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- Comment on AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers, Goldman economist says 18 hours ago:
There’s been a good amount of opportunity to grift an employer and in turn for functional teams to sideline those employees, since no one wants to be mean even to those employees, just put them aside, so long as the gravy train is here, why bother trying to ding someone for just being a bullshitter even if they never do work?
- Comment on AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers, Goldman economist says 1 day ago:
Yeah, lots of over hiring happened and this is the perfect cover for responding to that without admitting you screwed up.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 1 week ago:
I mean given the right socket…
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t be surprised if they ran animated splash.
Hell, wouldn’t be surprised if they started pushing ads through the screens.
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Next chapter needs to be: “Fucking magnets, how do they work?”
- Comment on back in those days... 1 week ago:
20% layoff, that’s rough
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
For example, the age of consent in the US state of Delaware is 18, but it is allowed for teenagers aged 16 and 17 to engage in sexual intercourse as long as the older partner is younger than 30
16 and 17 is still under the age of consent, but they have a special exception for partners under 30. So the age of consent is still exactly what people think it is
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 week ago:
Your reference is your own comment? Shouldn’t somewhere down the chain there be a link explaining this? It would be nice for you to be right, but I don’t think you are.
If it were only about activities with other shouldn’t be of age people, then it makes no sense. Either they are allowed and it’s legal or it’s illegal for both of them but neither can be considered criminally responsible because neither can legally consent either.
There are stories constantly about someone older having relations with someone way too young but the jurisdiction has age of consent to make it ok.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
As those policies are enforced client side, an industrious person could probably see how it works and do whatever. I can’t seem to trigger any age verification to see, but if it works in a web browser, you can pretty much rewrite everything about it and make it upload whatever you like.
Sy far the only ones I’ve seen are scenarios where I have to upload photo to match my appearance when I show up in person to something, so it’s not useful in that context, but I’m suspecting this scenario is similar.
The counter argument could be that if a person has that ability, they are probably close enough to being an adult and/or have earned their technically illegal access to porn, and the site operator made a good earnest attempt that stands up to casual lying.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
So I don’t have a horse in the race, but I am curious if you follow the link to estimate age from selfie, and claimed some random picture of a politician is your selfie, would that work?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’ll develop a deeper interest for whatever it is as time goes on.
This is so insidious. Working a job and one day you realize you actually care about something you don’t understand why you should care about it. I know I it’s stupid due me to care about something in my with and yet I do.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 2 weeks ago:
I like using Keepassxc with a file that is on a storage provider. Keeping the task of storing my file and decrypting it completely and utterly distinct. Don’t have to audit that the total solution is keeping things separate like they claim when there’s no risky interop in the first place.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 weeks ago:
For background NPC, sure nothing lost, at least nothing lost that isn’t already being lost in the “put big exclamations/question marks over NPCs with something actually important to say”. Once upon a time there was a nice experience of evaluating NPC text to determine if there’s an interesting side quest or at least an interesting side story playing out in the dialog. But with the push for more credible ambient NPC instead of big cities with like 25 people living in them that has been significantly lost anyway.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, already things were getting harder to follow as people went to address the “strangely sparse cities” problem by flooding the environment with way more stuff aiming for more plausible, but it’s more than you can ever consume and it’s generally hard to know when you are actually supposed to pay attention or not. Finding interesting side quests among the flavor text used to be a thing, but now the flavor text is just overwhelmingly too much for that.
Of course, there’s recognition of that and games start putting indications of “THIS RANDOM NPC HAS SOMETHING TO SAY” bright over anyone vaguely important. So I suppose in that context NPC flavor text vomit might as well be AI since it’s been clearly indicated as stuff to ignore as background noise. Still disappointed in the decline of “is this important or not” determination being organic.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Worth being clear that all the people in question are between 10 and 13.
I actually never read the book, but heard of that one scene and can’t imagine it would have felt like it should have fit in, and really should have raised more questions about… Everything really.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
Well if you are having to watch on mute anyway, not like you even know the plot…
Of course you miss out on the narrative masterpiece of things like lemon stealing whores …
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if I want to try to find out if that is satire or actual things…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, that one scene that all the movies conspicuously skipped…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 weeks ago:
What I dread is a game lengthening dialog using AI. Some folks mistake quantity for quality, and make their games unbeatingly tedious. Just like games that lean heavily on procedurally generated content.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s room for someone to recognize there’s an utterly generic facet to an otherwise creative work. If you for example know you just want a generic night skybox, I don’t think there’s going to be more quality by doing it directly.
However that sentiment carried forward to the assets will rapidly degrade the experience similar to using stock assets.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 3 weeks ago:
Feel like “anytime it’s good for” could be subjective.
There are likely folks who think they can just vibe code up an unreal tutorial and say AI was good at “all of it”.
if some boilerplate mechanics are AI code completions, or you had it generate a skybox for you, ok. If it’s generating a significant chunk of your “foreground” assets, then I’m likely to find out as disinteresting as the titles that have leaned hard on stock assets.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 3 weeks ago:
If someone is claiming God is on their side, then absolutely they should not be trusted.
A good example was Huckabee’s message to Trump where he says he shouldn’t listen to humble old Huckabee, but he should listen to God, who, coincidentally, is saying exactly the same thing as Huckabee.
If you have your faith but make no assertions about it’s validity over other opinions nor that it confers divine authority to the words or deeds of any person, cool, I respect that faith. I’m inclined to have some faith myself, but I’m not about to claim any of it is more than my personal wild guesses and hope.
However organized religion is generally exploitable and bad people take advantage…
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 4 weeks ago:
My nephew was trash talking me about Mario Kart talking about how he’d smoke me because he had been playing it so long.
My reply “I was playing this before you were born”
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 4 weeks ago:
Not me but in way back in high school I saw a comeback I’ll never forget. I’ll call them John and Bob.
John was teasing Bob in a mock flirting way. Bob was uncomfortable and told John to stop it.
John says “what’s the matter, aren’t you secure in your sexuality?”
Bob instantly replies “absolutely, but I’m not secure in yours”
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 5 weeks ago:
Why should that be bundled with peripherals… doesn’t seem to be a good “synergy”.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 5 weeks ago:
That is your use case, that relative to your individual usage only one application uses the framework. In that very specific scenario, sure. However with electron it’s forced to be that way for every single application no matter what your scenario is.
If electron packaged as a dependency, then it would be similar. But it’s always forcibly bundled.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
With the caveat that we can accommodate everyone so long as sufficient people put in their fair share of effort. In an ideal world that will mean very short working hours and/or nicely early retirement/late entry into the work force.
Certainly the usual talking heads are spoiled rich guys that have never known labor and have not done their fair share, but it is a difficult thing to balance to make sure we do take care of each other but make sure enough people are engaged to successfully do that
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 month ago:
I think that in some domains (for example, software development) one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 20 hours each.
I’ll go one further, often in software development, one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 40 hours each.
Someone working 4 days is always going to earn less than someone working 5
I guarantee that an executive working 4 days a week will make more than the fast food worker doing 6 days a week. I get your sentiment but I don’t think that even pans out for software developers. Most software developers are salaried, and whether they work 3 or 6 days in a week they get the same (just more likely to get fired if they work 3 while everyone else works 5, but their work can trump that deficit). In fact a role that is micromanaging hours of a software developer is in my experience more likely to be stingy with pay and pay less despite trying to demand perpetual unpaid overtime.