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CandleTiger

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  • Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith

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  • If you want to get advantage from a speculative fund making a bet on a popped bubble, then you need to be already invested now, before the bubble bursts. (And also, you/your fund need to be right that it’s really about to pop now, and not later)

    Once the race is over it’s too late to bet on the ponies.

  • People who have been to psych wards before, how was it?

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  • That would make me nervous

  • People who have been to psych wards before, how was it?

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  • All the descriptions I’ve seen so far sound very much like my sister’s experience in eastern USA. I feel like there’s no info here to say whether it’s the same in Brazil or wildly different.

    If it was me looking for the info I’d ask the question again in Portuguese

  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

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  • I mean.. it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.

    <old man shakes fist at cloud>

    I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.

    But I can’t say I expect shaking fists at clouds is likely to accomplish much.

  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief – The Eclectic Light Company

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  • “Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”

  • Those who have moved residences, do you still remember all the places you've been, do you feel anything about it when remembering it or looking at street views? Do you feel sentinmental about it?

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  • Yep. 50+ yo, every once in a while I wind up driving past a place I lived and reminiscing. My mom was a navy brat and moved around a LOT, we still every once in a while go drive by some place or other that she used to live growing up.

    I still can’t believe they built a housing development all over my crayfish creek 😡

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  • I’m a married man and I’m glad about it.

    Having stability and confidence that the person you love is there for you and going to stay there for you gives a wonderful and peaceful confidence.

    Is marriage the only way to get that confidence? No.

    Does marriage guarantee you will keep that confidence? Also no. Nothing is certain in this life.

    But standing up in front of all your friends and family stating clearly that you intend to stick to and support this person for all your life, in a ceremony that everybody understand more or less the same way, is a really good base for building stability.

  • Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

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  • Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

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  • But if you are doing something advanced, down at the hardware level

    This part is wrong. Otherwise yes correct.

    The “unsafe” code in rust is allowed to access memory locations in ways that skip the compiler’s check and guarantee that that memory location has valid data. They programmer is on their own to ensure that.

    Which as you say is just the normal state of affairs for all C code.

    This is needed not because of hardware access but just because sometimes the proof that the access is safe is beyond what the compiler is able to represent.

  • The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek

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  • Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.

    Edit: lo and behold: “big rig truck wash” is the magic phrase it turns out. “Truck wash”, “Semi truck wash”, “semi truck wash -car” don’t work but “big rig truck wash” does.

    Fuck you Google, you waste my time.

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    [Trigger Warning: Suicide]... Parents, how would you feel if your child died by suicide?

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  • I would feel very bad.

  • I finally figured out that my cat Miez doesn't like hopping onto the potentially wet window sill, so today I built her a ladder including entrance way

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  • Vorsicht vor Ratten. Ich habe eine Ratte mal unabsichtlich in meine Küche hereingeladen durch so eine Leiter aus Reben wachsen lassen. Die hat die Besuche mehr als ich genossen.

    Watch out for rats. I accidentally invited a rat into my kitchen once by letting vines grow onto a ladder like that. It enjoyed the visit more than I.

  • How do I deal with someone who's been shitting in front of my house?

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  • How rural is your path? I discovered recently that big fat raccoon poops are very similar to human poops.

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • I feel like this one is more just total indifference to the screwing over of poor people, rather than active attempts.

    It’s not like rearranging the order of your daily back transactions to put deposits and small withdrawals last, where they’re creating more overdrafts on purpose to extract more fees from poor people. That one really steamed my gizzard back when I was living paycheck to paycheck. That was active malice.

    This one is not making them any money. It’s more of a casual “I want to make sure nobody rips me off by taking gas they’re credit card won’t cover, and I don’t give any shits about how that makes poor people unable to buy gas and groceries on the same day “

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • Not so.

    The gas station putting the hold on was never getting any interest anyway.

    The credit card company is not getting interest because a temporary hold is not a purchase.

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • Filling up an 18 wheeler can cost $1000. I don’t think the truck stops are using our piddly $150 car-side gas pump limits for the diesel pumps on the truck side.

    Filling up my gas motor home at regular car gas station pumps all over, I find that Truck stops, big chain gas stations, little podunk gas stains in the middle of nowhere all use limits from $100-$200, which is not enough for me to fill up. My guess is that number used to be “safely big enough to fill up anything” and they haven’t adjusted it as the gas prices went up.

  • What is too high for a pending authorization charge for a gasoline purchase?

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  • $150 sounds about normal. I put gas into a motor home with an 85 gallon tank. Generally the pumps will cut off once or even twice before the tank is full — sometimes at $100, sometimes at $125, sometimes at $150

    They don’t actually charge the extra, so once get over the initial shock of thinking you got stolen from, this is not a real problem (unless you’re running your card right up to the ragged edge of your credit limit.)

  • What happens if the robots take over and life gets better for people?

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  • Naomi Kritzer has written a few really good short stories on this topic that are kind useful reflections on how life could look if AI exists and isn’t controlled by narcissistic billionaires:

    Better Living Through Algorithms

    “Prophet of the Roads,” Infinity’s End — no link to read the story online but 100% worth looking up

    Cat Pictures Please

  • Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.

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  • If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.

    This is a common misconception.

    “The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.

    If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.

    Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.

    But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.

    In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.