Probably best if I leave this conversation here. Thanks for being willing to engage.

That's fair. That's not the impression I got. It's possible that's on me.

Do you believe there could be any motive for someone on the left to dislike Platner besides feelings?

If you say I'm wrong, I'll believe you, but please think about how that came across and how it reads to an outsider. It doesn't make me *more* inclined to embrace Platner, for instance.

My argument is less that, and more that we shouldn't actively mock them. Maybe it's not your intent, but your replies to Omri read to me as making fun of a Jew for being unhappy about a Nazi symbol.

You keep insisting that the only issue here is "emotions", though. That's been a theme in your posts today. I frankly think it's dismissive at best and deliberately offensive at worst to say that someone permanently inscribing a symbol of genocide on his body is a fundamentally emotional problem.

they're definitely speaking from a place of bad faith and not genuine personal fear. why would they have anything to be afraid of

yes, it's extremely funny for jews to be unhappy about a nazi tattoo, we should make fun of them for it

My P-8 Poseidon card. It’s very sad and low-level in comparison because I don’t care about anything besides commercial aircraft.

Military aircraft are not my strong suit.

Anakin/Padme meme: Anakin: we're going to change the Iranian regime Padme: to a better one, right? Anakin: Padme: to a better one, right?

My 737-800 card in SkyCards. Note that it’s at 3,892,281 XP. For a plane of that rarity, you get at most 1,130 XP per catch. I have caught A Lot of them.

My catch stats by registration. I’ve caught 3,042 out of 4,932 known active 737-800 registrations worldwide.

You can never have too many 737s

I'll be sure to catch your flight in skycards

nice!

It's a shorter way of saying "people who are not currently in jail but who are required to interact with the justice system on a regular basis for one reason or another."

I work in a homeless-adjacent field, and this is exactly the sense in which we use it.

what does the R stand for?

Oh god I'd completely forgotten that last line was a thing.

it was very unfair that my parents refused to give me points for this

when I was a kid, I would get "points" for cleaning things up, and sometimes I would make a mess just so that I could clean it up for points

I think that last line is mostly wishful thinking, though! Without AI, people would have to hire experts if they wanted to do something, and a few of them would actually do that, but most of them would just not do the thing at all.

And for non-serious-work vibe coding, the relevant question isn't "could a professional coder do this better?", it's "would an amateur coder be able to / bother to do this at all?"

uterus, probably

...I was misremembering; you said "less wasteful," not "less efficient." That was my mistake. Sorry.

"and who gets to decide who's right and wrong, and what the threshold Amount Of Wrongness is to trigger this?" me, obviously

well, you see, it's ok to have contempt for people when you're right and they're wrong, but the reverse isn't true

I had read your use of "efficient" to mean "costs less resources to get the same output," but it sounds like your argument isn't about cost per unit of use but rather about the total amount of usage. Is that accurate? If so, I apologize for arguing against a point you weren't making.

That's a reasonable assumption. On the other hand, the energy use would be equal or greater (probably greater, due to less efficient hardware and more time idling), unless distributed use also leads to less overall use.

What is your argument here? I feel like there's something load-bearing that I'm not understanding.

I think that's an entirely fair argument! But it's not an argument about efficiency, it's an argument about ways to reduce the total amount of usage.

If you break up and broadly distribute environmental damage it's still the same amount of damage.

More damage, often, because small users are less efficient and because it's harder to regulate tens of thousands of small users than three big providers.