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- Comment on do what you love 3 days ago:
Ah, that’s true. Though the majority of these are much closer to factory jobs (at least harder engineering degrees than CS) I think? Once it’s built you need security, a couple systems engineers, some folks to move circuitry and cables, and custodial staff. There are perhaps a handful of cs grads employed by a data center as I understand it. (Most employees are managing hardware; they lean towards electrical engineering?)
The hardware only needs software designed for it once in order to offer compute as a service, and that design can happen far away from the data center (and, the CEOs believe, possibly by an AI).
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 5 days ago:
I think OP’s question still holds, even if you think all of that happened. If there was so much life on mars and so much ejecta, why didn’t multiple (differently structured, eg not DNA) rounds of life get formed on mars and transplanted to earth? Why 1x?
- Comment on do what you love 5 days ago:
Everyone is trying to replace most support with AI. Why pay a person to be confused about your weird tech problem when the computer can do it for less?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
As with all economics, the answer is probably complicated. Death incentives aren’t great. Brands partially have value because they can be kept consistent, and some iconic characters have kept a relatively consistent identity across multiple authors. Allowing a free-for-all too early might make those kinds of characters harder to develop?
My favorite variation on this (which probably also has complicated consequences) is that government should, after say ~10 years, get the chance to buy any particular copyright/patent for a sum (based on its profitability, say), and should they choose to buy then the work enters the public domain early. No idea what horrors this hides.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 1 week ago:
Very similar for me. I suspect Overte will feel better for me when I setup hosting my own avatar, world, etc.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 1 week ago:
I’ll add that Overte VR is the FOSS competitor. It also runs quite well, though is not quite feature competitive afaik.
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- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
We should remember the stories with the records; each is unique and interesting and tells us one way a person did something incredible. But I don’t see the value of starring specifically the stories involving trans folks. I wouldn’t expect us to put an asterisk next to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisława_Walasiewicz , and indeed we do not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres_at_the_Olympics#…
I imagine you would indeed feel weird if you were to have transitioned into women’s swimming, especially if you are not a woman. It would certainly be a story; in fact, it would probably be the only story about you, crowding out any physical achievements. That’s a big part of why this isn’t really seen. Personally, it makes me think about why we want gender divided sports to begin with.
- Comment on The Researcher Who Wrote the Book on How Solar Got Cheap Is Back to Assess the Current Moment 1 week ago:
I’m being told about 60 lbs; compare to a slightly larger drywall sheet weighing about 40 lbs. So yeah! 50% warmer.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
Oh yeah that reminds me. It seems to have killed (possibly with the help of AI summary in search) stack exchange. Iirc you can see the visit rates plummet into oblivion.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
I think we have sufficient data to say that social health is at least very different now. See the our-world-in-data topic page. In particular, one-person households have doubled.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
Some translation tasks. Some how-to stuff. I’m told folks like using it to generate say-nothing replies to say-nothing emails?
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
Humans emotionally bond pretty easily, no? Like, we have folks attached to roombas, spiders, TV shows, and stuffed animals. Having a hard time thinking of anything X that I don’t personally know a person Y with Y emotionally engaged with X. Maybe taxes and concrete?
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
shame we gutted social spaces.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 week ago:
It’s a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it’s an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.
No it wasn’t good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
Oh this I did not know! New with the DLC it seems?
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
I thought the weapons were samey until I saw some videos discussing it. The weapon combination system is crazy! Some of them genuinely feel unique, playable, and fresh (though I did not reason my way into any of these on my own).
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
I am so excited to return to it and enjoy the DLC. It was a very satisfying base game.
Linearity hurts it a little bit, but I love the setting and mechanics. Feels really good, and in a different way than many fromsoft titles (at least how I played them). Worldbuilding worked for me, I wanted to spend more time with lore videos than I could find.
I hope it does well and we can see more entries in the series/universe.
(Standard souls warning: I don’t think this is a good first-entry into the souls games. I’m currently recommending “another crabs treasure” for that, and please go right for the accessability menu without shame.)
- Comment on 90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research 2 weeks ago:
Note that game dev is a setting where both users and developers already tolerate a fair bit of jank or bugs, and where having ideas is relatively cheap but iterating on them is not at all. It makes sense as a fit.
- Comment on Techrights — GitHub Won't Last Much Longer 2 weeks ago:
One of those headlines that’s wrong, but by being said loudly enough makes itself more certainly wrong, and I want it to be wrong.
Weird.
- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 2 weeks ago:
From the article
used mathematics and game theory to model
This is a theory paper, not a study on the ground. It’s a reason to give honest pricing, but not new hard data on the practice. It also requires some (nontrivial, non obvious) assumptions about the kind of market. It really doesn’t seem to me that the assumptions hold for, eg, air travel.
I do hope the theory is correct irl; personalized pricing is gross.
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- Comment on Is there a selfhosted eBooks app that can do this? 2 weeks ago:
whoa that’s amazing. Jellyfin does everything.
- Comment on Society needs to keep score on positive impacts 3 weeks ago:
Seems hard to track cats pet without a lot of surveillance.
I do think that doing this personally is part of why gratitude journals and similar things work so well though.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 3 weeks ago:
I mean, depends on the email. If you spend more time answering yourself than the AI would, you almost certainly emit more green house gasses, used more fresh water and electricity, and burned more calories. Depending on the email, you might have also decreased net happiness generally.
Do we care about the environment or not? Please, oppose datacenters in desserts and stop farming alphalpha where water supplies are low. But your friend using AI to answer an email that could have been a google search is not the problem.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 4 weeks ago:
This is a good point
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 4 weeks ago:
That level of sales sounds really realistic to me, most employees are not doing well and experiments in employee ownership generally see people selling that ownership fast without training (at least I’m told). I don’t follow your bit about sales -> stock go up, my best guess is you’re saying that this will crash the price artificially causing people to think now is a good time to buy?
But if you buy too much you’ll be in a position like bezos, likely to get redistributed? I think we’d need a lot of different people with the liquidity?
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 4 weeks ago:
though they would drop in value very fast thereafter, no? My naive understanding is that a good share of people would sell them immediately, causing a price crash.
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 4 weeks ago:
All will be rust!
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 5 weeks ago:
From the article, the 40% with falling wages are not the ones I expected. Custodians, grocers, and service sector are in the top 50% it seems, their wages are doing well vs inflation. It’s surgeons and programmers who are seeing wages drop.
So it’s kinda a weird headline. From the article, this sounds like the labor gains I would want to see.
