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I've noticed that the amount of click-farm generated spam from third world countries pushing Tesla related propaganda has spiked tremendously since inauguration day.

Keep an eye open for AI generated images of Musk in front of fictional technology, with captions that read things like "Musk releases NEW $40 cell phone to the world!"

It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. I just can't figure out if it's paid promotional shilling, or shilling by unfriendly nations just pig-piling on the divisive rhetoric.

Either way, when the political pendulum swings back to the left I intend to urge my elected officials to track down and physically destroy the bot / click farms using military force if needed. I don't mean investigations and police. I mean we fly a Tomahawk through the window. We're at the point now where foreign political interference is amounting to an aggravated act of war. Even if it's solicited by one party or another, stay out of it.

To elaborate a little bit;

I've been in many, many buildings for cabling issues. While I generally agree with your assessment of "run more everything" I think this could be taken out of hand for a lot of smaller IT departments who aren't capable of using more advanced methods of network building. Like subnetting, VLAN trunking, or redundant links.

Why would you need to learn about these things if you've got 3 or 4 more pairs of fiber hanging down? Then you have a situation that I've seen before, where you have 2 fiber runs carrying flat networks right next to each other with just a couple of IP phones on each one.

We've almost come full circle with the idea of "run more cabling" already in some ways.

For example, a building built in 1960 had analog phone lines. Then in the 80s network lines were added. Then in the 90s - 00s more and more and more network were added.

Then in the 2010-2020's we're starting to wind back down. Removing switches and racks that used to be fully populated with CAT5 which are now mostly empty. The end devices that needed these runs are now running on WiFi.

The problems I noticed were, it doesn't matter what the SPF and DKIM look like. If Google or Microsoft refuse to relay your email based on secret internal factors then you're out of business.

Sounds like an issue with an outdated locally hosted IP2 Location database.

I work in education, and I emplore you to post a Privacy Policy and TOS clearly on the homepage, ASAP.

We have so much low hanging fruit in this industry with regards to privacy and security. The website you listed reminds me a lot of other one-dev platforms that aren't properly equipped to deal with their own volume.

If you're inviting teachers to add information about their districts and their students, you MUST take your security, your supply chain, and your disclosures seriously.

There is not enough experience in my industry to make up the difference. You're going to market this to teachers who sign up without the consent of their IT or data people, enter PII about minor children, and then get fired and that data will be invisible to my department forever. But you'll still have it, ready to lose it in your first big hack or sell it when times get tough.

I could list literally 3 other platforms designed by a lonely teacher in their spare time that could literally probably have their databases dumped this afternoon if I posted the links here. Please, be careful.

As an IT professional; It's not even worth my time to substantiate those claims. The user gets a new mouse and I record it as a ticket. I've never had to "cut anyone off" from issuing new equipment, but if there's ever a problematic user I'll have a record of their equipment issues on file.

I'm not a Big Company person or a Founder. From my perspective, it's the "continue to the next phase" that is the whole problem.

Not everything needs to be expanded to it's logical extreme. I've worked in a lot of places, and the ideal employer is probably one who is in the middle, and planning on staying there.

The concept of "grow until you've eaten everybody" is sickening, and tiring. Especially for your non-C-suite employees who don't give a fuck about the logo on their shirt. I'm talking of course about most people the second they are no longer within earshot of their boss.

That "momentum, oomph, pizzazz" is not normal all the time. In the words of Mark Meadows, "if everything is sacred; then nothing is sacred." Meaning if you don't prioritize what is truly important, and simply assume that everything is of equally critical importance, then chances are you will fail at many more things than if you focused on the one most important thing.

But companies don't think that way. They see missed anything as missed opportunity. That is rarely the case.

Here's an example; Imagine a machine shop that has 10 customers and 65% on-time delivery. The top 3 customers drive 75% of the businesses revenue. Now lets assume that they are in negotiations with a potential 11th customer who will be their new 5th largest customer.

The cut-throat capitalist would pull all their strings to get this customer. And then the rest of the customers will notice that their 65% on time delivery decreases to 55% as a result. Now the 3rd largest customer is quoting their parts elsewhere because they need a second supplier to cover how unreliable your deliveries are.

Do you believe that had the business not taken on the additional customer that they would have "missed a revenue opportunity"? Is that big picture stuff, small picture stuff, or just humans who live in a real world stuff?

Here's an idea.... Stop putting your critical business data on disparate third party systems that you don't have access to. Problem solved!

This is misleading. The article doesn't claim a specific thermal efficiency anywhere. Not sure why the title of this post says >50%.

Also, the engine itself is not achieving >50% thermal efficiency. The propulsion system is a hybrid electric / ICE unit that is designed inside and out to be able to recover potential energy in a variety of ways, and then turn that back into kinetic energy that propels the car.

So to say that the "engine" technology enables ">50% thermal efficiency" is completely untrue.

Now, to look at the merits of the article. The specific technology that they are claiming to have advanced here is "Rapid Combusion" and "Lean Boost." Rapid combustion refers to the layout of the fuel injectors in relation to the spark plug and the fuel injector timing. In early SPFI (Squential port fuel injection) vehicles and earlier, air was pre-prepared and fully mixed with an adequate amount fuel before it entered the combustion chamber. This mixture enters the combustion chamber and is ignited by the spark plug. The flame front propagates away from the spark plug until the (air within the ) mixture is consumed.

What Honda is doing now is injecting only a small amount of fuel into the combustion chamber up front. This small amount of fuel is ignited by the spark plug, and then the rest of the fuel is injected into the cylinder. This enables Honda to use another technique called "lean boost" that has been around in diesel engine technology for decades.

By initiating combustion with a small amount of fuel, the flame front propagates faster and burns hotter. The added intensity of the burn means that subsequent fuel injected into the cylinder will self-ignite without any further spark from the spark plug. These two flame fronts essentially "meet in the middle" of the combustion chamber. Tech geeks can think of the performance improvement of having two concurrent flame fronts propagating simultaneously as an improvement similar to the data transfering out of a RAID 0 array vs a single drive.

Because the fuel mixture is injected directly into the combustion chamber, (instead of being mixed outside and then pushed in like SPFI) pre-detonation is virtually impossible. Pre-detonation is avoided in passenger cars by injecting more fuel into the combustion chamber than what is required. This additional fuel doesn't carry additional power, but it makes the mixture robust enough to withstand high temperature and pressure long enough for the spark plug to ignite the mixture in a controlled way. In an F1 car, wasting fuel for this purpose is not acceptable. This is where "lean boost" comes into play.

In a passenger car, the fuel mixture is already in the combustion chamber when the piston begins it's compression stroke. So the mixture must be robust enough to withstand being compressed by the piston. In an F1 car, the fuel is absent until the piston has reached the very top of it's compression stroke. So in an F1 car, the fuel mixture isn't exposed to high temperature or pressure until the very moment it is expected to burn. As a result it is possible to inject a lesser amount of fuel than what is ideal. The ideal mixture of air:fuel for petrol is 14.7:1. In a passenger car this is a little bit lighter, say 13.5:1 to avoid pre-detonation. In an F1 car they go the other way say 15.5:1, because it saves fuel and there is no risk of pre-detonation due to other design factors.

> Not everything is equally good or affordable, but it’s crucial to understand what the world is moving toward (even if maybe they shouldn’t).

And this is exactly how we get to Elon Musk creating a constitutional crisis.

Complacency. Complacency with Tesla servitizing the automobile. Complacency with someone doing a Sieg Heil... Twice... on national television.

Maybe if you don't take the first leap, you won't be in the position that so many Tesla owners are in now. "I didn't know he was crazy!"

Well maybe you should have. Maybe you should have read all the signs and seen all the writing on the wall and listened to all the enthusiasts and experts who warned you.

This is still the case when troubleshooting POTS lines on analog PBX systems.

All you need is the probe side of a tone generator and you can listen to analog phone conversations in progress with no additional configuration or hardware.

The only ones who should be doubting themselves are the ones trying to take over the government.

What's even crazier is the ad spend right now by PR firms representing this nonsense.

Pretty much every generic clickbait account on FB (names like "Focal Flow", "Humanity", "Engineering Today", ect) have all exposed themselves as basically being one-in-the-same account. The clear shift in algorithms has me shaken. It's clear that all the technocrat billionaires are on-board with the coup. I mean Bezos himself used to hate Trump, but seems to be shilling this time because Trump embarrassed him publicly and cost him government contracts last time. Same with Zuckerberg. They all went from mortal enemies of Donald Trump to attending his inauguration and clamoring for favor. It's disgraceful.

And Linda Yaccarino is outright threatening advertisers who boycott with lawsuits and government interference.

This is wild, and disgraceful, and sad.

While I agree with the sentiment you are delivering, I think successful is probably the wrong word here.

I worked on a repo for several years with many tens of thousands of lines of code and attempted to promote it heavily with little success. At some point I chopped out about 2,500 lines of code from that repo and packaged just one feature as a standalone product.

Years later the child repo has thousands of users and the parent has barely any. While I consider both projects to be successful by definition, if I'm going to briefly showcase one over the other I'll showcase the smaller project that received more engagement. Because the engagement metrics do indeed matter. It lends credence and legitimacy to a project.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...

This is the second launch. Because during the first grok wasn't politically aligned enough with elon.

> I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.

You'll get exactly what Elon wants it to say.

> I have nothing against gay people,

You don't get to dictate that to other people after going on a rant specifically about gay people. I mean you can, but nobody's gonna buy it. You need to realize that perception is reality, and the perception here is you are very narrow minded. More concerned with taking condoms away from gay people than you are with saving your own country from a 20 year old gang of fascists who stole your SSN on a USB stick and stood up a blank WordPress site to brag about it.

— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa

See, you can't paraphrase to add (what you view as) negative connotation and then claim "I have nothing against gay people." The money did not go to South Africa with the earmark "so gay men can have sex with gay men." It went to something you don't see the value in. It went to something you think is unimportant. Like HIV medication, or STD prevention, or treatment, or gasp a $.50 condom that maybe prevented a diesease. The takeaway for you is this; your anti-LGBT bias clearly shows through. You are not as middle-of-the-road as you think you are. Sir, you are brainwashed. This is not about cost. This is about regulating others and preventing lifestyles you disagree with from having access to medical care. You think that by deincentivizing LGBTQ activities you can regulate LGBTQ culture. Good luck.

> We voted to cut all of this garbage

Yeah, well we both voted for a lot of this garbage that was created by a BYPARTISAN ACT OF CONGRESS. Your orange clown has no right acting like a king in a country that we all built together. Your vote shouldn't be able to erase all of mine. The government was built with checks and balances. Respect them.

Tell that to the people who keep the network gear running at your office. You might not see the importance of knowing the details, but those details still matter and are still in plain use all around you every day. The aversion to learning the stack you're building with is frustrating to the people who keep that stack running.

I think that if the development side knew a little bit of the rest of the stack they'd write better applications overall.

I've been feeding my cat only seafood flavored cat food ever since the cat food contamination from a couple weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42512754

The amount of faith you've placed in an emotionally compromised, ketamine fueled narcissistic nazi sympathizer is tragically misplaced.

From a security standpoint, we have a private citizen who is a) not American born, b) didn't apply to work for the government and hasn't been vetted, c) an apartheid sympathizing nazi who did a sieg heil on national television, d) shows anti-democratic tendencies, e) insists he and he alone can save the world, privately, f) hired programmers who are literally stealing the government on thumb drives and personal devices with untold security implications, g) making government entities who are in charge of personal data breach their own TOS and privacy policies, h) doesn't have any SOPs for what he's doing, and doesn't seem to see the value in them, i) isn't revealing any details, reports, or data despite claiming he is, j) is dismantling institutions that were put in place by bipartisan acts of congress, k) is dismantling institutions that benefit Americans, l) is dismantling institutions that would otherwise prevent him from committing fraud, m) ignores the judicial branch, n) is the wealthiest person in the world with countless conflicts of interest, o) is in a position to pursuade the government to do business exclusively with his companies, p) is going to funnel resources to his companies, q) is taking rights and liberties away from Americans......

I mean I'm just gonna stop. The icing on the cake is he's the richest man alive. This is literally a page from a dystopian non-fiction novel and you're passive aggressively playing devils advocate, or you're honestly oblivious.

I can't tell if this is ad hominem or not. Obviously empathy exists, but this is a much, much different level of empathy.

I think that if someone has experienced this drug they would have had the permanent, noticable shift in thinking and perception that I described. That shift would have precluded them from thinking someone without first hand experience could relate. I could sit here trying to explain the experience for hours what experience could do for them in 10 minutes.

The psychadelic effects of this particular drug is so overwhelmingly, convincingly powerful that it's hard for me to imagine anyone who actually took it describing it as "romanticized". Words cannot accurately describe how convincingly powerful the visual hallucinations are. None of the T-shirts or album covers do the actual experience justice.

To your point about expectations; Related story: One time me and my friends got some and we were supposed to wait for a friend to get out of work before we all took it together. We couldn't wait, and passed around the tin foil containing the stuff and we each took our hits. I was last, I bought 2 hits and there were 2 tabs on the foil. So I took both of them and threw the empty foil away. 20 minutes later someone comes to me looking for the foil, because it supposably still contained 2 tabs for my friend who was on his way. It turns out that I accidentally took the 2 hits that I bought AND the 2 hits that my friend bought (the 2 tabs in the foil represented 4 hits total). I still had his tab on my tongue, so I removed it and put it back in the foil. It was totally cooked. When my friend came over, we didn't tell him and he took the his empty tabs and insisted all night that he was tripping sack, sometimes embarrassingly so. Meanwhile I was rocked out of my gourd.

That's true, and those people probably went on to live happier, more full, more wholesome lives than if they had never taken LSD.

The first time I took LSD it unlocked a level of thinking that I was not capable of before. For example, other people's perspectives. I fell down such a deep rabbit hole of contemplating other people's feelings and perspectives that I could literally (in that moment) FEEL other people's feelings. Obviously that is the drugs talking, and it didn't really happen like that. But in the same way that I really did see the wood grain in my coffee table bubbling like a witches cauldron, I also really did have a deep, meaningful, impactful thinking session about other people's perspective.

So when you "come down" you kind of get to keep that fullness of appreciation. The need to now consider other people is there, and your brain is fully aware how important it is now. The experience of appreciating things deeply stays with you somehow.

As someone who's done most of the substances listed in the article; none of this matters.

First of all, you can't take 16 people with the drug-taking profiles listed and reliably account for their drug and alcohol intake. 100% of their sample came into the lab as drug seeking individuals. Expecting them to only take drugs under your supervision is a fairy tale. Expecting them to tell the truth about their alcohol intake is also a fairy tale. I'm not trying to be incendiary, I am speaking from experience as a recovering alcoholic with 5 years sobriety.

Second of all, 10 day spacing between doses is insane, and dangerous. Having done this particular drug many times, I can tell you that it takes at least 2 days to feel "normal". And by that, I mean "as normal as you're ever going to feel." You see, LSD changes you... forever. Each time I took LSD I only ever "came down" 99.5%. That other 0.5% stays with you for years, if not forever. You never fully "come down" all the way. You're always just a little "less" than you were before.

Thirdly; this particular drug is not just mind altering, it is life altering. It unlocks things in your mind that permanently change your perception. I don't know anyone who's taken this drug who disagrees with this statement. This permanent altering of your consciousness is literally the thing you pay for and hope to receive.

Honestly science will probably never get LSD right. In order to do so the scientists would need to experience LSD first hand, several times before they could reasonably ever begin planning such an experiment. "You just don't know what you don't know."

"If you've got a nazi sitting at a table and 10 people sitting around talking to him, then you've got a table with 11 nazis."

Provided, of course, that you have the special app which costs $5.99/month* and has full access to your phone storage, camera, microphone, GPS location, WiFi SSID, OAuth tokens, and copyright ownership of your childs baby pictures.

Coming soon*

Yes. We don't know who has this data, where it's stored, who has access to it, and who pays their bills.

This whole thing is built on heresay of unscrupulous people who claim to know better.