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chakan2 , 7 days ago

Because Bezos jerks off at the thought of immortality and he has fuck you money to jerk off with.

It seems like if I were going to build something to try and test time, it’d be functional and good for humanity. Let’s see if we can build a probe to outlast voyager. Let’s build an ocean in the middle of the desert…things like that.

chakan2 , 7 days ago

But these people who are getting paid to humanise AI are fantastic opportunists. Sure, it’s not a great job, but they have effectively recognised a new seat at a moment when we’re redefining the idea of productivity.

That’s fucking soul crushing.

We just fired you to hire this machine, however, if you’d like to stick around and edit for it, we will pay you 1/4 to 1/2 your current rate.

Jesus…fuck that guy.

chakan2 , 11 days ago

It should eliminate your need to work, but Musk feeds on the attention and less so the money. There’s not a thrill left he can’t afford.

Running around and acting important is all he has left.

chakan2 , 11 days ago

The problem is 60-70% of Palestine supports Hamas. This isn’t a fringe group waving flags around.

chakan2 , 11 days ago

It’s not pretty… reuters.com/…/poll-shows-palestinians-back-oct-7-…

People on Lemmy seem to think Hamas just wants to bring unicorns and rainbows to the region. When in reality, they’d stone most of the users here for their views.

It’s all weird. I don’t know what kind of social engineering they did to make it OK to kill 1000 civilians, but their campaign was wildly successful.

chakan2 , 11 days ago

My point is Palestine as a whole or even partially support Hamas. Go Google it…you’ll see from 30-90 percent support.

Only a couple of Hamas flags flying would surprise me.

chakan2 , 14 days ago

I was going to scoff at the Prius…the battery is only 1500$.

I need a Prius frame in an El Camino body.

chakan2 , 18 days ago

Pbpbpbp…agile fails fast by design.

The counter from the article is you need a specification first, and if you reveal the system wasn’t going to work during requirements gathering and architecture, then it didn’t count as a failure.

However, in my experience, architects are vastly over priced resources and specifications cost you almost as much as the rest of the project due to it.

TLDR…it’s a shit article that confuses fail fast with failure.

chakan2 , 19 days ago

You’d be a lucrative hostage.

chakan2 , 19 days ago

Hamas will militantly decline any peace offer that doesn’t include their holy sites.

It’s a no win situation. This war will continue long after everyone here is dead.

chakan2 , 24 days ago

Kurt wasn’t offered millions for a private show.

chakan2 , 24 days ago

Dave is making money. Don’t blame him.

I quit a company for this. We wouldn’t give our star performers raises, but they somehow managed to pull off a 7 million dollar one week party for the whole company. It would’ve been something like 100k per employee had they just handed out bonuses.

We lost a wave of talent after that and their stock dropped 80%. I’m glad I cashed out when I did.

chakan2 , 24 days ago

Yes…I’m sure FF is intimately involved in Amazon internal politics. I’m sure they were made aware of every person fired to pay for their show before it was booked last year.

It’s a gig. A highly paying gig. They don’t fucking care who’s in the audience.

chakan2 , 23 days ago

Er…shit…was off by half…it was 50k an employee.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Then Bing it is. I switched on my daily machine and DDG has been ok. Still a lot of sponsored shit I don’t need, but better than getting a solid lie from Google

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Does it fix stick drift?

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Is roller derby a real sport?

It’s the NASCAR of women’s sport.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Britney Griner is definitely worse than all of those 550 men.

You understand the WNBA all stars would be beat handily by an 8th grade all star team right? It wouldn’t be close.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Now, what did we see in reality?

We saw a middling to low level male power lifter make the Olympics at 43. That’s insane.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

This is why this debate is stupid. The people having it are arguing against people who have actually played sport their whole lives. I watched an 8th grade travel team decimate what I thought was our very good team. They had a kid show up that was over 6 (in 8th fucking grade) that could play above the rim. He was unstoppable. That kid would easily be a starter in the WNBA and would smash Griner back to Russia. Get 15 or so of those kids and put them up against any WNBA team you want to put together and they’d win handily.

That’s the point. Trans-women athletes are essentially testosterone doping. They’ve got more muscle mass, and a heavier bone structure. That doesn’t go away after the transition. The British Journal of Sports Medicine confirmed that.

In non-competitive leagues, I could care less…everyone can play with everyone…it’s fine. When you’re talking about the Olympics and college sports where the girls have trained their whole lives for a given event only to be beat out by someone who got to take the equivalent of human growth hormones and testosterone is unfair.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

standard.co.uk/…/australian-womens-national-team-…

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Eh…I’m all the words according to Lemmy. The crowd here seems to all be 13-22 year old ultra liberals. I’m liberal, just not hardcore bleeding edge jump of the left cliff liberal.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

The global shock from a Chinese war on Taiwan

Depends on if Trump wins. If he does, the US will let it happen. If Biden is in office, we will at least send strongly worded letters of disapproval to China.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

It does when we are supplying all the party favors.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

I wouldn’t say terrified. There’s these things called dignity and respect. NYC gave up on those a long time ago.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

I can’t fathom what I have at home that’s worse for me than a 1200 calorie value meal.

I’d really have to go out of my way to make something that calorie dense and still edible.

chakan2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That’s about the same as half a fairly modest frozen pizza and a soda.

Had to look that up. So…Totino’s party pizza (which I eat every once in a while if I’m being a total slob)…It’s 700 calories for the whole thing, plus throw in a 16oz pepsi and you’re still at only 900 calories. (Which I only drink diet these days)

It doesn’t sound like a big difference, but that’s still usually 100-300 calories less than fast food. They’re both shit for you, but if you get to the brass tacks, those 100-200 calories per meal add up quickly.

That’s 20 extra minutes of light exercise per meal.

(The other thing…I looked up the cheap frozen dinners…they’re surprisingly not bad. Banquet, which you can get for 1-2$ usually, is only 400 calories. The higher priced ones (“Big Man”) things are only 600-700. Again, terrible food, but still healthier and cheaper than McDonald’s)

Anyway…the point…It’d be hard for me to make something as unhealthy as McDonald’s at home. I’ve done it (Eggs Benedict for example), but it took a lot of work.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

It’s a reasonable assumption. But hell…I think even a bucket of pizza rolls is still slightly healthier for you than a super sized value meal.

I don’t disagree with you. But I think even the the most unholy compulsive eater will do a little better if they can get away from fast foods.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

I thought it was a really good representation of the OpenAI search engine.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Who? There’s no press tags or network affiliation.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Just imagine a word where all the people talk like LLMs

Have you talked to real people lately? I thinking I’m leaning towards the dystopian version of humanity.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

TIL - asking someone on a date is the equivalent of prison rape.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Don’t ask girls out. The end.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

So…asking someone on a date implies you’re going to prison rape them.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

To me the key point was did the kid open the door? I’ve seen conflicting reports about it.

Also, I hate HOAs as much as anyone, but I have no idea how they are involved in this one.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

According to the law, it is. (Even without castle doctrine a random stranger trying to gain entry into your house is usually grounds for self defense).

If the kid didn’t open the door, then I agree with you. But even the kid admitted to at least grabbing the handle of the door. I’d personally never do that at stranger’s or even an acquaintance’s house.

From a moral standpoint, please don’t try to walk into stranger’s houses uninvited.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Well… the Israeli prisoners didn’t get to say much, because they’re dead.

I’m so tired of the which side is worse propaganda. Both sides are fucking awful.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

Lol…omg…lol…sure it is. Do you like women’s rights? Do you like LGBQ peeps? Do you like freedom of speech?

If so, you’re picking the wrong horse in this one.

I hope they wipe each other out at this point before the rest of the world gets in to the battle over who’s all powerful sky wizard is more cool.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

That’s one way to stop a union.

chakan2 , 1 month ago

I would too, but it really depends on the company. If I can do it, I’m WFH for the rest of my career for companies < 1000 people.

FAANG (or whatever it is these days) are awful fucking people to work for. One of the developers I respect most in my career walked out on .5M in bonuses on Amazon because of their ranking system for his employees. I was shocked.

But depending on the employer it’s still a very good gig. But if you’re at the wrong place, it’s like the upper circles of hell.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

Well…Trump didn’t sign it…It must be good right?

chakan2 , 2 months ago

I’d point you to the space episode of Black Mirror.

Personally, don’t know. I’m pretty liberal and I’d be flattered if someone had deep fake nudes of me.

But I understand the counter argument.

It’s a weird moral conundrum.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

Which scans. How many people watch normal.porn and think: “well, that’s good enough” and just stop pursuing a real partner

Enough that our birth rates are dropping and less people are getting married.

You’re going to have to source your claim there.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

It does nudge you…but it’s not full screen ads that take multiple clicks to get through every week. I was a Windows zealot through W7…W10 got bad…W11 got me to start using Apple and Linux.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

I guess my position is if a car needs an OTA update, it’s a critical failure by the manufacturer. They should be 99.999%.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

They are dirt cheap around me, which is why I see so many of them. I saw a 2016 Model S with the Ludacris update go for 13k. I kind of wanted it just to drive one, then I looked up the repair prices.

Sure… I’d get a maybe 200 mile range out of it in the summer…but once winter hit I was looking at like 25k-50k to replace the battery and the motors.

I can swap the motor and transmission in my car for less than 10k and have a mostly new car.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

You understand you need all that equipment to get a manned fighter close enough to engage. At that point firing a barrage of smart missiles is still cheaper.

chakan2 , 2 months ago

The big cost would be satellite and radar coverage. We have that already.