mechoman444
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- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 1 day ago:
It’s funny, years ago, a single developer “killing it” on Steam was almost unheard of. It happened, but it was few and far between.
Now, with the advent of powerful engines like Unreal 5 and the latest iterations of Unity, practically anyone outside the Arctic Circle can pick one up and make a game.
Is tech like that taking jobs away from the game industry? Yes. Very much so. But since those programs aren’t technically “AI,” they get a pass. Never mind that they use LLMs to streamline the process, they’re fine because they make games we enjoy playing.
But that’s missing the point. For every job the deployment of some “schedule 1” or “megabonk” tech replaced, it enabled ten more people to play and benefit from the final product. Those games absolutely used AI in development, work that once would’ve gone to human hands.
Technology always reduces jobs in some markets and creates new ones in others.
It’s the natural way of things.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 days ago:
Ok. Thanks. Good luck to you too.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 days ago:
That’s because I’m agreeing with the person and not rebutting the original comment. Which I have no desire to do.
But I will say this if you think high speed rail will impact housing in California you’re an idiot.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 days ago:
It’s not.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 6 days ago:
I am also newly minty fresh.
Although up graded anyway because the games I play aren’t an Linux.
The only downside is gaming.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 6 days ago:
I tired to rent an apartment once. I had 100k in liquid in my bank account. I showed them this but it wasn’t good enough. I’m 1099 and officially make very little money (it’s all above board and legal. I have a CPA.)
They needed paystubs. I don’t have pay stubs. I don’t even get paychecks.
It’s kind of a weird catch 22 for them. They’re ok with some bloke making 20 bucks an hours with nothing in savings as long as he can “prove” his income but someone with actually money is just too much of a risk.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 6 days ago:
Yes but he said “high speed rail” which is popular here so now you’re getting downvoted.
You’re right of course. It’s an idiotic take.
It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.
- Comment on English moment 1 week ago:
English is a terrible language and I really need to get gooder at it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.
The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.
What other nonsense.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
Japan has some of the worst copyright and fair use laws in the world.
Satire is often times considered copy right infringing.
- Comment on A truck bed with a tonneau over it is just an SUV trunk with extra steps. 3 weeks ago:
Except you know… That it’s not. A truck bed cover is on the exterior of the truck and can be often times folded over or removed entirely to expose the truck bed. The truck bed doesn’t extend to the interior of the car and is exclusively utility. Tonneau covers help with gas milage and theft prevention, they help things from blowing out of the truck bed. They have a ton of use.
By your logic anything can be anything with extra steps.
Your livingroom is a garage with extra steps.
A cardio-vascilar surgen is a butcher with extra steps.
Heroin is just like marijuana with extra steps.
Ext.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Lol. Crunchy roll was always crap. Watching anime in the raw is torture.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
Well… is suppose it is a good way to get the wrinkles out… I’ll give it a shot.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
YOULL GET AN UP VOTE ABD LIKE IT!!!
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
What? No it’s not when you practice you expect to get better… The results vary greatly.
Also one would practice a variety of things that are completely different from each other not the same thing over and over.
Also Albert Einstein never said that the first recorded use of the phrases is in the 1980s.
- Comment on Incorrect? 5 weeks ago:
Kid saw an opportunity and they took it.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 5 weeks ago:
I often have this discussion about DEI on this platform, and someone always responds with, “That’s not how it’s supposed to work.” And you’re right, but what happens in practice and what happens on paper are two completely separate things.
The bottom line is that these lower to mid level employees are given a list of criteria and very little training in DEI itself. They’re then required to fill these slots so it looks like the company is making progress, when in reality it’s very likely they’re hiring someone underqualified.
It’s true that many companies implementing DEI have seen an increase in profit margins, but I think that’s happening because DEI pushes back against nepotism—which, in my opinion, is significantly worse than hiring someone who may be slightly underqualified.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 weeks ago:
The easiest thing in the world is not to connect your fridge to the internet.
Also don’t buy Samsung refrigerators they are truly truly horrific.
I’m an appliance repairman.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 5 weeks ago:
My friend, who works as a license renewal and hiring manager at a large tech security firm, once shared something interesting with me. He said that when hiring under his company’s DEI standards, he sometimes had to bring on someone who wasn’t the strongest candidate for the role. The goal was to meet diversity requirements, but the tradeoff was that it occasionally meant hiring someone less qualified.
According to him, if a hire brought in under those standards didn’t perform well, it could be harder for the company to let that person go. The emphasis on maintaining diversity created extra pressure to hold on, even when performance wasn’t where it needed to be. That situation, understandably, can affect the rest of the team.
Personally, I don’t have anything against DEI. In fact, I think it helps reduce nepotism, which is a positive. But I also don’t think DEI always works out the way people imagine it will. Like many policies, it has both benefits and downsides.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s a slippery slope when governments start drawing hard lines about who can and cannot be fired. At the end of the day, what tends to matter most is whether someone makes the company money.
Take my friend as an example again: he’s only required to bring in $250,000 each quarter, but he actually brings in around $4 million. Because of that, he has survived multiple layoffs and has even been moved to different departments, simply because his performance makes him too valuable to lose.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 month ago:
Volkswagen is so bad at this! They have phone connectivity but they bog down the infotainment with they’re own crap software. The GPS is so bad it slowes down the whole system. I will never use vw maps. Ever. Just stop!
And Chevy just doesn’t have android auto on or apple play on their lower trim levels. But they do compensate by integrating Google maps at least.
Kia is the best though. Minimal proprietary software. Plug your phone in and android auto automatically comes up.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Also just announced: new patents on covers opening and closing and adjustable legs.
Virtual Boy games will all release at full price individually.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
You’ve got to be a bot. Seriously.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I’m assuming you’re the competent one.
Believe it or not it’s really hard to get people to compare another person to a Nazi you really have to jump some hurdles to do that.
For example Thomas Midgley, Jr. (Look him up) Is probably one of the worst human beings ever produced by our species and yet nobody really compares him to Nazis.
On the other hand there is nothing more universally compared to Nazis than our current sitting president his rhetoric and the people that support him including your boy Charlie.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I’m not here to hand you evidence or play research assistant. I’m responding because your own tone was condescending and I’m not going to let it stand unchallenged.
Charlie Kirk was a bigot and a racist. That is not an opinion but a matter of record. His rhetoric makes it obvious and your defense of him makes your position clear.
If you think I was calling you tolerant or care if you are tolerant or not you completely miss the point of what I was trying to say.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Your prose comes across as deliberately nice and tolerant, but that only highlights how shaky your stance is. You frame “tolerance” as though it excuses supporting Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t. Using tolerance to shield a bigot and a racist is not a virtue, it’s complicity.
Opposing Kirk’s rhetoric isn’t hatred. It’s simply refusing to let prejudice masquerade as principle.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Well. They’ve secured the local woods so we’re good.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Ya man. Mental health. Your boy Charlie was big in putting homeless people and transgenders in insane asylums.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Lol! Fantastic. This is wonderful thank you so much for commenting.
So the big argument is cars and alcohol? Brilliant. Because when was the last time someone walked into a classroom holding a Toyota Corolla in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other?
Cars exist to get people from point A to point B. Alcohol exists to drink. Guns exist to kill. That is the design. Pretending they are all the same is a false equivalence.
We also happen to lead the world in school shootings and active shooters. Canada, which looks a whole lot like us culturally and legally, manages fewer gun deaths per capita. Maybe the problem is not cars or booze. Maybe the problem is metal health. Because guns are the end of the day are just tools used by humans.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 1 month ago:
Of course you did. And nothing can away the heroic and amazing thing you did that day.
BUT! Being at ground zero and simply doing your job as a nurse during a crisis is not the same thing.