HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I want the future to say nice things about me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This meeting isn’t something new or out of the blue, but will likely continue current trends.

  Ukraine immediately reached out to European countries for support, many of whom indicated that they would support Ukraine even if the USA didn’t. I expect this to continue the creation of some kind of post NATO European defense treaty/system without American involvement.

  This will also weaken a lot of other American led security alliances given that Trump has hinted at demanding more from them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are US governors allowed to maintain their own foreign policy and relations, without control of the president or federal government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  States have to function within the guidelines set by the Federal government, but there a lot of wiggle room within that.

  For instance, it is common for states to engage in economic development missions to various countries as a way to lure investment into their own states.

  It is also common for border states to have working groups with subnational entities across the border to address regional issues that can be handled at the state level. The states of Arizona and Sonora have a relatively deep working relationship to address various issues.

  You can also have the federal government devolve some power to states. The Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement became codified in the USA as the Great Lakes Compact in 2008, but mainly leaves the running of the commitments to the affected states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to effectively protest outside my House representative's office⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wear a suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Poorly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how costly it is to send inspectors on the tracks, I can see this being of value to MTA. This is also a decent use of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Google Pixel is dedicated recording hardware. It has a good enough microphone, great camera, and potentiometers to monitor vibration.

  It also doesn’t have to be amazing, just good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not now, since Trump fucked over their finances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A problem with the constitution is that the framers didn’t expect items to be defined differently than today. No one really expected a mass deployment of troops that wouldn’t be called a war.

  Also, the framers didn’t expect Congress to roll over as much as it has to the President.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My coffee table had never had everything but coffee placed on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about my butt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The iPhone came out before Android, so Apple had first mover advantage it could solidify to a sticky user base.

  Also, a “free” Android experience only occurs when you’ve got full control of everything. Android was a lot more willing to give up control to third parties, including carriers. With Apple, you’re only giving control to one company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’ll buy that for a dollar!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in high value places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The geography of generative AI’s workforce impacts will likely differ from those of previous technologies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an Economist article about the expected impact of AI on worker productivity and it found a major bifurcation of impacts.

  If AI output could be trusted as is, productivity gains mainly went to less productive workers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the hard parts of the job. This could reduce wages since you can lower job requirements by using AI.

  If AI output needed human processing and review, productivity gains mainly went to high performers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the easy parts of the job. This could reduce employment as high performers can do more by using AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify begins accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that isn’t caring about your stack beyond that your stack isn’t shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For consumption of content, phone to laptop use is probably about 70% phone and 30% laptop.

  For production of content, 20% phone and 80% laptop, with Lemmy being a large part of the 20% phone production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA definitely went crazy after 9/11 and has done destabilizing things to the international community. I’m not denying that.

  However, the USA has a big stick that has been able to keep most borders frozen. Without the threat of American intervention, I can see a lot of wars between countries start because war became an option.

  And this could come to pass with a peaceful China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is including the Middle East.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My only concern is that I expect an increase in international conflict as the American security guarantee is gone. The only remaining countries capable of projecting power internationally can’t do it on nearly the scale of the USA. I expect a lot of wars until new spheres of influence get established.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Intensionally, the USA is going to lose its status as a hyperpower. Europe is going to decouple from American defense policy to the point where I can see American military bases close in Europe. An anti-Chinese military alliance will function with or without the USA anchored by India and Japan, but I see that force yielding some territory to China in the near term. There will probably be an increase in the number of wars in general as regions go into conflict without an American threat to maintain borders. Nothing the USA does is likely going to fix this.

  Domestically, the administration is the greatest threat to the republic since the Civil War. If Trump is able to be pushed out in the future, there is going to need to be a major re-evaluation of how the American federal government works. This is going to require constitutional changes and the removal of major powers that the President has collected as the federal government grew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t fly away?

  I thought he would break apart and his powers would go back to their component rings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people talked about how the system was designed, but I’m going to ask about what you mean from a different point of view. What use would that system be?

  Everyone carries around their own personal DNS in the form of an address book. It used to be a physical book; now it is integrated to your phone. There used to be a physical book of most people’s phone numbers, but that practice went away as spam calls became a larger problem and people stopped using the DNS book, the Yellow Pages, for looking up commercial numbers.

  Second is phone numbers aren’t as valuable as IP address numbers.

  The theoretical limit to phone numbers in the USA and Canada, which has a combined system, is 10 billion while not taking into account special numbers like 911 or that 555 numbers don’t work. That’s still enough for everyone within the USA and Canada to have a personal and work phone number with plenty to spare. If that becomes too much, the system can be changed to add more digita relatively easily.

  In contrast, large parts of the Internet still works on IPv4. This is a problem as IPv4 only has about 4 billion IP address and every device has to have an IP address to work. I’ve got at least 5 devices that need an IP address to work while I only have one device that needs a phone number. So, the system of assigning IP addresses gets very complicated and DNS smooths that process to end users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.

  The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But no one is flying Southwest for a best in class experience. It doesn’t have to be a great system to use, just a system that does the bare minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there really a need to extend functionality like there was 10 years ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter and Tumblr are operating on skeleton crews but are able to make changes.

  Craigslist is still around even though it hasn’t changed much since the '90’s.

  There is an entire industry of companies that buy old MMO’S and maintain them at a low cost for a few remaining players.

  Southwest Airlines still runs ticketing on a Windows 95 server.

  I think you’ll see more companies accept managed decline as a business strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying you can fire everyone, but the maintenance team doesn’t need to be the size of the development team if the goal is to only maintain features.