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New comment by thereddaikon in "How to win an argument with a toddler"

thereddaikon — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:05:11 +0000

Or the classic example of,

"Hey man calm down!"

"I am calm!"

One of the best ways to upset someone is to claim they are upset.

New comment by thereddaikon in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

thereddaikon — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:55:53 +0000

I'm not even sure I would compare ford to Jobs or Woz. Woz is a talented engineer. Jobs was a great product guy. I've always thought of Ford as process/production expert. The Model T wasn't a particularly great car compared to its competition. What made it and Ford succeed was his production process made it cheaper than the competition. But his processes also allowed him to make it faster and he came up with the franchise system which gave Ford national reach at a time when every other car maker was regional. The Model T wasn't just cheaper than the competition, in many parts of the country it was realistically the only car you could buy for awhile.

New comment by thereddaikon in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

thereddaikon — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:03:37 +0000

Nobody claims Ford invented the car. Its undisputed in the mainstream that Karl Benz did. What Ford achieved was making it into a viable mass market product. Ford's inventions had less to do with the car itself and more with the process of mass production. Ford's system was incredibly influential and very wide reaching. But the car was very much invented and known before he did that.

New comment by thereddaikon in "AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court"

thereddaikon — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:38:17 +0000

There's already a process for this, its called chain of custody. If you cant prove the evidence has a solid chain of custody then it was potentially tampered with and isn't reliable.

New comment by thereddaikon in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

thereddaikon — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:23:21 +0000

Everything has a reason. Xi didn't make that decision for the lulz. The reason is they see Taiwan as part of China and in active rebellion. Simple as. That doesn't make it right, but that explains why they are doing it. You don't have to accept that but that's what actual chinese and taiwanese nationals have told me and I'm inclined to believe them.

New comment by thereddaikon in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

thereddaikon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:28:57 +0000

Its an imperfect analogy but I'm trying to illustrate an idea in a more relatable way. If you pick at the details it will fall apart.

New comment by thereddaikon in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

thereddaikon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:27:33 +0000

I use China in this context to mean the Chinese state which given their system is interchangeable with the CCP. So you can subv in CCP in my statement or even Xi if you want since he is unequivocally running things.

In the case of Ukraine, Russia's (read: the russian government which is synonymous with Putin who dictator in all but name) motivation is somewhat similar. But they don't see Ukraine as a rebellious province. They see it as a vassal state as they do all of the other former SSRs and members of the Warsaw pact. Putin and his nationalist group have a very old world view of things and a very specific concept of what their rightful sphere of influence is and what exactly it means to control it. This isn't even unique to them. After securing power, the Bolsheviks quickly attempted to bring former Russian imperial possessions back under their control. That included Ukraine, Poland and Finland. Poland and Finland were able to secure their independence, Ukraine was less fortunate. For all the talk of anti imperialism, they were just as imperial as their predecessors. So this is just russians being russians and an inability for their world view to evolve past the 19th century.

New comment by thereddaikon in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

thereddaikon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:18:56 +0000

Insider knowledge? Not really, unless you count asking actual chinese and taiwanese nationals what they think about it instead of assuming their world view is the same as my own.

New comment by thereddaikon in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

thereddaikon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:33:50 +0000

China doesn't want Taiwan for TSMC. They want Taiwan because they see them as a rebellious province. In their mind, the Chinese civil war never ended and that island is the last bastion of the Kuomintang. One way I've heard it described in a way that is easier for Americans to understand is; Imagine at the end of the American Civil War, a confederate army retreated to an island like Cuba or Hawaii, they took it over and have been calling themselves the real America ever since.

I'm not saying China is right in wanting to invade Taiwan. But that's closer to their real motivations than anything having to do with economics or technology. And its important to understand your potential adversaries motivations because that will inform their decisions and tactics.

New comment by thereddaikon in "RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports"

thereddaikon — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:13 +0000

Older games used precompiled shaders. These are inaccessible to the game devs and usually handled by the hardware makers, so the platform OEM for consoles and the video card OEM on PCs. Game devs have begged for the ability to write their own shaders for years and finally got it with DX11 and Vulkan. And that's when things went to hell. Instead of the shaders being written and compiled for the specific hardware, they now have to be compiled for your GPU at run time. It's a messy and imperfect process. EA, Ubisoft or anyone else is never going to have the same level of understanding of a GPU that Nvidia or AMD will have. Often the stuttering is due to the shaders having to be recompiled in game, something that never happened before.

New comment by thereddaikon in "DOGE Staffer Is Trying to Reroute FEMA Funds"

thereddaikon — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:55:12 +0000

It's just a front end for tweets from that account. Clicking on any of the posts takes you to the original.

New comment by thereddaikon in "DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds"

thereddaikon — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:43:55 +0000

The difference in the UK is, there is no recourse. It's actually why America exists as a state to begin with. They have parliamentary supremacy and no enshrined checks and balances against parliament. Nor do they have a formal constitution. And the populace is disarmed. A sufficiently united parliament can in theory do what it wants. The only practical risk they have is a coordinated coup by the military.

The US system, while far from perfect, does have enshrined checks and balances. A formal constitution that limits the powers of branches. And an armed populace with a history of protest and unrest when things don't go their way.

New comment by thereddaikon in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

thereddaikon — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:37:03 +0000

They wouldn't be moving, they would be expanding into the US market. Its a win-win. Hyundai get's access to a previously closed off market due to cabotage regulation. And we get modern ship building. The only loser here are established ship builders who would be forced to modernize and compete. But long term that's a good thing for them too.

New comment by thereddaikon in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

thereddaikon — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:47:28 +0000

Concorde was a large program backed by two governments and designed and built by nationalized aerospace companies. This is a strictly private affair, so no tax dollars behind it, just private funds. The end goal is also to be much more efficient than Concorde, which was a pretty brute forced effort which multiple large afterburning engines. They hope to make the production model capable of supercruise.

New comment by thereddaikon in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

thereddaikon — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:58:56 +0000

Nice that they are admitting to perjury on twitter like that.

New comment by thereddaikon in "Sora is here"

thereddaikon — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:26:31 +0000

Much more likely they just flipped the video in an editor after it was generated. Its common enough to see flipped video with backwards text on social media, most people wouldn't give it a second thought.

New comment by thereddaikon in "Sora is here"

thereddaikon — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:23:34 +0000

I've heard enough slop using the ElevenLabs voices that I can recognize them almost immediately now. But you're right. Higher end models with less familiar voices are harder to notice. One consistent failing is that they are always too perfect. No mistakes or signs of cuts to edit out where a human VA would have made a mistake. Its all very smooth and perfect. As if they nailed it in the first shot. Once the cheap/free models manage to fix that then we are in real trouble. Also, some really lazy slop creators don't bother to fix issues with pronunciation. But that's not the fault of the model really.

New comment by thereddaikon in "Sora is here"

thereddaikon — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:19:38 +0000

On one hand, I like to think that society is getting trained to recognize AI and distrust it. But at the same time my retired boomer parents are over for the holidays and I catch them watching youtube videos completely oblivious to the fact it's an AI voice and just reading an LLM generated script with B roll for eye candy. Often times it's just stolen auto generated captions from larger creators regurgitated by an AI voice. I'll point it out and they don't believe me that the voice is fake.

New comment by thereddaikon in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

thereddaikon — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:36:27 +0000

Google won the search market on merit but they've maintained it with Chrome. Google search has been garbage for a long time and in the last few years it's gotten bad enough that even laymen are noticing it.

New comment by thereddaikon in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"

thereddaikon — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:22:53 +0000

They are referring to air crew procedures, not ATC. WHen the crew of an aircraft encounter a failure that doesn't have a common simple response, they consult a procedure book. This is something professional crews are well acquainted with and used to. The problem in the article was with the air traffic control system. They did not have a proper failback procedure and it caused major disruptions.