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- Comment on a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service 1 day ago:
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 days ago:
The article, at least, doesn’t seem to try to define or measure “productivity”. Well no shit people are going to be happier not being forced to go somewhere for some period of time five days a week.
Am I happier working from home, or having the choice to do so? Sure. Their data strongly backs that. Do I actually get my work done equally well? For me personally yes but anecdotally group decision-making in remote contexts is much slower.
The research here is ultimately pointless, because it drives zero action to the people who would be deciding WFH policy who are making that choice based on business goals, not personal goals. It might inform politicians if they’re driving policy to promote remote work, but without data about productivity tradeoff or lack thereof, there’s no informed decision to make.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 2 weeks ago:
line go up
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 weeks ago:
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
outside
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 3 weeks ago:
You’re clearly a bot
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 3 weeks ago:
A sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 weeks ago:
The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:
New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.
Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.
You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.
Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.
Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 4 weeks ago:
If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies.
- Comment on U.S. to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs, kitchen cabinets, furniture and heavy trucks 4 weeks ago:
You can tell they’re bullshit made up political numbers. If there was a 68%, a 31%, you could convince me an expert may have at some point been involved. But exactly 100%? Someone pulled these totally out of their ass.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 4 weeks ago:
But like…would Jesus have been cool with that?
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- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 4 weeks ago:
I never have, never needed to, never will. I’ve stripped a couple over the years but they come in boxes of like 100 and I just take it out with a bigger phillips head and use a different one.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 4 weeks ago:
The stud finder sucks, those give false positives for electrical all the time. You’re probably fine if the wall isn’t riddled with outlets, switches, or has a breaker panel.
If you’re really concerned, drill through only until you’re past the drywall. It’s only about a half to five eighths of an inch thick. Wrap a little piece of tape around your drill bit as a depth gauge. Alternatively, there are drywall anchors that look like fat plastic white screws that don’t require a pilot hole. You can get those and avoid drilling entirely.
- Comment on Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now 4 weeks ago:
Currency is just a debt marker. Person from 3000BC watches their friend’s kids for a bit while thet go on a hunt. Gives em an IOU, maybe it’s some fun looking shells. The markers evolved over time for convenience and counterfeit prevention.
- Comment on Coincidence 5 weeks ago:
No because Neil was short for Neilbert
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels 5 weeks ago:
The efficiency of fossil fuel energy sources is in their energy by volume. That’s is and has always been their main benefit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Sort and compare. Battery technologies, even state of the art ones, are an order of magnitude worse than fuels for energy density. This matters immensely in transport, less so in stationary energy.
Sorry, these sensationalistic headlines just irritate me. I’m all for avoiding the externalities of oil based energy.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 5 weeks ago:
Government trying to take away our cornographic material
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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] 1 month 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Microsoft is getting out of the games business.