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bobsomers

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About bobsomers

Maker of things.

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    Comment #48937744

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-use... This is only the most recent example. Plenty of headlines like this one if you'd even bother to look.

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    Comment #48937725

    Why is it so hard to generate with other models, but trivial with Grok?

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    Comment #48927653

    And for generating an absolutely gargantuan amount of CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images, but yeah, exfiltrating data too.

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    Comment #48680946

    5% is awfully optimistic! More like the 0.01%.

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    Comment #48507702

    > owned by all participants How does this work in practice? In my experience, any metrics owned by a group inevitably languish and are largely ignored. Anything you want to improve…

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    Comment #48456496

    Blind hatred? Given that, among a multitude of other things, he willingly threw out some sieg heils I think the hatred was easily earned.

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    Comment #48455122

    It's easy to deliver things fast when you don't care at all for the local communities or residents whose lives you ruin in the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo …

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    Comment #48365467

    If it's actually your 401k, sure you can. Just today I rebalanced my retirement funds away from large cap stocks to avoid this steaming turd that Elon is dumping on the public.

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    Comment #47976982

    Not OP, but: 1. At my level, the company is not just paying me to do a task the way they want it done, they are paying for my experience to orchestrate the best way to do it. They …

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    Comment #47880700

    > We're not perfect. We've done bad. But, you won't find another nation on earth or in history who has contributed as much to global progress, stability and well-being. Ooook... bu…

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    Comment #47880446

    I don't really think its fair to lump hams into that behavioral bucket. It's certainly a personality type that tends to get attracted to lots of different technical hobbies.

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    Comment #47606662

    But it was also flat last year and the financials are atrociously bad. Reality is catching up.

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    Comment #47176542

    > I used to be friends with Jack back in the day, before this AI stuff even all kicked off, once you know who people really are inside, it's easy to know how they will act when the…

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    Comment #46998891

    > And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly. Parity is not defined by how willing one i…

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    Comment #46968464

    This is purely anecdotal but I've heard from other riders that the car tells you when it's happening, and it's never happened in my 10+ rides so far.

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    Comment #46726534

    Tesla won't achieve true safe autonomy without a significant change in strategy. Source: I worked in AV V&V for a decade.

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    Comment #45969794

    Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something …

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    Comment #45751890

    Personally, I prefer prepending `uv` to my commands because they're more stateless that way. I don't need to remember which terminal my environment is sourced in, and when copying …

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    Comment #45594004

    I haven’t used it for sim racing but I’ve used it for flight sim and never noticed the latency being problematic.

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    Comment #45504175

    What frameworks would you recommend for new people learning about embedded systems?

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    Comment #45454504

    It's deliberately incomplete. You can be completely factual and, simultaneously, intentionally deceiving.

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    Comment #45205139

    It's pretty hard to kill 40 people in 5 seconds with a knife.

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    Comment #45079995

    > If you penalize the rich, they just move, and then the new system will stop class mobility. This is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.

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    Comment #45079987

    > But if they do choose to leave, or at least stop expanding their businesses, you can’t deny the rational self interest "If you tax the rich, they will leave" is a myth created by…

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    Comment #45030098

    > in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant They're relevant because this was almost certainly written by a PR firm being paid by …