OmnipotentEntity
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- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 weeks ago:
I googled it for you.
- Comment on System76 or Framework for Linux gaming 2 weeks ago:
Same tbh. Framework just works. And they do contribute back, just perhaps not as much specifically to Linux. Open source hardware is so incredibly valuable and important and rare. Honestly, if I had to choose only based on how much is contributed back, I’d still pick Framework.
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently working on a government funded project to develop a robot to locate nuclear contamination in soil (for cleaning up the Hartford and Savannah River sites, where we used to make nuclear weapons). The idea being that we use robots to perform these surveys rather than handheld detectors.
My recommendation though, is focus only on one thing. Having two degrees has not made me particularly marketable, it is certainly unique, but HR doesn’t actually seem to give much of a shit. Instead, it’s much better to focus on one thing, get a Masters or PhD in it (double degrees also suck for this as well, because you don’t have time for research and publishing when you’re graduating with 195 credit hours taken out of 128 required, so even if you have a good GPA it’s hard to get into grad school).
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 weeks ago:
I did a double major in college.
In my computer engineering courses, I learned digital signal processing, and then took a follow-up course on signals and systems because I enjoyed the material and I had an eye on robots, because robots are dope.
Imagine my surprise when I got to 4th year and I suddenly found myself using the exact same math to handle thermal and fission product neutron poisoning feedback in my nuclear reactor physics courses.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Damn dude. Is your life really so pathetic that you are honestly deriving please from bad news being delivered to people who are on the opposite side of a fucking web browser debate? That’s sad. I hope things start looking up for you in the future.
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 month ago:
“You mean I hitched my wagon to Grabthor The Wagon Destroyer, and he destroyed my wagon?”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Or instead of targeting tiktok specifically, they could have chosen to pass a data privacy law and actually did something worthwhile instead of pointless, unpopular grandstanding. Haha just kidding, they would never do anything to reduce even slightly shareholder value.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 5 months ago:
LLMs are bad for the uses they’ve been recently pushed for, yes. But this is legitimately a very good use of them. This is natural language processing, within a narrow scope with a specific intention. This is exactly what it can be good at. Even if does have a high false negative rate, that’s still thousands and thousands of true positive cases that were addressed quickly and cheaply, and that a human auditor no longer needs to touch.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 5 months ago:
If only there were other things that a person could do outside of voting once every four years to participate in the political process.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 5 months ago:
Hey, look at that. It’s the inevitable consequence of the game theory of first past the post voting. Voting system reform is my #1 issue, and if you actually care about the fact that “99% of voters” are locked into voting for someone they dislike to avert disaster every 4 years, it should be yours as well.
There is no meaningful future for third parties until and unless this occurs. IRV is a good first step, but Score voting is better. Multimember districts are also important. Getting rid of the electoral college is a no-brainer.
- Comment on Game Dependency Graph of The Curse of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1997) 6 months ago:
If you are taking requests, I am curious how ridiculous The Longest Journey would be.
- Comment on US senators claim car makers sold driver data for pennies 7 months ago:
Too bad you’ll never receive that option from any manufacturer.
- Comment on How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 8 months ago:
The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well
Listen. I know that there are some really shitty stuff going on in North Korea, and very real threats that their government is capable of, and it sucks for the people living there who have to do this work under threat of death.
But if you say that “the scam” is they’re doing work and receiving full pay for work done, I’m going to make fun of you. Oh no, someone outside of the West did work and was slightly less exploited by capital than usual in the process. Horror upon horror.
- Comment on Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) 9 months ago:
To add, let’s do some math!
Let s be the total annual salary of every employee using Adobe. Our goal is to find the productivity ratio r such that changing to Gimp and open source more generally is a net positive from the standpoint of productivity and labor.
s/r will be the total annual salary after changing over, because (for instance) if r = 0.8 then LTT will need to either hire or work his existing hires 1/0.8 times longer, giving (at best, ignoring overtime and so on) s/r as the new labor cost.
We then subtract the current labor cost to get the switching cost s/r - s, and if this is greater than $10,000 then the switch is not worth it.
For instance, let’s say LTT employs 1 person at $50k/year. He’s a bit of a skinflint. We solve for r and arrive at a ratio of 5/6 or 83.33%.
If we have a different world where LTT hires 10 people and pays each of them $100k, we solve for r and get about 99%.
In other words, the switch is worth it only if the labor cost is small, so the extra labor is not very expensive, or the difference between the two software is negligible.
- Comment on The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread 9 months ago:
Cassette Beasts ;)
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- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 11 months ago:
A human made the graph
- Comment on AGDQ 2024 starts in less than two hours 1 year ago:
A pair of friends of mine’s game is being featured, and I’m pretty stoked about their game getting the exposure. Cassette Beasts, Monday at 13:18 UTC.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 1 year ago:
Yeah, you’re not wrong. I’m not saying it’s soon, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done in the space still, I’m just excited for unencumbered processor designs.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 1 year ago:
I would love to see it. But I’m far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.