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New comment by not_the_fda in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

not_the_fda — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:48:18 +0000

They are using the resource the most.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic into First Profitable Quarter"

not_the_fda — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:09:02 +0000

"Operating profit" is a weasel word phrase. It doesn't include capital expenditures, financing, stock compensation dilution, or long-term infrastructure commitments.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

not_the_fda — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:53:40 +0000

They should get rid of the gas tax and tax all vehicles by weight and miles driven.

New comment by not_the_fda in "AI is too expensive"

not_the_fda — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:01:49 +0000

Automating white color work in the next couple years will cause the greatest demand destruction humans have ever seen.

New comment by not_the_fda in "AI is too expensive"

not_the_fda — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:56:55 +0000

I work in design services and see clients already being cost sensitive to AI bills. They have wait lists, rationing, push to lower tier / cheaper models. This is all with subsidized pricing.

People are going to decide its too expensive for everyone to use AI agents and un-subsidized pricing.

New comment by not_the_fda in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

not_the_fda — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:28:09 +0000

The french perfected it.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

not_the_fda — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:13:59 +0000

Isn't this just saying cloud AI providers are heavily subsidizing the true cost of the service.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip"

not_the_fda — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:11:44 +0000

It should be SOP for any country's diplomats visiting another country.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

not_the_fda — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:44:37 +0000

> The article specifically argues that it's extra bad beyond just corruption. That's the part I'm pushing back on.

They are elected officials that are supposed to be working in our best interests, or at least the interest of their supporters.

Are they making decisions in our best interests or what makes their pocket book fatter? Poisons the whole system.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

not_the_fda — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:01:08 +0000

Chip manufacturers are used to boom bust cycles and are always hesitant to bring on more capacity, since it costs billions to do so.

They will let the hyperscalers buy their supply at a premium and wait for the bust. Then they will shift back to the consumer space.

Hardware is going to be expensive for awhile but its not as dire as the article makes it out to be.

New comment by not_the_fda in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

not_the_fda — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:13:19 +0000

Its not a clean ground-up rewrite. They dis-assembled the original binaries into assembly and started from there.

New comment by not_the_fda in "“Your frustration is the product”"

not_the_fda — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:08:32 +0000

You used to get the lyrics when you bought the music. Came in a nice booklet with the tape or CD, and then you would read along while listening to the music.

Should be the same with streaming. If I can listen to the song, I should be able tho see the lyrics.

New comment by not_the_fda in "FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall"

not_the_fda — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:15:04 +0000

Depends entirely on the state. In Wisconsin, the "dairy capital of the world", its illegal except for incidental sales directly from the dairy farm.

Reason being they don't want outbreaks to be linked to Wisconsin's dairy industry.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

not_the_fda — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:56:16 +0000

Its brain damage from people coming from Java.

Just put your state in an anonymous namespace in the implementation file.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Little Free Library"

not_the_fda — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:53:32 +0000

Yes the places that buy used books respect the stamp. They usually take all the books and take them to some place Half Priced Books https://www.hpb.com/ for some quick cash.

Places like that won't buy them if they are stamped.

They could try selling them on Amazon or E-Bay, but that's too much effort for quick cash to get a fix.

New comment by not_the_fda in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

not_the_fda — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:02:00 +0000

They don't care until the whole thing collapses in on itself from the technical debt. Then they have surprised pikachu face when it takes an insane about of effort to add a simple feature.

New comment by not_the_fda in "The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art"

not_the_fda — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:09:00 +0000

So is AI generated code not copy-rightable?

New comment by not_the_fda in "Little Free Library"

not_the_fda — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:54:34 +0000

I build these and have one at my house.

Its been interesting.

Had some teenagers try to blow it up with fireworks.

Have to constantly remove proselytizing, mostly christian, pamphlets from it.

Had to buy a stamp https://littlefreelibrary.myshopify.com/products/self-inking... so drug addicts don't clear it out sell the books to buy smack.

Other than hat its been mostly self sustaining.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

not_the_fda — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:42:04 +0000

And that's the end of democracy. One of the safe guards of democracy is a military that is trained to not turn against the citizens. Once a government has fully autonomous weapons its game over. They can point those weapons at the populous at the flip of the switch.

New comment by not_the_fda in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

not_the_fda — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:53:25 +0000

10 1MB blobs is nothing on modern hardware.