Windows XP pro splash screen makes me feel fuzzy and warm. For me that time was peak for gaming, peak for internet communities and peak for nerds coming together online.

I hope commercializing reddit, fb, twitter and internet as whole will push people to join smaller forums again.

When you step away from the internet things are much better. Internet is a toxic place.

Not surprised this is posted by a throwaway account. I would think this is Rush himself, if he was alive of course.

Start-up idea: LLM service that will post online to defend you after you die.

Or nice idea for a new black mirror episode.

In the Year Of Our Lord 2025, there is no difference between the two.

various estates (e.g. Tolken, etc) already have trusts that can and do hire lawyers and even marketing firms.

in this case you'd just hire a marketing org that uses AI a lot and hope that the trust has enough money to keep them doing their job for a while

his critics were silenced? bro they were loud as hell and consistently so.

the dude did everything he could to fly under the radar, but only just enough. it is why the report is so damning -- much of what he did was just blatantly, balls-out bad, and all of the signs were there consistently.

But that person is right. Co owners, board and even layer that knowingly helped to relatiate against whistle blower with fake accusations are all guilty too. At least in the ethical sense.

Rush is dead, so it is comfortable for the above to blame only him.

The board knew about the issues. The layer knew the accusation is fake and designed to shut up the whistleblower.

It is quite interesting. The implosion took about 10 milliseconds.

It takes the brain 13 milliseconds to register an image.

It takes the brain 100-200 milliseconds to register pain.

They could have heard some cracks but most likely had no knowledge of the implosion. Their bodies just turned into mist.

Mist is kind of the exact opposite of what their bodies turned into. Compression does really, really interesting things to meat and bone sacks with lots and lots of tiny airspaces. They wouldn’t have been conscious of anything, but they would have been more mince / paste / goo / frothy clot than anything as clean and homogenous sounding as mist.

I found it wild that fragments of their clothes were found, plus a pen and Rush’s business card.

The only better way is going to bed and dying of old age. The Titan way is quite harsh on families though.

You're missing the "laying in bed" time that varies between 10 hours and 20 years. My grandpa chose the latter. No thanks.

tbh I think I prefer the 10 ms death over dying of old age. The months leading up to a death-by-old-age are still usually pretty unpleasant. Agreed that the toll on the family is rough though

*Months/years/decades

I'm angling to die in bed of old age, but at full cognition and perfect awareness of what lies ahead I'm sure a lot of people would pick the Titan over the toll slow death and it's related miseries takes on a family (this is a very weird sentence to type about the Titan, lol)

"Dying of old age" is often an agonizing death from multiple organ failure.

This would be pretty fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

Rush could be placed in Wikipedia under hubris.

His hubris killed people. He ignored experts. He ignored warnings. This outcome was predictable.

The problem is that SpaceX was told the same and it succeeded despite the ods. History is harsh to people who fail.

SpaceX did not send manned missions for a while.

If the hull failed without people it would be no big deal. However, Rush was running out of money so he felt rushed and got reckless.

Due to my ADHD, I would try to learn 12-72 hours before the exams. I would fail quickly, hopefully someone could help me recognize why.

If you are Serious about DIY solar I made a whole site about how I did mine with a calculator and graphs, etc.

https://www.pvh2o.com/

I am serious! Nice resource.

This is excellent! Thanks!

I do think solar companies have hired door to door marketing teams that use straight up manipulative tactics. I don't want to hold that against the whole industry, and even sales reps for many solar companies hold themselves to a much higher ethical standard.

But some states have had to push regulations because door to door marketing teams have misrepresented who they are, used pressure, and tried their best to imply without saying that a "switch" to renewable energy was non-optional or was like some technical correction with a billing problem.

Around here the door to door sales are always a pair of college age floozies with pairs seemingly selected to cover fluency in multiple languages. Based on the quality of sales tactics I assume it's some sort of BS pyramid scheme because nobody who would make money by having them succeed would ever send them out so un-prepared. I kinda feel bad for them.

I have researched several companies which knocked on my doors. All of them have accusations online of scammy behavior and not really passing the benefit of the grant.

I was told I would get "FREE SOLAR".

At least in the midwest, when I hear solar, I hear scam. I would much rather purchase equipment myself and do the install myself.

This matches my experience in the midwest as well. “Let me see your bill real fast”, “you pay nothing up front”, “you can get 4% extra value at resale”

All of it is a scam. I head these people off early if I see them walking around my neighborhood.

That's sad. When I had a company come by in California, they did the math on my house and bill and said "actually in your case this would never pay off, sorry" and moved on.

Although this was probably 10 years ago, so maybe it's changed now.

If you're knowledgeable enough to know how to do the installing, you'll save the money that way too. I feel like it's the community solar that's probably the worst offenders, they build it, you effectively rent the generation capacity, but ideally the cost of the electricity you get back is more valuable than what it cost you to pay your rent.

I still think everyone should believe in it as a value proposition, and as as a way to balance risk from grid instability, but I would like better information about who is reliable and who the bad actors are.

Oh I they’re still going to be knocking. Their sales pitch here has already shifted.

I found that odd.

Since I started using ChatGPT, I rarely visit stack. If I need some code ChatGPT will tailor it to my example and I can get up and running quickly to figure out how it works.

Why can't one use ORM and then flag queries which are slow? This is trivial.

Inspect the actual SQL query generated, and if needed modify ORM code or write a SQL query from scratch.

I considered electric too, and would never buy a Tesla with Elon at the helm.