Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on POV: You are Margaret Thatcher 1 week ago:
The dead Kennedy’s approve this message.
- Comment on Guinea pigs 1 week ago:
Domesticated ones only survive because of humans, so they’re advantage is being a good meat sack?
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
Yet they can’t even keep their elevators at the transit stops working cuz fuck the poor
Transit is underfunded currently but this is a problem in nearly every major city in the US right now. Transit ridership collapsed during the pandemic and hasn’t fully recovered since, so fare revenue is lower now.
San Francisco hasn’t voted down a transit proposition in decades though so it has it prioritized, and the upcoming election there’s going to be a proposition that will almost certainly pass to increase funding for the San Francisco municipal transport.
The problem is you might’ve been on bart which is the Bay area regional transit and is built around bringing suburban commuters into the city, which they aren’t doing because work from home. So they’re in a bigger budget deficit with plans to close stations if the separate proposition to fund it doesn’t pass. It is regional though so the suburbs get to vote, so even though it’ll probably pass overwhelmingly in SF and Oakland, it may not pass for the region.
TL;DR: SF prioritizes transit, but the suburbs don’t.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, live in SF and prefer waymos. They don’t have a sense of urgency so they tend to drive safer then the Uber drivers who are trying to get you to the destination and out of the car as quick as possible to start the next ride, can’t blame them but they drive really aggressive sometimes. They are more expensive though…
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
I mean yeah, it’s not magic, it’s a tool and it does take some skill / know how to use them correctly, and the people making those comments could be trying to teach those skills.
Like if someone said they had a bad time with Linux you’ll get similar questions and suggestions about their setup.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 2 weeks ago:
until you get to a larger system then it completely shits itself
This has gotten a lot better for me by having a “send out scouts” skill that has a lower tier model agent search through the codebase before it starts to plan. Has handled my companies giant monolith pretty well and even can handle cross repo features as well.
Yet it still hasn’t released six months later
Claude code has been using the new rust bun for ~5 months now and has been working fine, and bun 1.4 that released in August is using the rust rewrite
- Comment on Ezequiel 19:43 2 weeks ago:
The nicene creed had to explicitly ban self castration.
I’m not usually one to support hunting down and suppressing heresies but I’m glad orthodoxy put an end to this practice.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Seems a bit hypocritical to say “you can’t make unauthorized modifications to the software I made” when the software is a mod made without authorization on top of a game someone else made.
It’s fine to say you don’t want AI contributions in your main branch, but to say people can’t fork it if they use AI goes against the ethos of open software / modding.
- Comment on Is it more accurate to call current 'Artificial intelligence' (AI/LLM) as Counterfeit Intelligence? 4 weeks ago:
Calling llms “glorified predictive text” is like calling humans “glorified bacteria”
Both have the same goal: guess the next word; survive and reproduce, But the way they accomplish that goal requires orders of magnitude more complexity in the case of a human or LLM.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
Anyone got any meth stocks I can invest in?
- Comment on When you are startled by what you see 4 weeks ago:
Her names actually sailor peg, and she lost her leg.
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, if I have kids and my dad starts talking to them about what “really happened during the pandemic” I’m yanking them out of that conversation as quickly as possible to prevent them going down some idiotic rabbit hole.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 5 weeks ago:
Anyone know any studies comparing the energy usage of an AI image generator vs manually photo shopping. If a person spends say a half hour on a computer finding a photo and editing it in photoshop to this quality it could cost as much electricity as an image generator.
I think people are starting to overestimate the energy usage of AI while underestimating everything else we do. Like an image like this would take my computer ~30 seconds to generate, meanwhile I’ll use my computer for hours at a time to play games and don’t think much of that.
- Comment on Capitalism 5 weeks ago:
if you need sperm source locally
But the quality of sperm in my area sucks, I know , I’ve tried it.
- Comment on Pressing question 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's Burning Man 2026 week... 1 month ago:
A wook is a sort of modern day hippie but with none of the politics and even more drug use that hop around music festivals usually seen wearing psychedelic clothing and dread locks as a white guy.
Diplo is a dj
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 month ago:
Probably want to finish that off with a shot of insulin too.
- Comment on Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 1 month ago:
Conservatives out here proving to the normies that they can be more annoying and puritanical then the “cancel culture woke left” ever was
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 1 month ago:
the vast majority of people who have ever existed lived during the period of modern recorded history
You sure about that, this says that 117 billion people of our species have ever lived. Writing is around 5,000 years old, and initially was used for accounting so history doesn’t come around until later, whereas the species is 200,000 years old.
Idk what your classifying as the period of modern recorded history though. Maybe you could say that period started in the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC in the middle east, but that doesn’t mean it started everywhere. At that time there were tons of people who lived without writing, and that continues on until very recently. So even after history was “invented” only a fraction of people lived under societies that practiced it until ~200 years ago.
I’m not going to do all the math but it seems to me a majority of people who ever lived, were not a part of societies that recorded history.
- Comment on Bring it back 2 months ago:
The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
*boomers finally cashing in there absurd housing appreciation
Younger generations: we can finally use some of our family money to get on the housing ladder
Private equity nursing homes: not so fast, you gotta give us half of that or grannies going to the streets.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
This is why buying new cars is dumb,
A used Hyundai sonata 2024 is ~20k USD A used Hyundai ioniq 6 2024 is ~24k USD
Yeah it may be more upfront, but most people finance any way and your monthly payment will be offset buy your fuel savings.
There’s enough of a stock of used EVs, quite often with low mileage, at this point that cost is becoming less of an issue for people then the perceived lack of convenience. That and dealerships not promoting them because they get less maintenance fees and there lower margin then a giant SUV or pickup.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 2 months ago:
How common are these in the rest of America? I see them pretty often here in SF but assume it’s just a techie Elon stan thing.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 2 months ago:
Yeah, billionaires like UBI because they can pretend they care about the plebs, but in reality they know it will just cause inflation, which there stocks won’t be effected by, and push even more money into the stock market to protect against inflation, inflating there portfolio.
- Comment on They had to destroy him, for he had grown too powerful, and had forgotten his mission 2 months ago:
One of my neighbors from japan was telling me the biggest problem safety wise over there is from bear attacks.
Kinda jealous tbh
- Comment on It's rigged 3 months ago:
Most people don’t have enough capital gains to tax. If they do have capital gains it’s either in there house and unrealized or in a retirement account and deferred. Raising the capital gains tax almost exclusively targets the wealthy, not necessarily billionaires but still top quintile.
Raising this rate could discourage investing.
What else are people going to do with there money then? Keep it in cash and lose even more of it to inflation then you would with the tax?
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 3 months ago:
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.
- Comment on I’m personally just not a fan of Busch 3 months ago:
I get the societal norm angle when we’re talking about armpits/ legs because you can see those. A girl could go to the beach and see all the other women/girls having shaved legs / armpits and feel gross or ugly for being the one with hair there and feel judged because it’s on display.
With pubes though you’re not going to see others so you don’t know the norm or have as much expectations on how a women should look, and other people, besides intimate partners, aren’t going to see yours so you don’t feel as judged.
- Comment on We are not the same 3 months ago:
RIP Gustavus Adolphus
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 3 months ago:
Ads on social media must suck. Glad we’re all here on lemmy where we get inundated with communist propaganda instead of consumerist propaganda.