IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 4 days ago:
One of the biggest parts of the problem is that corporate management types can’t quantify experience and skill. This leads to them thinking of projects purely in terms of man-hours, and they cannot comprehend that not all man-hours are equal. It’s an issue that plagues a lot of industries.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
- Comment on True staple of the format 6 days ago:
Except, when you Google something, the best answers are (or at least used to be) most often Reddit comments provided by people who aren’t douchebags.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 weeks ago:
If something is red shifting, it’s accelerating away from you. If something is blue shifting, it’s accelerating towards you. An entire galaxy accelerating towards you is somewhat concerning.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone make a 65"+ monitor though?
- Comment on Right in the feels 5 weeks ago:
I think “Last Kiss” by Pearl Jam is next on this hyper-depressing playlist.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Either way, they don’t have the reserves to supply their own demand.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 month ago:
An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 month ago:
For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 1 month ago:
It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 month ago:
The guards are facing south.
- Comment on openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit 1 month ago:
Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 3 months ago:
Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 3 months ago:
As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.
- Comment on huge tracts of land 3 months ago:
“Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.
- Comment on no way right 3 months ago:
I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.
- Comment on Sheeple 3 months ago:
I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.
You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.
Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.
- Comment on Arcturus looking for playtesters! 3 months ago:
Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 4 months ago:
We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 4 months ago:
In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 4 months ago:
Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.
- Comment on If you build it, they might come 4 months ago:
If you are a founder of a website or software company that is already open to the public: fuck you. We know you are going to be pulling shady shit later to monetize your users.
If you are a founder of a company making a new widget that you just invented, which isn’t for sale yet: you’re cool. Just don’t enshittify the thing later.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 4 months ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.
- Comment on Anon describes past 4 months ago:
Also worth noting: in most areas, that price is exceptionally cheap for what he got, even for the time.