frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If there were a practical fusion reactor shown today, it'd be 10 years before it could be started to be deployed at commercial scale.

More to the point, fascism isn't going away just because we have better electricity sources. Cheap power is a problem in capitalism.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

Dumb, but he was like, there.

Just look at that press conference with Musk. Trump looks defeated and tired. Musk's crotchspawn mumbles something to Trump that was probably insulting, and he's just, like, whatever. Musk was completely in charge. Hitler didn't do big appearances where he let some big business leader do all the talking while looking like he wants to take a nap.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because the central guy can't control those corporate entities directly. He primarily wields political power, not financial power. There's a tension between the two.

Musk (financial power) is currently winning out over Steve Bannon (political power). Musk doing that Nazi salute brought a lot of MAGA people underneath him who were otherwise getting worried that Musk was the wrong kind of authoritarian.

Financial power might win in the end, and the reason is that Trump is a doddering old man. This is unique; it's not quite following the same script as Nazi Germany, where Hitler was relatively young and still had the same mental faculties he always did (even if those faculties were twisted).

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

There's one more step that brings it back to the same place. The thinking behind standing armies is that they would be used for tyranny. The reason for loosely connected militias is that there isn't a singular guy who is Commander-in-Chief of all of them. There was even attempts at a militia Navy, which is a hilarious idea to me ("Got my musket and my rowboat. Off to defend the motherland!" Rows up to 28-gun British heavy frigate)

It's not a practical system of defense in the modern age. It barely was back then.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 22 points 4 months ago

Maybe we can put it on the open 2.4GHz spectrum and encrypt it with RC4.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 4 months ago

"Prompt Engineer" makes a little vomit appear in the back of my mouth.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

There's no consequences to filling out a false claim. That's been a problem with the DMCA that existed even before YouTube.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

I believe there was a documentary about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

I can't wait to buy one with forced ToS changes every 6 months.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

A "real job", meaning one where the surplus value of your labor goes mostly to somebody else.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago

Hey, ICE, I'm posting negative things about you online. Glad we cleared that up.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

JSON libraries are stupidly well optimized. There are binary encoding schemes that are faster and more compact, but its hard to beat JSON for text-based.

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