OldWoodFrame

@OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don’t care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it “a core value in their society” is a bit racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pardon????⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are 5 years to the day from the last pre-Covid event I went to, a baby shower. People from NYC were there too and I spent the next two weeks worried they somehow infected my clothes or something that was going to get me later because we had no idea how it spread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you need 50% more person-hours, hire 50% more people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so, this is how it ends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw something like this in the documentary Mark Wahlburg film The Happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to know what the state of the art AI sex robot is right now. Because they have those realistic-ish sex dolls, and some pretty advanced LLMs that can chat conversationally, and longer term memory is starting to get into the LLM repertoire so your bot can remember things about you and reference them later.

  I feel like we’re 3-5 years away from a high end AI prostitute startup becoming huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know.

  The US came back from a US president hiring private goons to spy on his political opponents.

  The US came back from a US president illegally selling weapons to Iran to fund right wing militias in South America.

  The US came back from a US cabinet member taking literal bribes from oil companies to give them oil drilling rights on federal land.

  The US came back from a US president illegally firing a cabinet member and installing his own lackey.

  But it didn’t HAVE to.

  I don’t think there’s really such a thing as a ‘point of no return’ for a Democracy. But it is possible to get to a point after which you don’t return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But monkeys never ask questions.

  Science has yet to determine if monkeys would be able to type “wherefore art thou Romeo?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920: (1927). Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Cambridge [Eng.] :The University Press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s doing what the Board wants, stock price is up. If there was a worker advocate on the board, maybe things would be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When we’re having fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5 day RTO is a stealth layoff. This is a feature, not a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeb! is a hole in the theory, not every major states governor who is the son of a former president can become president themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall kind of a lot of turnover actually…only one Clinton became president, and he was never VP. The other Clinton got beat out by the first black president for the nomination in 08, and then she lost to some guy who had zero political experience.

  If anything, we learned that being black doesn’t exclude you from being president, being female doesn’t exclude you from being a major party nominee, and you can still become president even running for office for the first time at age 70. The promise of the statement is more true than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every damn morning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My body can take the sugar from one energy drink a lot better than it can take 6 shots of espresso.