PolarKraken
@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 days ago:
All jokes aside, what I’m seeing is that folks basically cannot hire competent DevOps (well, not for the idiot rates we’re apparently offering).
There is gold in them thar hills…
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 days ago:
Please don’t be ridiculous! We love wacky robot wizard. Wacky robot wizard does it even better than the people we tried paying almost nothing to do it!
- Comment on Just one more square bro 6 days ago:
I’m not sure where I came across it, but it’s out there somewhere. You can do it!
- Comment on Just one more square bro 6 days ago:
For the lolz? Little harmless fun? Sheesh.
- Comment on every time 6 days ago:
Oh neat, idk I could see lil glowy + magnet or Velcro for camping gear or something being useful.
- Comment on every time 6 days ago:
crikey, d’ya hear that?! That’s the unmistakeable sound of an aspiring young content creator - they’ve just spotted their elusive prey - an unfilled niche! Let’s go poke em with a stick, see what happens!
(RIP Steve Irwin, zero shade meant to a real one)
- Comment on Just one more square bro 6 days ago:
(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch.”)
- Comment on every time 6 days ago:
Yeah, I have some of those already 😅. Was hoping for some weird nixie tube type clock or something, idk.
- Comment on every time 6 days ago:
Looks inside Becomes putrescent
- Comment on every time 6 days ago:
Dang, that’s dope. Any cool projects using those you’d know of / wanna share?
- Comment on ard 6 days ago:
My utterly baseless theory on braggart is that those folks have always been so MF irritating, through history, that people pronouncing the word just tend to do so using a clipped, terse voice.
“Oh, m’lady, pray tell? T’was Kevin spinning such fanciful yarns for thee? (grits teeth) UGH, that braggart”
I don’t care if it’s true.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
Oh gotcha. My bad that was clear to me going in, def a whoosh
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
Sadly you’re almost certainly right, at least eventually.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
Feel like elaborating any? Looks like pretty over-the-top satire at a glance, but I’d always rather hear from people than read docs, “search things up” (for fuck’s sake lol), etc.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s what ya mean with “false flag”, that’s a little specific (could also be me missing your point of course).
But hard agree. Even despite this, it looks good, sure - but let time earn trust, it will find it if there’s any to be found.
Until then - nonetheless, I say reward the moves that look like “we don’t need you”, to fascists. It ain’t much but it’s something.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
Oddly enough this positions Anthropic as the sole big player in the (seriously disastrously) complicit landscape of roughly ALL large tech I’m aware of, to say nothing of AI.
I hate to say this, but this really should be (tentatively, but ideally dramatically) rewarded.
Like a large scared dog, on a leash, in a yard with a bunch of even bigger ones. Ones with leashes held by something permanently unreliable, and the dogs know it. And this is the only one that does the “play bow”.
And we don’t get to leave the yard. Clear choices to be made.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷♂️
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
I definitely can’t comment on what your situation looks like to you directly, but where I live, I find your description of nothing but “lil Istanbuls” in the “inner cities” to sound super suspicious. Gross, honestly.
In the US that’s roughly the exact sentiment (not far from exact words, truly!) that the most egregious Trump supporters spew everywhere they can. To be clear, these folks rarely visit a city in any capacity and will often tell stories for weeks when they do. All the while getting themselves worked up enough to collect legitimate small arsenals (not hypothetical “har har, Americans”, I’ve known many people young and old like this).
I dunno. I can’t see what it looks like from your eyes, fundamentally. But are you sure you’re as unwelcome as you think in the immigrant shops, or even shopping areas/neighborhoods? I randomly pop into whatever vaguely or strongly “ethnic” shop or restaurant and never have a bad time. Pretty often have some fantastic times! Just go shop there and let yourself be (a little) vulnerable and clueless, is the advice I’d give my lost warped countrymen.
Sounds like you’re describing a different desired experience, I don’t mean to be TOO reductive, but idk. Cultural integration can work both ways, it’s fun and dope to learn and enjoy what other people like, might be my single favorite experience on Earth 🤙
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
That’s about what I was thinking. Can’t entirely fault the sellers, everybody’s got their hustle to keep their heads above water.
But goddamn that should ring alarm bells for any policymaker who gives a shit. (I know, I know)
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m in the US and what you described matches the experience here too.
One major point though, the physical locations still have to pay humans, in my community, to operate. It’s not much, but these days I consider it roughly a moral duty to do what I can to force companies to spend money on employees.
And then otherwise we just buy more and more stuff second hand. Quality in everything is trash anymore, even just packaging is barely functional trash these days. Everything you open destroys itself, including stuff that’s supposed to reseal with a zipper, like a bag of cheese. Gotta make line go up!
- Comment on Ouch 1 week ago:
I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, this original) and just couldn’t. Despite Callaghan and team’s best (sincere) efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.
Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental “equipment” to engage with the topics in any complexity.
Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas “95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding” and (his claim) “89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis”. Those can actually both be true and they aren’t even very complicated but it was too much for him.
To be clear I’m not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.
He’s not just wrong and hateful, he’s flat out incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. I’d love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
Lol! I think this AliExpress shop was doing the same probably. Just maybe more automated (maybe).
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
Bought something from AliExpress last week. Showed up in an Amazon box 😐 Aggravating that the only way to avoid them is apparently never shop online. I already mostly don’t, but sheesh.
- Comment on 20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI. 1 week ago:
100% the situation. He provided exactly zero info or context that he was up to that, however 😂
First - intense lecture - terse, clipped, accurate - then half-shouting while eyeballing everyone in the room, at the parts one can only assume are most often misunderstood.
And then, “you may ask questions”. Lmao. Legend. And he really would do exactly that, and extremely competently, and would enjoy it if anyone engaged. His enjoyment was genuine but also similarly illegible, lol. I have a feeling he wildly outclassed even his peers at the school, bro’s frustration was like a wound, sadly.
Learned a ton from the guy, but can’t say many did overall, he offered it but didn’t exactly invite. Gateway experience for a ton of degree candidates, that whole deal.
Not even at a particularly serious school lol, like I said. Legend. “You will learn this [hapless candidate chasing a dollar by pretending knowledge] - to my standards - or you will not proceed. I offer everything you need and much more, but you must do the work.”
- Comment on 20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI. 1 week ago:
One of the best (also most intimidating) teachers I ever had would do this when students asked questions - asked questions in response, gradually leading the student to discover, by publicly stating, what they understood and what they did not.
Everyone misunderstood him (Turkish guy teaching EMF in the US) and thought he was just trying to embarrass and shame them. Though to be fair, I DO think he had some serious resentment toward the sense of entitlement many students approach their education with, and I share it.
His attitude left a bit to be desired, but if you were willing to humble yourself and truly engage with him when you asked a question (AKA not just retreat when he starts probing) - he just had this magical ability to ask questions until you revealed (seemingly to yourself) precisely what you had missed. Never really seen anything quite like it, he was distinct. And he respected and became warm with the students who would humble themselves and publicly try, too, which came as a shock given his permanently grumpy, disappointed demeanor. Plus he went some years where no students achieved that breakthrough, so his reputation never included notes about such.
(Uhh, my bad, just went down memory lane and only some of that has to do with what you said lmao)
- Comment on whatever tf this is 2 weeks ago:
Old man Da Vinci furiously scribbling while also delivering the overexcited stream-of-consciousness babble of a little kid with his favorite thing
- Comment on Liminal Space 2 weeks ago:
this guy coaxes
- Comment on Moats are back! 2 weeks ago:
Hwel by golly and bless your heart, may the Lord do his work. Praise Him 🙏
- Comment on Moats are back! 2 weeks ago:
Even if you remove the more lurid reports, the simple fact of “recruitment” for such a hideous enterprise, what accomplishing that requires - that is hunting humans for sport.
Extending globally to identify and traffick vulnerable young people, targets meeting the right criteria to make it all “work”.
No metaphors are needed, nor any reliance on anything remotely controversial in the files. Hunting humans for sport is exactly, dead on correct.
- Comment on Moats are back! 2 weeks ago:
But there’s so many of us…