remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 1 day ago:
You were in a correlated plastic pipe factory and the cigarettes were an issue? Damn. You would think the VOC off-gassing from hot plastic would break you first…
- Comment on yep that's me 2 days ago:
Very fast, right at the base of the skull.
- Comment on Shamone 4 days ago:
The weird part is that it still looks like The Rock.
- Comment on Every damn time! 6 days ago:
The root cause is usually a weak lower esophageal sphincter. Water creates additional pressure in the stomach which causes acid reflux. For me anyway, this is only an issue if I haven’t eaten, drink water and then lay down. (It’s the laying down bit that is probably key.)
Eating non-junk, low acid foods actually helps relieve some heartburn for me in some cases.
- Comment on Every damn time! 6 days ago:
If your stomach really is empty and you have chronic heartburn, this may not be the best solution. (It’s a gamble for me, anyway.)
In normal circumstances, water does temporary suppress hunger for a bit, for me.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 1 week ago:
Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.
All it will take is oneinvestigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.
Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.
TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.
Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.
The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)
Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.
I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes at the same.
- Comment on Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats 1 week ago:
The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Corederella 2 weeks ago:
If the shoe fits… turn everyone in a 500ft radius into Hulk.
- Comment on YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows 2 weeks ago:
So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.
- Comment on That's really not okay 2 weeks ago:
Look for basic errors. All of the R’s seem to have similar issues but aren’t quite the same. An example: Image
This same problem happens across more of the text.
The pull cord for a lamp should end at a lamp, not a circle on the ceiling.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 3 weeks ago:
Instructions: 1. Please read instructions
- Comment on It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™ 3 weeks ago:
I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.
You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.)
- Comment on I only see CIA, where CCP?? 3 weeks ago:
tankiejerk is also acceptable.
- Comment on China claims big advances in classical and quantum computers 3 weeks ago:
They claim big advances on a lot of things.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 3 weeks ago:
The Internet would be great if it wasn’t for all the other computers attached to it.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 3 weeks ago:
Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment
In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)
Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)
Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.
Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward
Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.
(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 4 weeks ago:
It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.
If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 4 weeks ago:
Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.
Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 4 weeks ago:
If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 4 weeks ago:
This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.
- Comment on Ball master 4 weeks ago:
One of these things is not like the other…
It’s the guy pointing at something completely random.
- Comment on Reddit assemble 5 weeks ago:
So I’m the smart now?
- Comment on Hackers Can Hide Images in Text Data and Embeds Directly into DNS TXT Records 5 weeks ago:
It looks like the site is just AI generated crap based off of blog posts it scraped. “Cyber Security News” is about as generic as it gets.
- Comment on If I wanted to have a maximally downvoted post, how would I go about accomplishing that? 1 month ago:
The problem with .ml shitposting is that it will almost immediately get removed. If it does start to propagate around to other instances, people will immediately recognize it as a troll post and it will get upvoted.
Trolling ml takes finesse and it’s the IRL epitome of “opposite day” over there.
- Comment on Post your favorite frogs. 1 month ago:
Lick me. Image
- Comment on Technichally-wrong community. Here here, peepostin' lika pro 1 month ago:
I read it as bees.
Please do not the bees.
- Comment on A post from nodebb has been stuck at the top of all/new for a few months. 1 month ago:
I don’t think it matters much if ee is shutting down.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 1 month ago:
It’s just a bit of wood attached to a fairly big chunk of explosive and I would guess that wood shrapnel is just as deadly as metal within it’s effective range. The stick isn’t going to block much of anything.
Stuck grenades could have a fragmentation sleeve, but they relied more on the explosive concussion for damage, not the shrapnel.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 2 months ago:
It’s ok to shit in someone else’s, just not yours.
