billwashere
@billwashere@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 1 day ago:
Customers using 3D Sense can generate over 400% more revenue from fees by detecting more smoking incidents and winning more credit card charge backs than before with our powerful sensors and reports.
Primarily just to generate more revenue. Not actually alert infractions. It’s on their fucking website. Fuck this noise. I’d wrap the damn thing in aluminum foil and watch it try to communicate then.
- Comment on Blunthead Slug 3 days ago:
Meth-head snake.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
How did you know about my giraffe porn?
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
I think the idea is that it’s the same amount of light is being used but the actual expensive part of the solar cell is cheaper and designed to take the increased heat. So the same size “solar unit” on the roof collecting the same amount of light and generating the same amount of energy but cheaper overall. At least that was my take. Correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 1 week ago:
I have an iPhone since the first one and I wanna try it to.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
Not a developer per se (mostly virtualization, architecture, and hardware) but AI can get me to 80-90% of a script in no time. The last 10% takes a while but that was going to take a while regardless. So the time savings on that first 90% is awesome. Although it does send me down a really bad path at times. Being experienced enough to know that is very helpful in that I just start over.
In my opinion AI shouldn’t replace coders but it can definitely enhance them if used properly. It’s a tool like everything. I can put a screw in with a hammer but I probably shouldn’t.
- Comment on Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment 1 week ago:
It might have some side effects of affecting more than just the military, but codified right to repair into law is never going to be a bad thing IMO.
- Comment on Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Guarantee Military Right to Repair Its Equipment 1 week ago:
This is really going to confuse MAGA. Pro-military but anti-corporate profits…
<grabs popcorn>…
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
I am what you would call a technology enthusiast, or what some people have dubbed as a gadget whore. I love little electronic devices that make my life easier. However, at no time in my life, will I ever need or desire a toothbrush that needs WiFi access or a subscription to some service. It really isn’t necessary or even useful. It’s like the old comic about the toilet that needs a phone app.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 1 week ago:
I have worked in fast food before and cleaned out the normal ones and I know how infrequently they get cleaned.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 weeks ago:
If someone calls themselves an “influencer“ I immediately want to punch them in the face.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 weeks ago:
Yeah most of the content I watch is still useful years later. Now it may not be super current since tech changes so fast, but still useful. If you have to stay in someone’s face all the time to stay memorable, you’re not memorable or relevant.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m just sick of all the greed and racism. I just want some MANSA (Make America not suck anymore)
- Comment on Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs 2 weeks ago:
I am so ready to just cancel my game pass. This shit just pisses me off.
- Comment on Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows 2 weeks ago:
My wife is a pretty talented vegan baker and cook. Some things I can’t even tell. I’m not vegan but one of our adult sons is so I’m able to taste the difference when she makes something for him. She tried to make a vegan cheesecake once. It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. She thought so too so I’m not being cruel. The taste was ok I guess but the texture was a complete disaster. He seemed to like it though. And the vegan cheese we buy to put on things like lasagna, is passable at best. Most of it tastes like yellow soft plastic.
So yeah I agree.
- Comment on EV tax credits might end even sooner than House bill proposed 2 weeks ago:
I’m all for government incentives to buy vehicles that are better for the climate but here’s the thing, companies are greedy. If a company can sell a car for $20k and make a profit, but the government suddenly is going to give me $5k to buy that car, that car will somehow mysteriously become $25k and that same company will advertise that car for $20k with a tiny little asterisk next to the price.
It will be interesting to see what companies like Rivian, Tesla, BYD, Volkswagen, etc. do with pricing once these incentives go away, and they will go away unfortunately.
There needs to be a better way to incentivize this so that the “savings” doesn’t immediately get funneled into billionaires pockets. I know that any incentive needs to be a slow burn and require some work so that the owner is motivated to go through the trouble because they have something to gain. I have no idea how to do this. Maybe remove property tax on the vehicles over 5 years? Yearly income tax credit? Government subsidized car loans? Extended warranties? Reverse road tax (you get more money the more you drive it)? Free oil changes for the life of the car (/s)?
I mean what you really want to do is get people to drive these vehicles, not just purchase them. One generally follows the other since nobody buys something that expensive and lets it sit. But the idea is to get people away from fossil fuel ICE engines, not really get people to buy EVs.
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 2 weeks ago:
So unless my math is wrong there are 100 senators. And if the only yes vote was my own lovely senator Tillis, Cruz voted against his own thing?!?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I can’t speak from a women’s perspective, but wearing swimming trunks in public feels very different than wearing boxer shorts in public.
- Comment on The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls. 3 weeks ago:
I prefer earthgulls.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t most of the external ports are actually the vulva? I thought the vagina was just the tube…
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 3 weeks ago:
We need a before shot for sure.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 4 weeks ago:
Also a very valid point.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 4 weeks ago:
Very true.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 4 weeks ago:
And who is going to willingly get into a Tesla Taxi?!?!
- Comment on wtf 4 weeks ago:
No, no I didn’t need that rabbit hole…
(spends the next hour reading about it)
- Comment on They used to keep that thing ice cold straight through the 90s. 5 weeks ago:
MST3k …or vagina dentata?
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 5 weeks ago:
Only 😏
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 5 weeks ago:
Wow, I hadn’t even thought about that. Excellent point!!
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 5 weeks ago:
The fact that this conversation is even necessary is to me more scary.
I used to think the Bush era was bad. I’d gladly trade that for now.
