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New comment by penjelly in "Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL"

penjelly — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:56:57 +0000

Twitter revenue is down 48% since musk acquisition, also due to interest and other costs they operated at a net loss in 2024, Not a profit. Who is really choosing what they want to believe?

New comment by penjelly in "OpenAI's GPT-5 Bait and Switch"

penjelly — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:14:35 +0000

the model names are confusing and meaningless to me.

New comment by penjelly in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

penjelly — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:38:01 +0000

inb4 autonomous only zones in cities

New comment by penjelly in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

penjelly — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:42:15 +0000

I've switched sides on this issue. I do think LLMs will reduce headcount across tech. Smaller teams will take on more features and less code will be written by hand. It'll be easier to run a startup, freelance or experiment with projects.

New comment by penjelly in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

penjelly — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:17:41 +0000

sales were trending down significantly in Europe even before the salute though.

New comment by penjelly in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

penjelly — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:58:14 +0000

it's a known problem with 2024 models, the article points to that. So while tesla may be aware of it, the public unconscious might not be (like the author wasn't), as its a new-ish, and frankly absurd problem to have.

New comment by penjelly in "Microplastics in the human brain"

penjelly — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:34:22 +0000

> These particles can include synthetic rubber, plastics, carbon black, and trace metals (like zinc)

you're correct. I mistakenly thought it was only carbon coming off the tires. So yeah, EVs have a significantly lower carbon output that ICE vehicles. My point still stands but thanks for the callout.

New comment by penjelly in "Microplastics in the human brain"

penjelly — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:25:47 +0000

trams were popular in tons of places before, I understand they improved traffic significantly compared even to today, and they'd still have a positive effect now, I think. But most places shifted towards a car centric focus and we lost those.

New comment by penjelly in "Microplastics in the human brain"

penjelly — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:23:19 +0000

EV/hybrid only "zones" in Europe are crazy to me because the electric cars leech more tire carbon into the air anyway. Some regulation seems intelligent on the surface, but the devil is in the details.

New comment by penjelly in "Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies On YouTube?"

penjelly — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:05:54 +0000

people talking about ad revenue... It feels more like a reputational play, ie: throw some free movies out with the WBD logo, more people recognize the brand strength of WBD, then subscribe to Max. Though the selection is small and the movies don't look very good at a glance..

New comment by penjelly in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

penjelly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:07:40 +0000

100%. it took me years to consider gluten/lactose as the root cause, because I'd been eating them for years and definitely never almost suffocated like the symptoms it causes now for me now.

New comment by penjelly in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

penjelly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:00:05 +0000

that didn't work for me. It helped in the moment but didn't address the underlying problem.

New comment by penjelly in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

penjelly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:05:52 +0000

take a flashlight to your nostrils in a dark room with a mirror, are they inflamed? It could be reflux/silent reflux like I have, gases inflame the sinuses, then it's hard to breathe.

New comment by penjelly in "Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs"

penjelly — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:03:56 +0000

Hi, I couldn't glean from the articles. But it sounds like you have breathing issues from long covid? it may sound ridiculous, but I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times. If I avoid gluten, lactose, canola oil I get far fewer symptoms. I know this likely isn't your issue but I do experience positive airway pressure, coughing, burping, chronic fatigue, exessive yawning. If that sounds like you maybe a dietary intolerance could be worth checking. For what it's worth, no doctors could diagnose me, they thought I had heartburn or "its in your head". It wasn't, cutting those things out did actually help enormously.

New comment by penjelly in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

penjelly — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:33:47 +0000

me, Canadian, open tiktok for the first time in months and the 2nd reel is Canada vs US war & how China will help Canada. No way you can convince me this isn't a propaganda machine.

New comment by penjelly in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

penjelly — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:51:33 +0000

> Don't we need to have a pretty low opinion of the average american cognitive skill to feel the need to protect them from foreign propaganda for fear it would take a hold on them

that's naive. Literally leaving CNN on in your living room 3 days a week will eventually change you opinions. Our minds absorb things we hear repetitively, even if we now they might be half truths or lies.

New comment by penjelly in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

penjelly — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:48:32 +0000

it's not just about data harvesting, it's about propaganda as well, and no, you can't "just buy" as much data as tiktok gathers on people, tiktok most likely has some of the richest data gathered from users, because they can get away with it.

New comment by penjelly in "Starship Flight 7"

penjelly — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:46:40 +0000

launching a rocket is far more analogulous to shipping a release, than it is running code.

New comment by penjelly in "General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years"

penjelly — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:41:59 +0000

many cars now have a TPU, used for connectivity and GPS, which will send telematics data when you start and stop the car. This tracking is not typically easy or possible to opt out of, in my experience.

New comment by penjelly in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

penjelly — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:27:22 +0000

it's been said many times, it's a national security risk, and it is very obviously one. Tiktok has already gone against the wishes of the US, there's evidence Chinese engineers accessed Tiktok data hosted in the US (related: project Texas). It's so easy to sway public opinion when you own the largest megaphone to the people... That's literally what's happening right now on tiktok.