Mostly anti since renewables are cheaper. I would be OK with nuclear used for filling the dips in renewable output. The SMRs proposed by all these startups seem like a very bad idea to me, but IDK. If fusion ever brings all that they promise, I could be pro.
I think it’s illegal to use Reticulum over amatuer radio because it’s encrypted?
LoRa is very low bandwidth, only suitable for short text messages. Radio frequencies are heavily regulated, easy to triangulate, and can be shutdown. People could build a higher speed, planned WiFi mesh; hops just have to be closer. Neighborhoods could build cat6 and fiber into meshes if they wanted to as well.
I think nearly all western nations have similar problems, so it’s not solely a US thing? I see people talking about affordability in Toronto, London, and New Zealand at least. I recently saw a video of a Chinese software engineer living in a makeshift shack on the roof of a building and still needing to do food delivery on a hacked ebike to make ends meet, so it may not be only a western thing either.
I would guess it’s a multitude of issues causing it. Wealth disparity and the ballooned financial sector is probably the largest contributor. Resources (lumber, fossil fuels, etc) getting more expensive to extract and transport probably plays some role. Stricter building and sanitation codes, zoning, and communities fighting low income housing being built probably does too.
I think he was downplaying his use. He said he was getting addicted to the “dopamine” hit it gave him, which sounds like he was using it more than he claims. I don’t believe his scripts weren’t at least partly written by AI.
Yeah, that’s my experience. I think there’s a kind of anxiety that if they don’t spend it now, some unexpected expense may come along where they’ll have to spend it on that. When unexpected expenses are required, they have to borrow/hustle/pawn/pick up another shift/etc. A lot of people couldn’t even balance a budget if they tried (i.e. they don’t have enough income to cover both expected and “unexpected” expenses).
It’s because games are cheap compared to many alternatives that people would use to entertain themselves. They are one of the cheapest forms of entertainment when you consider how much time people spend interacting with them. An Uber and a night at a bar, or a dinner for two at a steakhouse could cost more.
I’m not very consumerist, but grew up poor by US standards (and am honestly on my way back). A lot of people seem to want at least some nice things. Sneakers, nice clothes, nails, hair; whatever they’re into. I think it helps distract them, or gives them something to look forward to. Part of it may also be that society seems to conflate a persons worth with their income and possessions, and that has been internalized.
Related Youtube video I saw the other day: “AI bubble will pop…………any day now.”
That’s what stepmothers are for.
I’ve only been to Chic-Fil-A a few times. When I went, they always said something like “have a blessed day,” giving me cult vibes.
Companies boasting about committing felonies and trying to charge companies to run the uncontrollable super-hacking machines on their systems has got to be one of the stupidest marketing attempts ever.
“Can’t turn your brain off,” and not reading the docs seems contradictory to me. I.e. if you don’t even know the contract of the specific methods the code is calling, you don’t really know if it’s correct or not.
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic()
message = client.messages.create(
model='claude-fable-5',
max_tokens=128000,
messages=[
{'role': 'user', 'content': 'say "Hello World"'}
],
)
print(message.content[0].text)
I avoided all the effort of going to read the docs and relearn something I very rarely need.
This is the same thing as blindly copy-pasting StackOverflow snippets; which people used to think was a bad thing.
Half the living standards. Will be uncomfortable, and likely violent.
At some companies, it’s because they’re hoping to use the data of the employees using the AI to automate their job away.
When I was a TA, I’m pretty sure 1/3 if the students plagiarized their programming assignments. Copy/pasting suspect snippets into Google would often bring up near-verbatim results, and a similarity tool would often reveal 3 students that either worked together or copied from the same source.
As a heuristic, I look at the commit dates to see if it’s still being maintained. And lately I look at the commits themselves for evidence of AI use. Then I’ll maybe do a web search for discussions to see what other people/the community has to say about it.
Gnuhealth looks like it may be dead (or at least the repo I found hasn’t had a commit in many years).(Nvm, they moved to codeberg which is a positive signal, IMO).