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Comment x is great (Score 0) 158

I used to get banned for dumbnshit all the time on twitter , you know like questioning whether or not a aptop was real, or calling men men instead of women..... With x I can now simpl follow thoss i want and ignore everything else if I want an echo chamber. I get a whole lot less bots hitting my page I get actual engagement that matters and community notes is the best thing that's shown up as you can see even Facebook is now stealing community notes I'm not gonna go join another random thing it's like they did this when he first bought Twitter it's like all everybody's going to rumble or whatever the hell it was that lasted a whole 3 weeks and then everyone was back on Twitter now X

Comment Re:Sports Analogy (Score 2) 151

But allowing some AI assistance for certain tasks, the mechanical parts of the writing process, to allow people to translate their story ideas and characters into written words

 
Tell me you've never done any significant or serious writing without telling me you've never done any significant or serious writing.

Translating story ideas and characters into words isn't a "mechanical task" - it's the very heart of the creative process.

Comment Re:Private satellite (Score 1) 53

The article doesn't really point out the remarkable part about this, which is that it's a privately funded satellite. This really shows a change in the space economy.

Granted the barriers to entry have been lowered somewhat... But privately owned satellites have been around since the first commercial telecommunications birds back in the 1960's.

Comment Re:If some survive the apocalypse, (Score 1) 113

While true, it kind of misses my (perhaps poorly and incompletely expressed) point. Information (such as how to use the slide rule in your example) is nice - but you still need the technology to produce the slide rule (or flint knapped spearpoint). Information is great for winning trivia contests, but survival depends on technology.

Comment Re: Let me be the first to say (Score 2) 60

WHAT? Having to do all the heavy work themselves? Not getting free advertising from Google's algorithm? Actually having to pay to make make their content available?

Are you mad?

I'm not saying there's not problems with what support Youtube offers content creators... But the value of what they do offer is indisputable. And the grandparent illustrates that.

Comment Re:Progress is not Soyuz (Score 1) 47

Progress is not Soyuz. It's two different space vehicles

Yes... and no. Progress is a highly modified Soyuz with a very different front end. Otherwise two share a large number of subsystems, and in particular the Orbital Module (where the cooling system is located) is virtually identical.

Comment Re:I don't think anyone working is anti-union anym (Score 1) 55

i had to wait 6 hours for a union goon to move a ladder 3 feet to the left once when i was working in theater. It was an abolute nightmare anytime i had to work in NYC or westchester
I learned quickly that sometimes you just gotte be "clumsy" oops, i tripped and knocked down that ladder, ill put it back (3 feet to the left)

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