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Comment Re:I used to think that AI doesn't use much energy (Score 2) 25

We have a lot of virtue signaling with things like electric vehicles.

True that. Driving is fun and cool but you know what else is fun and cool? Watching scenery go by while sitting on a train going 80. If you started from scratch with today's resources there's no way you would build cars to serve the bulk of people, it would just sound insane right on its face. "So, for 8 billion people to get around, we could build a handful of cars for remote areas and move most of them around using rail, which is very clean and efficient, or we could just do it all with cars and buses for a hundred times as much money and none of the efficiency."

You know what the absolute most insane car-like thing is though? BRT. "We could use this space to put in rail, but instead we'll build two more warming-increasing highway lanes and run a bus on them occasionally."

Comment Re:Trump admin are nazis (Score 2, Informative) 191

Not as comical as the progression from "we support oppressed peoples everywhere" to "we think the oppressors should have nuclear weapons"

You failed to observe the "Obama made a nuclear deal with Iran which Trump tore up and then tried to negotiate back again" phase of the argument. Whoops!

Comment Re:"rocket ambition dept"? (Score 1) 89

Say what you want about Musk, SpaceX is certainly delivering the goods when it comes to space flight.

If we could just put Musk aside completely for a moment (sigh. pause. sigh.) and look solely at SpaceX's accomplishments without having to think about them in light of Elon's assertions about the timeline of their future performance then I think many people could appreciate it a bit more. Which then raises the question, what exactly is his influence on SpaceX now besides making it buy a bunch of Teslas? We've heard conflicting reports of his impact which vary from wind beneath their wings to worthless gimboid bozo who has to be tricked into thinking he's driving.

Comment Re:Automattic and WP Engine now have the same prob (Score 1) 30

Anyone could fork Wordpress and a whole suite of useful addons any time if they felt qualified. But then what they would have is the responsibility to not only maintain a fork of fucking garbage Wordpress, and also a bunch of other software, but also continue to make it viable without wordpress.com. And what's your prize? A lot of people expecting to migrate from Wordpress and wanting to pay you nothing.

People who want to customize an OSS CMS are using Drupal. Most people using Wordpress don't want to learn anything. I don't blame them, when I chose Drupal over Wordpress (and some other options) I wasn't really trying to learn php, and I'm happy to report that I really never did. I have occasionally learned just enough to contribute some minor patches — code that is long gone because Drupal is now Symfony-based and the way you do basically everything has changed since I knew how to do anything meaningful, back in version 7 or so. (I started with 4 but quickly dropped that and went to prerelease 5 as it was the future at the time.)

TL;DR: Without that corporation you don't really have Wordpress anyway, and for those people there's Drupal which is technically superior FWIW

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