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  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Contrary to popular belief, the US isn't actually unusually litigious. European countries are just as litigious and Germany, Sweden and Austria all have higher numbers.

    The reason we have more "nonsense" lawsuits is because we have a culture that says caveat emptor is a sound defense and negligence on one parties side is equally the fault of the injured party."Why didn't you look at your food before biting the metal fillings? It's your responsibility to make sure what you eat is safe" and "you walked on my icy sidewalk, you slipped, and now you want me to pay for your ambulance? I should have put down salt, but you should have known better than to walk there" are both reasonable statements to a lot of Americans. Hell, we have special derogatory terms for lawyers that work with individuals who have been non-criminally injured by someone else.

    On paper, paying the other parties legal fees if you lose sounds good, but what it does it keep individuals who can't afford to pay legal someone else's fees to withold valid legal complaints. In an ideal world they would proceed because they were right, but we live in a world where sometimes the person in the right looses, or they reasonably thought they were and were wrong. Due diligence or actual correctness is no assurance of justice, so a lawsuit is a gamble and a more expensive one if you also have to pay the other parties costs, and if they're a business which has lawyers on staff they might not even view a crippling legal cost as an increased expense.On the other side that business just tells their lawyer to file the paperwork, they're already paying for the legal consult so they're advised going in if it's a good idea, and if they lose they're out a few weeks of lawyer salary.

    Lawsuits are a mark of people using societies tools to resolve disputes. There being more in places with higher trust in social institutions makes sense. People are willing to use the system and they trust it'll deliver justice.The US is up there because people need to use lawsuits to make up for our lack in social safety nets, and our preposterous number of businesses are constantly using them to settle disputes.

    We should eliminate the court fees entirely and provide the trial lawyer equivalent of a public defender.A bolt in your oatmeal is a good reason to sue, and if you can't afford a lawyer to help you pay to get your tooth put back in it doesn't seem unreasonable for society to give you access to someone to help you find a path to remunerations.

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  • 99% agreed, but I'd increase the number a bit. With inflation and rising costs $10 million in net worth isn't always an obscenity.It's unquestionably wealthy, but still in the realm of attainable by an individual without being a bastard. Owning a single family home and a gas station in the San Francisco region and planning for retirement could put you in that realm.

    I don't begrudge someone who worked hard having nice things. I don't even begrudge luck, inheritance, or nepotism getting luxury. It's when it's beyond luxury and no one could get it with any amount of work.

    Tie it to the consumer price index or some such.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Right? I work for an actual megacorp and our policy is almost the exact opposite on every point.Sick workers make more sick: don't work and feel better faster. Distracted workers makes mistakes and cause problems: don't work and take care of your kid. Rested workers work better: take the time around the holidays off entirely. Productivity is crap then anyway and with so many vacations it's easier to plan around a block where nothing happens than to deal with random teams having unpredictable delays. Car broken? Expense a Lyft. We have a corporate account and your ride to work is a rounding error compared to the sales visits.

    If you're going to invoke money you should actually understand how big companies function and view money.

  • Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common?

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  • We've actually figured out that that one is basically a "stutter" in your memory encoding system. Consciousness isn't as continuous as it feels, and so you can get a situation where your memory says it just put some stuff in working memory and consciousness thinks it means your current thoughts or observations. So you end up with a feeling of a past recollection of a current awareness. Because it's tagged "past" you can't do anything other than understand it to be in the past, even though you're actively experiencing it.A related phenomenon is how you "always" wake up just before the loud noise. Even though you're asleep you still hear things and process audio. A loud noise happens and your audio processing tells you to wake up. Conscious you wakes up, creating that new memory, and then processes the noise that woke you.

    Consciousness is a process that takes place over a duration, not an instant.

  • A guide for change

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  • Why? The US is where a lot of technology innovation was directed for a lot of the things being discussed here, so it's kinda limiting to leave them off. Not every US company is bad.In the os category, it honestly feels odd that they're going by the distro location, when every alternative they list is based on Linux, which is just as American as firefox.

  • Programmers are no longer needed!

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  • My standard for an orm is that if it's doing something wrong or I need to do something special that it's trivial to move it aside and either use plain SQL or it's SQL generator myself.

    In production code, plain SQL strings are a concern for me since they're subject to the whole array of human errors and vulnerabilities.

    Something like stmt = select(users).where(users.c.name == 'somename') is basically as flexible as the string, but it's not going to forget a quote or neglect to use SQL escaping or parametrize the query.

    And sometimes you just need it to get out of the way because your query is reaaaaaal weird, although at that point a view you wrap with the orm might be better.

    If you've done things right though, most of the time you'll be doing simple primary key lookups and joins with a few filters at most.

  • IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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  • Oh, they totally will. It'll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we'll go through the third or fourth round of this.

    Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial bakeries.

  • WHY???

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  • Based on what I recall of the explanation by the person who figured it out: spinning makes fluid near the edge spin faster than fluid near the middle. The difference in speed creates a wave. Since it's finite and moving, the wave interferes with itself and because of math, makes a hexagon. Something about how the wave pattern changes density and brings different glasses to the surface on the planets.Then they showed an example by spinning a bucket, and it kinda fell flat because they had to explain that a bucket isn't a sphere so you have to spin it just right to get it to work, but it did work in the end.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • They likely did do actual training, but starting with a general pre-trained model and specializing tends to yield higher quality results faster. It's so excessively obsequious because they told it to be profoundly and sincerely apologetic if it makes an error, and people don't actually share the text of real apologies online in a way that's generic, so it can only copy the tone of form letters and corporate memos.

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • Oh, I was just joking around. What my water system is missing is molten salt.

    Although for the sake of preposterousness, I'm going to suggest we use the molten salt to turn a giant water wheel.

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • Molten salt. Lower pressure, higher efficiency, and I believe less reactive in the event of an uh-oh.

  • Can confirm this is true

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  • Oh, cheap is definitely an insult. It has connotations of making cost the top priority , as opposed to value. Booking airline tickets for a family vacation, sorting by cost, and sending a family of four a spirit airlines personal item only back of the plane seats that don't recline next to the toilet flight with four 15 minute layovers is cheap. Booking tickets through the website for a small Icelandic airline and rooms directly through the hotel is frugal. Cheap is lowering costs above all else, while frugality is avoiding unnecessary expenses.

  • Can confirm this is true

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  • I mean, a lot of these aren't negative in the "man, adulthood sucks" sense.

    As you get older, your metabolism changes and you do gain weight faster. It takes a little longer to heal from things and little aches and pains linger a bit longer. You probably mature a bit so you're actually doing and paying attention to those chores you ignored when younger. Yeah, it's more chores but your shit is actually good now. College kids do look like high schoolers, mostly because they're practically just out of highschool.

    The spatula thing is just objectively true and I can't think of a way to see it as a bad thing.

    They can largely be true while it remains true that the majority of people are notably happier as they get older. "As you age your tastes change and you learn how to make what you want happen" just doesn't sound as funny as listing some common changes.

    Hard disagree on the annoyed part though. I see a lot more irritated 20 year olds. Usually because they messed up, don't know they messed up, don't know how to handle messing up and no one is interested in dealing with their shit.

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • Insurance, benefits and labor expenses. Even in places with little worker protections there are costs that scale with the number of workers instead of the number of hours.A brief look indicates employers in India can expect to budget on the order of 18% of an employees take home per year for those expenses.

    There are some circumstances and places in the US where you don't need to provide as many benefits to employees who work below 40 hours. Then you see employers hire more people and schedule them for just under the threshold to give them benefits.

    The answer is always because it's cheaper for them somehow.

  • Who do the ACAB rules apply to?

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  • Acab doesn't cover judges. Doesn't mean they can't be bastards, just means they aren't cops.

    A lot of a judges job is making sure procedure is followed. Police and DAs are generally pretty good at the paperwork, and working with them regularly means they have a relationship, which they don't with defence.

    I'd say all judges are complicit.

  • Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production

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  • Ah, the good old fashioned "say a fallacy, refuse to elaborate and cut off discussion". Truly the mark of someone who actually has a reply and isn't just getting huffy because their notions aren't being taken as gospel.

    Protip: if you actually think a discussion is pointless, just don't reply.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • I'm sad people seem to be giving flak for this. Regardless of your opinion on current AI tools, they definitely lower some barriers, which can result in more things getting made because of lower risk.

    A good game will be good regardless of where an art asset came from, and some people really care about not buying AI utilizing games. Labeling only scares people peddling low effort crap.

    If you're looking for a way to not use ai for portrait art, one thing you can do is leverage combinations in your favor. Draw 10 noses, 10 mouths, 10 shirt collars, 10 hairstyles and so on. When you need a new character, paste together your pre-fab pieces at random , pallet swap the colors randomly and then touch up the details.

  • The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

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  • You're currently connected to your neighbors that intimately. Chances are a good chunk of your neighbors are on the same ISP as you.What disconnect do you think a non-local ISP is providing that a local one wouldn't?

  • Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production

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  • Those darn consumers having opinions on things that affect them without being experts in it. Next thing you know they're going to want to ban smoking in restaurants despite not having medical degrees or knowing first hand how this will impact the tobacco industry! Or carbon emissions, food safety, or anything really....hell, cold calls are just part of the reality of marketing. Eventually consumers will grow up and realize that unprompted phonecalls at 7pm are just part of the reality of effectively offering them products.

    If it's not clear, I think the notion that people can't have an opinion on something that impacts them without understanding the process that yields the impact is silly and paternalistic.Attitudes like yours that are dismissive of consumer concerns are very much part of the reason why consumers are starting to increasingly reject AI products.

  • Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production

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  • I apologize if I misunderstood your point, but I truly fail to see how

    It's just a vocal minority that'll eventually grow up.

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    public sentiment will grow up

    Isn't calling the opposing view childish, which is a pretty strong sign that you've failed to actually consider what they're saying. Same for calling them "brainwashed".

    Consumers fundamentally don't understand the process

    Do they need to? You'll find that most consumers don't know how a car works or how industrial design is done but they still have justifiable opinions and concerns about the impacts and quantifiable attributes of them.

    If you actually look at what consumers are concerned about you'll find that IP and copyright concerns don't even make the list. People are concerned about the errosion of human connection and the diminishment of creativity. Privacy. Data usage and accountability.

    And what's more, even if they were opposed for those reasons the consumer is still intrinsically correct about what they value. If consumers respect your work less because you trace AI art it doesn't matter if you still creatively contributed, the value has been reduced.

    Telling consumers their preference is wrong because you want to be able to copy and trace AI content while viewing yourself as a creative is some backwards boomer shit. 30 years making casual games doesn't give you lofty insight into the nature of the creative process. It's just "trust me, I know more". Same for trying to bolster your position by talking about betting on it.

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