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New comment by vizzier in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:28:34 +0000

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

Isn't really political. By my reading the clause also invalidates the entire amendement soon as the US aquired a standing army, but I'm not from the US so, who knows.

New comment by vizzier in "Nowhere is safe"

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:50:59 +0000

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Command_System

> And of course to defeat such underground networks you need vast armies of small intelligent drones that can go in there and explore every tunnel where no human wants to risk setting foot in.

In the book they're defeated by biological warfare.

New comment by vizzier in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

vizzier — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:34:54 +0000

People think the trolley problem is easy.

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

vizzier — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:49:46 +0000

> I've done very well in my career but a private secretary is quite out of reach.

This says more about how companies have chosen to allocate pay in the current era than anything about technology though, no?

New comment by vizzier in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

vizzier — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:06:22 +0000

twitters own lawyers argue against this reading in 2023, see page 11 onwards:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.38...

New comment by vizzier in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

vizzier — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:56:56 +0000

Combining those god awful beliefs with a set of advisors with room temperature IQs (and I'm in canada where we use metric temps) results in a true inability to forsee any of these issues in advance. Real shame, I can only hope it drives your populace to finally do something about it, but I won't hold my breath.

New comment by vizzier in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

vizzier — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:52:13 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APY-spLNvHI puddle might do it tho

New comment by vizzier in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

vizzier — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:27:41 +0000

Youtube is also a problem of unverified non-journalistic information. Presents a very double edged sword.

New comment by vizzier in "Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?"

vizzier — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:58:30 +0000

No it wouldn't, the globe isn't a uniform flat land where we're all equally distributed.

New comment by vizzier in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

vizzier — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:37:50 +0000

The issue often manifests in victim blaming. They assume that because something bad has happened to someone then the someone must be guilty of some transgression. Its often done on an unconscious level and we have to check ourselves that we're not doing it.

New comment by vizzier in "YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable"

vizzier — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:53:00 +0000

Alas, tubers feel the need to add sponsorships these days through either greed or reduced google revenue. Premiums "skip frequently skipped section" is about as easy as it can be to skip over them without blocking them entirely, short of using sponsorblock.

I'm not sure where the legality lies with them being able to skip it automatically if you're a premium user, I'd imagine their uploaders wouldn't be happy though.

New comment by vizzier in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

vizzier — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:08:36 +0000

https://www.memtest86.com/

Errors may be caused by bad seating/contact in the slots or failing memory controllers (generally on the CPU nowadays) but if you have bad sticks they're generally done for.

New comment by vizzier in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

vizzier — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:06:34 +0000

For my part I'm not sure I recall a crash having daily driven firefox in quite some time. I'd suspect that the large number of bit errors might be driven by a small number of poor hardware clients.

New comment by vizzier in "AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data"

vizzier — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:04:57 +0000

I've thought of them for a while as just a really complicated indexing strategy.

New comment by vizzier in "The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015)"

vizzier — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:55:53 +0000

I feel like it would be remiss not to mention there are some people who go ahead and broadcast this instinct: https://www.instagram.com/engineerkala/?hl=en

New comment by vizzier in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

vizzier — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:44:53 +0000

> Also, sometimes it seems like I get rate limited on Tailscale.

As I understand it if everything is working properly you should end up with a peer to peer wireguard connection after initial connection using tailscales infrastructure. ie, there should be nothing to rate limit. There are exceptions depending on your network environment where you need one of the relays noted in this post.

As for opensource alternatives:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can replace tailscales initial coordination servers

and https://netbird.io/ seemed to be a rapidly developing full stack alternative.

New comment by vizzier in "Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)"

vizzier — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:48:37 +0000

Actually, in this world of technology, we 100% can.

New comment by vizzier in "Apple, fix the iOS keyboard before the timer ends or I'm switching to Android"

vizzier — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:53:38 +0000

> I caved to the blue bubble pressure

Are we still green even with RCS?

New comment by vizzier in "The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA"

vizzier — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:22:15 +0000

Look again at the insurmountable hill that is the US's potential transition to a fully public healthcare system, and consider that celebrating having done that elsewhere might be valid.

New comment by vizzier in "Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain"

vizzier — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:27:51 +0000

Natural selection doesn't require 100% disqualifying, it just needs a slight preference and a shit load of time.