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- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 14 hours ago:
Worth noting that the fancy ice maker is just like a 30 dollar ice tray, with insulation and silicone mold.
It does take a long time to make a little ice compared to normal freezing.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 14 hours ago:
Noe that the water can just be tap, and the equipment isn’t super fancy. If the water looks clear, you can make clear ice from it.
It’s called directional freezing, you stick water in freezer insulated on all sides so that it freezes from the top down instead of outside in.
If you have larger ice, you’ll see the white stuff is in the middle, the last area to freeze. Directional freezing causes that to be at an end instead of in the center, and you either pull out the ice before the end freezes, ideally, or cut off the end.
I have an ice mold that doess this and it provides break off points to break the clear ice off the unclear ice.
It does take a while though and the bulky insulation takes a lot of room in the freezer.
- Comment on It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time 1 day ago:
The solution to tackling it was to just not tackle it. See the various dangling cables where something was no longer needed and rather than removing the cable, screw it, it is lost to the entropy.
- Comment on It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time 2 days ago:
Oh, we are sharing workplace cable management, ok, here’s a place I used to work at: Image
- Comment on Taking a spin around the pond in my boat 5 days ago:
Good catch, this could be a little piece of a much more credible larger body of water, we just can’t see the connection from this angle.
- Comment on Peak HR 5 days ago:
Yeah, this too, “Need someone very familiar with…” HR translates to “10+ years experience” without even a thought.
- Comment on Single player games 5 days ago:
Meh, I found that being good at competitive games felt more like work than fun. I play the fun way and get trounced before it could really get fun, so I switch to advance in leaderboards and maybe I could, but it just sucked because the fun stuff tended to be the less strategically wise way to go.
Even non-competitive gaming “hey, let’s all get together at 7 pm to do something on the game”, now I have “meetings” to worry about.
Single player is there when I want it, for however long or short as I want it, and can play in a fun style rather than an effective/efficient style.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 5 days ago:
Ugh, another one that I hate that I’m supposed to downvote… A truly fantastic game.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 5 days ago:
Hated downvoting Micro Mages, but rules are rules…
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
garbage code that people submit and demand I fix because “Claude said it should work”
Man, feel that in my soul. Someone had an issue and instead of asking for help they just sicked Claude on it. Claude replaced an error handling that induced a failure if it didn’t recognize data for management with code that just assigned random meaning to the data and mangled it. But the user insisted it was the right fix because it seemed to work in the moment. Still trying to get a look at the data they have that is causing the issue as they keep insisting the problem is ‘fixed’ instead of the silent data corruption I know it to be. Every freaking day I get AI slop suggestions from people who are unable to assess the slop and asking me to “just fix it, AI did most of the work already”. People who think I can’t ask Copilot or ChatGPT or Claude myself if I wanted, and think their slop to expound upon their point helps me, when I would rather just be fed the same thing they fed to a prompt instead. I’ll AI it up if it will help me, but all they did was bury their point in a bunch of obnoxious fluff.
fix it by abandoning the digital wherever possible and living in the real world. Touching grass, talking face to face with real human beings
Fun fact, an organization around me has started doing in person “job fairs” again, after years of saying “just apply online”, precisely because the online model of engagement has just become useless noisy.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 week ago:
It’s less about the AI and more about how the AI is used by folks. It all boils down to how it lets people who don’t care about the quality produce way more than it lets people who care about quality produce, even as it helps both.
My experience browsing video content to discover new stuff is pretty much ruined. Folks that really don’t have a good idea prompt up crap. AI speeds up folks that don’t care about quality orders of magnitude more than it speeds up people that care about quality, so the flood favors low quality. Then there’s the knockoffs. Something looks like a creator that I liked and I’m not paying much attention and then 30 seconds in I’m wondering why the hell it’s so soul meltingly hollow, then I catch on it’s an AI knock-off riding the wave of a more popular channel.
In software development, folks that formerly trusted in the developers to do the job as they see fit now think themselves experts on software development. They prompted up “hello world” type fodder and now they are micromanaging folks with decades of experience. This happens to some extent with every tech fad, but this one is just way worse. Then there are people who have basically been pundits, high on opinion, low on actionable anything. They’ve always been annoying and pretty much wrong, but you could pretty much tune them out because everything they said amounted to nothing. Yeah, it’s annoying that they get paid to basically talk the way executives like, but at least they didn’t actually impact anything. Now they prompt up their bad ideas into pretty bad concepts, and there’s increased demand to pay attention to “almost realized concepts” that they convinced their executive friend looks good.
In terms of what to change, basically I don’t see a good way other than going back and just not figuring out this tech in the first place. I don’t see a path for leveling the playing field to penalize slop, for the narcissistic know-it-alls to go back to being on the sidelines.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 1 week ago:
Fun fact, recently had an argument with someone defending the favorable tax situation for the ultra wealthy.
Their argument was that billionaires did not have as much “real money” as middle class people so of course the middle class people should pay more in taxes…
Relevant to nothing, but just thinking of favorable billionaire treatment right now triggers that thought…
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 1 week ago:
Indeed, the courts have shockingly given a pass to torrenting down unauthorized copies to the LLM companies, versus how they destroyed some lives of private individuals for similar behavior…
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 1 week ago:
The people are of course still there, but they are largely relegated to engaging like people did with television. There’s some human content and a whole lot of generated content and a key thing about “internet” was that it was a big bidirectional thing where people put content out as much as they took it in.
People have been significantly pushed toward passive engagement with a corporate curated internet instead of active engagement. That is the crux of this concept.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 2 weeks ago:
Problem being is that I don’t see us rewarding good leadership, so much as rewarding having a huge ego and being a sociopath.
Generally the most well rewarded executives I’ve dealt with provided no actionable leadership, but claimed they were amazing leaders while tossing out useless pointy haired boss fodder. Last week was in a meeting where someone was staying plainly what we needed to do about something and the executive cuts him off mid sentence to say “we need to figure out what we need to do and then do it”. Yes, we were in the middle of that but he needed to interject to claim that it was his idea. He cut off another team describing what they did and he said “why didn’t you just use ai? It would be done already and you wouldn’t need the people working on it”. Note this was a very very AI heavy team already, because he had already mandated it and he thinks they are lying because things aren’t magically happening.
I’ve occasionally seen good leadership, With actionable awareness of the customer and work and ability to keep things on track and not fall into the trap of just spewing business jargon. Usually they get undermined by some incompetent who sees them as a threat and the upper tier is infested by people who deal with the hollow jargon and thus will tend to believe a fellow jargon speaker. So they get sidelined or quit.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 2 weeks ago:
Points for a non-AI fix.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 2 weeks ago:
I did recall vaguely something like that, but couldn’t remember what it was, thanks for that.
But absolutely, especially if you had something like a 4.5 foot bed normally, but between frunk pass through and tailgate with load stop you could carry some 16 foot long planks… Something you might rarely need to do and not with a lot of planks, so a huge bed is pointless most of the time.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 2 weeks ago:
Funny. I was thinking how cool it would be if an EV truck with a frunk had a midgate, fold down front passenger seat, and ability to open the dash somehow to pass though very long things into trunk area.
- Comment on The Matrix 5 weeks ago:
That’s the fun part, in that time, cubicles were seen as terrible, dystopian, cheapass things because folks used to have offices, and how much cheaper could it really get than some flimsy modular furniture for you to sit at?
Then the companies gestured to just some tables in a room and said “figure it out, and no assigned seating, so just figure it out each day” to show how cheap and how little regard they have for the employees.
At this rate, I fully expect in the next few years for the next wave in office space optimization: Image
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 1 month ago:
Daniel Jackson
He may die a fair bit, but he won’t stay dead for long.
- Comment on Ermm Actchually 1 month ago:
But what about monster HDMI cables?
- Comment on Lesbian sheep 1 month ago:
I suppose he should have said “gay ewes would be hobbled” and lesbian sheep *would be incapable of coupling up".
His quote shows that people say there’s no way of knowing one way or another, like you say, but Doctorow changed the language to be a bit more suggestive of certainty that the phenomenon exists.
- Comment on Immaculate 1 month ago:
my pp gets hard
The way a lot of them are, they probably wish it still did that.
- Comment on Unstoppable 1 month ago:
Yep, evolution always ends in crabs.
If you are already there, why bother?
- Comment on The Future is Now! 2 months ago:
To be fair, this may be about as well as a run would go for me if I tried.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 2 months ago:
True, but it’s at least a rough indicator, and having intact concrete pricing from back then was a bit challenging, and sears catalog came to me as a very well preserved source of vaguely appropriate pricing.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 2 months ago:
To provide a relatively decent source: …musetechnical.com/…/1997-Sears-Christmas-Book
Around page 286. So 1997 christmas season, Starfox and Goldeneye going for $80… FFVII for $60…
N64 had the challenge that every single game was a circuitboard, so that inflated costs. Nowadays the price is for just the right to download a copy.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 2 months ago:
Yeah, AAA productions:
- Must be multiplayer, ostensibly because people ‘demand’ it, but a narrative easy to believe when you know players are stuck with your servers and you can effectively shut down the game when it no longer makes money for you.
- Relatively fewer games to be made, no chances may be taken. Conventional wisdom tells them that people got over turn-based in the 90s, so even the FFVII remake refused to do real turn-based, while Clair Obscur showed that it was still absolutely welcome gameplay.
- Comment on Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat. 2 months ago:
Makes sense, but what about your shoes?
