mcphage

> stop taking advantage of others weaknesses

What does it mean to have a weakness for purchasing T-shirts that read ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”? That's not predatory; they're paying money for a t-shirt and (presumably) receiving said t-shirt.

Or for their Fanvue account, they're paying money to receive soft-core pornography, and they are receiving soft-core pornography.

This isn't a scam—they're paying money for a thing, and are receiving that thing. I could say "well, that's not a great thing to be spending money on", and it's not, but I don't think of sellers of off-color t-shirts as something that people need to be protected from.

> That is the funniest comment I have seen.

You say it's funny, but the rest of your comment makes me think you didn't realize it was a joke.

I don’t think we do in this case. This is the very first line of the article:

> Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.

So here we’re talking about both the military and some lunatic individuals.

> the one place in the region where these rights actually matter and mean something

What was the article about, again? Was it about respecting the rights of women?

> I don't quite understand how its effective

It's the negotiation equivalent of rent-seeking, or parasitism. It requires deep relationships to have already been built, and it consumes those relationships in exchange for modest short term gain.

The authors of a powerful solver package were solving a different problem than the users of a powerful solver package, and so different tools may be appropriate.

I noticed that (similarity between the graphs and the shapes of atomic orbitals), and assumed that was what the article was about. And it wasn’t, and never brought it up, so I was thinking maybe I was confused about the similarity. So thank you for showing me I was not.

It’s pretty easy on a Mac (or iPad with a keyboard)—Option+Shift+Hyphen. I do it without even thinking about how, it’s so second-nature.

> take a look at just about any stock chart

Honestly, I hate that about stock charts. They adjust the axes and scales so that the graph itself provides no information. Did it go up 1 point? 200 points? 5%? 50%? You can’t tell, because the graph is just a scale free squiggle.

This is interesting, but it's a lot of talking around columnar databases without ever directly addressing them—making them seem like the proverbial elephant in the room. Even their table comparing DB concepts with ECS concepts doesn't make a lot of sense unless you're talking in the context of columnar databases.

> Imagine your competition putting your own model to use against you.

I imagine that this is part of the original plan. “Okay, we wasted 80 billion dollars on VR, and that hurts. But if we can somehow to convince all of our competitors to also waste 80 billion dollars each, then it’ll even out. How can we trick our competitors into thinking more like Zuckerberg?”

> 2. You've wiped away the incentive for getting-big mentality which drove some of the billionaires to innovate which advances society to this point. Think - discouraging a future Jobs from making another iPhone-like device.

In general, this is total bullshit. But in the particular, Job made his first billions from selling Pixar to Disney, not from Apple.

I would check your assumption that the money spent going to the moon is wasted—if for nothing else (and there is a lot else), we have stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

I’m here for the Invisible Cities fan club!

Invisible Cities is my absolute favorite of his short stories.

What was that? Sorry, I can’t stop to listen, I’m too busy dumping all of this money into the chipper shredder.

> The usecase for Unfolder or Pepkura isn't 3D printing.

I'm assuming they meant a 2D printer, which you need to be able to use this.

Replaced by his son.

> consider why so many people were upset.

Were there lots of people upset? Or was it a small number of people with power who were upset? Like, I'm not at all surprised by how this played out, but it's not clear that anyone was upset beyond some people who don't take well to criticism.

And what better way to support that by making some money selling weapons, especially if it gives you a chance to expand your manufacturing base due to increased demand?

Goddamn, even Sulfuric only has a pH of 3, at most. That Dihydrogen monoxide stuff is DANGEROUS.

> the known poison, dihydrogen monoxide

Oh shit, they put that stuff in Root Beer? I hear that kills thousands of people every year—from kids to the elderly.

How much of that was actual spending—and if so, where did the money end up?—and how much of that was just fraud?

> a human mises a cancer, that 10 out of 10 radiology models say it's there with 99% confidence

I think the cases where judgements differ—either between humans or AI or both–will be the difficult to discern cases, where no human and no LLM will have 99% confidence.

No, just asking—I know they're staying out of the gulf, but I don't know how involved they are, and I figured someone here did.

> Correction: Hegseth is a crusader. [...SNIP...] He might be an idiot alcoholic, but he very much knows what he is doing.

That sound like he knows what he wants to do, but that's not the same as knowing what he is doing.

> Nothing in this war has suggested carriers are obsolete.

What are ours doing during this war?

> I watched it twice, which is pretty unheard of for me. I thought the book was fine but not a favourite.

I think it's interesting when a movie can be faithful, and yet hit differently. Conclave was like that for me—I enjoyed the book, but it came across as a political thriller with a Catholic twist. But the movie, by showing all of the uniforms, all of the architecture and art, came across far more significant than just a political thriller. A great cast helped with that, admittedly.

Oof, that’s painfully clueless. If I had written a post about how gullible I was, I’d at least take it down.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is in Amherst, MA and quite excellent.