mindaika
@mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I see you’re familiar with my company
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
Pretty easily: that’s the whole point of the concept of “reputation”
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 4 weeks ago:
No: converting commercial space to residential is more expensive than building new residential
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 4 weeks ago:
Same. Actual drug addiction (cannabis) has been far cheaper than WoW was
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 4 weeks ago:
I sure hope so. Pretty hard to sell cars if you don’t even know where they are
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
“God did it to trick you” is pretty hard to disprove
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
There’s bread from 14,000 years ago
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 4 weeks ago:
You use Comcast because you have 0 other choices
I use Comcast because I have 1 choice
We are
notthe same - Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 4 weeks ago:
I use Comcast because I have one choice and it’s Comcast
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 4 weeks ago:
Replacing BMI with BMI2 is fine, but it’s doesn’t change the fact that most Americans are overweight or obese, and the tiny, tiny sliver of people who have a high BMI from weightlifting are insignificant relative to the ~70% that are just plain fat
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t most of Linux open source?
- Comment on Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team 4 weeks ago:
Plus that whole thing where record companies got caught price-fixing CDs
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 4 weeks ago:
Legally, yes. In practical terms, spending $1000 to fight a lawsuit and win $50 isn’t realistic, and I’d be willing to bet T-Mobile forces arbitration anyway
- Comment on Cognitive Biases 4 weeks ago:
Confirmation bias bias
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 4 weeks ago:
You don’t hear about it because the two major parties both oppose them and have nothing to argue about
- Comment on Still waiting lol 4 weeks ago:
Step 1: Add milk
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 4 weeks ago:
I’m going wait for the follow up: showing how CEOs don’t prioritize human welfare over profits
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 4 weeks ago:
Just gonna throw this idea out there:
What if they hired a bunch of engineers who graduated from sketchy, unaccredited colleges in foreign countries and paid them half as much much?
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
30 years ago, I had to spend 40 hours a week working. Decades later with all the software improvements, I have to work 40 hours a week
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Much of the technological improvement I’ve seen in the last 20 years isn’t real meaningful. Smartphones don’t make my life better. A 60” flat screen 4k TV doesn’t make movies any better. My 2019 Jeep gets worse gas mileage than my 1978 Gremlin. Plane rides are worse. Ads cover everything I look at. We no longer own music we like to listen to
Was any of it good? Sure, but most of it is just garbage to generate more consumption
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 weeks ago:
“Not blowing up later” would be part of the problem being solved
Engineering for future requirements almost always turn out to be a net loss. You don’t build a distillation column to process 8000T of benzene if you only need to process 40T
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a problem for later
- Comment on Congressman rails at Hong Kong efforts to block US-based content. 4 weeks ago:
No, this is Patrick
- Comment on Who all wants a silent spring? 4 weeks ago:
¿BEES?
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t love AI, but programming is engineering. The goal is to solve a problem, not to be the best at solving a problem.
Also I can write shitty code without help anyway
- Comment on A Flourishing Internet Depends on Competition 4 weeks ago:
Unregulated capitalism converges on monopolies and subsistence wages
- Comment on WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book. 4 weeks ago:
Oh good. It’s really annoying have my contacts in one place; better to have a subset of them on a proprietary app
- Comment on This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop 4 weeks ago:
What is this shit?
- Comment on 2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online. 4 weeks ago:
Spoken like a perpetual victim
- Comment on 2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online. 4 weeks ago:
Bigot. Why do you hate questions so much?