Why would these deter creeps if all the existing surveillance measures and social pressure we already have is evidently ineffective? You’re talking about the sort of people that have no problem posting highly inappropriate comments on women’s instagram profiles under their own name.

And at the end this is still a Meta product, which is at least 50 percent of the problem with these glasses. It’s not just some private device, all that footage gets sucked into some big cloud to serve who knows what clandestine purpose.

This would be ideal, but if anything has become abundantly obvious over the last decade or so it would be that laws are only for the common folk.

When words like “woke” “DEI” or any of the other ones adjacent to them are use to express displeasure of any kind I immediately lose interest in what they have to say.

Muchlike i do with people that blame [insert thing they don’t like] on [insert political ideology they don’t agree with] instead of coming up with, you know, facts and reasoning or something.

Everybody did think becoming a developer is where it was at, so a lot of people did, now these people looking at an ever tightening job market (even before AI) with LLM’s possibility annihilating the need for their expertise entirely at some point.

At least maybe people will stop telling other people what to do. It’s obvious we don’t know what is relevant next week, much less in 10 years.

All these people that are now told to school themselves for manual labour are being set up to run into the same thing. Especially when those chineese bots inevitably also escape the gadget level.

There are no “AI safe” jobs. Even if it can’t do your job (yet) all the people that are made redundant and need new work will be flooding remaining markets.

Prioritize your health. Living on energy drinks and pizza’s looks fine in your twenties but then you head towards your fourties and you take meds for things like hypertension and fight a neverending war against your waist size.

Even if he did steal this cookie, imagine valueing your employees so little.

Still though.

In europe we average out somwhere between 3 to 4000kwh per year for a household, where in the US it’s 10k upwards, which looks like a dramatic difference.

But we haven’t really looped in the fact that in Europe we mainly rely on natural gas solutions for climate control/heating, hot water and cooking.

Ofcouse they also use gas in the US, and invariably the fact that we don’t really cool our houses in the summer still works out to a lower usage overall i’m sure, but as we also shift to heat pumps I’m sure this’ll change.

Most people don’t cool their house because they can’t, not because of some principle against it. When people start replacing their gas heaters with heatpumps they can, and i’m sure they will.

We also can’t ignore we don’t really have those Arizona climates here. Americans that complain about any lack of AC also forget that.

I don’t understand why anyone would choose to buy a console after this.

I don’t think people buy consoles for the physical games… I mostly stopped doing that a generation ago.

In terms of hardware I have basicly everything under the sun you play games on.

Sony has has a pretty strong list of exclusives still. In my mind at least. And I just don’t always feel like sitting at a desk.

So unless you build another pc for next to the TV, your other options are a mile long HDMI cable from wherever your pc is to your TV or remote play. Neither of these options are as smooth of an experience as just grabbing a controller and turning the Playstation on. You could somewhat do this on PC with Steam OS or Bazzite, but Linux/Proton is still problematic for a lot of multiplayer games.

I don’t know how that even got past the brainfart stage. AFAIK nobody has actually demonstrated how that would really work.

• Despite SpaceX’s advancements in regards to things like resutable rockets, shooting stuff into space is still prohibitively expensive.
• Server clusters are exceptionally heavy.
• Server clusters run hot, cooling is not a triviality considering you can’t just rely on convection in space, so more mass for alternative solutions.
• Datacenters need regular maintenace.
• Logic boards won’t do well with the radiation in space.
• Despite SpaceX’s advancements in regards to things like sattelite internet, getting large datacenter level quantities of data from earth into space and back, and at low latency, is no triviality.

Not saying this won’t ever be a thing. But not in the lifetime of anybody on earth right now I don’t think.

Well, then don’t make Claude run an actual NPP?

That’s not what you said though.

Where do you feel I’ve deviated from this point exactly?

Keep in mind that this is the question at the top of this particular thread we are responding to:

So you believe that customers of a company should have a say how the staff uses their wages?

To which loke responded, among other things:

Morally? Yes.

To which I responded what you then replied to.

I’m not quite sure where you see space for interpretation, but I feel i’ve been pretty solid with my point.

Are you contending unless otherwise specified, people should be mandated to continue spending money with companies?

No. I’m just of the opinion that I’m in no way obliged to disclose to you what I spend my money on, just because I work somewhere you spend money on.

What exactly is the allowed reasons for doing or not doing business with people?

Anything, including having no reason at all, obviously.

Morally? Yes.

How do you figure? I’d argue the opposite and state morally it’s quite litterally nobody’s business what any private person spends their money on. Especially when you’re talking about people outside the c-suite.

It’s also the only thing that is remotely managable. Otherwise, where does that crap start and end?

We are talking about some nationalist populists now (and more than “a donation”), but what about a membership of a more moderate political party? Or say your customer base for any reason is in large part Vegan, should you tell your employee’s to stop buying meat? Should they stop taking money from the non-vegan customers? How is anyone going to navigate this?

Nobody that has or had to work any kind of regular job for a living is your enemy. Don’t allow yourself to be mobilized against the wrong people.

The boombers didn’t sell their own well paying jobs/our economy to the likes of China. Their employers did.

Tarantino disapproves.

I have no real data on whether it’s true or not or what “better driver” even means but there’s some differences in car life i’m sure have some kind of an effect.

Driver’s license aquisition here is more involved and guided. At least in the Netherlands things like having a family member teach you drive for example is not a thing. You have to take out classes with a professional driving school in a car fitted with dual pedals and a professional instructor. Most people take 35 to 45 of those lessons to pass the practical test, which is also fairly ruthless afaik.

There’s also way less space and lots of traffic on fairly skinny roads, lots of different kinds of traffic too like way more pedestrians, cyclists swirving around all over the place, and public transport with different rules around things like right of way (particularly trams). US likes big wide roads, laid out in grids, with not really all that much in terms of other variables to take into account outside of other motorists due to the overwhelming bias towards car ownership.

Car driving is way more of a optional choice here. Especially in the west side of the country. Lots of people her are fine not having a driver’s license at all due to public transport covering all their needs.

Although i’m sure in terms of casualties there’s also other stuff that is relevant. Some of those pickup trucks blew over to here as of late and I think it’s wild something with such a limited visibility is legal. Especially here. I’m a big guy but the grille on one of those RAM truck is chest height for me, which in case of a head on collision means i’ll likely end up under it instead of on top of it.

I still have one kicking around in case I feel like playing some Goldeneye.

I mean I could also play that in the cloud on the switch these days but nothing takes me back to times past than that crappy controller with the floppy broken thumbstick.

Also, a little video I stumbled upon yesterday for the people that have fond memories with Goldeneye: https://youtu.be/GaxI3Hef3U0?is=1pCCi_8UZOXCLdp3

Funny how the capitalist narrative is that the CEO types “deserve” all they get because they worked hard and “built the company”, but employee’s that’ve been equally there for it’s hardship and growth, actually with their hands in the mud, actually have all the practical knowledge, yet are only on an income, are tossed aside at the nearest convenience because somebody smelled a bit more money.

Some of them really can’t be arsed to give back the community and systems that allowed them to flourish in the first place can they.

Locust swarm.

Sometimes I feel so blessed working for somebody that actually values people.

Nuance is a word that doesn’t exist in some people’s dictionary, unfortunately.

I’m fine with AI use in the back end, nobody really codes without something along the lines of copilot or claude anymore anyway. But any art related asset (in terms of the writing, visuals or audio) needs to be human made.

If you’re comfortable leaving what should be deliberate artistic choices to some logic machine, i’m not interested in putting time the world you’re building.