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Comment So they invented the cuecat (Score 1) 15

It's pretty well documented at this point that the SpaceX IPO is just a scam for them to loot our 401ks. You can look up the videos from Patrick Boyle he does explain it in detail.

The question is are you going to do anything about it or you just going to handle your money over to elon?

I see a bunch of people telling me that they're just going to make elections but for the most part you can't. You can I think in some cases take your 401K money and put it in a LLC and then become a day trader but that completely defeats the purpose of a 401k. The whole point of a 401k is you can take a bunch of money you have and put it into safe investments so you don't have to individually pick and choose stocks while making sure that you know which ones are safe. Meanwhile index funds are stuffed full of stocks waiting to explode...

So what are you going to do about it? Because you can't really escape it forever. You can't just keep letting civilization collapse and have everything be hunky-dory unless you've got the kind of cash that lets you pay for a private army. And your little 401K LLC isn't going to buy you a private army

Comment So if you're wondering why such an obvious scam (Score 1) 37

It's the same reason Elon Musk made that stupid fucking tunnel. It's misdirection.

So this lets them guzzle down all your water and electricity so that you have to start rationing both of them while they go to public and tell the public that they have a solution to the problem.

As an added bonus Elon Musk can pretend SpaceX has a magic new customer that doesn't actually exist in order to justify the phony valuation while he extracts all the money from your 401k.

Comment Re:(cough, cough...bullshit) (Score 1) 70

I took Reddit to Small Claims Court for failure to process a GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR), and as part of their defence they accidentally admitted that their system is badly broken. The particular account I was requesting data for was apparently automatically banned because the system thought it was a bot, and then when I appealed a *manual review* also decided that it was a bot. To compound the error, they then lied about it in emails and on their login page, and failed to process the SAR.

I expect that will offer to settle soon, which is fine (I don't care about the money, beyond my costs) as long as they complete the SAR. The details will be fascinating. Their website gaslights you, their staff lie to you, and it all seems to be in aid of dealing with a bot problem that they have very little control over.

Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 111

It was a prestigious service for Air France and British Airways. When they decided to stop flying Concorde, Virgin Atlantic wanted to buy the aircraft and keep flying them. Of course, BA refused to sell them and made sure that every single one ended up beyond the point where it could be returned to service, because they didn't want anyone else to operate a supersonic service.

Comment Re:Booms are complicated (Score 1) 111

It took a long time for a few reasons. You can reduce the boom with an exotic shape vehicle, but then it starts to suck as an aircraft. Less lift, awkward to use existing airport facilities, difficult to take off and land, pilots need a lot of training etc.

To be commercially viable it has to carry a reasonable number of people, in relative comfort, and be relatively fuel efficient for a supersonic aircraft.

Some of the tech to enable that is relatively recent, or still in development. Engines in particular.

Comment Re:My emotions are validated (Score 2) 64

I would buy a physical copy but then pirate it anyway. Quicker and easier than ripping, adding all the metadata, encoding etc.

For digital only stuff I will only use platforms like GOG where you get an offline installer you can backup and keep forever. I used to buy a few games on Steam but don't now. If a game is Steam only I just won't play it.

Comment Re:The reason I got it (Score 1) 42

Either that was a long time ago or your utility company is shafting you. Here the payback time is a few years depending on your usage, and then it's all profit. Batteries should last a minimum of 10 years even with hard cycling every day, much longer if not hammered. I cycle mine almost fully every day to maximize profits.

You can even DIY your own battery cheaper than you can buy one, although even buying one is very cheap now. Before tax a ready-to-plug-in 15kWh battery is about $2000 here.

Comment Have they solved the stack overflow apocalypse? (Score 2) 28

I've used chat GTP a bit and 99% of its responses are pretty obviously coming from old stack overflow posts. The problem is there is a lot less traffic on stack overflow because all the programmers are using chat GTP.

When AI has to rely on the raw documentation for a technology, documentation that is almost always written overseas by people who don't speak whatever language the documentation is written in natively because fuck if a company is going to pay for documentation, the end results are pretty terrible and pretty useless. It's really just summarizing the doc. Occasionally if the documents are a meandering mess it can be useful because it'll pick out the piece of information you want out of hundreds of HTML pages spread across the internet but for the most part worthless.

So it's all the training material gets cut off from AI how are they going to keep it up to date? Is there some trick I don't know about? I don't think you can just pointed it code and have it magically work it's got to have context.

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