grrgyle
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- Comment on unfactorizable 4 days ago:
Oh my God, when I heard about this I figured some super computer was out there breaking encryption, but nope.
- Comment on Cuck Coding 6 days ago:
I see your point, but it’s still funny and apt because all the hype around LLM coding is that it can replace human coders with inhuman ones.
- Comment on Pfft 1 week ago:
Math teachers also didn’t like how I arrived at my answers. I made little games and rules to try and predict the solution in a roundabout way rather than just doing the calculations “straight.”
And yeah it wasn’t as effective as the students following direction, but I was definitely having the most fun.
- Comment on the chance to do it all over again 1 week ago:
Start doing food prep. Guess I’ll have to start making my own oat milk and tofu.
- Comment on It’s gonna run so good 1 week ago:
Why would you hide your pride and joy? Do you conceal your beautifully carved table legs??
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 2 weeks ago:
So start it up, Jeff. Hire more people to do less work. Don’t need ai, or automation, or industrialisation, or any of that for the wealthy to share their largess. It’s all technically possible right now.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Haha thanks, I did double check this wasn’t just about video games first. :9
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a deck of cards in my coffee table that I like to play solitaire on. I keep tweaking the house rules to make it more fun.
Actually I’m not sure I’d call it “fun” so much as “relaxing.” But I do enjoy myself.
- Comment on politic 2 weeks ago:
*It is the duty of every citizen to go into the vats *
- Comment on race to the bottom with no other participants 2 weeks ago:
That’s a deep cut
- Comment on ugh 3 weeks ago:
Do people think of cybernetics when they think of transhumanism? I can see the continuum, but I think of transhumanism as being about more fundamental changes
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 3 weeks ago:
Like an authoritarian that doesn’t people can self direct?
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 3 weeks ago:
They’re just less able in that category
- Comment on A fine vintage! 3 weeks ago:
A fine vintage of pisspost, well done
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t put Breaking Bad over many things. I’m still sore I made myself watch the whole thing.
- Comment on Shaving not necessary 4 weeks ago:
Oh they’re out there
- Comment on We live in a society... 4 weeks ago:
I get ya. One step at a time. I believe there’s value just saying these things out loud, getting it in the zeitgeist, helping people imagine the possibility.
- Comment on We live in a society... 4 weeks ago:
Ads
for gamblingshould be prohibited,just like those for tobacco and alcohol. - Comment on Become the Thousand Servers 4 weeks ago:
That also means resisting the temptation to make ourselves indispensable. Being the person everyone has to call when something breaks can feel like a sign that we are contributing something important, but […] the goal should be to make ourselves increasingly unnecessary by making the knowledge we carry increasingly available to other people.
What a beautiful sentiment. Very well said.
To my chagrin, I’ve seen the “private sector” learning this lesson very well, with the practice of codifying configurations of machines and networks in “infrastructure as code” documents. Though these still require special training to decipher and apply, they make people (or workers) much easier to replace.
Although, I’m not sure I want reproduce the patterns I’ve learned from the corporate world, I’m curious if there’s merit to using some of this technology to make infrastructure more easily "spin-up-able. " Or maybe SH hardware will vary too much to make something like OpenTofu useful in a non-cloud setting.
- Comment on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee 5 weeks ago:
I don’t love this analogy. You’re comparing something out of living memory with something that’s still actively going on right this second.
I think it’s always worthwhile to at least mention it, or else you give the impression we’ve collectively moved on.
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand your point. It sounds like we agree, I just consider work potentially uplifting when it’s not for money. That is to say no one is paying me to do it.
The work I do for my job is not uplifting. I just do that so I have money to pay the man.
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
It’s assuming a lot, but running with the premise of bots totally replacing human workers (dubious), either workers keep working even though they don’t need to (pointles toil), or they cease to exist as they last lever on power is removed (the ability to bargain by withholding their labour).
It’s silly
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
Semantics, but my interpretation is that work can be uplifting. Like yard work is work. Helping friends move is work. Working on your life drawing is work. Working out is maybe even work.
Jobs on the other hand are what I could do without.
But like I said, it’s just semantics. I agree with you.
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
Because the alternatives are pointless toil or perishing (spoilers: neither of these are off the table)
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
The only silver lining to ending slavery for the owner class was that at least now the cogs were responsible for their own room and board and etc
- Comment on Pilot project 5 weeks ago:
Lol yeah it’s the exact same [facetious] logic as expecting increasing the working day from 10 ~> 20 hours to lead to increased productivity.
It’s almost like ample and adequate rest need to be baked into scheduling?
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 5 weeks ago:
I feel like there are still many active forums around, it’s just that more generic spaces like this one are even more prevalent.
There were loads and oodles of dead forums around back in the day.
I also think we should differentiate between dead and just slow. Most forums are unlikely to be as lively as a social media thread.
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 5 weeks ago:
I used to be much more of a hardcore archivist. Nowadays I’m glad some of my most prolific years’ output is just gone, never to be seen again.
