reluctant_squidd
@reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
What I was thinking about back then was different. I understand what you mean with modular homes, but the idea was more like something you would see in a space show. Hallways with panels like 2x2’ that lock together to form the surface, structure, insulation, electrical and plumbing, with e-ink like material on the people facing side to change the look. Similar idea to the modular home concept, just on a much smaller scale, with extra bells and whistles.
I’m not really sure how else to describe it honestly.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think execs in general have no grasp on reality.
Maybe surrounding yourself with bootlickers just isn’t so smart?
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
Bottom line imo. As long as capitalist interests slow the adoption of standardization in the grand scheme of all production, construction, agriculture, infrastructure, etc. then we aren’t going to get there regardless.
In vehicles alone there are so so many proprietary things that each company produces specifically not to fit any other model of their own make, let alone fitting another company model. Yet, they all need almost exactly the same parts. It’s a bit insane when to look at it all from a few steps back.
But it’s not all the fault of the producers of any of these things. Demand drives supply. Culture in general needs to get to a place where a persons self worth is not dictated by what they own, but instead on how well they actually enjoy life. Richness in the form of experience.
Material possession is driving almost all the problems of the world right now. While that remains true, very little change can really happen unfortunately.
The housing problem specifically can be fixed, but no politician is willing to bite the corporate hand that feeds them. Ban home ownership for non-human entities and cap how many an individual can own in a district.
Rich people still get their houses in different places, but these hedgefund llcs and real estate firms buying up all the real estate have to liquidate. Done.
Unless the people demand it though, it isn’t going to happen.
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
I always thought as a kid that modular construction would eventually be the norm. Kinda like building in video games, or Legos. Basically, premade panels or blocks that automatically interlock and are pre-fitted with the required hookups and utilities etc.
I realized later that as cool as this might be, it would probably be very inefficient cost-wise, where some panels would contain the infrastructure and components for unneeded things.
Interesting thought though.
That’s kinda what I thought about 3d printed walls when I first heard about them. Good idea in theory, but maybe not in practice.
Maybe a combo of the two?
- Comment on LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests 2 weeks ago:
Which seems to be exactly the people they want for management roles. At least in my experience. And I have been in those roles before, but couldn’t fit in. I always related more with workers, than the people that were supposed to be my peers.
It’s a ladder of ego stroking and politics.
AI it seems, is the perfect tool for these people. Imagine a service that always tells you that you are right!
- Comment on LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests 2 weeks ago:
It was ruined long before AI. Can’t imagine how much of a cesspool of unoriginality it is now.
- Comment on Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? 3 weeks ago:
The only problem back then was discovery. Finding the site that could give you what you were looking for wasn’t always easy, then Google came around and not only was it lightning fast, but it actually found things so much easier than Ask Jeeves, msn, AOL or Yahoo.
Then it slowly morphed into the mess we get now from there. AI seems to be making it much worse, not better.
I searched verbatim for something niche and uniquely named the other day. The smaller sites I use to avoid the big tech couldn’t find it, and Google was 3 pages of ads, AI crap and competitors. The site was on page 4.
Ugh.
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 3 weeks ago:
Your example is for graphics drivers, which are unbelievably complex, not to mention have to be designed to:
A) work in tandem with a crazy amount of different architectures, kernels, hardware setups and dependencies.
B) must reliably manage the demands of millions of complex calculations, monitor throughput and heat dissipation, handle complex and varying game configurations and technologies, all while simultaneously working as seamlessly as possible for us users.
The breaking could be from any one of the above systems and more having any number is issues or changes.
Simplified example: Function #185 requires specific feedback from system hardware output #768, but that output was updated by the another development team for another system driver to give the word “true” or “false” instead of a number indicating the same. Now, if that function is not designed to handle the change gracefully beforehand, then there is a problem. Hour severe the problem is depends on what subsystem of the driver software is affected.
Monitoring system? Maybe not a biggie, the graphing app gets killed or freezes. The actual driver gets the issue? Could be catastrophic failure, where the system freezes or restarts, or corrupts the driver install itself and you need to reinstall previous version. Worse case scenario, it really fails and fries hardware, but that’s rare. Failsafes usually kick in on the hardware side to mitigate that kind of damage.
Now times this by a probable factor of thousands of functions and hundreds of dependencies and you get the idea.
I’m not great at explaining things sometimes, so forgive me if the above doesn’t answer your question.
- Comment on Angry American A.I. Companies Say Chinese competitors are unfairly copying their A.I. systems 3 weeks ago:
I feel like the world smallest violin somehow isn’t small enough…
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 3 weeks ago:
It’s like they are trying to fix a train heading for a derailment, by speeding up.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If capitalism is allowed to continue unchecked and technology advanced to the points you mention, then life will become subscription based.
That’s assuming we, as a species, l even make it that far.
Capitalism = infinite growth, which can only end in disaster at some point, yet here we are.
- Comment on Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it 3 weeks ago:
Too bad nobody saw this coming…
- Comment on All cells are bastards 3 weeks ago:
Imagine going through all the trouble of pulling this stunt off, just to find out that the only thing it really did for society is to give it a new meme template.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 4 weeks ago:
My thoughts/understanding, without Google searching/copy pasting, is that communism is supposed to focus more on the structure of a community and specific ways to allocate duties and rewards to generally better the lives of a subset group of people (Community). Personal wealth and standing coincide with your communal position, while ensuring that the least standing members still have a good minimal quality of life.
Socialism is similar, but focuses more on everyone as a whole. Everything is meant to be setup and geared towards the betterment and equality of all, but in a less structured way. All things are done for the betterment of self and society. Rewards and standing depend on merit and deeds equally. Tangible reward is shared as equally as possible.
I’m not sure if I am conveying my thoughts right here. Is way harder to write out than I expected when I started.
In my mind, communism would be more hierarchical in tangible reward, socialism would be hierarchical in subjective reward. (Think Star Trek).
I am probably way off, so if you want the text book definitions and differences, I’d suggest an online search for such.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 4 weeks ago:
See. The problem with your reply is that it makes sense.
Forgetting my point on why I’m surprised they haven’t tried it.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 4 weeks ago:
That’s because they haven’t acted in good faith yet.
I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t locked out and tried to paywall GitHub already. Maybe the OS market share loss is distracting them?
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 4 weeks ago:
You must be looking at a different article. The title even says it, very boldly. Left = decline. Can’t get much more click bait polarized than that.
Look at the quoted wording used:
- likely
- Indications
- May contribute
This is an over dramatization of a coincidental blip found in looking at statistical data. A very far cry from anything remotely factual or definitive.
Just fairy talk that someone decided to try and use as a political tool.
Critical thinking isn’t involved past the study itself.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 4 weeks ago:
More correlation, not causation.
Irish monks who are afraid of spiders have been known also believe in fairies. So spiders are causing them to believe in fairies!!!
None of this has anything to do with beliefs, race, sexual orientation, alien lizard people, moon cycles, ocean currents or tarot card readings.
Smart people have the foresight to see that the world isn’t getting to be a better place. In fact, it is scientifically proven to be getting worse. Scientists have been warning us about it since as early as the 1920s.
Couple that with people educated enough to read actual peer reviewed studies and you have a massive influx of factually educated young people that don’t want to bring new life into a society that seems hell bent on self elimination.
Which is precisely the plot of the movie Idiocracy. But much funnier.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 4 weeks ago:
Just because they correlate political beliefs with the desire not to have kids means nothing. Correlation != Causation.
Have you ever watched the movie Idiocracy? That is more credible than this particular article in my opinion.
- Comment on Left-leaning Americans are driving the U.S. birth decline, new study finds 4 weeks ago:
Why does everything have to be left or right? Other than making for snappier headlines and fanning the flames of divisive politics, it’s not helpful.
The headline should read something like: “ Stressed out and future depressed newer generations opting out of building families in world with worsening cost of living crisis “.
I’d wager heavily that it has nothing to do with political views and everything to do with the actual current state of things.
- Comment on Rockstar Games could strike before GTA 6 launches over unionization 4 weeks ago:
They spelled “Should” wrong.
If they wait, they risk losing any chance of actually negotiating fairly. Assuming they are successful of course.
- Comment on As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’ 4 weeks ago:
Amen.
- Comment on Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax - Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block it 4 weeks ago:
If they are all against it, it has to be the right move
- Comment on VP Vance Says Watergate Would Now Be 12-Hour News Story and Crazy It Took Down Nixon's Presidency 4 weeks ago:
12 hour? That’s optimistic.
It would be blocked in all major news networks. Might see it on CBC international news in Canada.
There were protests across the US not long ago and you wouldn’t even know by watching the news.
- Comment on Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. 1 month ago:
You should start a service to house peoples gold and keep it secure for a small recurring fee.
- Comment on $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year 1 month ago:
Finally some good news.
- Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used? 1 month ago:
Not even close.
- Comment on Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers 1 month ago:
Capitalism doesn’t understand limits. Whether or not they are there is irrelevant. Only profit gains exist, even when they cause losses.
It applies to all aspects of existence to them. Everything is something to be “leveraged” for growth.
They will use fancy trendy terms like “sustainability”, “net-zero”, “responsible” in an attempt to placate the masses, but deep inside the high level meetings for pretty much all of the fortune-500 corporations and beyond , non of these terms mean squat.
It is a curated maelstrom of ambiguity designed to obfuscate, deflect and thwart any perceived threat to profit.
Until that system is fundamentally dismantled, outlawed and abandoned completely. Things can only get worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because AI is actually useful in many situations to the individual, but inherently terrible for society as a whole.
- Comment on AI Billionaires Are Starting to Panic 1 month ago:
Good.