johnnyanmac

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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
We've done such a good job the past decades of taxing capital before. Surely when corporations wield all the leverage they will finally get theirs.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
We're in a recession, in all but official numbers (which are decreasingly credible by the day). Big companies weather a recession and use it to ransack countries, becsuse smaller/mid-size companies are struggling to do the bare mi
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
We don't really have alternatives, period. LG is the one in the news today, but pretty much any TV this decade has been doing similar things. Computer monitors max out at 32 inches and the idea of a modern dumb TV is non-existent.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Yeah, that's my impression from games. Even being told that a game was vibe coded doesn't matter much unless the game runs like crap. GenAI is a OR disaster, though, and very few Indies can really "hide" the usage as of
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
I didn't get to "establish a community". For several reasons, some historical. I didn't start the fire. >I see that you've never lived somewhere with water scarcity. I live in the US, so no. Despite all the dro
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>then the lack of water should be one of the considerations for establishing a community there. People don't get to choose their birthplace, and circumstances change. Worrying about pottable water should be a solved problem in a fir
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>the anti-AI hate mostly reduces to arguing that art is the process not the outcome. The outcome is also bad though, once you scale past static images. That's why consumers, who otherwise are apathetic at scale, are extremely negati
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>talking about absurd work hours, SK and Japan aren't better than China. On paper, no. Japan has overtime bonuses too, but you're culturally discouraged from reporting overtime. So 12 hour days are common with no OT. And thats
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Most of my understanding is based around studying Japanese law, so I wouldn't extend it to all of asia. But the main protection is that much of Asia is not at-will employment. So you can't easily create mass layoffs like the US wi
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Most of my reference is Japan and South Korea, yes. You're relatively hard to fire there unless you genuinely in the red as a company. They have their own loopholes around this, but you can't just do forever layoffs for no reason
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Landscapers tend to suck up trash while gathering leaves and such. So it's not as obvious as a dedicated trash pick up crew. But yes, it does also help that a richer community correlates with more care about littering to begin with.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>add a chain gun to the robot to deal with the vandals Asimov reeling in his grave.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Japan has much, much less litter to pick up. Turns out when your windows aren't broken, that you take pride in the rest of your community too.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Coincidentally, Asia is a lot more receptive to AI as well. Turns out having strong job protections means that companies actually need to figure out how to make humans more productive with AI, instead of replacing them.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>because people will use the "if you're not doing anything wrong you got nothing to worry about" defense. The cop using the cameras to stalk his ex girlfriend really should have put an end to such argument. No, survellill
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
I and many others are trying. Turns out "think of the children doesn't work so well" when it comes to impacting homeowners' property value.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>dirt cheap "flash" tier models are more than enough And do you trust companies to keep subsidizing the "cheap" models? The reason for the memory crisis isn't due to consumer DRAM but affects it nonetheless. Reme
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>but they are extremely useful, and there are no sane arguments against that. I'm not arguing usefulness. We have many useful tools, programs, and institutions out there. I'm sure some parts of this community directly contribu
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
My point of view is that we have more control over our governments, and especially our local governments, than private corporations. I don't have faith that one day LLMs won't simply explode in price and become yet another tool ou
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Yes, I agree appropriation of funds matter more than increasing the budget. We need more money to go towards districts who literally cannot afford resources. There's also matters of curriculum, but I'm not versed enough to advise
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
Yet there were times where I was not allowed to use a graphing calculator in school tests (mid 00's). Honestly. if you are completely reliant on a graphing calc in an AP calculus course, you're definitely not getting a 5 in the ex
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
So let's get this straight: we have many underpaid, overworked teachers who aren't given the resources needed for students to succeed. Our solution to this, in lieu of better educational budgets (and appropriations of said budget)
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
The potential output. You train on movies and animation and you get a model that can - produce your own movies/animation - identity movies/animation from context - identify actors/characters and cross-reference them in other
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>don't further their education and cause them to lose interest in the subject. Yes, that's my issue. The study is focused on grades and I'm more concerned about deeper logical thinking. You don't get the latter withou
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
It's an increasingly enticing offer. But they aren't exactly that open to immigration either as of late.
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>why I Dont learn how semiconductors work before I do JavaScript? because you chose computer science/SWE instead of Computer Engineering. At least, those were in fact the differences in my programs at my alma mater. even then, intro
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
And you think a 9YO has the discipline to understand when a calculator is used for "checking work" compared to using it to answer their questions and get positive feedback? That's the part this study seems to handwave. We don
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
>I'm not talking about future capabilities, I'm saying it will cease to be arguable within 5 years So... talking about future capabilities. >Kids are going to need to engage with this directly Just to get this straight: are
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
> if you are, you'll get to use all the computer assisting tools you want I've done work on fluid simulations. It sure would have been nice to understand the buttons being pushed so I can better validate what's going on. A
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by johnnyanmac 1mo ago
I laughed at the idea of Wall-E as a kid. At least the "humans give up all autonomy and wheel around in sci-fi carts served by an AI" (as a 10YO I was neutral to the environmentalist message). Now, 20 years later, I see the underp

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