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New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

kjkjadksj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:30:19 +0000

How could it have been? It wasn’t like they had machine guns. In best case I believe it takes something like a full minute to reload a musket. Zerg rush would be sufficient tactics. 100 yard dash means your hoard of unarmed natives is through the musket range in maybe 10-15 seconds and pulling limbs off the spaniards already.

Why this wasn’t done is I think the big mystery and lends credence to the idea of spaniards having significant force numbers through allies.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

kjkjadksj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:22:11 +0000

The answer to that question was the US before the 1970s when manufacturing was still onshored. So many joe shmoes literally started companies in this era taking some garage creation and manufacturing it at scale at a local plant.

Now that all takes place in China. With layers of middle men who collect arbitrage between you and the Chinese manufacturers they connect to you. With tariffs. Weeks of international shipping. Enough volume of orders to justify international shipping at all. Enough production capacity ordered to even be worth while making your thing versus larger orders from around the world all being made in china.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

kjkjadksj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:11:59 +0000

We can’t even deliver on universal healthcare. UBI is an even bigger pipe dream for american politics.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

kjkjadksj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:58:38 +0000

I remember the old days being surprisingly smooth. There was some verizon tool that transferred all my contacts from the dumb phone to my first smart phone.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

kjkjadksj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:53:20 +0000

Most of these I just say I am 200 years old or so.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

kjkjadksj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:04:29 +0000

For whatever reason, bonobos living under similar environmental constraints don’t do this. This suggests to me that the behavior is strongly controlled by genetics. Makes one wonder about the warmongers in our own species if they harbor some warmonger gene.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

kjkjadksj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:57:30 +0000

You have no hours of the day where you can choose to do something? Are you a prisoner?

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Move Detroit"

kjkjadksj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:56:11 +0000

The difference is 96 in detroit is moving at 60mph pretty much all times of the day. You don’t reach those speeds in socal until like 9pm.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

kjkjadksj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:51:31 +0000

Yup, pretty much all quality of life upgrades in ios came from shamelessly copying popular jailbreak tweaks on cydia. Which they could do without credit since the tweaks were frowned upon in the first place.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

kjkjadksj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:50:05 +0000

It is kind of funny how all the comments are like “yes, finally, file away!” Instead of taking a step back and asking why half the users don’t get these issues at all with the way they lay their hands on the keyboard. I’ve been using metal macbooks for as long as they’ve been around and this is the first I’m hearing of it. Maybe I’m holding it right.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

kjkjadksj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:55:14 +0000

Apple was selling actual hardware though. Software doesn’t have that logistical moat.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

kjkjadksj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:50:07 +0000

This “gotcha” just leads to the conclusion that reporting on car break-ins and such just isn’t that interesting. “Car window smashed in Pasadena” yawn, talk about a waste of airtime imo. Might as well talk about all the people not using their blinker every day.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Peptides: where to begin?"

kjkjadksj — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:05:05 +0000

The quality of data really are too poor. To get enough sampling to achieve sufficient power to overcome these issues would be a pipe dream imo.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Peptides: where to begin?"

kjkjadksj — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:58:57 +0000

Same in US only sometimes more banal. Signup sheet in front of the stacks of pizza at some research talk at the medical school. Back row entirely asleep. Talk had nothing to do with medical practice but the researcher holds an md phd. Might be talking about their work in yeast.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Move Detroit"

kjkjadksj — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:53:21 +0000

It could be a 45 min drive between ucla and usc. Caltech even longer maybe over an hour from ucla.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year"

kjkjadksj — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:41:27 +0000

What’s this, the old “I’m too smart for propaganda to work on me?”

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

kjkjadksj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:06:35 +0000

The issue with marvel really is that it took another 20+ movies worth of unique ip or stories that could have been told out the window. Yeah, highest grossing of all time, but that has been marching up the whole time too, no? Especially selling to china now. Studios would have made the same money I’m guessing spread out over other IP.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

kjkjadksj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:58:31 +0000

They could always visit lawnmower at the Lanai compound if they got bored of Big Sur.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

kjkjadksj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:38:30 +0000

Anyone who reads hemingway in 2026 would not struggle with literacy as an adult.

New comment by kjkjadksj in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

kjkjadksj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:35:25 +0000

You would have been better off reading good english literature to improve your own writing.