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Comment on AI usage patterns in software teams in ~tech
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
streblo Link ParentI’m also tired. Sorry for the trite response but it’s exhausting to see people (not specifically you) hand wave away political violence because assumedly they see it as forwarding their political...I’m also tired. Sorry for the trite response but it’s exhausting to see people (not specifically you) hand wave away political violence because assumedly they see it as forwarding their political goals. Political violence is not a continuation of politics, it is the breaking down of the political fabric of society.
And of course you should be mad! I would be mad if I was American. Nobody is saying you should lay down and accept things being the way they are. But what does assassinating a CEO accomplish? There is a new CEO now, and their ilk will now rub elbows even less with the regular world. So why carry water for people who are saying he deserved it or killing him was the lesser evil etc. etc. What does that even accomplish? I get that people are frustrated — that’s no excuse in my opinion.
The way to accomplish what you want is to pursue actual politics. It’s to talk with your neighbours. It’s to organize. That’s what the path to progress looks like. Way too many people on the left are content to latch onto to doomed symbolic actions like justifying the murder of a CEO while not doing anything else except despair and consume more algorithmic despair. I’m tired because it seems like people have doom scrolled their way to defeatism, and instead of achieving (achievable!) goals they are just giving up instead.
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
streblo Link ParentIf a billionaire said this we would rightly shit on them. What alternative is there? If democracy ever broke down in the states, a lot more people could die than have ever died from being denied...I'm deeply tired of being at the mercy of "the electorate."
If a billionaire said this we would rightly shit on them. What alternative is there?
If democracy ever broke down in the states, a lot more people could die than have ever died from being denied insurance coverage, and for potentially a worse outcome.
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Comment on Head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund warns that soaring AI-driven stock valuations could trigger a sharp correction in ~finance
streblo Link ParentThis is a popular refrain on Youtube and Reddit, but obviously a lot of people disagree. Personally, I think if this is actually shaping into an arms race type scenario that the AI buildout is...Especially the idea that AI companies are not somehow brittle as hell.
This is a popular refrain on Youtube and Reddit, but obviously a lot of people disagree.
Personally, I think if this is actually shaping into an arms race type scenario that the AI buildout is essentially going to be backstopped by the US government at the end of the day, making a lot of the structural concerns somewhat moot.
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Comment on Ukraine attacks Russia with hundreds of drones - one of Kyiv’s largest aerial assaults of the conflict in ~society
streblo Link ParentLaunching from a container ship as you approach a port seems like it would be the obvious plan. I'm not sure how likely something like that is to work, but it seems plausible enough.If we're theoretically talking about an attack against the US, it would be really hard. If you flew from another country, drones that big would be picked up and destroyed by NORAD very quickly. If you flew from inside the US, you'd need to be able to snuggle absolutely massive military grade drone components and explosives inside and then launch them from somewhere. Much more doable, but still really hard.
Launching from a container ship as you approach a port seems like it would be the obvious plan. I'm not sure how likely something like that is to work, but it seems plausible enough.
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Comment on Ukraine attacks Russia with hundreds of drones - one of Kyiv’s largest aerial assaults of the conflict in ~society
streblo Link ParentIt might be reasonable? Both sides have drones with 1000km ranges and 200-300lb payloads. If you didn’t need to carry as much fuel you could have an even bigger payload, although I’m not really...It might be reasonable?
Both sides have drones with 1000km ranges and 200-300lb payloads. If you didn’t need to carry as much fuel you could have an even bigger payload, although I’m not really sure by how much. Not getting into 747 territory but it’s possible to send tens of them at a single target.
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Comment on New worlds, and what was your "Future Shock" moment? in ~life
streblo Link ParentYea I think we are boiling frogs at this point. If you were to take a person from even 2021 and drop them into today they'd be absolutely floored. We've watched the discourse move from "it's just...Yea I think we are boiling frogs at this point. If you were to take a person from even 2021 and drop them into today they'd be absolutely floored.
We've watched the discourse move from "it's just a stochastic parrot" to "they hallucinate too often to be truly useful" to "they can't handle longer horizon tasks" and the goal posts just keep moving. Too be fair, I was in some of these camps too but I can no longer deny we're on the path to AGI.
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Comment on I'm not ready to let this place go in ~tildes
streblo Link ParentYea, that tracks :)(Also, in case anyone was curious, my .csv file is a whopping 9.6 megabytes!)
Yea, that tracks :)
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
streblo Link ParentWe see assassination attempts for all sorts of reasons though, all probably rationalized to some degree by the perpetrators. MLK was assassinated by a white supremacist and I'm sure the assassin...But as long as we live in an unequal society we will continue to see assasination attempts.
We see assassination attempts for all sorts of reasons though, all probably rationalized to some degree by the perpetrators. MLK was assassinated by a white supremacist and I'm sure the assassin thought it was the best option available to him.
So when you say
I’m saying when all avenues for change are closed it is the best possible option. Like it or not, that is the world we are living in.
I think that's both defeatist and actually a much worse vision of the world than the one we're actually living in right now, precisely because most people still believe in the law and all avenues for change are not in fact closed.
Without the actual law, you just get the law of the jungle or might makes right, and that is not going to lead to a fairer or more just world. Is it possible whatever emerges on the other side is fairer? Maybe? But it's also possible that it's much worse.
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
streblo Link ParentThe issue is you’re defining these units of Wrongness and accompanying Unaccountability that can justify murder. But anyone can do that, for almost any reason. You don’t have any issues about what...The issue is you’re defining these units of Wrongness and accompanying Unaccountability that can justify murder. But anyone can do that, for almost any reason. You don’t have any issues about what the end state of that world looks like?
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Comment on Canadian wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee may signal ‘new normal’ in ~enviro
streblo Link ParentThat could definitely part of it, it seems like they will let one flank of a fire go ham if they can. But BC has also probably 5x'ed their spending on fighting forest fires, so in a way it's not...That could definitely part of it, it seems like they will let one flank of a fire go ham if they can. But BC has also probably 5x'ed their spending on fighting forest fires, so in a way it's not really optional? It's not like we used to spend zillions of dollars putting out large fires, it's that the conditions are just that much worse now.
It's smokey down here today
With the fires where they are this year I think the weather patterns are largely either it's blowing towards you guys or blowing towards us. So our good and bad days are inversed lol.
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Comment on Canadian wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee may signal ‘new normal’ in ~enviro
streblo Link ParentI've lived in the BC interior for a long time. It's definitely getting worse. And I would classify this year as a bad year, because other than destruction the primary driver of that for most is...I've lived in the BC interior for a long time. It's definitely getting worse. And I would classify this year as a bad year, because other than destruction the primary driver of that for most is the amount of smoke. It really sucks having a couple weeks of your summer spent living in a thick blanket of smoke. And we've had that this year.
Here is a pretty good graph that succinctly states how bad things have gotten: https://imgur.com/a/CC5zfXU
It's from nfdp.ccfm.org. The number of fires is kind of irrelevant, most of these are small lightning strikes that either burn themselves out or get tasked with an initial attack crew before they get going. But with right conditions, it only takes one or two slipping away from and hundreds of thousands of hectares burned.
Yet we continue to build housing right up to and into the forests and mountains of the BC interior
We could definitely do better building fire breaks on the perimeters of a lot of these towns and communities, that's for sure. I'm sure it's coming.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
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Comment on Elon Musk on tomatoes in ~food
streblo LinkElon Musk sucks at gardening. That's my takeaway from this.Elon Musk sucks at gardening. That's my takeaway from this.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
streblo Link ParentI agree in principle, but that is obviously a joke/troll post. There's some bits in there a little too on the nose.but you can’t read a story like this
I agree in principle, but that is obviously a joke/troll post. There's some bits in there a little too on the nose.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
streblo Link ParentIn my opinion there is no problem with the underlying question itself. It's just lacking in a satisfactory answer. No one has really provided any indications about how such a feature would be...Both got shot down by a lot of people about the technical merits without giving much thought to underlying question.
In my opinion there is no problem with the underlying question itself. It's just lacking in a satisfactory answer. No one has really provided any indications about how such a feature would be implemented in a way that isn't obviously bad. Rough implementation details kind of needs to be the starting point for something like this.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
streblo Link ParentThe requests for misinformation and related labels. The only place that has solved this to any degree of usability is Twitter/X, and look at what is required to do that: you need extensive user...The requests for misinformation and related labels.
The only place that has solved this to any degree of usability is Twitter/X, and look at what is required to do that: you need extensive user tracking/profiling to build the algorithm for that kind of feature in a way that's both cost prohibitive and actively harmful to the principles of a site like this. At best you can asterisks it and shove all meta discussion into a talk page like Wikipedia but that doesn't really solve the problem imo.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
streblo LinkHere's the thing about a successor. I trust basically none of you to run a social media site. Not saying I'm correct in doing so, but the proof would be in the pudding. There has already been one...Here's the thing about a successor. I trust basically none of you to run a social media site.
Not saying I'm correct in doing so, but the proof would be in the pudding. There has already been one attempt at a Tildes spinoff, and it was terrible. I enjoy the no-nonsense moderation and aversion to drama that has typically been the case here. Also, a lot of the recent features people have been asking for are poorly thought out and actively harmful to a community so I personally would not participate in a new community built around championing these.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
streblo Link ParentInvites have to be manually generated and handed out. I could be wrong but my reading is that @Deimos just hasn't really bothered to do this in a while, because is there any real demand? I don''t...Invites have to be manually generated and handed out.
I could be wrong but my reading is that @Deimos just hasn't really bothered to do this in a while, because is there any real demand? I don''t think the tap has been deliberately closed.
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Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech
streblo Link ParentI think you're on an outdated distro perhaps? Or maybe something is breaking in the VM? We've had fractional scaling in Linux for a while, it works perfectly with Wayland for me, I have options of...I think you're on an outdated distro perhaps? Or maybe something is breaking in the VM?
We've had fractional scaling in Linux for a while, it works perfectly with Wayland for me, I have options of [100,125,133,166,200,250,266].
Yea I have a lot of mixed feelings as well. Fortunately I work on an interesting product/project, so I still get enjoyment from making it better. But I can imagine if you were working on e.g a backend system for a generic crud app your life just becomes a wall of LLM assissted ticket processing and there’s no longer any “fun coding” parts to take
solace in.