scarabic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This points to a flaw in your question.

  You probably should have said “foolproof countermeasure” if you really just wanted to remove nukes as a factor to see what happens.

  But you said “foolproof deterrent” and now you’re quibbling at people over whether a psychological deterrent can actually be foolproof.

  Maybe not, but even your question is nonsensical. The fact is that we are already using guaranteed total destruction of the world as a deterrent and it has so far worked. What more deterrence are you even suggesting we might add to that???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… for now. How long until drones with thrusters on their backs can land on a missle and redirect it wherever they want?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes we ask questions to gain knowledge we simply haven’t found yet.

  Other times we ask questions because some knowledge just won’t stick in our brains even when it’s given to us, and then we spend the thread fighting the answer for that same reason: it just won’t stick.

  Anti-ballistic missles are a technology.

  You asked what would happen. A treaty is a thing that can happen.

  Why don’t you tell us what you think would happen and be done, if that’s what this is really about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I don't use AI in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a brave, original thought. Did an AI write this for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I don't use AI in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall all the same arguments about how much energy and carbon are I bombed in performing one Google search. Does anyone care? Nope.

  I’ve always ignored the energy issue one the assumption that it will be optimized away. Right now, leapfrogging the competition to new levels of functionality is what’s important. But when (if?) these tools settle into true mass usage, the eggheads will have every incentive to focus on optimization to save on operating costs. When that finally starts happening, we will know that AI has passed out of its era as a speculative bet and into prime time as an actual product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we can reasonably disagree on this. Posthumous damnation of Limbaugh sounds less likely to me than letting him trade into obscurity. He was already damned to anyone who would care now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow Palpatine Rush Limbaugh returned.

  Oh, someone quoted him? Don’t even do that, y’all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pete Buttigieg is doing pretty fucking well, politically. It helps that he’s a medal-wearing veteran. I think that’s actually an important credential for most politicians but in the case of a gay man, perhaps moreso because it helps silence any slurs against his manhood.

  To be honest I think gay people are doing pretty fucking well these days versus when I grew up. There are still plenty of firsts left to happen, like President. But my whole childhood and young adulthood, gays were public enemies and the focus of conservative ire at every turn. They seem to have switched targets to trans people now, which is awful. But it has left gay people in an unusually quiet space. The marriage question is settled in all 50 states. With that, we seem to have moved on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with Zuck’s family?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The existing currency pool is not the reason. Paper money has a pretty short durable life, and coins don’t have enough value to operate society on. It’s actually a fairly big task for a government to maintain the currency supply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep he looks at the world and sighs and thinks he could lead humanity into a shining future but for one thing: the legacy structures dragging it down. He really believes he has all the answers but we’re so bogged down by our establishments that we can’t follow him. He’d love to wipe the slate clean. I’d fucking love to be on a desert island with him and three other people trying to establish a colony. He’d be so goddamn useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was: let me guess, his own. Sure enough. This fucking asshole needs to go away. Every time he opens his mouth, shit comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a good point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they mean “30% of the code we wrote last month” then I might believe it. Though I bet it is not across the board but deep in one or two areas. Still, it’s a crazy number.

  But he said something like “30% of the code in our repositories” which would mean everything, including their entire legacy of code. And that I simply do not believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More than a decade on that. I would say the usability is so bad that they are not on track to catch up ever unless something changes. Every year or so I download GIMP and try to use it for something basic, and I always fail and give up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh do you mean you’re using it for exercise somehow? Or are you making a masturbation joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree on all that. In addition, headsets would become so very unhealthy if they took off. Just imagine the addictiveness of phones combined with the sedentary qualities of TV, with both dialed up to 11. People’s vision would get all fucked up, and they would start dying on their couches plugged in. It’s simply not a vision for the future that has any legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be impressed by a truck that could haul a cooler, an empty plastic barrel, and a crate at once. But the lack of any tie-downs for those straps makes my point well for me. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look closer and read the dimensions. The Verge say “it can hold a sheet of plywood” in text but if you look at the dimensions, there isn’t 48” of space between the wheel wells, so it has to be propped up on them seesawing back and forth. And there is not 96” of length to support it, even with the tailgate down. At best you could limp home with one sheet rocking around, sticking out behind you. Forget transporting a stack.

  It’s yet another urban toy truck that’s not equipped for actual utility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a truck to me if the bed can’t fit a sheet of plywood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When a company considers buying Chrome because it could help them extend the reach of their product, they are fucking drunk and need to go home. This would be like buying the state of Nevada so you could put up billboards all over Las Vegas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just give some examples.

  We know that construction workers build things, but many office workers are behind them. When you hear “office worker,” think “information worker” as that will help.

  What information?

  Someone has to pay the construction workers. This involves accounting and payroll tasks best done at a computer.

  Architects design the project being constructed and this is done in an office.

  There are permits, inspections, regulations, taxes, real estate licensing etc to clear the project and this is done through computers and telephones.

  Coordination of the different work crews must be planned - we don’t just ask concrete, civil engineers, plumbers, electrical, and landscaping to all show up on the same day and just figure things out. These things are scheduled out and arranged with many different companies / subcontractors and this is mapped out on a computer and agreed to over the phone.

  The new apartments being constructed will need tenants to rent them. Billboard space is going to be rented near the building. A graphic designer is designing the billboard on a computer in an office. Someone else is calling the billboard company to arrange the large scale printing of it and to purchase the time it will be displayed.

  I’ll stop. This is off the top of my head. If construction workers, with their obviously valuable and easy to understand work have this many office workers behind them, you can imagine how it’s even more complex for things like tech companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of power is the same

  There is only one pope seat at a time which they can influence. But that’s not a complete measurement of all the power involved.

  Think of fit this way. Every time there’s an election, everyone comes out to kiss their ass and offer favors and so on to they themselves or “their guy” elected. If elections happen only every 20 years, then this ass-kiss-fest only happens every 20 years.

  They’d rather it happen every 5 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s an idea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest problem I see is that people don’t always understand others’ jobs and how to judge if they are doing them well. I know this will be unpopular but managers are the key example here. Everyone thinks they know who the good and bad managers are but until you’ve been one, you dont understand their job to truly know more than who you like and who you don’t like. That’s no way to decide anyone’s pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you the kind of guy who hires a dominatrix to stand on his balls with high heels?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of headline always makes it sound like AI is being used as judge, jury, and executioner. But it’s more likely that it’s part of narrowing the field or generating candidates.

  I’m reminded of another headline recently about how AI is now going to be used at a nuclear reactor. Everyone assumed this meant that ChatGPT would henceforth operate the entire reactor including having the ability to cause meltdowns. It turned out to be that the employees were getting an AI powered document search for their office that would help them search regulatory and technical documents.

  We need to remain skeptical of AI, but this hardon for Skynet everywhere is not actually helping with that. That’s more emotional catharsis, 2-minutes hate, than effective skepticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one cares when you bought. You’re supposed to flood the used Tesla market to suppress new sales happening NOW.

  I’ve heard a lot of excuses from Tesla drivers about how they can’t afford to stand for their ethics. It’s pathetic. How are we to believe this from anyone who could afford one in the first place?

  Plot yourself on the historical spectrum of “what was I willing to give up for my ideals” and that brave moral stand about not having a car payment looks pretty fucking limp.

  I have empathy for you. I’m just more concerns with your soul than your car payment.