SlopppyEngineer

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's push for more babies as demographic crisis deepens lacks real incentives, analysts say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Pay women a decent wage per child, like a good part of the average wage per child until the child turns 18. That’ll be a clear incentive to get children. Everything else is just ineffective tinkering. In a classic rural setting children were a labor force. In a modern urban setting they’re a very expensive hobby with lots of unpaid labor. In a quid pro quo world, pay up. Children are not free. If that’s not possible then a growing population is not economically viable in the current system. Better luck in the next system.

Some regimes have tried to force the issue, banning all abortions and contraceptives. The end result was a population that was shrinking more slowly and orphanages overflowing because children were dumped as people didn’t have enough money to support them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only clean cars are target⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
More fun, they have no butthole or a peehole. It’s a cloaca, what is basically the combination of both and what comes out of it is also the combination of both. Dinosaurs were built the same way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t want to live on Mars when Musk is in charge of the oxygen you breath.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to Netscape?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Dithering, it’s a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't stop won't stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Murder your darlings” as they say in writing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Our boss was freaking out over people sometimes doing some private calls during work hours and at a certain point absolutely forbade it. So yeah, people would just end the call at 17:00 sharp and switch off the work phone. It took one week before that rule was rescinded.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s EU law that if you have to be standby to pick up the phone and go on location at a moment’s notice, those are working hours and need to be paid in full. Most companies are pretty careful to not put it anywhere in the contracts or house rules that you have to be on stand-by, but just verbally keep pushing for it. If they keep pushing, push back with asking for the written rules.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Living out the last excesses of a broken system before it all falls apart
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You can almost hear the EU lawyers cracking their knuckles and quietly saying: “about that used data protection.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It’s kinda like saying “transportation” and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain why the US bail system is not insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not insane, just very classist
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Almost everything tech bros say is to boost short term share prices. Any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Now we just need to use the user information to check their net worth, and if it’s above a certain amount it needs to hover a quest marker above that person. I’m curious to see how long before privacy laws get stronger.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You can buy them already, but they’re at least 10 times as expensive as regular cars and you need a piloting license too. Meanwhile regular cars and the normal driving license are already getting pretty expensive for people.

Flying cars also need a runway, a heliport or a wide open space. These things are usually not small and need more space than a car for taking off or landing, especially in non-ideal weather.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Committing to his word⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m surprised it’s Astley and not Ghastly
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Because people get suspicious when somebody is taking pictures of every stranger they come across, but people looking at passersby while wearing glasses is normal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Even worse, it’s completely real. It was the common situation for me before corona. Also driving an entire day for a 1 hour meeting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Another company I had contact with did a few layoffs. Afterwards the recruitment department had a lot more issues finding people. Experienced people would ask a premium because of that company’s reputation in the industry and the experienced people would usually stay a short time and leave. The other option was hiring fresh graduates and put effort in training them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
As long as it looks good on paper, somebody in higher management is getting a bonus for this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s pretty common that angry revolutionaries are used by another rich bastard to get into power by usurping the movement. The classic “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dreams come true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Soylent Green is a lie anyway. Your need to “soylentify” half they population to feed the other half every year if it would be there only source of calories.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Entering Mass Production In H2 2025, Sporting The New M5 SoC, Spatial Computing & Generative AI Could Make It A Hit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
AR replaces all screens, buttons and interfaces with holograms. In this case, a hologram can be the shiny lines you see in many sci-fi, replacing laptop screens, fiddly little interfaces for gadgets, … These things would also be great for designing stuff, teaching using proper models instead of pictures in a book.

Or it can be indistinguishable from real-life, such as having an empty paper book and have the AR glasses overlaying an e-book, such that it reads, looks, feels and smells like a classic tome. Weather predictions look like a note stuck to your door.

Then you have entertainment. That goes from table top games look like they are on the table, to running around outside casting fireballs and chain lighting.

Or it can be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
We need a scapegoat in place when the AI bubble pops, the guy is applying for the job and is a perfect fit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stacked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The same thing with things like Stonehenge. I liked the theory that said these types of constructions are the result of the prehistoric version of Burning Man, where they built it just because they could as an art installation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨under the ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
“The Thing” was a very clear warning
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Hundred years. Big difference with the 100.000 years of the current waste.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the code can work flawlessly in test, but after a few months of production there are a lot more records or files and the code starts to have issues.