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- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 days ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 5 days ago:
Kagi does provide a good experience but it can never replace the free search engines. It relies pretty heavily on Google’s search API it just allows you to massage the results with tools Google took away.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 5 days ago:
The incentives don’t allow for this shit in an organization like Google. They can only respond to stock price and earnings.
Very likely someone back channeled a demand and they folded like a deck of cards.
So the team responsible for that AI box added Trump dementia to the list of things it won’t respond to.
The team responsible for the news bits didn’t get the request so that just shows up in its place.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 1 week ago:
Unfortunately from a business perspective it’s very hard to argue for this stuff since goodwill doesn’t have a definable dollar amount but the engineering time to extract this and getting it working extremely definitely has a cost.
The back end of this smart crap is very likely inextricably intertwined with Google’s internal services.
Remember Google exists to harvest data which means the important part of this thermostat is not being a thermostat but recording when you’re home, what temperature it is, if you’re awake etc etc.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
The market that accesses YouTube from a PC or Mac is shrinking rapidly.
They would prefer you use one of the apps and at some point that will be the majority, if it isn’t already
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
It’s currently a propaganda refinery.
- Comment on Natural selection at work 2 weeks ago:
Someone should build a whale MRI to check your hypothesis
- Comment on Natural selection at work 2 weeks ago:
Can probably only breath while sitting up.
The Ven diagram of pugs I’ve met whose owners tell me they got surgery to assist breathing is almost a circle
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 weeks ago:
Can we get a link from The associate press or Reuters and not a British tabloid.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
I only get these types of videos in shorts. In all the other stuff is like “we see you watched one video on this topic so here is 400 more”
- Comment on No brainer 4 weeks ago:
I mean that is the best pill. It’s like inheriting a free quarry. I could instantly undercut every other quarry and would not need to maintain any of the crushers or land to provide any type of gravel.
I’m definitely choosing that one for sure.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 weeks ago:
Tell they to the Intel management engine or secure platform module
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 weeks ago:
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 weeks ago:
Most people don’t need them. The gaming and workstation laptop market is smaller than ever. The integrated graphics has been “good enough” for a while now.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 5 weeks ago:
Presumably a Wan modern could fit in one of those little USB port things.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 month ago:
One of the first things they will teach you in engineering design is to start by simplifying the model. So if you’re trying to figure out something like the surface area is a fish you assume it’s a cylinder then the math is easy. Same thing with assuming the object is in a vacuum. If you do that you ignore wind resistance and it makes the math easier. You can come back later and take the wind resistance into account.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 1 month ago:
Companies don’t have morals, if Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with Bernie Sanders or whatever they would swap right back.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
Yeah and the worst part is it doesn’t fucking work for the one thing it’s supposed to do.
The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
CloudFlare has become an Internet protection racket and I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 month ago:
I’ve started asking people what they have created lately… They seem to take it as an insult when it isn’t meant to be.
The reality is consuming is easier than producing. You can see it with the usage of phones and tablets vs laptops. It’s hard to create on a touch screen but it’s easy to consume.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 month ago:
You don’t pocket mulch?
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 1 month ago:
While this is true of public companies privately held companies have more flexibility.
If the Kristiansens wanted to they could direct the firm to be more inclusive. In this case it’s not “the company” making the choice, it’s the Kristiansen family and you can point directly to their need for money.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 month ago:
Already the cost is quite high. A prolific year can easily burn 100usd a day in tokens and they have not even started to enshitify.
Some of the cost to run these models will come down a bit if Nvidia gets some actual competition which I’m sure will happen in the medium to long term because the hyper scalers definitely don’t like paying Nvidia’s AI ransom and the Chinese don’t want to be beholden to a company the US can influence.
We will see which happens first.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 1 month ago:
Gamers who care about this are a much smaller group than American regressive religious zealots.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 month ago:
It isn’t though. At the higher end the last ceo was making 7 million. That is roughly 12 enginees after compensation and everything else… It isn’t nothing but it’s less than 5 percent of the employees they laid off a year ago.
Increasing executive pay is a problem but it will barely move the needle.