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  • No, the problem is they engineered something they didn't need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it's cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

    Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

    Maybe it's something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something... But even that they could've done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

    Let's be clear... The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

  • Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It's individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

    Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That's where loose candy lives.

    So of course other people, who maybe don't do laundry and don't often see tide pods, are going to go "oh, look, candy!"

    And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

  • Surely the prosecutor was there though, right?

    They can also recommend a sentence, which is very problematic since the judge often uses it as a baseline. Especially since they're also the one negotiating for plea deals

  • People aren't illegal. Even fucking Reagan wanted to legalize the people that were already here, living and working

  • Lol... Chuck Schumer actually celebrated getting the bills name changed procedurally as Trump toured the first concentration camp

    Democrats should have a non-stop parade of victims telling their story already. Instead, they're making speeches to empty rooms on cspan

  • Nah, they're actually fantastic at brain numbing tasks. I like to feed it sql tables and have it act like an ORM, but without the tradeoffs of an ORM. I'd never do it manually, but it's far more readable and easy to work with

    I also love using it for api's. You can feed it a response, say "hey, I just want the id, status, and amount" (or whatever) and it'll restructure the data for you

    These are not hard problems... They are tedious ones though. They solve a problem by brute force, a problem we "solve" over and over because at the end of the day: programmers are lazy.

    You can over engineer complex bindings until the cows come home, but a simple pattern with each field explicitly mapped is the best solution. It's just really, really annoying to actually do it

  • I feel bad because I've made the world worse, or that I've disappointed myself. But when circumstances force me to act in ways I find immoral, I just feel disgust

    I want good things for everyone in general, but I'm not some endlessly patient Buddha.

    I just try to understand people through their own eyes... And I try to understand myself too. I feel what they feel, but I can also just walk away

    But it's not about them, not really.

    It's about me - who am I? Do I make things better or worse? Do I make people better or worse? If you brought me into a perfect world, would I make that world worse?

    If there were 5 billion of me, what kind of world would it be?

  • Wait, what?? Are you guys walking around holding back a savage animal through raw force of will?

    Like...I've done lots of things I regret, but then later I don't want to do them anymore, because I know it'll feel bad

  • This is fucking stupid. It's when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it's, it's always horrible

  • You get hit by a baseball. Then you're cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

    This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who's entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

  • It's because they become an avatar for their money

    Every tweet Elon makes affects his horde. Every single one - and usually it's just a few hundred thousand and balances out- but occasionally it's hundreds of millions in the red

    And Elon can't help himself. Most of them can

    They can only be themselves in locations with tight information control, which is generally resorts with other billionaires. Who seem to be consistently in a pissing match with each other about their wealth and influence

    And that's why they're fucking inhuman dragons

  • Nah, Mars sounds great. A tiny prison of their own making, as the corners they cut slowly come back to bite them? That's poetic

  • Anyone who says that is pretty stupid, but I don't think I've ever met someone who actually held that position

    I will say that working to colonize Mars will teach us to fix the Earth... But it would be real nice if we stopped fucking up the Earth in the first place

  • Do you like where you work, and does it pay enough for you to live comfortably? I think that's the most important question

    Next is how long do you think it would take to get a new job if the contractor life isn't for you?

    Other than that, I'd lean towards going for it. You can make a lot more money as a contractor or you can work a whole lot less. Finding work can be difficult, but if you make relationships work tends to lead to more work

    Granted, finding work can be challenging and stressful sometimes, so it's not for everyone

  • No, that's the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don't want any speed bumps from the states

    Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there's talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

  • I think you're kind of comparing apples to oranges, we're pretty fucked over here right now

    I'd call him a progressive. He has socialist ideals, but he's operating as a populist - he can't get out there and say "we're going to do free healthcare" because we're not there right now

    It seems to me that he'll be as left-wing as the moment allows, but what he's actually pushing for is pretty tame IMO

  • You first. We're not on board with any of this

  • Well, NYC has way too many policemen. Maybe they can turn that on the feds