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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marriage is FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Loser: “This person is legally bound to me so they can’t easily leave even if they want to”

  Chad: “This person has no obligation to stay with me, but chooses to because they want to”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Treading water figuring out how to make money somehow when ChatGPT by itself is a colossal money dumpster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ultrabroadband' 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the range 10x shorter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.

  As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.

  I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life has been found deep in the Earth’s crust. Think about that in this context.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere

  The conditions for deep biosphere life exist throughout the universe. While surface life is apparently very rare, most planetary bodies with a hot core and subsurface moisture should have some layer conducive to this sort of life.

  Since we don’t fully how life arises from non-life, it’s speculation as to whether life really ks uncommon or not. But deep biosphere life should easily be the most common form in the universe. Estimates for it on Earth put it at about 90% of our biomass of archaea and bacteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever had an “AI” show up at 2AM on an emergency call to fix a gas leak? How about an “AI” to cook a breakfast sandwich? Maybe an “AI” is taking over babysitting while you’re out of town…? No?

  “AI” doesn’t do anything. But if your job primarily revolves around words or pictures on a screen, maybe “AI” can help you with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wall hacks could be defeated by the server only reporting the positional information about enemy players to game clients when it detects that the client player’s camera should be able to see some part of the other player’s silhouette. This is possible, albeit computationally expensive, but the main functional issue is latency. Nobody wants enemies magically popping into view when their view changes quickly because their ping was more than 6ms lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft is getting out of the games business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as shareholders, and the board, feel an LLM agent can reliably do all the work of a CEO, the CEO will not need to exist. But the problem is that LLM agents require human supervision or intervention at irregular intervals. Since neither shareholders nor the board work full time, there still has to be someone to supervise and be available. The role of the CEO might change, and LLM agents might end up taking on a lot of the work they do. Maybe someday the CEO will mostly just be an “idea guy” that networks with other similar people to drum up deals and gets the LLM agent unstuck every once in a while. But it’s very unlikely there will be no human in the loop during regular work hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good job Cloudflare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can finally abort those crying foetuses on my next plane flight depending on which state we’re over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well no shit, they don’t care if they get fuckin stabbed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t read your mind. A professional painter is going to make the exact image they want in far less time and with more accuracy than repeatedly prompting a black box to make small changes.

  But if you’re an amateur and don’t really know what you want, or you’re not very picky or care about quality, then meh good enough. High level software developers know what they want. They are like painters. And at that point, the LLM isn’t reqlly solving problems for you. At best, it’s putting the paint to the canvas. That is, saving you typing time But time spent typing is definitely not the limiting factor for productivity in software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At the end of the day, it’s still CGI. How much fine grained creative control really needs to go into a building collapse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Has a Serious Coal Problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like an ethics-optional group that wants to really end the use of coal could run a campaign of breaking into or drilling down to the most profitable commercial coal seams and lighting them on fire. More Centralia, Pennsylvanias, especially in populated areas, would probably permanently dampen the domestic industry and drive prices far upwards leading to the faster growth of alternatives. The obvious tradeoff is, those seams your group lit are going to burn for a very very long time, so you’re causing some emissions in exchange for a global reduction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨im frend :(⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not “learning” anything. It’s a computer program outputting text it was modelled to output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In India, this kind of thing is very common, especially when the beggars are children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t understand what they’ve written

  Well first of all, they didn’t write it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not expensive, assuming you don’t mind giving someone else your microplastics. In fact, you can get paid about $100 to do it in most places. How? Apharesis is exactly what is performed when donating plasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone wearing a mask tries to kidnap you, draw your handgun and put a hole in their face. I’m surprised this exact situation hasn’t landed in the supreme court yet. Pretty sure it won’t be favorable to the masked goons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don’t care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don’t care about someone’s dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it’s a continuous feed of trash somekne else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.

  If you’re not squeamish, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WADA calls on US to stop 'dangerous' Enhanced Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody is forcing athletes competing in this event to seek medical approval and prescription for the use of performance enhancing drugs by physicians with no moral qualms doing so. Witka is not any athlete’s personal physician, and is not qualified to speak about medical concerns. WADA’s role is to serve sporting events by preventing performance enhancing drug usage that those events consider unfair during competition.

  If someone is choosing to take a performance enhancing medication and is harmed by it, that’s between them (or their estate 😂) and their doctor, and whatever malpractice suit is brought about to a court of law.