rcxdude

>Washing clothes by machine is orders of magnitude cheaper than by hand when you factor in the value of your time.

I'll also note that it is less resource intensive overall. Handwashing dishes and clothes will use more water and more energy to heat that water compared to the machines that do the same job (people often assume the opposite).

I see a bit of a split in people in creative roles of all kinds (and this is something I had noted before LLMs made the contrast more stark). some people get into it because they like the process of making the thing that they are making (in whole or in part). Others get into it because they have a thing that they want to exist in the world but no-one else has made it (I would also split this into people who just want the thing, or people who want to make something that crosses many domains and so want custom things that will fit into the whole). The former group tend to react with revulsion to automation, because it removes the part they like. The latter are usually much more willing to embrace it, because it's the end result that they care about moreso than the process.

That strongly depends on context. In larger organisations, this is definitely the case. For smaller startups and teams then the overhead is much smaller and the actual core programming work is much more of a bottleneck.

I'm not sure I'd rank LLMs very highly at any of those on their own. In the hands of many users they can even help wreck havoc with those processes.

The subscriptions do not require training on your data.

Their financial statements suggest the answer, even when you take into account the cost of training the model, is 'not at all'.

Yeah, see, that's a specific comparison that does point to things getting worse (and I don't disagree with that), but the article doesn't mention inflation once. I really don't like this 'well it doesn't matter whether the claims and logic are right so long as the vibes are', because if the issue is real-terms wages falling because inflation is high then that suggests a different origin and set of possible solutions than wages falling because their share of GDP is falling. In fact it's probably more important to not muddy a real issue with a bunch of reporting that doesn't accurately reflect what's going on.

Can someone connect the dots for me between "share went down" being "despite GDP went up"? One of those is a percentage and the other is an absolute amount. I would not expect that they would be directly related in and of themselves (in fact I would suspect that that they would move more independently). I am all for the idea that there are harms to having a massive wealth inequality, but the numbers in the article do suggest that US workers are on average taking home more than they were before, even if 'capital' is benefitting more (where those workers are also still the majority beneficiary of those capital returns), and yet the article seems to just dance around this and report it as if those workers are worse off in absolute terms.

I think it's less of a concern over the internet because the kind of packet necessary for the exploit tends to be filtered out, but it's pretty scary as an escalation mechanism from e.g. an end-user device to a core server.

Much like with PHP2Shell, it doesn't need to be utterly trivially exploitable to be a big concern.

Ubuntu is one of the larger companies in the OS space and advertises themselves as providing long term support with rapid security fixes. AFAIK they haven't released a fix for their paying customers either. If they were complaning about arch or debian then I think you would have a strong point, when those distros have fast fixes but ubuntu doesn't I'm not so sure they that criticism of ubuntu is unwarranted.

(Also, ubuntu already has the fix. What they're dragging their feet on is releasing the updated version. I don't think anyone outside ubuntu can help with that process)

Hybrid warfare. Anything that does damage but does not rise to the level of severity and attribution to be overt war. Russia at a minimum wants Ukraine (and Europe is supporting Ukraine heavily), some analysts think it's not impossible they try a direct attack on Europe in a decade or so, dumb as that sounds.

It's not always the Russians, but I don't think OP was saying it definitely was, just that there is a motive.

I'm not so pessimistic: while the ratio is getting worse, there are more good and interesting games coming out, and the best ones are getting better.

Selective enforcement is a pretty good political weapon

If you do you'll often find there isn't an equivalent noctua part.

It's a little harder when it's not part of the supply chain that is passing through their organisation.

>The utopian bits were never really explained, either.

It's worth remembering that social organization (currency, capitalism, democracy) is a technology as well, and we should not expect that a sci-fi author can explain the advances in that technology any better than they can explain a warp drive. (one nod to this I think is telling is one scene in the movie where they travel back in time and Kirk is telling the others 'they still use money' in much the same way that he would say 'they still use guns'. They have replaced guns with phasers and replaced money with something else and Roddenberry can give us the blueprint for neither).

I think it's a sign of the times that people are kind of forgetful that this is an area in which we could advance - either insisting the status quo is somehow the best possible or even completely god-given natural or insisting that the answer is really obvious and doesn't require deep thought, research, and experimentation.

It does seem to be a commonly reported theme of multi-agent setups.

inertia-replacement is what batteries do best, so in this kind scenario that's probably the least of the problems.

It's probably also a view that is shifting as batteries move from primarily providing short-term grid stability (where power available is probably the more important metric) to longer term storage.

I think the intended approach was basically to just edit the top answer to update it. One of SO's issues I think was that it couldn't really decide if it wanted to be a Q/A site or a wiki and so subverted the expectations of both.

You can blame capitalism perhaps (slightly debatable, TBH), but capital is just a component of that whole system (also, on the whole, not actually situated within board members of large companies. Those people are generally the representatives of capital).

The microVMs probably don't have "two co-operating workloads are able to communicate" in their threat model. The main concern would be if a malicious payload was able to affect or extract data from any other VM.

Element (and Element X) and the main server. I still use it daily (to message the one other person I know who uses it) but nothing makes me think it's viable as a discord replacement. (I haven't had too many problems super recently but then I haven't tried to log in on a new device for a while)

I'll echo the general impression. Even just using Matrix for direct messaging it's not something I am going to be able to pull any of my friends onto unless they already put the privacy and openness advantages very highly. It's just a pain to use, a pain to debug, and flaky enough you often have to debug it. It certainly seems like there's a lot of effort going into it but it seems to have resulted in a lot of churn but not much polish at any level.

You _can_, but if you're running a FOSS project you probably already have a significant shortage of spare time. Most FOSS devs are not that idealistic: they want something that works and works reliably and not to be building their own platform just to be able to work on the project they actually want to work on.

You're extrapolating quite a bit, I think. There is a pretty wide range of policy decisions between the status quo and 'kill everyone with some wealth' in terms of dealing with the negative consequences of extreme wealth inequality.

(I do agree that there is a tendency to overestimate just how much wealth is available, though. People often get the idea that if there were no billionaires that everyone would be comfortably well off, and the maths doesn't quite check out on that, though you could probably improve the lives of a lot of people at the lower end of the spectrum. There's also a tendency to over-estimate what being in the 1% of wealth gets you: this is rich, for sure, but it's not 'private jet and luxury yacht' wealth by a long way)

It's not necessarily ambiguity (though sometimes it is), but more just subtlety in terms of the questions that you are asking. It's important because it can matter a lot in practice that you are running the right calculations for the information you have and not introducing a bias by missing some detail.

There is one misleading aspect to this visualisation: the rightmost bar for the ultrawealthy should get much, much narrower as it goes up (essentially microscopic on the x-axis scale). This matters because for the main part the area under the curve represents the total wealth in the country but when you start scrolling up the area is massively more than the wealth it is representing.

For sure, this is the nature of the indie video game market. I would say factorio was a lot more unique (though not totally) at the time: The closest gameplay that really existed was the minecraft modpacks that inspired factorio but these were a little limited in exposure by their nature of being mods. The explosion in automation games as a genre was largely as a result of factorio's success.