circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Ideally, yes. But it’s also a better use of existing public funds versus… whatever the hell they’re currently used for. As a taxpayer, I’d just once like to see my money going to something tangible that affects my own life.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I guess I’ll wait for it on a platform with a Linux client, then.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

just the idea that it’s my job to sell myself to these sorts of business goons who ENJOY seeing people desperate and on edge is so sick. i have nothing to sell, i am not a commodity, i am a human being.

This hit me hard. I’m in a similar boat. All I can say is do your damndest to stay positive friend. It’s a fucked up game that only some are forced to play.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Also, the elephant in the remains in the room: discussing piracy is not piracy.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

This was a fun game on the Wii – the second one was maybe a bit better.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

…so did OP, lol

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Wait wait, I thought he said Putin was chill

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

As a renter, I have no way to charge an electric car nightly. The availability of charging infrastructure outside of private homes will be more and more of an issue, unless battery tech significantly improves to be at parity with gas (e.g. I spend 10 minutes at a public charger as if I were filling a gas car).

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

“ChatGPT, solve this problem for me.”

“As an AI language model, username checks out.”

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

No shit?

I’ll do one better: don’t tell Google anything personal. Or any company that makes significant revenue off of ad targeting, for that matter.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

The whole damn system exists to place the burden of a living wage on the customer while the company paying peanuts can claim no wrongdoing. And the really sad part is: it has worked.

Edit: and there are many, many businesses that wouldn’t be in business if they actually had to pay competitive wages on their own. The invisible hand can fix nothing if tipping culture says to throw more and more arbitrary amounts of money at people to subsidize their wages yourself. At some point (I’d argue we’re past it already), the band-aid needs to get ripped off. Only then will we see self-correction. The almost immediate loss of many businesses will likely trigger other actions. It’s already a no-win scenario.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yes, but one way is on the company first and one isn’t. Would prices go up if these places were paying living wages? Most likely. Many businesses would be insolvent because their business model was simply never designed to pay a living wage to employees. Others could remain solvent, but probably not if they continue to take so much off the top at higher positions.

And that’s exactly it: the market never self-corrects if we throw arbitrary money in excess of listed prices to solve was is ultimately an issue of business solvency and ethics. There is no economic theory that would support such an idea in any industry, but here we are.

The sheer number of businesses out of the space might even drive down rents. That’s the kind of thing I mean by “other actions”. But things cannot continue as they are.

None of this is even to mention the sheer number of people in the service industry who are also on government assistance programs. They have to be – none of the blame is on them. But my tax dollars go to that, plus I am expected to pay extra to subsidize their wages with tips. I effectively subsidize them twice while someone reaps the rewards on their yacht. All I’m saying is the yacht people should be taking the risks first. That’s part of being a business owner.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I’m not sure what isn’t getting across here.

Customers subsidize wages with tipping. The amount is ultimately arbitrary and allows business owners to avoid costs.

The actual cost of the wages is not arbitrary and should be put up by the business first.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Great argument.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

What advantage does this hold versus the company paying a living wage in the first place?

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Show me on the doll where the free market hurt you.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Let’s see what Lemmy thinks.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

You could simply learn to cook instead of whining about tipping.

Well I guess the whole restaurant industry doesn’t need to exist then.

Reductio ad absurdum.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

A recruiter reached out to me about two weeks ago. The role was interesting but said “hybrid to start, then on-site after 3 months” – in spite of being listed as “Remote” in the title. I told the recruiter it was a hard pass. They proceeded to tell me that I really should be “more flexible” because they’re seeing fewer and fewer remote roles.

I told them to simply remove me from any lists in the future and that I would not respond to any other recruitment requests from their company.

I have worked remotely since far before covid. It’s been nearly 10 years. I am seeing some companies scramble for RTO, and in almost all cases, it’s companies with demonstrable investment in real estate or contractual obligations to office space. Obviously it has also been used in some cases to force resignations so the company doesn’t need as many lay-offs (specifically for those which overhired during covid). That’s it. As far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely no benefit to RTO in terms of worker performance, efficiency, or happiness.

Companies are very likely to lose top talent with RTO. They’re also extremely unlikely to be able to attract that talent in the first place. It’s effectively a brain drain. Remote-first companies stand to continue to gain, which isn’t a bad thing at all.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don’t ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Apparently LUnix was originally designed for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. I didn’t know such a thing existed for 6502-based systems.

Sounds like it’s time for me to raid the closet. The Commodore 128 is a strange beast (considering the Z80 coprocessor that effectively does nothing, unless you boot CP/M) but playing with a tiny Unix-like OS on it seems like a fun project.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I’m sure they do. AI regulation probably would have helped with that. I feel like congress was busy with shit that doesn’t affect anything.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Luckily for him, he’s had good luck with treason so far.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah let’s not bring animals into this. All my best friends are animals.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Weird, I see “You will need to use a different service/company”

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Some were hot before they were cool. That should mean something.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah, this is a great example of a true statement that just serves to muddy the water of the actual argument.

A better way to think about it is: an AI-dependent photo is less representative of whatever is in the photo versus a regular photo.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

…but the lights weren’t on.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I mean, you’re debating the meaning of “accurate representation”. We may as well debate the meaning of perception, too, but I don’t think it changes the point of my original argument.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I encountered the mother of all captchas the other day: it had me picking a three-dimensional room diagram among six of them, matching it to a 2d top-down view of the room. It was way more time consuming than a typical captcha, and I had to do the same task five or six times.

I think we’ll see harder and harder captchas as AI models get better and better. Eventually it won’t be a realistic option since it just costs humans time and the convenience of whatever service they’re trying to use.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah, they’re pricing themselves out of their own market. It’s been happening for years but the recent economic shifts are making it more apparent.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Maybe this is overly simplistic, but I’m a couch gamer, and text based games on the TV with a wireless keyboard work great. Relax on the couch and otherwise it’s just like you’re physically at the terminal.

I know few people have a PC on the living room TV, but there are ways to stream it over there – e.g. with a Steam Link.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Everything is just perception man… Just waves of energy flowing down a massive cosmic river.

But somehow I don’t think this is Samsung’s official position.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

It feels like the fun side of the cyberpunk dystopia we have seen in media before. Really it’s just the double plus unfun real dystopia.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Though I imagine that a lot of ongoing operations at the time probably had to be cancelled prematurely, the consequences of which might never really be known.

This is the fear that is always instilled in people whenever the government takes an L. I’m not saying it’s a false statement, but it’s also unsubstantiated.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

One thing to keep in mind that may be relevant: copies of non-digital things are different than digital copies.

Digital (meant here as bit-for-bit) copies are effectively impossible with analog media. If I copy a book (the whole book, its layout, etc., and not just the linguistic content), it will ultimately look like a copy, and each successive copy from that copy will look worse. This is of course true with forms of tape media and a lot of others. But it isn’t true of digital media, where I could share a bit-for-bit copy of data that is absolutely identical to the original.

If it sounds like an infinite money glitch on the digital side, that’s because it is. The only catch is that people have to own equipment to interpret the bits. Realistically, any form of digital media is just a record of how to set the bits on their own hardware.

Crucially: if people could resell those perfect digital copies, then there would be no market for the company which created it originally. It all comes down to the fact that companies no longer have to worry about generational differences between copies, and as a result, they’re already using this “infinite money glitch” and just paying for distribution. That market goes away if people can resell digital copies, because they can also just make new copies on their own.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Windward is pretty fun and under the radar.

Sid Meier’s “Pirates!” is old as hell but still a great game.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Super impressive since English is only 1,500 years old…

I’m guessing you mean “Old English” since it’s sometimes said to be that old, but realistically that version of English has very little in common with English now (it was verb-second, for example, like German still is today). Even the post-Danelaw version of a couple hundred years later (with Norse borrowings like “husband” and even the pronouns “they/them”) resembles modern English a lot more. Middle English was largely due to the influx of Norman French (both morphological and syntactic changes), and the whole thing isn’t really recognizable as quasi Modern English until around 1500-1600.

Point is: language is a continuum, and a lot of these oldest this/oldest that claims in language just have to do with where someone is arbitrarily drawing a line.

Modern German for lox is “Lachs” (same pronunciation really, and spelling ultimately doesn’t matter in linguistics). This makes sense, because the English of 1500 years ago would have been relatively close to German varieties of the period. But doesn’t that mean “lox/Lachs/however you want to spell it” goes back further than that, perhaps to some earlier parent of both English and German? Yes, it likely does.

Edit: and yes, as others have said, that means lox is not a borrowing (vs. e.g. “husband”). Lox existed before anyone was calling English English. But that’s also true of e.g. pronoun “he” and a lot of other stuff: by definition, any word that is reconstructed in Proto-Germanic and still exists in English today is “the oldest” (but there will be many of them and they’re all roughly considered to be the same age, since proto-languages are ultimately abstractions with no exact dating).