Lab rat quality of life has never been higher

Free The Tree!

Free The Tree!

Going to gouge all the midstream businesses in the long run. Hardware retailers, PC assemblers, all those little companies selling custom cases and overclock kits and fancy cooling appliances.

The lack of cheap but crucial components will have some ugly coat tails for the rest of the industry.

You mean West Canada?

The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.

It’s actually a curved line

I’m more annoyed at how a mod ban removes your ability to “block community” on the current front end. So I’m forced to go into settings and add them to my block list manually.

I don’t particularly like a default policy that lets a community fill up your feed with content you’re not allowed to participate in.

It’s a vast improvement over the black box of Reddit. But a big stretch to claim its transparent in a material sense. Most people don’t have the time or background to figure out the what and why of a mod action. And once something is removed, it’s dead to time.

Reddit felt smug, but not unfriendly.

No shortage of outright nail-chewing psychos on Reddit, depending on your instance. But I’ve found the subs with mods who swing the ban hammer the hardest tend to cultivate a community of folks who love sniffing their own farts more than butting heads.

Fortunately, its a message board not a military tribunal. You’re not going to kill anyone by posting at them.

I’ve seen a number of accounts that seem to harp on a single topic, grow increasingly adversarial if you dispute or refute anything posted, and eventually just start screaming insults until you block them.

This feels like very old-school early '10s era Reddit, where the Admins don’t do more than the high level stuff to keep the site operational, the Mods are as overworked as they are short-tempered, and a handful of power users dictate the content of any given channel by spamming it with whatever media supports their personal grudges.

The difference is the Modlog, which means everyone can see the receipt

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

You can never have enough.

That was The History Channel, which mostly existed to monetize old documentaries and whose producers quickly realized WW2 was the most watched material.

TLC was a non profit distance learning initiative set up in 1972 by the Appalachian Regional Commission in partnership with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA. It was privatized in '86, first by the Financial News Network’s $3M takeover bid and then by The Discovery Channel five years later. This second sale set of a period of reorganizing around Reality TV that would become it’s Hallmark in the '00s

Humans caused ALL of this!

A handful of humans with deep roots in the financial sector and the government contracting space.

AI popping won’t change this. These losers will still be in charge in every way that matters.

Because Trumpism is seen as unstable and of dubious logevity, there’s not an enormous rush to build defunct factories for meeting energy demand under inefficient mediums. You’re never going to see another newly built coal plant. Gas plants aren’t coming online any faster, with the specter of Peak NGLs on the horizon. Solar and Wind are the future purely because of their low cost, long term profitability, and rapid ROI.

Delaying these projects when fossil fuel usage is already dropping (gasoline is falling to $2/gal levels not seen since the COVID crash) means starving the electricity hungry digital economy purely out of spite.

AI is more likely to generate code that’s hard to follow and therefore harder to check.

Sure. It’s making the errors faster and at a far higher volume than any team of humans could do in twice the time. The technology behind inference is literally an iterative process of turning gibberish into something that resembles human text. So its sort of a speed run from baby babble into college level software design by trial, evaluation, and correction over and over and over again.

But because the baseline comparison code is, itself, full of errors, the estimation you get at the end of the process is going to be scattering errant semicolons (and far more esoteric coding errors) through the body of the program at a frequency equivalent to humans making similar errors over a much longer timeline.

Kinda. It’s a novel technology and one that hasn’t been well analyzed or exhaustively tested.

A computer is a machine that makes human errors at the speed of electricity.