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Isn’t Tesla very anti-union and none of its US workers are allowed to be in one?

Would hate to hear about people having inexpert ones!

I got some merch from the gamedev site because I was a top 100 or 1000 user or whatever. I remember only the surprise and mistrust when someone reached out for my real life address and deciding to dare answer and actually getting quite a big box of small stuff! But I remember at the time my points were exactly 1337.

I have 76K points and quite a bit more on a few sister sites like the gamedev one. Haven’t used it in a decade though.

For me, the crazy everything-is-a-dupe drove me away. Same as so many others mentioning here.

But a lot of other things were also wrong and they are worth listing too:

I stopped looking at the answers as they aged. So many of the top or accepted answers were quickly out of date (but you couldn’t ask again because or the dupe mods).

A lot of the accepted or top answers had always been wrong even when written. If you knew more about something you could spot this but it was pointless to engage and try and change it. Popularity is not about being correct.

There was no need for all the other sites. It would have been better with one inclusive site. So often a good question would be asked and mods would comment it should be asked on some niche site with no traction and so died the question.

The gamification point system favoured the early people like me. I probably got most of my points long after I had actually moved on because my top answers were still racking up votes. There was no hope for a more recent joiner (even joining 10 years ago) to ever catch up.

And the hardest most interesting questions got no answers. If you were truly stumped on a difficult algorithm then it really wasn’t the place to ask.

That’s some of what I remember being wrong with SO long before LLMs were mainstream.

I shudder to think that LLMs learn from SO answers. It would explain so much of the worst vibe coding though :)

The hisutton.com website is full of the recent Chinese naval developments, including huge floating landing piers and various novel submarines and ships. The pace and scale of investment is such that it seems they are building the capacity to genuinely do an opposed invasion

It is also a regular criticism of data centers that they don’t bring jobs to the area. There are some contractors who come in from externally to build the center and that drives up local rents and shopping bills (influx of high earners mean prices go up to extract that money) temporarily which is bad for residents and then when it’s built they move on?

Vance is very isolationist and anti-Europe. He has said his proudest achievement is stopping aid to Ukraine. He says he wants peace but the implication is through the surrender of Ukraine. He is seen as worse than Trump.

QI s05e03 “Eating” talked about how Hudson Bay trappers were so fond of eating rabbit that they died! Rabbit is so delicious that they didn’t eat a balanced diet and suffered - fatally - from lack of vitamins etc!!

I read the GPs comment as two parts - they thought about how to learn about the competitor previously, then bolted the LLM idea on the end? At least it reads that way to me.

So perhaps the first part is how the GP leans the limitations of the competitor, by seeing what they overdo in the second system? The GP never said they’d get - nor that they wanted - a functioning program?

However, quite how the LLMs clairvoyantly know the trauma of the competitors architecture is beyond me :)