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13 days agoStripping the copper wiring from the walls.
HarkMahlberg
People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.
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61·14 days agoThat’s exactly the kind of libertarian “personal responsibility” philosophy that Valve would use as an excuse to justify themselves. You don’t need to be carrying water for a multi billion dollar company, they can take care of that themselves. Unless you work for Valve. I don’t know, I’m sure it pays well.
Unfortunately we don’t need to wait. We have every reason to be skeptical and critical of the way Valve is run now, specifically how they promote underage gambling via Counterstrike.
Whether Gaben personally agrees with that assessment, or whether he’s wiped his hands clean of the damage his company has done, the fact is that someone at Valve created this system, and they will still be there.
2·16 days agoI feel you might like this blog. I think it about every day now.
if Nintendo or Sony were doing the same levels of layoffs
But they’re not. Well, Sony did layoff 900 people last year and took deserved flak for it. But you’re right, it’s not even close to the level of Microsoft the last 2 years.
As for Nintendo,
“If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.”
Call it bad faith, but I literally don’t believe them. They can say it but that doesn’t make it true. Why would anyone trust these companies? Their goal is to get you physically addicted to gambling. It is every company’s wet dream to get kids addicted to their product and leeh off their income for the rest of their lives.
I bet we’ll see all of those things - the ads, the sponsors, the jerseys, all of it - within a year of this program going live.
4·23 days agoCan someone enlighten me on how such communities plan to deal with the 2038 problem? Is it even relevant to them?
Boy you weren’t kidding jfc
Why would I bother?
It’s not for the sake of right wing media, it’s for the sake of the normal people who call Los Angeles home.
1·1 month agoman you took this article really personally…
I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It’s a protest, we’ve had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.
Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I’m happy to see those death traps burn.
2·2 months agothe potential of accumulating society’s knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.
We call this Wikipedia, please consider donating to keep it running!
energy/efficiency advances
That sounds like treating the symptom rather than the disease. Why automate the toil, when we could remove it instead? The other commenters brought up examples:
generating (the boring) parts of work documents
when I notice auto-generated parts, which triggers that I use AI in turn, and I ask it to summarise all that verbose AI generated content.
The AI wrote a document a human didn’t want to read, so AI then read the document AI wrote. The incentive thereafter is to save, and use, the shorter AI doc over the longer one.
Was any value created by this cycle? We just watered down the information with more automation. In the process, we probably lost nuance, detail. Alternatively, if we all agreed the document wasn’t worth a human’s eyes or keystrokes in the first place… why have the AI do anything? Sounds like we would all be happier to not have the document in the first place.
Sorry, the sarcasm didn’t come through. My joke was that no software is perfect because software is constantly evolving as people’s needs and desires change.
Clown on JS all you like, but if git was perfect within a week of creation, why does it receive updates? 🤔
I for one would be happy if the collapse of the power grid killed AI. I would be, if it didn’t also mean the collapse of the entire global economy and the death of thousands of people.
This greedy motherfucker can’t think but 5 minutes ahead.