scarabic
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- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
We are pushing our product managers to communicate their requirements with live prototypes rather than PRDs and mockups. It forces them to actually think their ideas through, and even allows them to get some hallway feedback before even bothering an eng. This might help with #5. But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses. If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
From what I see, the current is beginning to turn a little toward valuing senior e mg inners more than ever, because they can deal with the downsides of AI. Junior devs, on the other hand, cannot, and their simpler coding work is also more easily replaced by AI. So we’ll see fewer junior dev jobs, but seniors might do fine. I’m not sure that’s good news for the profession as a whole, but its been an extremely long gold rush into software and online services so some correction isn’t going to be the end of the trade.
Oh and yes senior devs are still hounded to use AI, because it will get them further, faster. And there are no more junior devs to help.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 week ago:
Not as a rule, no.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 week ago:
I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 1 week ago:
Seriously. How many ways are there to make an humanoid robot out of stainless steel and aluminium?
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 1 week ago:
Because the US health care system already serves the wealthy and abandons the poor, any expensive treatments are seen as just further steps into a Gattaca future of even more dystopian disparity, especially when driven by a rich asshole personally.
Universal negativity is also kind of the norm around here. A lot of folks on Lemmy believe we are slaves sucking Satan’s cock for breakfast, and anything that isn’t a complete burn down of our system and way of life is a negative.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t guess at what the price will be or what makes sense for Valve, but I’m not interested at $1000. I can do a Linux box on my own for much less, or for about the same amount, a Windows box that can run all games without tinkering.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
Allow me to match your pedantry.
A “denotation” is an exact, codified definition of a word, commonly thought of as a “dictionary definition.”
A “connotation” is a less official but culturally understood meaning of a word, often dependent on context or setting.
“PC” connotes Windows in the gaming world. But thanks for taking time out of your day to tell me what it stands for, etc 🙄
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 weeks ago:
If you have a good job that’s not too demanding and are still feeling this, then you might think about it as a health issue and look into it with your doctor. You have two paths:
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look for some treatable malady - perhaps depression
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focus on wellness and fitness: exercise more, get your electrolytes, fix your diet
Either of those two paths may lead to more energy. I don’t know how old you are but this kind of thing doesn’t get any easier with age so I highly recommend getting ahead of it as soon as you can.
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- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious about the “it’s a PC” aspect of the Steam Box. Because a device that plays all Steam games but isn’t a Windows computer is extremely appealing, but I admit if I can’t install a few non-Steam games on it, that’s a spoiler for me. But if the whole “it’s a PC” provides some avenue to that, I’m definitely ready to stop building a gaming PC every 5 years.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 weeks ago:
Do you mean you’re trying to get into tech? If yes then it’s a terrible time for that. No harm in trying but it is not the rapidly expanding field it once was, sucking up people from all other industries left and right…
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 weeks ago:
We must work at the same place.
- Comment on What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst? 3 weeks ago:
The actual trigger is when someone influential decides “this is far enough - I’m pulling my money out before it all vanishes.” This doesn’t have to be such a dire thing - investors are constantly saying “this is enough - I’ve done well in this - time to take the profits and move my money elsewhere.”
Others see the influential figure doing that and begin to get scared. Many follow. And this becomes a chain reaction when the market at large sees this trend. If it’s enough people, and there’s enough doubt looming out there, it will chain and take the entire market down. If there’s not, it will stabilize. Small corrections happen all the time.
It’s a very basic human thing. If you were in a room and everyone else in it suddenly screamed and ran away you would follow them and figure out why later.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
Don’t tell me. Go short the stock and make a million.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
Don’t feel bad. I don’t think shorting can do any good. Betting we won’t need powerful chips in the future seems like a bad bet. The main scenario where we won’t is if we’re all dead, in which case all stock market bets are worthless anyway.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Please remember to downvote this post and all others that are based on overblown articles from nobody science blogs.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
I’m ready for this entire category of “science blog” website to disappear. Mainstream media are bad enough at interpreting movements in science, but these shitty little websites make their entire living off of massively overblowing every little thing. Shame on OP and anyone who posts this kind of garbage.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 3 weeks ago:
I don’t say loss of ALL function.
You have lost functionality, sir. But people who overpaid for early Nest products have always been amazing at justifying their own purchases, so I’m not surprised you’re now minimizing this move.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I agree. This word does not mean what they think it means. AI may be theft, it may be complex, it may be bad for the world. But none of those is what Machiavellian means.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to excuse ICE and all the shit they are up to. I’m just going to point out that immigration status doesn’t require the same process to determine as the guilt or innocence of some other crime. In a murder trial, you have to prove motive, opportunity, etc beyond a reasonable doubt. With immigration status, it’s simpler: either you can document your legal right to be in the country or you can’t. When someone isn’t supposed to be in the country we don’t jail them for years to rehabilitate them and then release them into the population. We remove them. So everything about this feels and looks different from a standard criminal due process because it is different. Even without the aggressive tactics, masks, and all attendant bullshit, it would still be different.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 weeks ago:
With their mask-wearing they’re practically advertising their methods. We should take the clue. Everyone still has their COVID masks, right?
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to spend time on how dumb it is to compare a speculative total valuation to the real economic output of a single year.
If we zoom out, it’s not that surprising that emerging tech is going to require greater and greater computing power. We thought that our desire for our laptops to be faster was driving this, Moore’s Law, whatever. But now there’s a new technology that seems to raise the requirements by an order of magnitude. In the short term, this is fantastic news for the makers of computer chips. We’re living in the late Information Age. Is it all that surprising that there would be moments like this where our ability to consume computing power outstrips our ability to produce it? So Nvidia has a high valuation. BFD. Investors are confident in its future. That doesn’t make it 16% of the US economy.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
Yes, thank you. A lot of people live in a house that’s worth more than they make in a year. We can write a breathless sentence that makes this sound shocking if we like.
“Think about that number. You have tethered 450% of your economic output to the fortunes of one structure!”
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
Thank you. I mean what??? The phrasing is idiotic. This company has a large market cap, therefore the US has “tethered its economic output” to it? What’s that even supposed to mean?
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 4 weeks ago:
I’m just seconding the consideration of UV curing products because they are cool and have many benefits. I have zero experience with anything to do with nails.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 4 weeks ago:
This question is too vague. “Higher beings” is not well defined enough. “Other planes of existence” is not defined well enough. For that matter “the Gods” is not very specific. And in a weird way, what you’re saying seems somewhat circular. Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?
Are you asking if there’s a name for someone who believes that humanity’s major religions do worship real living beings, but those beings are simply advanced alien creatures and not metaphysical in any way.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 4 weeks ago:
I use UV curing wood finish for my woodworking projects now and it’s amazing. Nothing evaporates so there’s no smell and no respiratory health risk. Every bit of the liquid turns to solid, so you don’t have to use very much. And it’s done and set in 5 minutes instead of hours.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 4 weeks ago:
There was a “n——r regime?”
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 4 weeks ago:
They were rude to you about it too? Jesus. I’m pleased to say I’ve never bought any Samsung product.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 4 weeks ago:
Heh I guess this is my work self showing through. I’m a software developer and “loss of function” is a very severe term to me :D it’s only surpassed by loss of data, accessibility/legal issue, and security/privacy breach. On the less severe end we have loss of telemetry, degraded function (meaning there’s still a workaround) degraded performance, and finally cosmetic defect.