drmoose

@drmoose@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn’t understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I’m in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you’re traveling at all then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Saboteur is an incredible fun. Feel like replaying it now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn’t program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it’s not really needed in contemporary dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of Bloodborne 60fps Patch Says Sony Has Sent Him a DMCA Takedown — but Why Now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried to play the game like 10 times - just can’t get over the incredibly poor performance. What a waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know man it feels like it’s too far gone. I’m getting constantly bullied for saying soviet union was actually evil and should not be aspired to which is such a turn off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said! More people need to hear this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too though luckily I’ve only learned about Neil Gaiman just before all of this shit broke out.

  I think cancel culture might actually be a net good and hear me out. There are a lot of really good people and role models out there but it’s a crowded space and we should move quicker with social judgement to sort out the marbles. We still hadn’t figured out how to do it in a more organized manner but yeah fuck Neil Gaiman, there are thousands of other brilliant writers who are also great human beings, we should give them space to thrive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, though it seems like we missed our chance at this long time ago. Can you imagine what would have to happen for US or China to split up in this day an age? That’s world-war territory and tbh I’d rather have what we have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m quite fond of it!

  I’m traveling around south east asia working remotely and staying in small expat communities for a few years at a time (long term visas are still hard). There are a lot of small communities all over the place here in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia. I’d hesitate to call them anarchist per se because it’s still kinda overseen by local authorities when it comes to crime and visas etc. but it’s pretty close otherwise!

  That being said I don’t know how anarchism could be sustainable at scale without a major cultural reset, so I’m not sold on the idea it would work for giant homogenous places like China or US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to consider myself quite a socialist but tankies really straightened me out by taking side of Russia and Soviet Union of which I’ve experienced the horrors off first hand myself. There is socialism without cancers like Kremlin and CCP but the whole thing has been ruined and hijacked by these idiots just like alt-right ruined conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is absolutely a scale thing. Small teams and employers can learn about each other and evaluate risks more accurately than big corporations.

  If I hire a security guard for my own company and perimeter I’m familiar with I know exactly how much work is needed to secure it and I know exactly what I should expect from my guard. On the other hand, if a big specialized company does this as a service they don’t know this and thus impose stricter requirements and expectations.

  I think this makes sense but also why can’t we just do more of the former and less of the latter as it’s clearly less efficient from societal pov even if appears to be more efficient from purely economical one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many boring jobs are overly strict and forbid employees for any form of multi tasking and often not because it would make them worse workers but because the employer has all the power and would rather not take any risks even though the risks are so minimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man you’re trying to solve metaphysics wirh ratios and cement and shit lol go away

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you fundamentally misunderstand Golden Mean if you argument against it with statistics and I’ll leave it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point but I don’t think it applies here. Balanced doesn’t necessarily mean a compromise.

  In your first example Golden Mean would be to take antibiotics until you are fully cured not less not more.

  Same for your second example. Going too far in autocracy would could mean efficiency but also injustice and going too far into democracy could mean nothing ever gets accomplished due to endless indecision. This is exactly what elective democracy is so effective imo as it’s a Golden Mean of these two edges.

  That’s what Golden Mean means - the center is where magic happens and the edges are always full of failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not promoting violence or anything. But stupid quest since Iran has an 80 million bounty on Trumps head. If someone would follow thru do they just go to Iran and be like pay up? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy that the world’s history was almost changed by some deranged idiot with bad aim. Makes you wonder if he was a time traveler trying to save the ww3 timeline and got brain damaged by the time travel machine or smt. Idk would make a good movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A delicate balance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We known since our very inception that balanced takes are the most healthy and efficient path forward from Aristotels Golden Mean to Taoist’s balance in all things and this awesome quote by Carl Sagan here as well.

  Yet here we are, in a time where it should be the easiest option we have all sort of idiots from alt right to tankies. The fact that these people have such strong voices is simply degeneration no matter how you look at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I’m lucky I got this opportunity which really made me believe in social safety net as an ideology. So many people are stuck because there just no time to respecialize and re-invest your human resources. Automation, AI, robotics are only a problem because of this. If AI can take taxi driver’s job and the taxi driver has the support to re-specialize to something more fulfilling then it’s a win-win for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever dude, climbing whole mountains here rather than give it up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah dude you said it’s the same ethical issue when it’s clearly not. Machine deciding whether who lives or dies vs what exactly? What’s the other issue that is the same “ethical issue” here with image generating AI? Which part is the same or even remotely similar?

  Maybe you mean that both technologies are problematic? But that’s really not all that useful because ALL technology is problematic by the very nature of it being a force of change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly you don’t even know what AI means and just parrot whatever meme you hear. What ethical issues? You’re comparing copyright theft to what? Using machine learning to decide whether insurance claim should be accepted? These aren’t even the same realm of computing and as close as a calculator is to Candy Crush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a stretch. AI used to deny claims and video animation AI are so far apart that you might as well be talking about these two things using the same electrons 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a fair take though the world is allergic to “open source” being a part of our government. I mean, we can’t even open source government projects paid by citizens in most countries so introducing open source as part of our governing process is basically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saint Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s incredible how successfully AI topic has been hijacked.

  Copyright is bad, period. Barking at AI for using copyrighted shit for training just makes it less accessible to train for anyone BUT the mega rich.

  I genuinely don’t understand the though process of these people. We want information to be free and accessible to everyone, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Human! Colorblind is the only way to go.

  There is no race culture, period. There’s regional, community or occupational culture but having specific racial features does not magically alter your brain chemistry or define your identity.

  Don’t fall for this stupid nonsense - be cosmopolitan, be colorblind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • political institutions should promotoe individual rights and social equality
  • critqued organized religion
  • the government should serve the people
  • wrote “These are the times that try men’s souls” during civil war
  • people have the inherit right to reform and/or dismantle oppresive goverments

  That’s what I gather from his wiki and some chatgpt queries. Never heard of him before but honestly, I’m a big fan now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  US is system is so bad. The constant pandering to “founding fathers” as if it’s even possible to have strong enough vision that it would last 200+ years and refusal to innovate past the ridiculous two party system is just sad tbh.

  Yet nothing will change because you can’t change these things without a revolution apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not worried you're worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are americans so stupid and yet manage to export so much smart stuff from tech to podcasts to scientists. Is it some sort of dystopia where 1% rules, 20% live in a bubble and 79% are just brain dead idiots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is always speculation investment. People are on average richer and real estate is the only trully limited economic resource as we have limited land especially in desired locations.

  Seriously lookup how much of real estate is uninhabitable.

  People are richer, the tech is better and everything we know about economy would indicate that real estate should be more accessible but that’s not the case because the market is manipulated.