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New comment by callmeal in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

callmeal — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:13:03 +0000

>Immigrating to the usa is not a right. It is granted.

It's not about rights, it's about keeping your promises.

"Join the army and get a green card" -- oops did we say that?

But then we have only been fair weather friends (see how we treated pretty much any one who put their lives on the line) so I'm not very surprised at what's happening.

New comment by callmeal in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

callmeal — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:27:51 +0000

> The kind that invented the internet

Seriously did not expect a MiniTel reference here. Vive Le France‽

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

New comment by callmeal in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

callmeal — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:29:48 +0000

See: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ He's been "numbering" for quite a while now.

New comment by callmeal in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

callmeal — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:39:29 +0000

>Lightsail, it'll cost you a lot more than almost anything out there,

Lightsail is pretty competitive (price wise) with other providers. Been running s B2B app on it for a few years now - nothing much, just your basic crud app running on lightsail instance + lightsail db. Nice to have a "monthly" rate on each instead of the EC2 opaque (and "surprise!") pricing.

New comment by callmeal in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

callmeal — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:28:52 +0000

>If it bothers you that you need to open two tabs for cross-checking the costs, you may want to avoid every cloud provider, not just AWS.

On Google cloud compute, the ui shows an updated 'cost' as you start building your machine.

New comment by callmeal in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

callmeal — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:25:43 +0000

>they also flocked to a phone with no replaceable battery,

Did they flock to a phone with no replaceable battery the same way we flocked to phones with no headphone jack?

New comment by callmeal in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

callmeal — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:24:03 +0000

>I'm sure you can have good public transit in "round" cities too, but it is certainly more difficult to plan.

You don't have to be "sure", take a look at London which is a "round" city with excellent public transit.

New comment by callmeal in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

callmeal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:21:34 +0000

Yup - family dogs eat what we do. Funny story - my mom's dog will not eat rice unless there's also fish (leftover bones will do). Rice+fish - bowl is cleaned up. Rice+meat - only the meat is picked and eaten.

New comment by callmeal in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

callmeal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:19:17 +0000

>rice is consumed in larger amounts by poorer people who can't afford real food

Um, rice is real food too, right?

New comment by callmeal in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

callmeal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:50:17 +0000

>How does this happen?

Well, you see a black man became president. And what's worse, he was a really good one, articulate, kind, humble, and emodied all the values we cherish. And that broke people so much they would rather burn everything down than build on what he did.

Don't forgot how long Trump and other republicans went on about "birth certificates" during Obama's first term.

New comment by callmeal in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

callmeal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:47:28 +0000

>No amount of beating low level employees will change whether they can accept pdf sent by email or not.

Yes, but a boss being unable to receive a fax because the machine is "otherwise occupied" may do that.

New comment by callmeal in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

callmeal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:55:20 +0000

Yup, it's been a problem ever since Regan (a Republican) fired over 11,000 ATC employees. And by "anyone" ITYM "republicans" again, because Democrats have been trying for years.

See this article from 2017: https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2017/06/house-democrats-in...

New comment by callmeal in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

callmeal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:53:19 +0000

Does your comment also include the police union(s)?

New comment by callmeal in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

callmeal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:48:36 +0000

"Government"? Let's call it what it is. ITYM "Republicans".

New comment by callmeal in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

callmeal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:41:33 +0000

>Somewhat creepy, but if you're imagining that this thing is conscious and knows that it's in doom... yeah definitely not.

I don't know if it knows it's in doom - looks like all it knows is to shoot when startled. More than creepy imo.

New comment by callmeal in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

callmeal — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:07:49 +0000

Yes. It's like exercise. Or eating healthy. I don't enjoy working out but I should really be doing it. I really enjoy eating sweets, but I should not be doing that all the time.

New comment by callmeal in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

callmeal — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:25:07 +0000

The "predict the next word" to a current llm is at the same level as a "transistor" (or gate) is to a modern cpu. I don't understand llms enough to expand on that comparison, but I can see how having layers above that feed the layers below to "predict the next word" and use the output to modify the input leading to what we see today. It is turtles all the way down.

New comment by callmeal in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

callmeal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:13:57 +0000

>Authoritarian central planning isn't an inherent trait of engineers and nor should we aspire for it to be.

I would say that for long-term engineering projects (building bridges etc) authoritarian central planning is a required trait.

New comment by callmeal in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

callmeal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:10:37 +0000

> Trying to reduce China v America to engineers vs lawyers is so reductive it's just mind blowing this keeps getting repeated.

Think of it as engineers vs non-engineers (lawyers/mba types/etc). We complain about that on here all the time (ex. boeing). It's where the priorities are: is it on making things better or making more money? In an ideal world, it would be both. Unfortunately here, it is not otherwise enshittification would not be a thing.

New comment by callmeal in "Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules"

callmeal — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:54:41 +0000

It's the "salt" used in water softeners. Necessary when you have "hard" water.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salt