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- Submitted 6 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Pentagon chief warns China 'preparing' to use military force in Asia 1 week ago:
Literally cannot take anything with hegseth’s name on it seriously, no matter the gravity of the subject.
- Comment on WordPress has formed an AI team 1 week ago:
Mmm fair point
- Comment on WordPress has formed an AI team 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone cares
- Comment on DNC can't communicate 1 week ago:
This is a shitpost, but your response is clearly taking it seriously, so I’m responding in kind. Your response is an appeal to tradition, a logical fallacy and not a valid defense of anyone’s behavior.
The dnc has made many mistakes, any single good decision they’ve made isn’t an honest defense of current poor actions.
They should not have railroaded bernie, they failed to present a valid narrative and lost to djt twice? Wtf
- Comment on Almost all of you was food at one point. 1 week ago:
Oh like all of the material of your body was food, at first I thought you just had really bad grammar and meant “all of you” meaning allb of us readers or something and all the comments were just keeping up the bit
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 2 weeks ago:
“Which is bad news for developers”
Nah, we’ve been through lots of iterations of community for developers, irc, maillists, forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most of my complex questions go through specific discord communities now. I’m not trying to spend a year editing a single post because some swamp ass weanie on stackoverflow has his nose covered in rule dust.
Yes ai has changed the game a bit, but it is not removing community, it’s mostly just cutting down on the question duplication
My most recent foray into a new technology was working with vulkan in rust on a mac, stackoverflow is useless compared to the vulkan discord.
- Comment on Researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types 3 weeks ago:
Tool use/mcp can do an awful lot already, not everything but it’s hard to come up with stuff it just plain can’t do.
Agi is poorly defined, without a clear definition of exactly what it is there will never be a time we actually achieve it because the goalposts will move.
We all probably remember the time that the turing test was the ultimate test of an ai, but that’s pretty well cooked and it no longer matters at all.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 4 weeks ago:
Teams is their replacement, viable or not
- Comment on Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025 5 weeks ago:
Not really misleading tbh, just because you don’t have to reboot the server to get your update doesn’t change the fact that it’s an update?
Also per core? Jfc
- Comment on How would you run a society? 5 weeks ago:
Hmm not going to lie I don’t trust humans to be qualified self-governing at scale, brains are too small and empathy is too weak.
Big brother surveillance sucks, but is probably one of the most effective ways to mitigate crime. Power begets corruption so it’s essential to limit any one person’s power, to that effect a monthly empathy and compassion test should be mandatory for any person in a position of power. Obviously the test itself is the weak point so you need some sort of balanced system of administration and auditing, one group has only the power to judge, the other has only the power to judge the judges etc. Perhaps some sort of distributed dao style voting system, in which voting is mandatory, you cannot purchase anything without performing your duty of voting.
Ai is imperfect but it’s fairly safe to assume that 1000 years of progress fine tuning the current technology would lead to a reasonable system that could be relied upon as a final arbiter for decisions that humans fail to form a consensus on. A “supreme court” of sorts. Important with such a broad timeline that the ai system can only be used after the death of the last person to work on it. So you literally cannot personally benefit from corruption, and income of officials would be strictly monitored, anything unreported would be assumed to be corruption and the position would be lost.
Prison is ineffective, punishment in general is ineffective, so some alternative needs to be established. Since we’re all meaty human flesh machines, there’s not an awful lot of options, perhaps an option to move off-planet if a crime is committed, with a system of working their way back to a main colony.
Work as established is dystopian, I think the focus should be on creating automations, mandatory work should be limited to something like 1 week a month.
There’s a lot more I think, in general hedging against common human corruptions would be the gameplan. Humans will self destruct given enough time and there’s just not much you can do about it
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 1 month ago:
The image is boobs, that happen to look like spiderman, and the bad news is that you’re a nerd or something idk
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Neovim is basically just vim with easier extension creation. It’s pretty good for a terminal editor. If you don’t already like vim you may not really enjoy nvim, it’s more of a lifestyle than a text editor.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 month ago:
Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 1 month ago:
How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I’m not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it’s unclear at first glance if they are directly related
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 month ago:
For large groups I suppose airbnbs are more reasonable, though it’s honestly not that big of a difference in pricing for vacation rentals.
Housekeeping is easy, just put the little do not disturb sign up, they won’t bug you.
I don’t have an opinion on the other stuff though.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 month ago:
5 years too late, hotels have been cheaper and better for a while now. All of these companies that touted revolutionizing industries have just become worse versions.
Netflix, airbnb, uber, etc all of them are worse for people than the things they replaced
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 1 month ago:
What other things, specifically?
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 1 month ago:
Its duty?!
The US has no mandate to meddle in international affairs, any more than a bully in grade school has a duty to stop smaller bullies from picking on their own victims.
The US has never been an international savior, it’s the only country in the world to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilians.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
Contrary to their name, rare earth metals are not rare
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 months ago:
Things do happen in your life, nobody lives in a vacuum. You are alive and are experiencing things every day including the stuff that’s happening to all of us. Recent economic news, political drama, geopolitical events, etc are all fair game
I used to think nothing happened in my life then I started to keep a diary/journal and realized that a ton happens all the time!
- Comment on U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Wife of Russian Billionaire Rotenberg 2 months ago:
Who, specifically, made this choice?
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?
- Comment on Interest in studying in US dropped 42% in January 2 months ago:
K
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 months ago:
Have had a lot of good years with gandi.net
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
Unit tests and good architecture are still foundational requirements, so far no bug reports with any of these updates. In fact a huge chunk of these ai updates were addressing bugs. Not sure why you’re so mad at what you imagine is happening and making so many broad assumptions!
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
They’re all pretty fired up at the update velocity tbh 🤷
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 months ago:
Nah, generative ai is pretty remarkably useful for software development. I’ve written dozens of product updates with tools like claudecode and cursorai, dismissing it as a novelty is reductive and straight up incorrect
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Logic and love don’t really mix well, life is a bit fuller when you embrace love and let yourself feel vulnerable even if you know it will end in tragedy
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 2 months ago:
Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?