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  • 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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  • Your anecdote isn't as against expectations as you seem to think. People just also think that what you're doing is grody.If you traced a design you found from a Google result, people would object to you saying it was "your" creation. In the ai case, it just also isn't anyone else's.People used to do your job by learning a bit about what they were designing and applying some creativity. You're quite literally describing the AI enabling you to be less informed and creative as a creative worker.No one much cares when the button layout for an accounting firms CRM is rote, but people do care when they hear that the designers for the game they're playing kinda phoned in the art design and it's significantly a mathematical approximation of other designs.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • Well, they didn't specifically feel concern for them electing a despot. They were concerned simply that they might pick wrong from the viewpoint of those with political power at the time. They weren't specifically afraid of a despot or demagogue, but someone who would either threaten the political elites wellbeing, or loosing support from the "less populous" slave states. A system that gives disproportionate weight to smaller states to buy their support while also giving themselves more influence over a check on the legislature and one of the branches of power is what they went with.

    They weren't afraid of Trump, they were concerned about Lincoln.

  • Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source

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  • Some countries have more consumer protections than the US does, and consumers from there are wary of the lack of assurances a lot of us products have.

    To them, it's like being told you have to pay for your food at the restaurant even if they mess up your order and you don't get to eat it. It doesn't matter that the waiter probably isn't going to drop your food on the floor, throw it away and then give you a bill: the fact that they could makes you not want to go there.

    Likewise, your watch will almost certainly not break via factory defect after more than a month, but the expectation is that if they sell you something it'll either last the expected lifetime or be suitably replaced or refunded on failure.

    We're used to our particular blend of capitalist hellscape, so a company saying they'll replace things if they're obviously broken the moment you buy it, but beyond than you're out of luck just seems normal. It's on us to make sure they don't mail us subtly damaged microelectronics and tiny lithium bombs.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • It actually largely has. It both reduced the numbers of people who needed to ride horses around to figure out the winner, and it helped keep power consolidated with the powerful.

    A good chunk of our early democratic institutions were designed with a lot of influence by people who didn't entirely trust their constituency and wanted to keep things from being too democratic. So you have several options for elected officials to disregard voters in most matters, and the president has the power to say "nah" to legislation.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • This is for the primary. This means that people can vote for a more progressive candidate as their first choice and have their second choice be for the "safe" candidate.

    The winner of the Democratic presidential primary is almost certainly always going to be a Democrat. There's almost nothing you can do to change that.

    Beyond that, they can do multiple things so doing w good thing doesn't mean they didn't do something else.How do you propose they fix gerrymandering, a state level issue affecting the election of representatives, or citizens United, a supreme Court ruling, via the procedural rules of the party presidential primary? It's like saying there's no point brushing your teeth if you have credit card debt.

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    Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

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  • I had someone indignantly think I was making a racist joke when I said algebra came from the middle east.I had a tricky time explaining that no, I'm not joking about the word sounding Arabic, it's actually derived from Arabic and I was earnestly sharing a fact.

    Their heart, if not their head, was in the right place at least.

  • US tells NATO if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future

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  • I'm inclined to disagree because I doubt he's working for any voters. If he's leaving office, he gains nothing from their support and if he's planning to stay then splitting the country also weakens him.

    Further, sentiment among the southern population is very different from the civil war era.

  • US tells NATO if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future

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  • I mean, that was his goal. Either destroy trust to weaken our position globally for the benefit of someone else, or blind adherence to the belief that other countries are the only beneficiary of the relationship we have with them, and they need to "stop freeloading". That in exchange for military defense, technology, aid, and everything else we get unparalleled military freedom, everyone meeting us on our terms and first mover advantage, control of global financial markets and preferential market access basically everywhere. Their boneheaded view that government is a business and everyone who came before just didn't understand somehow is infuriating.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • Entirely agree. Personally most of what I would want done would be better handled by a macro system that was easy to setup. Most of what I want is pretty usually the same so "remember this setup" is basically good enough.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • If they hadn't jumped the gun so badly and tainted the launch with crap results, Google would have been well positioned to do something profoundly useful.If it could actually extract useful information with citations and pointers for next steps and work as an interactive search, that would actually be really really useful.The whole "hallucinating health advice" and "being terrible" thing really set them back, even if they've improved.

    Like you said, I don't really need help creating. I do need help remembering things or finding information: that's why I'm using a search engine in the first place.

    At work, there's a person who knows everything about the job. He regularly gets questions where the answer is just the correct way to find out for yourself.That's what I want. "Oh, you mean X? Try looking at YZ. Oh, you wanted X, but in G conditions. That's over in FOO. It's confusing because reasons written down here..."

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • Some people do want to talk to their computer and would love it if it worked right.

    The problem is that it often doesn't work right,cans they're setting it up as though everyone has that as their top priority for their desktop.

    Instead of baking it in to the os, expose the bits needed so it can be an installable program. Now people can have it or not, and you open the door for different non-ai tools to also work on the computer.It's almost like a proper, consistent API would be better than a bot you try to convince to use a dozen bad ones.

  • My city started rolling out electric buses

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  • I'm not sure I follow your logic. The environmental impacts of manufacturing will be averaged out faster with something that's getting a lot of use, and targeting the efficiency of something that gets continuous use has more impact.

    Throwing away busses to switch would be silly, but it's a perfectly good idea to switch as you maintain your fleet. Your alternative is buying more diesel busses, which... No, building a trolley or tram system which is more expensive and less flexible, or rebuilding cities to be livable without needing vehicle transportation, which isn't happening soon and has trouble for people with mobility issues like the elderly without other some accomodation.

  • Trump's White House tried to dodge a vote on the Epstein files. It failed.

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  • It's super annoying, because that term should belong to "if you've got an hour we can grab coffee and I'll explain my politics to you. You don't? Uhh .... 'rather to the left'?", and not "I'm fine with the gays and poors, but I don't know if I'm comfortable with the government helping or protecting them".

  • Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease

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  • We have a code of conduct training at work that includes and anti corruption segment (nothing weird, just stuff like "a vendor buying lunch at a sales meeting is fine, but no gifts or having lunch at extremely expensive places", and "some places give small symbolic gifts around holidays, usually a pastry. That's fine. Do not accept a $500 pastry")

    A couple years ago they updated the module and the person engaging in non-obvious corrupt business practices became gay in passing. The overwhelming response by a lot of the company was "yay! We made it guys! They realized that we like bribes too! I feel so seen".

  • Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?

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  • And one of the first steps in artificial insemination is giving a guy a handjob.

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • Pennies Are Trash Now

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  • Oh, it's definitely far bigger than GDP. Not all financial activity factors into GDP but it's all part of the general movement of money that factors into inflation.A lot of money is used for things that aren't counted as "production", like investments or used goods.More than half of the worlds trade is conducted in dollars and there's even larger flows of money involved in foreign exchange on a daily basis.There's just so much money churning around that reducing the supply by $300B isn't a big dent, particularly when most of it's already effectively out of circulation.

    The ~$200 a day figure is right from bls and tracks consumer spending, notably including housing costs.https://www.bls.gov/cex/.It's about $100 a day if you remove housing and transportation. About $25 on food and $10 on "fun" a day, with $16 of that food being consumed groceries.

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • I think we're just at a point where a company not constantly trying to find ways to squirm out of every single thing is a breath of fresh air.

    "Hi! We're valve. We're mostly following the law without fuss, mostly make money by getting people to buy things they want, and our excessively wealthy owner acts like a preposterously rich person, not a comic book villain: Fantasizing about living his life isn't deeply concerning. The hardware we sell isn't deliberately worse for consumers to no benefit to ourselves" -- Hands down one of the best "big" companies out there.

  • Pennies Are Trash Now

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  • It would actually do next to nothing if the entire supply were vanished right now. There's about $300 billion in pennies in circulation. Around $850 per American, or roughly four days of average individual consumer spending.The economy as a whole does on the order of 10s of trillions of dollars of activity a day.Eliminating every penny would be less than a 1% reduction in liquidity, and even smaller in terms of actual use.