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sobchak

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  • The AI bubble is NOT going to burst

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  • I agree that company fundamentals don't matter, and that the goal right now seems to be techno-feudalism.

    Retail is ~40% of the stock market, and retirement is ~20%. I think it will pop whenever the next recession starts. If enough people lose their jobs, and start selling their stocks and dipping into their retirement to pay bills, these stocks will tank. It's my theory that these stocks are held up by all the people passively investing in index funds following the SP500 and NASDAQ. During any small sell-off by active investors, a lot of people's retirement plans will eventually automatically just buy and slowly bring it back up.

    A scare, widely reported by media, could also cause people to take enough notice where a lot of people manually adjust their plans. But, yeah, the media is pretty captured now, and will avoid reporting on stuff that could cause scares.

  • Pentagon prepares for 'sustained' war against Iran as Trump calls for 'regime change'

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  • I doubt the US would try to occupy or "nation build." I assume they'd just bomb a bunch of people and do some small operations with special forces. The goal is to probably set their nuclear program back significantly, and try to do the same thing they did in Venezuela (cut the head off of government, replace with someone they can control, and literally steal their oil for the oligarchs).

  • Advice for setting up baremetal k8s lab

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  • I think I'd install proxmox on all machines because there is a proxmox provider for Terraform. Then, manually create the VMs, and to learn the barebones, use kubeadm to set everything up, and kubectl to manage it. Once comfortable and knowledgeable with that, start messing around with Terraform and Ansible.

  • Cheaper options than Graphene?

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  • I paid ~$180 for my used mint-condition Pixel 6 on Swappa. You have to look up which exact model numbers are bootloader unlockable, then filter on those.

  • What am I missing with Matrix?

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  • Yeah, it is probably worse in terms of UX. I've been intentionally using "worse" software, developed mostly by volunteers, that's free (gratis and libre), and doesn't spy on its users for a long time now though. For instance, FreeCAD and GIMP is pretty bad on the UX side, and FreeCAD is even pretty buggy; but I don't feel like I'm being exploited by using them. Cinny does look nice.

  • I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed

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  • Just don't use AI coding tools then? Studies show they make people less productive anyways.

  • What am I missing with Matrix?

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  • Matrix is adequate, IMO. Some people have a really low tolerance for software that isn't very polished. I, personally, don't care much how polished an app is, but have known a person that cared so much they left a group over how much they disliked the UX of Element/Matrix. I'm fine with TUIs, old GTK UIs, Java Swing UIs, as long as it works, lol.

  • Macron urges Europe to start acting like world power

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  • They are a threat to Europe's manufacturing/industrial sectors. In the US, China carries out propaganda/destabilization campaigns; not sure if they do much of that in Europe... Looks like China is involved with AfD (several AfD members have been arrested for espionage), so they are probably trying to destabilize Europe too.

  • What are the best antennas for analog and digital for the HDZero Box Pros?

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  • Mixing it up won't fry hardware, you'd just get worse signal. IIRC, if you have circular-polarized antennas on the goggles but a linear antenna in the air, you'd lose about 1/3 of your range. If you mix up LHCP and RHCP, you'd lose something like 95% of your range. I'm not too familiar with radio physics, so I don't really know what polarization actually means, just the consequences.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on the internet?

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  • I always viewed the Internet as a kind of alternate reality growing up. But, then that started to change once "social networks" started taking off and all the normies (as some people refer to it now) started using it. Then it kind of started becoming almost "realer" than IRL, with algos optimized to manipulate people, and sophisticated propaganda campaigns. About 5 years ago, I noticed politicians started using language taken from the "gamergate" discourse. Now, the US admin is transparently trying to control discourse on the largest platforms, and official government institutions are poorly shit-posting.

    So, yeah, it's kinda disheartening how one of the greatest communication tools has turned into a tool for control. Though, in hindsight, I guess I should've seen this coming, even from fiction created a century ago. I think I remember some person saying that the Nazi regime wouldn't have been possible without the invention of the radio.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • I joined a Matrix group, and the UX frustrated one person so much, they just quit. Kinda surprised me some people care about UX that much. I guess I'm used to using software developed by hobbyists, lol.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • Signal is ok. SimpleX theoretically has better privacy guarantees (metadata privacy, more decentralized). Matrix is ok for communities; I think it exposes a lot of metadata though (who you are talking to, not what you're talking about).

  • But bro please

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  • Perhaps. I read it as the "setup" being the emphasized part (i.e. the context set by the first part of the sentence), with the states being a representative of the "people" under the political theory at the time.. This was written by the elite more or less fine with slavery and indentured servitude, and only thought that white male landowners really counted. Either way, I think regular citizens should be able own firearms.

  • But bro please

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  • Maybe I'm just old, but suppressors seem pointless to me. If I understand correctly, you need to use subsonic ammo to get the full effect, which pretty much negates the extra "stopping power" of rifles (or higher velocity handguns). Simple foam ear plugs, like many people wear to work, can be as good or better in terms of db reduction if going to a range or popping some off in "the back nine" if you're fortunate. If you need to run to your gun in an emergency to save you're own life, I don't think you'd take the time to grab your hearing protection. Hearing impaired is better than dead. And you're definitely not going to EDC active hearing protection. Perhaps I'm not understanding the benefits though. I see the benefits if it's like your job or something (work at a range, are a rancher that shoots vermin/predators at night). I suppose if you're training in some kind of militia to work in a squad, active hearing protection with integrated radio would be nice, but virtually nobody is doing that.

  • But bro please

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  • The interpretation of the 2nd amendment that the courts take never made sense to me. It clearly says states can have well-regulated militias, not that citizens must have rifles with 50rd drum magazines.

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  • I assumed LaTex is a descendant of TeX. I'm not really well informed about the history of this kind of stuff, which is why I found it interesting.

    Your POV is also interesting, as I always kind of held "hacker culture," in pretty high regard. But, now that I think about it, I see the appeal of rigorous, well studied things, built very deliberately, on strong foundations. I guess that's why I instinctively like things like Haskell, the kind of ML with provable bounds, information theory, etc. I've never messed around with Lisp-like languages, but I remember my ML-focused advisor speaking of them from when symbolic-AI and self-modifying code was all the rage.

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  • What are the best antennas for analog and digital for the HDZero Box Pros?

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  • If I understand correctly the pepperbox is very large; not really practical for mounting to goggles. Also, VAS is ran by a bigot. If you always want be cognizant of where you're facing, and always want to face the direction of your drone a patch would be ok, and would give you a bit more range. Otherwise, if you want to just fly all around yourself, go for an omni.

    Also keep in mind to match your polarization for your air unit. Looks like the Box Pros only have linear polarized antennas? You'd probably get a bit more range, penetration, reflection rejection if you changed the antenna in your air unit and goggles to RHCP or LHCP.

    Analog sucks for quality, interference, etc; but it has a kind of "graceful" degradation where if you have a lot of static and interference you can still generally navigate around OK if you're careful. 5.8ghz just sucks in general for penetration and range (theoretically better for quality if there wasn't so much interference).

  • Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes?

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  • It's been a while since I messed with home automation, but ESPHome was amazing to program ESP microcontrollers (i.e. you most likely wouldn't have to write any code). You can use ESPHome devices with both Home Assistant and Openhab (using MQTT, IIRC). The last I checked, it was easier to program your own functionality in OpenHAB than Home Assistant.