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New comment by TremendousJudge in "Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:53:26 +0000

is there a country where if you don't show up to court you don't lose by default?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:01:08 +0000

I have mentioned it several times lately, but if the analogy was correct, people would be committing prompts and not code. High-level source code gets committed, binaries don't. If prompts were really "just a higher level of abstraction", then there wouldn't be a need for saving the code. Or at least you'd see people publish their prompts and chat history alongside the code.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:09:14 +0000

If they were equivalent, people would be committing the prompts and not the code

New comment by TremendousJudge in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:14:14 +0000

and what's the tesla equivalent for the BYD dolphin?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Why TUIs are back"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:56:40 +0000

Recently, I have used both Zed[0] and VSCode[1] remotely via SSH. It works just fine, and it was painless to set up. I remember years ago last time I tried, it was a much harder process.

[0] https://zed.dev/docs/remote-development [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

New comment by TremendousJudge in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:56:49 +0000

I'll believe that LLMs are like compilers the day a repo contains only the prompts and no generated code.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:44:35 +0000

While I agree in principle (slack works just fine as a firefox tab, thank you very much), if the application needs filesystem access, it's not going to be viable.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Our newsroom AI policy"

TremendousJudge — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:18:22 +0000

It's not evenly distributed. Big labels get much better payouts per listen than independent artists

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:10:29 +0000

I guess such an old edition is in the public domain

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:40:53 +0000

really? there are ways of putting music on Spotify that don't involve paying a fee upfront at any time?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:39:08 +0000

I wouldn't say that porn is not allowed on every platform. basically every mainstream "content posting" platform (fb, ig, tw, tiktok, etc) allows softcore porn, and in fact pushes it on users, both on content an on advertising. if the same was true with AI music I wouldn't bother with the platform

New comment by TremendousJudge in "NASA Artemis Posters"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:06:36 +0000

the film they were using for these pictures allows for way higher resolution scans than 1080p

New comment by TremendousJudge in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

TremendousJudge — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:54:05 +0000

yeah, but the guys selling the courses were/are all obsessed with being at the beach

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

TremendousJudge — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:57:44 +0000

that sounds like somebody's dream job

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:23:21 +0000

for which society? the American society, maybe? they get to feel good about themselves

for the societies all over the globe that have been the targets of such policies for more than a century, I think it's better to call a spade a spade. the non-American politicians and aristocrats that benefit from US imperialism get to hide much better if the Americans are "the good guys"

New comment by TremendousJudge in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

TremendousJudge — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:04:49 +0000

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia is about his experience in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. He was there between '36 and '37 I think. It's pre WWII, and I found it very interesting for the same reason you say here: his account doesn't have the benefit of hindsight. The civil war wasn't even over when the book was published. It's very interesting to see his perspective, what things he saw coming, and what things he didn't.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

TremendousJudge — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:40:45 +0000

What I find most amazing about all this is that this is literally the market that Tesla was aiming for. Affordable EVs for regular people was their whole thing, they were years ahead of BYD, already had an established brand, they just had to keep doing what they were doing, adding cheaper models to their lineup, and they would be much stronger competitors.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

TremendousJudge — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:31:11 +0000

They've been on this path for a while now. The reckoning has to come at some point right?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Honda is killing its EVs"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:21:14 +0000

isn't that at least partially caused by the rubber tire particles?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

TremendousJudge — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:18:55 +0000

It's also amazing that, if the rich, non-oil producing countries of the world actually went and transitioned away from oil, these ""problematic"" countries would lose all their power. All the middle eastern militaries are founded by oil an gas exports, the autocratic regimes are kept in power via military might, and the only reason why they matter in the international stage is that they export oil and gas.