bobsomers

Joined 5 years ago

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818
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156
Member since
Dec 27
Maker of things.
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Comment · 18 hours ago
What a dogshit take. The public comment process is anti-democratic? So the public having less input in the process and letting local officials do whatever they want is somehow more democratic?
Comment · 16 days ago
Stick to working on programming languages that nobody uses, Walter. The pseudo-intellectualism on display here is embarrassing.
Comment · 16 days ago
I am, yes. Are you? Or is this just a cute response because you thought I wasn't?
Comment · 16 days ago
Why is it sad? Over 700,000 avoidable deaths from Elon's dismantling of US AID alone, two thirds of them children. Estimated to be 14 million avoidable deaths by 2030.

I think the qualification is unbelievably tame considering what Elon deserves.

Comment · 16 days ago
Quite interesting how things can be seen so differently, because this was one of the most pointless/dumbest demos I have ever seen in my life. There was no doubt someone could build something like this, the question is always "why"? What problem does this solve?

Sorry, but in world where the vast majority of people can't afford groceries, gas, housing, or healthcare... I just can't look at these silly things the billionaires are spending their money on and get even remotely excited about it. It's just so absolutely tone deaf in the moment we're in right now.

Comment · 20 days ago
Unions make the world worse? What nonsense is this?

Labor unions gave us the 8 hour workday, overtime pay, child labor bans, workplace safety standards, and union shops generally earn 10-15% more than their non-union counterparts.

Comment · 3 months ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-use...

This is only the most recent example. Plenty of headlines like this one if you'd even bother to look.

Comment · 3 months ago
Why is it so hard to generate with other models, but trivial with Grok?
Comment · 3 months ago
And for generating an absolutely gargantuan amount of CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images, but yeah, exfiltrating data too.
Comment · 4 months ago
5% is awfully optimistic! More like the 0.01%.
Comment · 4 months ago
> owned by all participants

How does this work in practice? In my experience, any metrics owned by a group inevitably languish and are largely ignored.

Anything you want to improve needs a DRI.

Comment · 4 months ago
Blind hatred? Given that, among a multitude of other things, he willingly threw out some sieg heils I think the hatred was easily earned.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
If it's actually your 401k, sure you can. Just today I rebalanced my retirement funds away from large cap stocks to avoid this steaming turd that Elon is dumping on the public.

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