L0rdMathias

@L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Investors have invested lots of money into these companies. This means in some form or another these companies have agreed to pay back these investors in some way. You can answer this by quite literally thinking of money like a river, and the motion of that river is what gives energy to businesses so they can do their things.

  In a normal not-bubble market, there is a flow of cash that goes from investors, into the company, and then back out to investors so they can do other things with it.

  In a bubble market a lot of cash is flowing into the company, but little or no cash is flowing out back to investors. There are two possible things that happen here, either the cash eventually starts flowing again and we’re all good back to normal after some stabilization period, or people stop pumping cash into the business and the dam breaks. All that money is lost, or all that potential business energy is lost, or some combination of the two no matter how you slice it it’s wasted effort.

  To keep with the water metaphor the AI market is like a hose that’s wound up in a box we can’t see into. We’ve pumped a ton of water into this hose and haven’t seen anything come out the other end. There could be a leak somewhere, or maybe we don’t have enough water to even get through the hose and people will want to use their water for other things instead. One thing we do know is that we’ve devoted so much water to this operation that if something does go wrong it has to go wrong spectacularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear to god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Left is more natural. Evolution wouldn’t waste time lifting that much mass making the creature top heavy unless it had an absurdly good reason to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These parasites man lmfao unreal. Propping up what industry exactly, their own subgenre of niche writing? Pretty sure the game developers, tech companies, and hardware manufacturers are the ones by far and large carrying the actual gaming economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Win back? This country was bought and paid for long before any of us were alive. We keep fighting against the oligarhy for liberty and freedom like we’ve always done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WWIII: Special Military Operation still going on. WWIII: Religious Extremism expansion pack just dropped. COVID: 2: Electric Boogaloo in some areas. Election year in like 4+ major countries. Multiple major entertainment failures across the board in multiple entertainment sectors. And major scandals to boot, most notably a massive media icon’s fall from grace via nice and friendly things like coercion, conspiracy to murder, human trafficking, etc.

  Gee Kotaku idk. You would think a Japanese corporation’s failure and loss of revenue would be more important to American media outlets during an election year. Crazy how that managed to slip through the cracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Add a new currency called the buck which represents 1000 dollars. Over the next~200 years of inflation abolish the cent as a fraction of a dollar. When you reach a breaking point again, reintroduce a cent as a bill that represents 1000 bucks. Rinse and repeat every new inflationary super cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy! I’m so excited to wait months for an update to a buggy mess for the update to simply adds a new texture for cans of beans and a new style of jeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This feels wrong. I love it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Circles are good at math, but what to do if you not have circle shape? Easy, redefine problem until you have numbers that look like the numbers the circle shape uses. Now we can use circle math on and solve problems about non-circles!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Babe wake up, new Chopin just dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re finally ending the official servers, releasing the source code, and allowing private servers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both answers are correct. 20 years divides into 5 sets of 4, but that’ would only be 5 elections if you started counting on an election year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s less than 10% of the country’s life. Just because you didn’t exist before you were born does not mean that others did not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Economists be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Economics is essentially string theory

  Jesus tap-dancing christ dude, what did physicists do to you that cause you to hate them so much that you berate them down to a mere economist’s level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Republicans have Project 2025. Why don't Democrats have their own guide book?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, it just uses the generic name “platform” to refer to their political strategy instead of naming it something ominous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, it could be a scripted cutscene to introduce the second act and give you time to swap disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just go out and buy a perpetual license for any random thing you purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just tri to watch this....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Q1: Assume the blue wind is blowing at an average rate of 12m/s, at a heading of due South. An angel with a mass of 3000kg is heading towards Tokyo and has a heading of 14 degrees north of due West. It has a maximums thrust of 400kps and is 2 miles from the city. How long can Shinji reasonably avoid getting in the robot, keeping the door to his heart shut, if we are to assume the angel has an attack range of 100m? What about an attack range of 300m? Assume the angel can destroy 4% of Tokyo per minute of it’s attack. A city survival rate of 70% is required.

  Q2: Assume Shinji is too much of a bitch to get in the robot. A backup pilot is available on hand, but has suffered severe injuries. She will operate with a combat effectivness of 40%. A second backup is available, but needs to be imported from Germany. Which pilot would you choose in place of Shinji for the best chance of victory and why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Impossible to say. He certainly wouldn’t have been a real estate icon in the 80s and would probably not have been born a silver spoon trust fund baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Union Wins 25% Raise in Tentative Contract, But Possible Strike Still Looms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It only cost 10 years of constant crashes, hundreds of lives, and abandoning two people as sacrifices to the emptiness of space for Boeing to admit that maybe a small raise might maybe be something that maybe could potentially possibly help I dunno just some workers maybe a little extra compensation could maybe help with morale or something I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am announcing my candidacy for president in the year 2088. Any sentencing I have between now and the end of that election is interfering with the 2088 election and should be delayed until that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard wouldn't lie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THE BEST

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An important update on Concord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they’re very helpful over there. You can learn a lot from them. But also:

  Being young enough to believe that kekw is just some 4chan tier slang.

  It seems all knowledge shall become lost in the eternal shadow of an aging timeline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An important update on Concord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An important update on Concord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kekw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  do nothing

  Win

  The gaben method works again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Hamas choose Oct 7 to strike? Instead of say another day?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because OCT 7 8 9

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Low effort high sentence crime like credit card or check fraud. Represent yourself in court and be a complete ass to maximize the jury’s dislike of you, no sob stories reveal zero empathy for what you did. Try to find that sweet spot between minimum security prison, but long sentencing. Make a friend in jail and start a “fight” with them the day before your probation hearing or something to extend the behavior without angering the guards/warden too much?

  It’s a pretty high risk low reward strategy, but the risk is mostly because it’s hard to get into a “good prison”. Also make sure you do it in a state with free prison, some states are pay-to-stay prison, though I guess that could open the opportunity for loan fraud and another sentence if you do get out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'll km/s⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what, jow many kilominutes per hour is one mile per stone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure and I don’t exactly understand that part. It has to do with the themes and messages behind Bloodborne and how that game is a metaphor for awakening true humanity or something along those lines. But that was just a cross franchise hint for the actual parallel universe in Elden Ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From reading his posts, he doesn’t think the game is too hard he thinks there’s an entire game hidden inside Elden Ring. He claims there’s an entire parallel universe for the lands between hidden in the game files and no one has found it because they purposely hid this final “50% of the game” and made it impossible to find.