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RobRivera

1,327 karma · joined January 14, 2020

Deez mudkips.

So good

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RobRivera··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
Thats certainly a title
RobRivera··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
This is rad
RobRivera··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
[Desire to know more intensifies]

So if I wanted to create something that could reliably jostle and move in response to a master physics node, like a racetrack simulator, cabin simulator etc. What kind of distributed controller scheme we looking at? Master node with strong compute, hydraulics with microcontrollers type set up?

RobRivera··on 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
I disagree.

I would define confidently that Anti-American is aligned with Anti-Constitutional. By definition, it is this nation's founding document and treatise.

An the Supreme Court's ultimate role is to affirm or deny nebulous case law as aligned with the Constitution.

RobRivera··on 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
ACLU will have a field day.
RobRivera··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
No
RobRivera··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
Signals analysis is pretty refined and not THAT compute intense.
RobRivera··on I refuse to let SPICE die
I am happy I am not alone in this
RobRivera··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Well technically, all debts denominated in cash must be able to be settled with cash.

Companies simply get ahead of that law by refusing to provide the service or good.

Works in retail bc at the till they can just say 'no cash no business deal'

Doesn't work in other ventures so easily.

It is along the lines of 'we reserve the right to refuse business to anyone'

RobRivera··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
You would enjoy the Always Sunny episode 'mental health day'
RobRivera··on San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art
Morality is relative
RobRivera··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
This would explain why so many damn coffee shops dont deal with cash now - the double as a coffee shop and data reseller
RobRivera··on Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs
Could have been a live-fire exercise by a nation state.

Edit: why the down vote? That is literally in the realm of possibility!

RobRivera··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
I never claimed as such
RobRivera··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
The main traffic ones yes. News and politics definitely.

Niche ones aren't as mucb thankfully.

A large volume of content is downstream recycling of the tiktok feeds

RobRivera··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
[Cry me a River]

No thank you

RobRivera··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large chunk of the population is in fact influenced by it.
RobRivera··on De-Brainrot Vacations
I was a university student around the time the iPhone came out. I stuck with a motorola razor until I graduated. I think back on the DAILY grind of university amd the consistent context switching between challenging studies that were so varied: analog circuits, aeronautical engineering, practicing foreign language, along with the other demands of working and ask how did I manage that cognitive load?

I think the brainrot is less noticeable when I fill my schedule, but when I have time off my brain atrophies IFF I emable brainrot.

Reading books, picking solid podcasts, or journaling leaves my brain feeling refreshed.

I feel this is the next wave of 'clean your processed diet up' or 'mind the tobacco'

RobRivera··on Learn Programming with OCaml
LLMs know it anyways?

Hhhmmmmm

RobRivera··on Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food
That is not a tautology.
RobRivera··on Exit the Cave
I'm a grindset man.

I never advertise my grind details.

RobRivera··on American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career
The 'forest for the tree' here is that when it comes to general operations, a crew chief doesnt generally have the authority to signoff a bird as flight-ready for an unaccounted component. That is the authority of a PMO or a Risk Officer or someone else in flightoos, not a frontline maintenance call. Maybe someone in a maintainence squadron?
RobRivera··on “I just chose words carefully”
Man. I kinda want to stress test my memory of super metroid before reading this guide. I could do a sub 3hr run through at 100% when I was a child.

I know I couldn't today.

RobRivera··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
The internet

Is

For porn

RobRivera··on 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
And industry is wholesale enjoying the gross drop in QA. I feel like at this point lawsuits need to happen to provide an alternative counter to the urge to drop costs in QA.

These businesses earnestly do not care until it affects their bottom line

RobRivera··on Banned Words List
A government by the people. Of the people. For the people.

That is a fundamental aspect of the American political foundation that the Revolutionary war was waged over.

RobRivera··on Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
Ouch, I painfully agree :l
RobRivera··on Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
I have zero real excuse for never having built the game from source.

I have played with the modding surface available in the quakeC files tho!

I was experimenting with a game design element where firing a weapon didnt decrement the ammo, but auto fired.

In other words, you always fired whatever you had out, removing the ammo hoarder behavior, but also makes you very cognizant about explosive barrels and where you point that rocket.

RobRivera··on Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
Is this a poorly instructed llm? Or a poorly constructed thought?
RobRivera··on Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers
Oddly specific with the dollar ounts, but I like the general idea.
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