foinker

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by foinker 7mo ago
We're focusing on the waymo because it did this on its own for some inscrutable reason and there is no individual accountability, which is a far more useful discussion to be having if we are supposed to trust these things to be replaci
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by foinker 11mo ago
Does it? I mean the quoted text doesn't really make much mention beyond the word "allegations" that there isn't any evidence of wrongdoing on Joe Biden's part. In fact, it's written as if there is still some qu
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by foinker 11mo ago
Reddit was back by the time work started, so all good there lol
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by foinker 11mo ago
No shot that happens until an outage breaks at least an entire workday in the US timezones. The only complaint I personally heard was from someone who couldn't load reddit on the train to work.
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by foinker 2y ago
Work is a means to an end of living an enjoyable life, and most tech/finance jobs in the US are overpaid, unimportant nonsense.
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by foinker 2y ago
Seriously? Governments' legitimacy is pinned to their ability to provide food and medical attention to their citizenry. It doesn't make any difference whether or not twitter exists or who has access to it.
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by foinker 2y ago
I think we should all just accept that these platforms are not suitable for the purposes of being a global bulletin board/library of human activity as long as they are owned and operated by private corporations who only care about your
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by foinker 2y ago
CEOs, VCs, and other managers do not give one flying fuck about talented people leaving. When talented people leave, they're replaced with cheaper people who can do decent enough work that the quality of the end product doesn't no
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by foinker 2y ago
The artificial force is almost always VC funding
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by foinker 2y ago
Not the person you asked, but sometimes I ask things I can easily Google because we are on a discussion board discussing it, and a human can sometimes come up with an interesting answer that generates further discussion. I'm more confi
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by foinker 2y ago
I consider myself a Musk detester, and you're definitely right that all those calls for Twitter/X's death were wishful thinking at best. But I don't think that these supposed new features have anything to do with the con
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by foinker 2y ago
I have a complicated relationship with this situation. On the one hand, just tell me what you want. On the other hand, if you feel rude go ahead and send me a hello first. But on the other other hand it distracts me until you say what you w
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by foinker 2y ago
Yes, it's going to excel at understanding programming languages, which have rigid structures and clearly defined commands whose inputs and outputs could never be misunderstood by a computer. And more power to ya if it saves developers
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by foinker 2y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you on the premise that work should be mostly transactional and there should be no expectation of loyalty, but the spirit of the other guy's example is that your coworkers, the other human beings who work
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by foinker 2y ago
I don't entirely disagree with you, but I think your wrench analogy only really works if the wrench sometimes thinks it is a screwdriver or a piece of wood for the majority of users, and only experienced highly technical mechanics can
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by foinker 3y ago
>Automation is not in service of the owning class, it's in service of the consumer class The primary beneficiary is the guy that can sell 2000 shirts instead of just 100. Anything that makes it easier for you to buy shit is not for
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by foinker 3y ago
A monopoly was developed because it's easier, and I'm sure that's why there isn't anywhere in the developed world that successfully made use of multiple currencies, or private printing of the dominant currency. For examp
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by foinker 3y ago
Sure I will bolster my argument, here's the tl;dr: I'm not required to propose an alternative to bitcoin, that isn't what this is about. As a regular joe consumer, I find that bitcoin is a disgracefully inadequate alternative
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by foinker 3y ago
I am firmly in the tech bubble and think AI is a novelty in its present state. ChatGPT is a fucking idiot. That said, so is everyone who thinks cryptobros are "trying to fix money". They're trying to fix the problem of themse
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by foinker 3y ago
It's true that many many places overextended themselves while under the influence of ZIRP. However, I think it's giving the execs/boards too much credit to say they're reluctant to do layoffs because the tech isn't
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by foinker 3y ago
As a childless person I agree entirely. I fully acknowledge and embrace that I don't have kids because I'd rather not deal with the hassle of it. Although I've not fully understood what makes that decision "selfish"
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by foinker 3y ago
It was a pretty horny game, no question, but I think when people say BG3 has a great story, they mean that the combination of non-linear story, huge cast of oddball characters, lively and interesting settings, little side story beats sprink
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by foinker 3y ago
Yes the writing is often an afterthought and besides the point, but most of the games people are listing here are kind of proving the author's point, especially BG3. Games with great stories sell better and have a longer shelf life tha
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by foinker 3y ago
You are thinking of the highly regarded tl;dr
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by foinker 3y ago
The allure of short term profits is largely the point of all companies. Google in particular was never decent, they struck data harvesting gold with Search and Maps, then used the infinite money they were making off of advertisers to ensure
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by foinker 3y ago
The event is the attempt at the promotion. That the outcome was failure doesn't make it a 'non-event', and I think this is what the study is kind of getting at. Men mentally reconfigure these things into ways that protect our
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by foinker 3y ago
I'm sure you understand it perfectly as it's been commonly used this way for a couple of centuries now.