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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Won’t someone think of the architects and engineers and the burdensome regulations and testing red tape that they suffer under? I’m all for it. How much faster and cheaper could US get bridges to market if we let high schoolers design and test them? Think of the wasted cost in education having to pay and train people who had to become experts in their fields when you could just substitute in snake oil “media personalities” for an MD or LPN? I know I want my care and life to be completely shaped by whoever is willing to cut corners the most.



  • It’s min-maxing. They already commit to the time for exercise so if they could be productive with it somehow why not? “Productive” here more of a 2 seconds of Internet fame than “this has general application”, but just like a daily commute being limited mostly to music/podcast/phone calls as far as being “productive”, if someone introduced the ability to prep dinner while commuting many people would take them up on it.

    It might not be the traditional or most perfect place or time to make “x” but if it buys you time elsewhere and there aren’t other consequences or side effectd, well everyone is pretty maxed out in the world and doesn’t have time.




  • Durant’s comment is a backhanded compliment if one ever was made. “It takes a lot of stamina” is what his comment boils down to which points to the volume of the shots rather than talent–which seems pretty clearly supported. When your own team decides to go for it, when the other team is The Wizards who care nothing for the sport, when refs decide to play along, when you’re a has-been playoff threat 6th ranked team in the east…it all has to line up. Some "moment”. Big asterix to me.


  • It’s 100% the end goal. The shortage driving ram prices is to build data centers; it’s not just to hold LLM compute power but to centralize (meaningful) compute power.

    Humans are powerful with open information, the ability to communicate, organize…better rip all that down and give consumers what they want; easily clickable funnels into your compute power, your data harvesting, your political and information control…it’s the techno fascist fantasy.

    I’m shocked by the number of adults 20-40 who don’t own their own computer at home. Even when computers are dirty cheap in the US compared to their information, record keeping and economic vitality to modern living at ~$400-$1,000, tons of adults simply walked away from computing or never started it as smartphones were already here and were easy to slide into instead of having to learn.

    Lemmy worries about windows users but I worry about people who don’t have ANY understanding of how special this moment in history has been when plebs had access to the same technology that oligarchs did (broadly). It’s historically an anomaly that the wealthy and powerful would like to correct. Literally the means of production.