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SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says::Seven former employees say SpaceX execs joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, Bloomberg reported.

frezik ,

The whole point of commercial rockets was that there was supposed to be competition. ULA's new Vulcan Centaur is barely competition for the Falcon 9; they have to sell themselves on being mature players who can hit deadlines better than SpaceX. Then there's a small list of up and coming players that haven't proven themselves yet. Oh, and Bezos is still fucking around with his rocket company.

Good news is that at least there's some kind of path that looks better than NASA's own SLS.

frezik ,

And Tucker cheered on those same invasions.

frezik ,

I once asked myself what good gender roles ever do. I have yet to find a good answer. Almost everything about it comes down to making sure certain people are classed ahead of other people.

frezik ,

The leftists are morons who will end up siding with fascists cause they think the breaking of the system means they will win and people will care… Stupid.

Accelerationism is what you're talking about, and its widely rejected on the left for exactly the reasons you bring up. It doesn't work. It only makes things worse for the working class. Even if the revolution does happen, there's no guarantee that what comes out the other side is actually better.

There's a lot of overlap with tankies and accelerationism. They're loud, but they aren't numerous, and also tend to get kicked out of all the other leftist groups.

frezik ,

Communism is a state of anarchy. If someone told you different, they were wrong.

I don't know that it's workable, but self-described communists have always seen statelessness as a goal. They differ mainly in if there should be intermediate steps or if we should jump straight into it.

Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)

Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...

frezik ,

I'd love it if there were a wide range of offerings for EVs that aren't crossovers/SUVs. Once you take them off the list, it's slim pickings. Doubly so if you want range over 200mi, and doubly so again if you refuse to buy a Tesla.

"You can try the Mustang Mach-E, that doesn't have much SUV in it."

frezik ,

Many, many years ago, long before AWS was ever a thing, I posted on Slashdot about how there are problems with the IPv6 rollout. Basically that it should have been aggressively done in the 90s as a simple increase in address length and not try to fix every goddamn thing wrong with IPv4. Not doing that meant being stuck in a decades long rut with adaptation.

Someone accused me of being a shill for the telecom industry who wanted to profit off the shortage of IPv4 address space. I mentioned this to someone who I consider the smartest networking guy I know, and he thought that was dumb as hell. IPv4 causes more headaches than it's worth for those telecom companies to try to astroturf Slashdot or anywhere else.

And yet, now we're here with Amazon actually making good on the premise, if not the actual astroturfing (yet).

frezik ,

I had a roommate once who need an IP for something, and because it was a device I had been working with recently, I just rattled off "192.168.0.7" or something.

He was in awe of the fact that I could remember it. However, it's not that difficult when you know the private prefix you use is always "192.168." and that gets burned into your brain. The next octet is often zero (maybe 1 if your home network gets crazy), and you really only need to remember the final octet for the device.

Point is, fe80::x will go the same way. You'll remember fe80, and the rest is however you handled your own network scheme.

(I can never remember the class B private address space, though. Only classes A and C. Never needed to bother with the class B space when you can subnet 10.x.x.x so much.)

frezik ,

Financial incentive does exist, but the problem is that it's a tragedy of the commons. Me upgrading only makes sense if everything else is also upgraded. Until then, it makes sense for me not to spend anything. However, everyone else is making exactly that same calculation.

ISPs have a lot of trouble managing IPv4. How much so depends on when you got your allocations. The first ISPs in the US got tons. The ones that grew out in other countries had to pick over the scraps. Even later US ISPs, particularly mobile carriers, got hit just as hard.

Those later arrivals have to implement Carrier Grade NAT, where all traffic goes through a small set of IPv4 addresses. Sometimes, it's multiple layers of NAT. It takes extra equipment and network design to support all this, which in turn affects speed, reliability, and cost.

frezik ,

Nothing the mechanical keyboard community can't solve.

https://ipv6buddy.com/

frezik ,

They need to stop that nonsense. NAT is not for security, and was not designed for security purposes. In fact, there are a few ways it subverts security, such as SNI in TLS making the connection less private than it could be.

If they want to block external connections, a border firewall can do the job just fine without NAT. It's arguably better, because NAT complicates existing firewall rules and their implementation in code. Complications are the enemy of security.

frezik ,

Mu. Why do you feel the need to anonymize IP addresses?

frezik ,

They still wouldn't. A single computer address is not an individual. They're only slightly better off compared to knowing the edge router IP like they do now.

If you really want to protect against that, then use a proxy or an onion router. NAT was never meant to do this, and it does it poorly.

frezik ,

So what? They still don't have much more information than the edge router IP. Again, if you want to protect yourself here, use a proxy, onion router, or VPN. NAT is not designed to tackle this, and does it poorly.

frezik ,

I have a silly little model I made for creating Vogoon poetry. One of the models is fed from Shakespeare. The system works by predicting the next letter rather than the next word (and whitespace is just another letter as far as it's concerned). Here's one from the Shakespeare generation:

KING RICHARD II:​

Exetery in thine eyes spoke of aid.​

Burkey, good my lord, good morrow now: my mother's said

This is silly nonsense, of course, and for its purpose, that's fine. That being said, as far as I can tell, "Exetery" is not an English word. Not even one of those made-up English words that Shakespeare created all the time. It's certainly not in the training dataset. However, it does sound like it might be something Shakespeare pulled out of his ass and expected his audience to understand through context, and that's interesting.

frezik ,

Nothing special about it, really. I only followed this TensorFlow tutorial:

https://www.tensorflow.org/text/tutorials/text_generation

The Shakespeare dataset is on there. I also have another mode that uses entries from the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest, and also some of the works of William Topaz McGonagall (who is basically the Tommy Wiseau of 19th century English poetry). The code is the same between them, however.

frezik ,

We should all remember this when it comes to other companies we like, such as Valve. The current leadership might be great and engineer-driven. The next set of leaders might not.

frezik ,

And touted her business experience during the campaign. Experience at making a bad merger and being widely regarded as one of the worst CEOs in tech. Engineering teams were celebrating when she left.

frezik ,

It's true, I once gave a woman some cheese, and we were fucking within ten minutes.

frezik ,

I find diminishing returns after 7 years. I did try a 20 year aged once. It's a nice thing to try once.

frezik ,

What's your definition of superpower?

Russia has not met any definition since the Soviet Union evolved. China is more debatable. It's not a military superpower--it can't project much power outside of its own region--but you can argue for economic superpower.

frezik ,

I think that's a reasonable take. Same with the EU.

I see people throw around the term "superpower" too much without thinking what the term means. Russia is most certainly not a superpower, and hasn't been for some time. It'll be lucky if it can avoid being a Chinese vassal state at this point.

frezik ,

Being able to project power outside its immediate region in both soft and hard ways.

Nukes exist for retaliation. They are a terrible first strike weapon. Having them also doesn't mean you can deploy them wherever. There are so much more important aspects to a military than those.

China has a major effect on the world economy, but it doesn't have a military to extend that influence. It's an economic superpower, but not a military one. Diplomatic options are improving, but far from the influence the US has.

Russia has a shit military and could previously dictate the fossil fuel economy in Europe, but not much else. It lost much of that economic influence while invading Ukraine (backroom deals continue, but it's not anywhere near what it was). The Soviets built the perfect counter to the US Navy by focusing on submarines, but those old subs are badly outdated. It's not a superpower at all.

The EU (taken as a whole) also has lots of economic and diplomatic influence. None of its constituent powers has much ability to project military power, though. UK and France both have aircraft carriers, but neither country can solve two problems at the same time with its military, and may even struggle with just one problem if they're on their own.

The US has both a military that can project worldwide, plus economic and diplomatic power to go along with it. Its collection of carriers can solve five problems at the same time and still have some left in reserve. A major multilateral world treaty without the United States would be considered incomplete. That's a superpower in a complete package.

frezik ,

You have to have the potential to do so, at least. Superpowers aren't necessarily good for humanity.

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

frezik ,

They aren't. When the answers are unsatisfying, as we know they will be, questions like this can be a precursor to convincing your coworkers to unionize.

frezik ,

We should not base our decisions on the fact that a few companies are generous enough to treat their employees well. Those are exceptions, and will always be exceptions. Capitalism doesn't reward you for doing it beyond some good PR.

Sometimes, those companies aren't even as generous as it first appears, anyway.

frezik ,

Don't even have to be laid off to understand this. "You've asked for a 8% raise on the basis that you were promoted to a higher position last quarter and have been doing more work for the same pay, but we just can't swing 8% right now. But it's OK, we're all friends here. How about 4% instead?"

frezik ,

Hell, syndicalists saw this problem over a century ago. They came up with a different solution, not finding how many boots needed tongue polishing.

How Quora Died (slate.com)

“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...

frezik ,

Only for being laughably awful. Quora was in this place where the answers were just good enough that you probably wouldn't be able to dispute any obvious flaws without being a subject matter expert already. Yahoo Answers was only a meme factory.

frezik ,

Ray tracing speed primary depends on the number of pixels, not the complexity of the scene.

frezik ,

So I'm not exactly sure how Blender implements this. There can be a few details that can make a huge difference. Just for starters, is Blender rendering 100% ray tracing here, or is it a hybrid model with a rasterizer. Rasterizers tend to scale with the number of objects, while ray tracing scales with the number of pixels. A hybrid will be, obviously, something in between.

Then there is how it calculates collisions. There is a way to very quickly detect collisions of AABB boxes (basically rectangles that surround your more complicated object), but it takes a little effort to implement this and get the data structures right. You can actually do Good Enough sometimes by matching every ray to every AABB, and then you do more complex collision checking against what's left, but there's a certain scale where that breaks down.

Blender is generally very well done from what little I know of it, but I'm not sure how it handles all these tradeoffs.

frezik ,

I don't see it where it's part of a broader stock market trend. Sp500 is up 1.25% today, 1.52% for the past 5 days, and 4.74% for the last month. Those are spectacular numbers (for people with stock market portfolios).

AI crashing in its own little corner is fine by me.

frezik ,

Aerodynamics dictates shape. It's not just EVs. Stuff in that size range tends to have that bean shape, like the Mazda2, Smart4two, or Fiat 500.

frezik ,

They don't want some of the money. They want all of the money.

frezik ,

I wouldn't necessarily assume they're being truthful.

frezik ,

Early Access is a problem when big publishers try to do it. It makes sense that indies do it so they have cash flow at all. Big outlets have funding on hand, but are trying to leverage it, anyway.

frezik ,

My rule is that it has to be an enjoyable experience in the game's current state. Factorio was fantastic years before it left early access. I bought Space Engineers practically as soon as it hit, before there was even proper weapons in the game, and I had a blast building space ships.

I'm holding off on Palworld. I'm sure what's there is enjoyable for many people, but I'd like to see the endgame fleshed out a bit first.

frezik ,

And we wouldn't need any of that if we implemented IPv6.

frezik ,

HTTPS sends the domain in plaintext with SNI. Has to work that way due to IPv4 address exhaustion.

frezik ,

Most ISPs offer IPv6 right now, and they tend to hand out at least a /64. Often as much as a /54.

RIPE strongly discourages ISPs from handing out prefixes longer than /56: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690/

I don't see carrier grade NAT ever being used for IPv6. The extra equipment for that makes the network more expensive, less reliable, and introduces extra latency.

One thing ISPs are doing is still handing out dynamically assigned prefixes rather than static. Self hosting is still going to be a pain.

frezik ,

And they're wrong. It is slavery.

frezik ,

White prisoners make up ~50% of the populations. Are you really going to argue that the Union’s victory introduced white slavery to the US?

Yes, that's exactly what happened. The fact that white people make up 50% of the prison population while being 60% of the general population means that minorities are still getting hit harder than white people, but white people did get swept up in this.

frezik ,

China's CO2 output is expected to fall in the coming year, and for structural reasons, stay that way for years to come.

https://energyandcleanair.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/

frezik ,

Tell you what. I'll deny there is any genocide in Gaza on the exact same basis that you're denying it for the Uyghurs. Does that work for you? If it really has to be "extraordinary", then it has to be applied equally.

Or is this not something like, say, UFOs or homeopathy where we actually need extraordinary evidence?

frezik ,

I know. I specifically want to target this phrase "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", because I've noticed it being increasingly abused to ignore evidence.

frezik ,

Nah, all I see are pictures from Russian outlets.

See how easy that was to pretend there is no evidence?

frezik ,

should i even try to argue with this in good faith?

No, you should go back to the cesspool of thoughtless praxis that is .ml.

Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95 (gadgettendency.com)

Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

frezik ,

In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.

Not much point to it anymore, though.

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