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- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 days ago:
Yep, and they were helped a lot after the 2008 financial crisis when interest rates were dropped super low and loans were cheap. That’s a major reason why the market has been screaming for the fed to cut the interest rate as much as possible.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 days ago:
I’m no fan of capitalism, but nothing in it requires public schools to install surveillance software on laptops. This seems purely like an administration issue, which is often the source of problems in general, not just in schools, but also in other sectors like healthcare, where they put in stupid policies while sucking up funding for themselves and their pet issues instead of towards the core purpose of that sector.
Agreed on the snow days. In fact, I think we should reduce the number of school days (and work days, for that matter) in general.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 3 days ago:
I was already glad being out of school before widespread take-home laptops and required after-school logging in to check for homework and shit, but this AI-driven surveillance is on a whole other level. Sometimes I’m wondering if it’s just me getting old and doing the old people thing thinking things were better “back in the day” but is this current state not objectively worse, being monitored so much and having no way to really disconnect from school?
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 5 days ago:
This is why the argument that paying for something would prevent ads falls apart. If they can squeeze more money out of people then they will, even if those people are paying $80k+ for the damn thing.
- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 1 week ago:
How is AI not buried under piles of lawsuits?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 week ago:
Funny thing to say after using their code to train the shitty-ass AI. Developers don’t need AI, but AI certainly needs developers.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
Move over gamers, AI shills are the most discriminated group now!
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 2 weeks ago:
They play the victim regardless.
- Comment on mentoring 2 weeks ago:
Ironically you’re getting downvoted for telling people what they don’t want to hear. It’s tough to compete with someone claiming “you can have all you desire”. It’s similar to how trump won by recognizing what his target audience wants, validating their feelings, but then putting the blame on why they can’t achieve what they want based on all the wrong things.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 weeks ago:
The economy is always bad. The idea is to make people feel insecure and desperate so that they take on more/worse work for less pay. They’ll use every excuse under the sun, from “we can’t afford to pay workers” to “AI could do your job” and it doesn’t matter if it’s true because there are fewer companies growing larger who control so much of the employment landscape that they can unify against workers and make it so.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 3 weeks ago:
Econ 101 also states that a failed business stops existing. In reality, failed businesses are endlessly bailed out as “too big to fail” and they pay their executives bonuses with that bailout money while continuing to rip off customers along with the other one or two companies in the same industry that do the same.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 4 weeks ago:
Use it for what? Generating a bunch of nonsense text that others have to waste time reading? Generating shitty images with fucked up hands and garbled text to use in stupid ads for worthless trash?
This is a “competitive advantage” not worth pursuing. Most AI products/services lose money and even if they didn’t, they’re creatively bankrupt as a whole and shouldn’t be admired for squeezing money with lower quality.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 4 weeks ago:
“Learn to code” didn’t solve the deep underlying issues with the job market?
- Comment on King forgot his crown 5 weeks ago:
We need to ban birthdays so this never happens again.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 month ago:
Whoever you vote for will be
bribedlobbied until they don’t represent you anymore, assuming they weren’t already compromised before even entering office. - Comment on Well, are you? 1 month ago:
I can’t right meow, I’m at work.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 month ago:
Looking forward to Tesla reporting Q2 earnings next month. I assume another round of disastrous numbers paired up with some vaporware distraction. Perhaps they can keep this charade going, but at some point reality will catch up.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 month ago:
Being the country with the most solar power generation by far is not “green washing”. For being the world’s factory, they’re doing quite well and it’s obvious from trajectory that they’re going to be among the greenest countries overall, including those countries that have externalized their pollution to China by using them as their factory.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
It already jumped up about 10% on monday simply because the service launched. Even if the service crashes and burns, they’ll jump to the next hype topic like robots or AI or whatever and the stock price will stay up.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Oh right, I forgot that history started on October 7th.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Iran is simply countering the terrorist state known as israel.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Iran has the right to defend themselves and israel has proven again that Iran is in need of this defense.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 month ago:
The weird people are still there, but development teams are much larger now, so their input is not as prominent. Plus the budgets are so large that a flop can heavily damage a company or even ruin it, so they’re very risk-averse. We need more AA or A games instead of relying so much on heavy-hitters.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 month ago:
I think at this point Android is the king of operating systems in terms of what the majority of consumer devices run. Perhaps the path forward is people plugging their phone into a dock and being presented with a more productive interface.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 month ago:
Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
That’s true, but the time between rise and fall takes a while. From the looks of things, the US empire is in the process of falling, which would clear the way for China to take over the top spot. This may change depending on how things go, but if China can grab that spot then it’ll take a while for their turn to fall.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
We wouldn’t have semi-affordable (depending on your situation) iPhones otherwise. They be impossible to build at scale. Really eye opening.
Yes we would, they’d just have to lower their ridiculously high profit margins: cnbc.com/…/apples-gross-margin-hits-record-as-ser…
For many years in the iPhone era, Apple’s gross margin would predictably come in at between 38% and 39%, reflecting the company’s tight grip over its supply chain and its pricing power in the market.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 1 month ago:
I felt the same until I had one of those challenge peanut things that add straight up capsaicin crystals. It made my tummy feel not so good when I had it on an empty stomach, but I never had the “spice burns twice” effect until I had malatang and I asked them to do a spice level above their written max level.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 month ago:
I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 month ago:
I wasn’t on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It’s been one of the better places I’ve enjoyed for discussion.