boonhet
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- Comment on CEOs when an AI agent ($5/hour) can't output the work of five highly qualified human workers (250$/hour) 53 minutes ago:
That’s pretty much exactly what I meant, yeah - except maybe the redistributing. The CEO makes the board rich with all the fraud and deceit before they even get their golden parachute. Pretty sure they’re gonna keep that for themselves.
Do fraud, earn 10 billion for the company, get caught, company pays a hundred million fine, you get a hundred million golden parachute, everyone’s happy except for all the plebs who got fucked over.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Why’s that?
- Comment on i broke 2 days ago:
Headspace app, omega 3 supplements, amphetamine, CPAP machine
- Comment on Srsly 2 days ago:
Even that is not a full guarantee, as you may develop an incurable disorder, or even be born with one.
It is a great way to minimize the throughgoing though.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 days ago:
Not all my life, nor even that major a city (just under 100k population), but that’s where the jobs are. If I were to move to Sweden it would probably be Göteborg to work at Volvo, or Stockholm to work at some tech company. As a foreigner I don’t know the language or the tech job scene enough to pull off some small town.
I was actually born in a much smaller town, bored as hell as a teenager, my peers’ (obviously not everyone, but a lot of kids) daytime activities included booze, drugs and crime. Pretty much everyone escaped after high school, many after middle school. That’s not the kind of environment I prefer living in. The ~100k population range is decent, there’s places to go, things to do, it’s walkable (since we’re in Europe, not US), but if you want to drive out of the city, it’s 10 minutes to the city limit and then you’re gone.
Now if there’s a decent tech scene in like Jönkoping or Lund or somewhere, I’d be delighted to hear about that. But for the most part, those aren’t places you hear about, nor do they pop out much in job search sites. I’m not picky either, I don’t need to work at some big megacorp, a promising startup with an interesting product would be better even.
I’m not looking to move in the next few years anyway, but Sweden is a country I’m interested in, as is Norway.
- Comment on Diese Gemeinde ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 3 days ago:
I know, but los isn’t a verb unlike go. In other languages I speak, modal verbs like müssen are followed (not necessarily immediately but before the sentence is over) by the main verb in its infinitive form. E.g “ich muss gehen” would sound normal to me, but “ich muss mal” or “ich muss los” sound funny despite knowing it’s completely normal.
- Comment on Diese Gemeinde ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 3 days ago:
Trying to translate Bruder muss los literally word for word is also hilarious because to me it sounds like “I must away” but then German isn’t my native language (neither is English, but I like to think I understand it at a slightly higher level than my A2/B1 German lol)
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 days ago:
Hella expensive property though. For my Baltic ass anyway
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 3 days ago:
I heard we don’t even need our eyes by 4545 and in 5555 our arms are going to be limp. Guess the game is going to run all in our brains.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 days ago:
Thank you for this. Very informative, should try it out sometime. Not a photographer but I like pretty photos.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 3 days ago:
On a sidenote, don’t let anyone tell you european EVs are somehow worse than chinese (they are not). They’re just more expensive due to a fortunate lack of slavery, and generally higher standards of everything in the production chain compared to China.
You forget the lovely government subsidies of key industries in China, they subsidize goods for EXPORT. It’s why BYD can sell such high quality cars at such low prices.
I’m still rooting for European EVs, but ffs, Mercedes has completely ruined their exterior designs (interior is subjective - personally I don’t like so much screen real estate in a car interior, but other than that they still look nice inside), same for BMW. Audi has apparently somehow stayed just as unreliable with their EVs as their ICEs were. Volvo has the EX90 (bigger than I need and quite expensive) and the EX40 and 30 (both too small), but I did just learn that they’re going to start making an ES90, which is more my size. I’d prefer a wagon of course, we’ll see if they make an EV90 soon, but for now the ES90 is something to consider.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 3 days ago:
EVs have to be legislated into being the only choice anyway. There’s no way around it, they’re unfortunately inferior for a lot of people’s use cases still. We’ve grown accustomed to the energy density of fossil fuels and being able to keep cars running out of warranty. A quick look at the replacement battery cost of an original Audi E-Tron will reveal that at this point, EVs are expensive paper weights once out of warranty.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 3 days ago:
If you have the stricter training and policing, you still can improve safety by introducing speed limits.
What is going to be the excuse for keeping the stricter training and near authoritarian policing if there are speed limits? Nearly no other country is this anal about who can and can’t drive on their roads. Maybe Singapore, since they require you to be a millionaire to even get a car.
- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 4 days ago:
I think everyone wants to make good software, except upper level management that only cares about the money. But in some companies, your boss or your boss’s boss has some kind of feature roadmap and they get their asses chewed off if that is not met.
I honestly think most people WANT to do good work. But ain’t nobody going to work overtime to deliver a better product with unreasonable timelines. Not unless there’s a heavy stock option plan and you’re in a startup where your input actually changes things.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 4 days ago:
To your edit: that’s one of top 3 reasons I moved to iOS and while there are annoyances, overall I’ve been happy with it for 3 years. Not suggesting everyone should switch but if you’re tired of tinkering, it’s a good option.
- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 4 days ago:
When possible, use open source software that isn’t developed by commercial entities (yes that also disqualifies all real browsers available - maybe Ladybird will be different? But then the specs themselves for the web are so bloated it takes too long to implement them and you have to cut corners).
Thing with for-profit development is that micro-optimizations don’t make fiscal sense. Say it takes 10 seconds for an API call. That’s too long if it’s supposed to be an interactive website! You spend 4 hours getting 9 seconds off by improving multiple problematic methods. Now the next 900 milliseconds? Maybe that’ll take you 10 hours. Fun? Absolutely, I live for that shit. But in most commercial environments this would be considered a waste of time because I could spend it doing something more impactful.
And anything being twice as fast or memory efficient is usually not noticeable. If you’re going to optimize something, it should be at least an order of magnitude. Therefore everything but low hanging fruits often gets ignored. Usually it’s a case of reconsidering your data structures to be able to use better algorithms, or reconsidering the business requirements to get rid of some processing that could be avoided. The former requires architectural insight not every developer has, plus agreement among devs. The latter may require outright navigating office politics to get product team to drop some low business impact feature requirement that has high impact on performance.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 4 days ago:
The emissions part I’ll have to agree on, but safety? Germany is literally among the safest nations to drive in. There’s not much lower you can go.
As ICE vehicles get phased out, people will naturally start driving fast less often. EVs force you to stop for much longer when you run out of charge. Driving 2x as fast means making 4x as many stops and the stops aren’t 3 minutes with an EV.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 days ago:
Yeah but then what’s the point of visiting Germany as a tourist slash petrolhead?
Jokes aside, I’m of the opinion that existing freedoms are generally best left alone. Besides, Germany has a lower rate than Estonia and we have much lower speed limits. 120 on newly built separated highways in the summer (actually these might have 120 with good conditions in winter too - they have digital signage), 110 on old separated highways and in October or so, they go and collect all the 110 signs and replace them with 100… And up to 90 everywhere else.
There’s a good chance the limitless autobahn is actually part of what makes German numbers so good. It just requires stricter training and policing, stricter TÜV and for people to always check their mirrors before switching lanes. And just good lane discipline in general. You don’t get that in a lot of Europe. People switch lanes whenever because they’re going 10 over the speed limit and can’t possibly imagine someone else is going faster than them, potentially very close behind, in the other lane.
PS: traffic fun fact: Did you know that in Latvia, a two lane undivided highway has up to four active lanes? There’s the law abiding citizen lanes (known as shoulders in the west) and the BMW/Audi lanes in the middle, marked by the white lines.
- Comment on Everything the body needs 5 days ago:
You can pry my monster ultra from my cold dead hands at the ripe old age of 30.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 days ago:
They’re so well regulated that they can safely drive on roads with no speed limit, whereas the US for example has pretty low limits and multiple times the fatal crashes (proportionally to population)
- Comment on Draft her to the NFL right now 5 days ago:
… It’s because he’s black, isn’t it?
- Comment on Unfair is what it is 6 days ago:
Have you tried drowning your sorrows with a good pilsner?
- Comment on Koalas can eat shit 6 days ago:
They could always go to the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia ward to get treated tbh.
- Comment on rawdogging it 1 week ago:
I mean soon as you add the book, it’s an entirely different proposition because now you have entertainment, so you’re traveling like a sane person.
Though personally I don’t know if I could concentrate with the noise. ANC and podcast for me, I’ll just accept that I’m less cultured.
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 week ago:
Ah, I haven’t watched that in like a decade, didn’t know!
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 week ago:
He’s the quintessential cowboy. If you’re making a movie with a cowboy character and he’s not interested in the role, might as well ditch the character.
He’s the narrator in The Big Lebowski and he’s also the dad in The Ranch.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 1 week ago:
Well I for syre learned in school that our ancestors called wolves the nurses of the forest. In our culture anyway. They’re very important because by hunting old and sickly animals preferentially instead of killing indiscriminately, they improve the overall health of populations of other animals like deer or elk. Obviously it’s also not great for any population to get too large because they’ll destroy their own food supply. Again, release the wolves.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 week ago:
If anyone does miss it, they’re a lost cause anyway IMO
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 week ago:
Well luckily that will always be an option because otherwise they’d miss out on extra sales. I do appreciate there being the option to go to cinemas. For the price of a TV + sound system I’d be completely happy with, I can go hundreds of times. I go 2-3 times a year. The other movies I pirate or stream, but I don’t have a surround sound system or anything.
- Comment on Three years after a cinematographer was killed by a stray bullet on set, "Rust" is being released in theaters this weekend. Funds from the release will go to the victim's family, mainly to her son. 1 week ago:
Not surprised. I think even for a professional critic it might be hard to review this unbiased. Will have to watch it myself though I have no idea if it’s even coming to cinemas in my country. Didn’t see it in the upcoming list for our beloved cinema monopoly that bought out all the other places that were struggling so now we have pretty much just the one chain that gets to decide what we can watch.