The idea is they’re marketable worker replacements
If you have a call center you want to switch to ai, it’s easy though to make them pull up relevant info. It’s harder to stop them from being misused
If your call center gets slammed for using racial slurs, that’s an issue
Remember, they’re trying to sell AI as drop in worker replacement
Don’t forget order sizes. If you produce 500 a batch, your costs are going to be way higher than if you produce 10k a batch
Because you’re one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!
I’ve thought about it, but ultimately I asked myself… What would change?
I need to move, and I’m planning to. For the meantime, the water makes me feel sick, even the bottled stuff is only slightly better. The people I care about ignore my warnings…I don’t think any more detailed tests would change that
And I have tested the water myself, I’m sure I could get a more detailed result, but would it change anything that matters? Even if it is in my head, my body knows the water to be bad…I didn’t have this issue before, and I can drink tap water elsewhere.
I am curious, but getting the water tested is energy better spent elsewhere
I have one to add… The water supply
So I’m getting headaches, I’ve never had headaches except for caffeine headaches, which are (conveniently) only at night. I’m getting headaches after drinking caffeine, during the day, even after detoxing from caffeine. I’ve got filters, the area isn’t known for having bad water, but this started after I moved.
It took me a while to see the connection, but eventually I decided fuck it, let’s try distilled water. No more headaches, less nausea. What the fuck is in the water…
Sure you can, outside of a few specific carve outs it’s a civil matter… Meaning it takes money to fight money behind it
I love seeing someone else get this.
Money at this scale is just points in a game. It is entirely divorced from value to them, it’s just social status
The worst part is, they’re not even happy either. Some people do enjoy playing capitalism… But the mental gymnastics you have to do to enjoy min-maxing your labor pool leaves you hollow as a person.
Everyone you meet is hoping to leech off you, a peer you are competing against in the stupidest game, or someone who doesn’t care about money (and probably looks at you with disgust because your financial existence is literally destroying our species)
The only happy billionaires are the ones no one hears about - the people who are generationally free of the game and have accepted their ticket out from the start
I loved that the Gameboy was designed to survive a fall from the average shirt pocket. I love that the Wii controllers pushed gyroscopic technology so far that it allowed the explosion of quadcopters. I loved the idea of 3d through rapid aspect switching.
I loved when Nintendo pushed boundaries, not just through hardware but through gameplay. I enjoy and appreciate the Nintendo polish
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly - good gameplay is much more important than flashy graphics. But the polish was nice - pushing boundaries is what made the difference
Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this “bug” in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears… Then started crying about it when their balances updated
Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack
Would you give a few hundred dollars and couple dozen hours of learning? Because this is a very achievable goal
Imagine a rodent with duck feet. It’s between the height of your navel to your sternum - about 300lb. The hair is very coarse. It has a stubby tail. It eats like a goat but acts like a happy cow - they enjoy pets but would run away before acting aggressive
That doesn’t really match the master/slave relationship. The distributed instances aren’t slaved to the master. They’re each doing their own thing, but as part of that they have a hierarchical relationship when it comes to synchronization
Distributed computing gets more into the concept of swarms. Each piece is autonomous, and the swarm self-organizes. We made up a bunch of paradigms around this that were basically obsolete by the time we needed them - I think the relationship here is leader/follower, but I’ve never heard that terminology outside the classroom
They’re sharded. It’s like host/mirror, except each mirror is an equally correct part of the real picture
One of them is the leader, but it doesn’t control the rest of them. It just coordinates them
When you get into swarm concepts, like sharding or activitypub, it doesn’t make sense to describe the relationship between nodes anymore. The relationship between any two nodes is “part of the same swarm”. You describe the nature of the swarm as a whole, or the behavior of individual nodes
Primary/secondary means they’re all doing their thing, but one is preferred. There’s no instruction going on between them
If you have a primary and secondary web servers, you’ll use the primary first, but the secondary or secondaries are a fallback
If you have a primary and secondary drive, you have two drives, one of which is more important (probably because you booted from it). The secondary could be a copy or just another drive, either way the OS or a raid controller is managing it, one drive doesn’t manage another
Similarly, we have dispatch/worker- the difference between that and master/slave is that they’re different things. A master should be able to work without a slave, and a slave should be capable of being promoted to master - a dispatcher can’t do the work and the worker can’t take over if the dispatch goes down
The funny thing is we don’t use master/slave much anymore, the whole premise is that the slave doesn’t start to do what it does when it starts up. I can’t think of any examples of it in the past decade - other paradigms, with a different relationship and a different name, have replaced it
You guys are circling around the answer
Aero looks, better menus (I refuse to believe nested drop downs are peak layout, but ribbon stuff looks pretty, at the cost of useful organization)
And finally, make it look good in dark mode. We aren’t a print-first culture anymore, and I prefer my retinas intact
Embracing lack of meaning is nihilism talk!
Take in existence as it comes and laugh at the absurdity of it all
Just to put this in context:
There’s only so many ways to turn a bunch of files into one - mainly, you stick them back to back. Easy.
Then, there’s an infinite ways to compress that file… You could come up with you own method, but what good is that? It’s better and smarter to use a format already supported by your users
So of course most bundles are the same archive type under the hood. Everything from backups to installers - you shouldn’t be inventing new formats without a damn good reason
I think that just supports my point, that rather than survivorship bias this is a small group of companies owning the entire industry, and movies are just actually getting worse
Gaming is going through the same thing with Microsoft now owning most of the industry, but 1-5 people can make an indie game without leaving the house. There’s also a number of non-shittified stores for distribution, meanwhile media and streaming services are firmly in the stages of enshitification
I don’t think indie movies will be able to take over the way indie games seem to be - not without the streaming industry changing first
You guys have numbers? I have the infinity sign on every new device within days
No, survivorship bias is real, but this is late stage capitalism. Disney owns it all, and the occasional worthwhile film sneaks under their writing by committee bullshit
There’s plenty of good movies that future generations would happily watch… But proportionally? The number of movies made a year has exploded, the number that make an impression for even a year has dwindled
I mean, true, although I thought they were pretty upfront on wanting to produce the fuel in-house and specialize two reactor lines
Which, yeah, isn’t ideal… But if it works, they can’t patent an element. They won’t be able to monopolize the tech forever
It seems like a very elegant solution… If they can overcome the engineering challenges. There’s probably far better designs that could be made from the core idea