Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
I wouldn't say that it "blows my mind" or anything, but simply that it seems to work as expected (which is more than what I can say for Google). There's also a "Fediverse" button on Kagi.com, so it can search lemmy.world (and more??).
No one is talking about automated theorem provers (see 4 coloring theorem) or symbolic solvers (see Mathematica). These tools already revolutionized math decades ago.
The only thing that came out in the past year or two are LLMs. Which is clearly overhyped bullshit.
Kagi is a paid search engine. Yeah, sucks that we have to pay for good or decent search results, but... as the economic models of the internet change, we need to change with them. I've personally lost faith in freemium ad-supported websites in general.
Newspapers were always partially advertisement driven.
But I think everyone would agree with me that Newspapers were better when a substantial base of their $$$ came from their subscriber base.
Nothing is absolute in the world of money. There's always additional sources of money elsewhere. From this perspective, I think we can argue that purely advertisement-driven media is what is most dangerous. Search is an important part of modern digital media, so thinking of the economic realities of funding, and how those economic incentives shape the website and future business is important.
Maybe it fails, but Kagi is trying something new. And that's good enough as an experiment for me. I dunno, maybe I'll revisit the idea in 5 years or so, that's really not much money in the great scheme of things.
At very least, Kagi now has a "Fediverse search", and now that "search-lemmy" seems to have died, I need something like Kagi to more easily search Lemmy.world and other Fediverse locations. (Google ain't so good at this yet).
Charged Lemonade tasted like crap anyway. Good riddance.
Panera's regular Lemonade and regular sweetened Green Tea tastes great. So I'm still overall happy with their drink options. But whoever the chef was who created this "Charged Lemonade" stuff needs to be fired.
Elon Musk sued the founders of Tesla for the right to be called a "Founder" of Tesla. Then he fired the founders and pretends that he's the one who innovated everything.
Elon Musk goes on for the next 10+ years to become the richest man in the world with over $100 Billion net worth. As it turns out, faking it works. Well... until you need to design a new car and the best Elon can do is make a Cybertruck.
Elon is a jackass who runs over all normal senses of decency while repeatedly getting away with it. And he will continue to do so as long as his legion of asshole internet followers continue to worship him on a wide scale, giving him large benefits in our cultural zeitgeist.
I am happy that people are finally understanding how much of an asshole Elon is today. But he's been pulling this shit since the dawn of Tesla, as the Tesla takeover court cases proved in the 00s.
TL;DR: Prius and Prius Prime have a flaw where the rear doors may get water-leak (possibly from a car wash?) and randomly open even while driving. Toyota has issued a large scale recall as well as a stop-selling order to all dealerships....
Democrats, Johnson told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “move in a herd” and “act like a union” following their leader because there’s no diversity of opinion causing them to stray. Their groupthink could even be described as the behavior of “socialists,” he asserted. Republicans, however, can’t be...
Bullshit. Republican's main problem is the opposite. They move together without thinking about it.
Even when Republicans know what they're doing is wrong, they prioritize doing the wrong thing, but together. EDIT: Case in point: the reason why "RINO" is such an effective insult is because Republicans by-and-large understand this about themselves and the alliance they've formed.
Democrat's problem is their lack of compromise on their philosophies and ideologies in my experience. A tiny bit more "practicality" and "pragmatism" (ie: embracing propaganda, embracing contradictions, etc. etc.) would make Democrats stronger.
Meanwhile, Republicans need to stop being so pragmatic. You don't need to support Trump ya know? There were other options. I know Republicans do what is easiest in the short term, but they're thinking way too short term here. Its going to eat away at the long-term prospects for their party.
Democrats will shit on each other and hang each other out to dry and abandon someone over the smallest inconvenience in their ideology.
Republicans will protect even grossly incompetent assholes who they disagree with in the name of party unity. (Exception: the "RINO" argument. If the overall Republican party believes someone is a RINO, they will shit on them and run them out of the party. This is the only sin that is worthy of expulsion inside of the Republican party).
My point is that Republicans are not driven by ideology as much as pragmatism. They are rather open about this too.
Compromise, lack of compromise. That doesn't matter. The focus of the Republican party is party unity right now, no joke. They know that they're in a tough spot politically and only sticking together is the only way they can possibly move forward.
You have to understand the mindset of Republicans. And honestly, its not a bad thing in all cases, its just overly strong right now in today's Republican party.
Democrats need to learn from Republicans and become more pragmatic. Republicans need to learn from Democrats and take a few more Losses in the name of ideology (ie: Republicans should actually form a cohesive ideology and agree upon it, no matter how hard it is to do so).
Note that Republicans can't even pass ideological "What the Party Believes in" like statements inside of the Republican National Committee right now. In part because they recognize its not important (which is... true... this current batch of Republicans is not about ideology). Meanwhile the Democrats get all tangled up in ideological arguments that the Republicans aren't even playing with. So whatever, its seen as a win for the current batch of Republicans, but its not good for them in the long term IMO.
Lemmy, the social network, started off as a leftist hangout spot.
From the perspective of "Open Source developers who are anti-Reddit pro-Fediverse", it makes a lot of sense for Leftist/Communist and anti-corporation leaning people to hang out.
After all, the more extreme the viewpoint, the more driven to action (ie: write tens-of-thousands of lines of code and release for free) people get. In some regards, its the nature of Open Source + volunteer effort to attract a more extreme ideology. IE: Free Software is driven by ideology, not by money. So you get ideological people, especially when the software is small and niche.
The July 2023 Reddit Blackout was a big challenge for Lemmy's old community and the new community, as the new community basically "invaded" a large scale leftist hangout spot. But hopefully we all learn to work together and the nature of our neighbors moving forward.
I think anyone here (likely everyone?) is at least on the anti-corporate anti-Reddit side of the discussion. Which is enough of an alliance to keep us together, for now.
It does mean that we'll have to keep up with the far-left old-timers on this network who wish to push their viewpoints. But they are the legacy and the start of Lemmy in some respects, even as the hypergrowth (starting in July 2023) has moderated the community pretty severely.
I mean, I don't have much problem with people disagreeing with me. But I'm pretty openly pro-capitalist, though I'm not a dumbass libertarian.
I recognize the need for the "capitalist edge cases" (externalities, monopolies, etc. etc.) that must be regulated and fixed for the system to work. I also recognize that we've failed to regulate externalities (ex: CO2 emissions), and failed to regulate monopolies / anticompetitive behavior (see Google).
So I'm a "capitalism works, but only if we work to make it work" kind of person. I think at the moment, Reddit and many other social networks are falling into the well known and well studied failures of raw capitalism, but somehow today's society has forgotten all the 1910s era solutions that we did (ex: Jungle, etc. etc.) where we regulated the hell out of the shitty behavior and fixed the most blatant problems, for the better of America.
We just gotta do the same thing today.
Overall, I accept that the commies / tankies were here first, and the history of Lemmy makes it clear why that happened.
Edited the "I" for less confusion. The blogpost's title is "I made a...", but "I" (Dragontamer) didn't do this. I just found this blogpost and though it was relevant for this sublemmy.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Michael Cera as the titular character.
Yes, Michael Cera is great at portraying awkwardness. But... I don't think Michael Cera's awkwardness was the right kind of awkwardness that Scott Pilgrim had. But maybe that's just me.
Ground-to-Air anti-missile missile. Always nice to see more missile defense.
and AIM-9M missiles for air defense;
Wait wut? Wikipedia says this is the famous "Sidewinder" missile, an air-to-air missile. This suggests that Ukraine is getting ready for air-to-air engagements.
Wikipedia says these are short range Air-to-Air missiles, AIM-9 specifically being the well known "Sidewinder" missile. This suggests that Ukraine is getting ready for air-to-air engagements of some kind.
including .50 caliber rounds to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
Some kind of anti-drone system I'm not aware of. Good to see them trying to work on anti-drone.
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
Its fair to say that last week, TSLA was oversold and is now bouncing back from that. But the -55% profits and -$2.3ish Billion FCF are bad numbers.
TSLA is down from $180, where it was just a few weeks ago. $140 prices this past week apparently was too low, but there's no chance in hell that TSLA goes back up to pre-Q1 announcement numbers. Q1 2024 was awful. Declining sales around the world in all major areas: China, Europe, AND USA. They're weak everywhere.
Sure, the news is finally talking about the layoffs, but people were locked out of their badges and complaining last week about this. So now its official today, but it was public knowledge last week when that price declined dramatically.
So the employees were nominally on the books until today. Big woop. They stopped working a week ago and complained about it online. You can't hide a mass of 10,000+ sad and angry employees talking shit about Tesla. The stock moved on that before the official layoff announcement today.
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I've preferred Pixel phones for the last few years but I've heard that Pixel 6/7 had 5G connection problems (Pixel 8 apparently has a better modem, but I think I'd rather stick to a Qualcomm design for now)....
Any obvious poison-pills could be amended out though once debate starts. And I think that Democrats are unified enough that the small group of Hawkish moderate Republicans would support the amendments to fix the poison pills.
I dunno, I'm somewhat optimistic here. I think Johnson actually screwed himself over. This kind of "split" will prove to the American People that Republicans are against Ukrainian aid.
Johnson is from the far-right, who were collectively against "Omnibus" bills and whatnot. Johnson might actually be working with his morals / ethics here, and is biasing him towards this obvious error in politics. I think we should just accept the gift, if possible. I recognize that Johnson controls a lot of debate here, but if Johnson can promise behind close doors that all four of these bills will get "proper" treatment (ex: amendment process, debate, etc. etc.), its hard for him to screw this over.
Johnson's main ability is killing the debate before it gets started. If he lets regular order debate the bill, it basically leaves his hands and can be changed for the better.
Or maybe I'm overly optimistic? But I'd rather be optimistic and accept a potential win, than pessimistic and reject this possible win for Ukraine.
Hint: It was the Ukrainians. The ability for Ukrainians to survive is epic. Still, we need to support them to minimize their pain, we don't want them to suffer WW2-like losses again or be forced to bear such burdens for Russia in the future.
Iran hurting almost nobody is in everyone's best interests.
We don't need Israel vs Iran lobbing missiles at each other or marching to attack each other. Shooting down every single Iranian rocket was the fastest and simplest way to peace.
There are numerous topics over on Reddit talking about "laid off this morning". There was no warning, they just got fired over the weekend.
What looks bad is the absolute urgency and callousness of this event. In fact, there are various laws at the state level (ex: California's WARN laws: https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_warn), that require 60-days notice before a mass firing. So this "weekend layoff" is straight up illegal in some areas of the country.
The "fine" is backpay for all the employees for months.
Its cheaper to not pay lawyers and just do the right thing, rather than fight it and backpay all of the laid off workers anyway. WARN laws are serious, and have serious precedent. You ain't gonna win vs them in court.
I don’t think that law means what you think it means. They can just give you 60 days severance, they are not required to have you keep working.
These aren't programmers where severance is better (you don't want a toxic programmer messing up your codebase). These are factory workers who would have been productive if they kept working.
IE: This is a stealth factory idle. Likely because of how much the sales have dropped for Tesla. This is IMO very bad news for what Tesla expects in the near future for their sales / revenues / profits.
We can almost thank Iran for shooting at Israel here, as well as the Israeli aid being tied to Ukrainian aid. This has now spurred deep interest in passing the aid bill ASAP.
Its about damn time we got this passed. And remember, vote the fucking assholes out of office. Every Republican traitor who held up this bill for the last 5 months literally has Ukrainian blood on their hands.
Iran was USA's ally in the 1950s actually. The Iranian revolution of 1979 is what turned them against us.
There's a lot of complexity here, but its very 1950s-style US foreign policy where we refuse elections for a local population, they rebel and go off in a worse direction. There's a lot of hypocrisy in 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s America.
Iran is a real regional power. I don't think its clear that Israel can win vs Iran.
Biden/USA has already stated it won't help Israel counter-attack Iran. If Israel wants to start a war over this, then its on them. We've washed our hands clean of it.
As it stands, the Iranians think they hurt Israel with their missiles. While USA / Israel have intimidated the Iranian Revolutionary Guards by shooting down every single one of their missiles, proving that our defense is superior to their offense. Iran didn't want a war (and definitely doesn't want a war anymore), so letting things stay as they are is perfect.
Well... more perfect than Israel retaliating or... us letting the missiles through.
Its hard to complain about this current set of events. But we need to hope that Israel actually moves for peace now on that front. Israel can't just be pissing off everyone in the region.
If progressives are so insignificant that the party can ignore them, you don’t get to blame them for Clinton’s loss.
Yes I can. A significant minority of Bernie Bros are Sanders–Trump voters in both 2016 and 2020. LITERALLY participating and specifically supporting Trump.
I'm Republican yo. You would have lost my vote if you put Sanders on the ticket.
To put a finer point on it, a greater percentage of Clinton supporters voted for McCain in 2008. They even formed a PAC to try to elect McCain.
And that's closer to my demographic. A lot of what McCain said (ex: the Ukrainian situation) has come true in the past decade, and has proven Obama to have been a naive fool.
You have my support, for now, as long as Republicans are dumbasses with Trump and as long as you keep a moderate (like Biden or Clinton) as your #1 ticket. But my support for Democrats may be somewhat temporary but its better than nothing.
What search engine do you use?
Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI ( www.nature.com )
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Tesla launches limited-time 0.99% APR loan rate on U.S. Model Y orders ( www.teslarati.com )
Yet another price cut from Tesla this past weekend....
Tesla Tells Cybertruck Owner Coolant Leaks Aren't Covered By Warranty After Only 35 Miles ( jalopnik.com )
GM is reportedly poaching workers who have been sacked by Tesla ( www.independent.co.uk )
Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide ( www.nbcnews.com )
Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....
Tesla's China-made EV sales fall 18% y/y in April ( www.reuters.com )
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When or where does "Fake it 'till you make it." apply?
Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era ( lemmy.world )
I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.
Tesla Consumed by Chaos as Key Senior Executives Leave and Entire Teams Are Wiped Out ( www.autoevolution.com )
A lot of senior-level layoffs....
2023 / 2024 Prius and Prius Prime recall notice ( static.nhtsa.gov )
TL;DR: Prius and Prius Prime have a flaw where the rear doors may get water-leak (possibly from a car wash?) and randomly open even while driving. Toyota has issued a large scale recall as well as a stop-selling order to all dealerships....
GOP House hard-liners won’t compromise. They’re losing key fights because of it. ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Democrats, Johnson told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “move in a herd” and “act like a union” following their leader because there’s no diversity of opinion causing them to stray. Their groupthink could even be described as the behavior of “socialists,” he asserted. Republicans, however, can’t be...
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
Blogpost: [Codedbearder] made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS ( codedbearder.com )
Edited the "I" for less confusion. The blogpost's title is "I made a...", but "I" (Dragontamer) didn't do this. I just found this blogpost and though it was relevant for this sublemmy.
What’s one miscast role that irks you in an otherwise perfect film?
Elon Musk insists Tesla isn’t a car company as sales falter ( finance.yahoo.com )
As Tesla car sales faltered, Musk delivered an optimistic pivot: Tesla isn't a car company....
Biden Administration Announces Significant New Security Assistance for Ukraine ( www.defense.gov )
Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced ( www.bbc.com )
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
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Tesla cuts U.S. prices on its Model Y, S and X vehicles after a difficult week ( www.nbcnews.com )
Further price cuts announced by Tesla....
A Tesla Cybertruck just stopped working after a carwash ( qz.com )
Or we could do metric time ( files.catbox.moe )
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post ( arstechnica.com )
How's Samsung's One UI these days?
I've preferred Pixel phones for the last few years but I've heard that Pixel 6/7 had 5G connection problems (Pixel 8 apparently has a better modem, but I think I'd rather stick to a Qualcomm design for now)....
Johnson plans separate House votes on Israel, Ukraine aid ( kyivindependent.com )
Ukraine's military chief warns of 'significantly' worsening battlefield situation in the east | AP News ( apnews.com )
U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles ( theintercept.com )
The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report....
Help a nerd choose a new phone after 7 years
I'm cross posting my own here, I hope it's allowed. Maybe it will reach someone who has a similar problem....
Tesla lays off 'more than 10%' of its global workforce ( electrek.co )
GOP House Intel chair says he expects Ukraine aid to pass this week ( www.nbcnews.com )
Young voters aren't warming up to Biden. They know it means Trump could win again. ( www.usatoday.com )