozilla Foundation, because I am completely unwilling to participate in perpetuating the massive disinformation which this "feature" presents to users and the dramatic confusion and waste of people's time which it will cause. > > > > Obviously, I will also stop recommending MDN as a good source of documentation. I will also need to remove links to MDN from everything I've written which can be edited. > > and > > > This was very disappointing as a now-former MDN contributor and subscriber. The whole point of MDN was authoritative content but until there are some fundamental improvements in LLMs I might as well be supporting W3 Schools. > > These might seem like extreme reactions, but no one is defending MDN, because MDN has given them nothing to wield in MDNs defence. Instead these reactions are only receiving "upvotes" (thumbs ups) and more users piling on. A not lightning fast response time is doing irreparable harm to MDN's reputation, and is losing them revenue. Context: [https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208](https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208) Archived as of writing this comment: [https://archive.is/MNjro](https://archive.is/MNjro)
Unfortunately, unless Elon is lying, twitter will un-login-wall itself again in the near future: [https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1674865731136020505](https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1674865731136020505) I suppose it's unfortunate if Elon is lying as well, because it's unfortunate that people in power lie, but that's nothing new for him so I'll take it.
I'm new to this whole [#apple](https://kbin.social/tag/apple) development thing. Am I right in thinking that I need to upgrade to the MacOS 14.0 beta to use the new SwiftData apis? How bad an idea is it to use that beta on my laptop? Is it safe to assume that 90%+ of users quickly upgrade to new MacOS versions after they're released?
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative
Annoyance of the day: People who refuse to distinguish between "not in MY backyard" and "not in anyones backyard". Being against something that impacts you, but for the same thing if it only impacts other people, is hypocritical and leads to problematic outcomes in local governance. Being against things that have huge externalities compared to their benefits, regardless of how close those externalities are to you, is simply good policy.
There's this idea that [#reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/reddit) mods resigning will be a problem for reddit because they provide free labor. I don't think that the idea is correct. For the most part reddit doesn't care about the quality of mods past "removes obviously bad comments". PR firms, political partisans, etc will be happy to provide the free labor for reddit in exchange for the power to manipulate internet comments. Reddit doesn't have to do anything accept the people that ask for the positions and the problem goes away before it even exists. Hyper-specialized subs that run on a model of needing expert mods like AskHistorians are the exception to the rule, but they are rare and reddit could afford to shed them. And that's before you get to the "it's reasonably cheap to just hire mods" solution. The real damage that the protest is doing to reddit is the loss of power-users who create content, and the significant strengthening of their competitors (like kbin, which I'm currently posting this on). Not the loss of mods (except to the extent that mods often happen to also be power users).
Are there any RTSes with no scrolling. Just display the entire map really small all at once? It seems like it could be an interesting format on large screens these days. [\#gaming](https://kbin.social/tag/gaming)