I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

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  • showed the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’” had declined over the past two years, from 22 to 17 percent on Facebook and from 11 to 7 percent on Instagram.

    This is ENTIRELY because of Meta’s content algorithms that buried the content from everyone’s friends under a torrent of shit. It’s pretty disingenuous for the company that controls that algorithm to present this as some inevitable fait accompli, something out of their hands, oh well.

    But of course Meta was terrified of people just viewing all their friend’s posts and then logging off for the day because, as everyone knows, line must always go up.








  • None of this stands up to any sort of robust critical thinking, which is sadly lacking in LLMs.

    Eg. All your “high performing” worker input relies on skills gained elsewhere , and others have already asserted that the time spent doing one job is not directly equivalent to the time spent doing another job.

    All your renewable energy sources rely on external inputs to manufacture or obtain. “We’ll just use solar panels and battery storage and avoid all the centralised systems”, you fail to understand the enormous resources needed to create such items in bulk, which is what you’ll need when making hyper local energy systems.

    Essentially, your dream society is leeching off capitalism to exist, and this seems to directly go against its lofty ideals.









  • standard practice to find these potential leaks with intensive pre-flight checks to identify and solve these issues before they escalate into a catastrophe.

    Except these particular leaks are due to vibration modes (on the newly designed vacuum jacketed fuel lines) that seem to be only present at high g’s towards the end of the burn.

    After the first ship to use these new lines blew up, SpaceX made some changes and conducted a minute-long test firing on the ground of the second ship. A minute of the rocket going through various thrust levels on the ground is plenty of time to pick up issues if it was going to be visible on the ground.

    Presumably it looked ok, so they launched it, and the second one blew up. They probably added more sensors on those lines, because they seem to be pretty sure that vibration modes are the issue on those lines now.

    Yes, you could model this, and no doubt they did to some extent, but nothing beats testing in real life unfortunately.





  • People don’t just leave leaking apps out there for consumption.

    Ha! Welcome to corporate, where vendors sell you software and say that the hardware has to have 128GB of ram and when you poke around a bit you discover a single JVM with constantly growing memory usage with a script that restarts it every time it runs out of resources.

    AND a log file that describes - in typical Java excruciating detail - the precise lines in each module where the devs allocated resources but didn’t free them. About 40 times a second.