Also I think the piracy experience has improved significantly. Jellyfin + Infuse makes the watching experience just as good, if not better than, the streaming apps. You get the same nice scrolling interface, trailers, automatic subtitles and it feels just as good as the Netflix app. Except it’s all the content you actually want, nothing you don’t, and there are no ads.
>Google told employees that it would no longer set diversity hiring targets
Diversity hiring targets are by definition discrimination based on immutable characteristics. How is equality in the hiring process “fascist”?
Apple has a similar (illegal) hiring policy.
>Apple’s Vice President of Core OS – Software Engineering, Jon Andrews
>We’ve made some changes to the way we do manager hiring … There’s two questions at the top of an offer when it goes to approval. One is that a female was interviewed and that a URE [underrepresented employee] was interviewed. And … for management positions, I have said that I won’t approve an offer unless there’s a yes next to one of those.
To be honest I’ve been having the opposite experience. There are lots of cool niche playlists on YouTube that cater to specific ideas.
Like “40’s gangster jazz”, or “studying in the Hogwarts library”, etc
It’s the majority of what I listen to lately and it’s been pretty good.
On a related note, I was working with someone recently and he put on a jazz playlist he found on YouTube. We both enjoyed the music and neither of us realized it was AI until about halfway through the playlist.
I don’t think it’s a big deal that it’s AI, as long as you enjoy the music.
Given today is Diwali, perhaps the reason everything went down is because the best and brightest from India were all on vacation and weren't there to babysit/roll back the deployment that broke everything?
We’ve reached a point where I can no longer distinguish between people without experience and people repeating the talking points they’re told to repeat. That’s a major loss.
However, talent is a very small part of shipping a project. How that talent is resourced is far more important.
Another smashing success. It is cool that they've started adding more explanations and nice footage leading up to the launch. Explaining some of the improvements they are testing out like the crunchwrap heat tiles, I enjoyed the "Live Mas" joke he snuck in there.
Just incredible overall to watch and very inspiring. Few things give me hope for the future like these videos do.
Reminder that we have enough nuclear fuel to power all of humanity with zero emissions for hundreds of years. Anyone who’s talking about this issue and not pushing nuclear is likely trying to use it as a political tool instead of actually trying to solve the problem.
Most people pushing nuclear are trying to sell fossil fuels for another 50 or so years and delay implementation of cheaper solutions. If we committed to building out nuclear today, we'd get our first one online in about 20 years. We need about 1000 of them in the US, which would take a lot longer than 20 years.
>If we committed to building out nuclear today, we'd get our first one online in about 20 years.
Only true because of the regulatory burden imposed by the government on their construction, there's nothing about the design or construction of the plants which takes that long.
Look at China, it takes them about 6 years to build a nuclear power plant. Politicians have been using climate change as a political tool for decades, if they had started pushing the construction of these plants back when they first started talking about the issue we could have been bringing enough power plants online by now to already have solved the problem.
In Sweden when the green party met the conservatives in a debate over replacing existing oil power plant with a nuclear power plant, the green leader said something like this:
"The oil burning power plant is a natural part of the reserve energy plan, and replacing it with nuclear would be way too expensive."
After that debate, the green party (in combination with their other coalition parties) has now green lit the construction of a new natural gas power plant, as part of the strategy of using wind and solar during optimal weather conditions and fossil fuels in poor weather conditions. This strategy goes under the long-term plan of using green hydrogen in the future. Currently there exist a experiment of using green hydrogen for steel production, which has yet to become economical viable, and experts in the field of green hydrogen is predicting around ~50 years until green hydrogen may become economical viable for electricity production. Until then the plan is to continue expanding the fleet of fossil fuel burning power plants.
To me its very obvious who is trying to sell fossil fuels for another 50 or so years. It is those that fund, approve and build new ones. The people responsible for those decisions are responsible for the fossil fuels that will get burned, and in turn delaying implementation of non-fossil fueled solutions.
> Most people pushing nuclear are trying to sell fossil fuels for another 50 or so years and delay implementation of cheaper solutions.
This claim explains a lot about our previous interactions. It's also the polar opposite of my experience.
I have never heard a single advocate of nuclear advocating for fossil fuels, and I certainly don't do it myself. I've also never heard them speak against solar (and again I also don't do this). It's purely about defending nuclear from fear-mongering and trying to make it possible faster, rather than being crushed under ridiculous and unjustified regulations.
I'm all for nuclear, specifically nuclear fusion, specifically the great big fusion reactor in the sky that bathes the Earth in more free energy in a day than we as a planet use in a year.
Eh. Not really anymore. Except at extreme latitudes, solar + battery now beats Nuclear on year round cost and especially on time to installation. It's only going to get more stark as time passes.
I don’t think the next administration, whichever party ends up winning, will be likely to reverse these tariffs just based on how much revenue they bring in for the federal government.
Reducing spending is of course another different problem altogether.
It raises taxes but arguably impacts GDP in a very direct and equal way, so it mostly nets out. The argument that follows from there would be that taxing the rich would have less of an impact on GDP.
Allowing preferences or downloaded videos to be stored in local storage.
Downloading from YouTube is hard, Google keeps trying to kill yt-dlp. You can download manually from your own site using a web browser, but the app wrapper would make it easier to search by metadata ("Find ICE videos from my town") and to make sure you don't accidentally download the same thing twice.
Plus YouTube might take those down for ToS violations sooner or later.
Anyway it doesn't matter - We should have the right to have apps like this and make them available to the general public. If you can't get it from the App Store, and you can't install an apk on Android, and you can't install an alternate store trivially, then it's as good as dead.
>no choice but to escalate and invade Eastern Europe.
They can barely hold on to Eastern Ukraine, them taking the entirety of Ukraine is not likely at all given that they have had to slog for many years just to take and hold one small part of the country.
If they can’t even take all of Ukraine, I don’t think it’s very likely they try to attack any more of Europe.
Or one could look it the the other way around: the 50 countries, more or less, (Europe + US), that fight with the hands of Ukraine, as proxies, still haven't been able to defeat ONE Russia.
And despite of 23k of sanctions they've imposed on Russia, which is the absolute record by a looooooong margin on its own.
One way to help with this fight is to charge a tax on things made in Shenzhen. This helps by funding the government, helping build roads and fund things like healthcare, and also makes those items more price competitive with American-made goods.
I only need a disclaimer because the very concept of tarrifs has become politically charged. The original comment makes a good argument without any value statement about current politics or recent events.
The comment should normally not have needed the context i added; to be taken seriously.
