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New comment by rockemsockem in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

rockemsockem — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:49:45 +0000

Go back to Reddit where you belong

New comment by rockemsockem in ""Design Me a Highly Resilient Database""

rockemsockem — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:22:28 +0000

Hard for a bad engineer to hire a good one maybe? If so, not the biggest problem to have.

New comment by rockemsockem in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

rockemsockem — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:30:51 +0000

So /dev/random would presumably work just as well here too.

This is kinda closer to the LLM building a game on its own.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

rockemsockem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:23:27 +0000

I feel like these tech docs you're writing might not need to be written in the first place.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

rockemsockem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:42:07 +0000

The USA does not remove your videos from YouTube, Google does because they don't have the resources to evaluate all copyright claims and they are afraid of getting sued. You're welcome to host your own videos.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

rockemsockem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:37:56 +0000

I think the people blocking content in Europe and those "protecting democracy" in the US share most of the same political beliefs.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

rockemsockem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:32:56 +0000

This is of course an influence campaign, just like government ads to get people not to smoke are influence campaigns, but where's the misinformation?

New comment by rockemsockem in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

rockemsockem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:31:26 +0000

The foreign policy of calling out silly censorship in Europe and violations of fundamental freedoms and making European countries implicitly acknowledge it by blocking a US site?

Seems great. Wish Europe didn't censor free speech.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:22:47 +0000

That's exactly my point. I wouldn't say that Elon avoids risk.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:21:59 +0000

Yeah if you leave enough junk in any orbit it'll become a problem, but I don't think that's necessarily an argument not to put things in that orbit. You'd just need to not hit that critical limit where things become untenable.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:27:49 +0000

IDK people who like money a lot seem to try harder to preserve it vs taking large risks.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:26:46 +0000

First new car company in America in IDK how many years and first popular electric car in the world doesn't seem hard to you?

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:25:04 +0000

Sorry I misspoke, you're totally correct. What I meant to say was it's only a problem if they're orbiting around the Earth. I've heard sun orbits mentioned as a possibility for data centers.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:34:24 +0000

You seem to be alive? So....

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:32:09 +0000

Kessler syndrome is only a problem if the satellites are in LEO. They don't have to be.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

rockemsockem — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:28:33 +0000

Really seems silly to think that the guy with $800 billion is spending most of his time maximizing his money.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockemsockem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:15:32 +0000

Seems like you'll still be able to use your own apps just fine under this scheme.

It also seems pretty obvious that the ignorant phone-users of the world who get scammed are the reason for this change. The revenue lost from people like you is really not worth any amount of engineering effort.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockemsockem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:11:30 +0000

This solution clearly mostly benefits the ignorant phone users of the world who are susceptible to scams. There is a minuscule number of people sideloading Android apps on their phones compared to the greater population.

Like I strongly believe that sideloading should be possible on phones, I don't even do it myself anymore but it can be very helpful and is part of what makes the Android platform fundamentally more open than iOS. I was VERY opposed to their original idea of closing off sideloading altogether, but having to mark it in your settings manually seems like a very good compromise.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockemsockem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:07:47 +0000

IDK what you could possibly mean by saying it was "a copy of the BlackBerry" and further I don't see how that validates the claim that "Android itself was a reaction to iOS".

The actual truth seems to be that "Android's introduction of touchscreens was a reaction to iOS", which is WAY different than saying that the entire operating system was spun up just to compete with iOS.

New comment by rockemsockem in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockemsockem — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:05:52 +0000

Android was in development well before iOS was released, really the only big change was the touchscreen, which is obviously revolutionary, but that's a long-way from "Android is a reaction to iOS".