turdcollector69

There’s a reason music piracy is still niche compared to games or movies/tv.

Spotify is still a good deal to me. I’ll gladly pay $12 a month to not have to go through the hassle of torrenting and organizing music.

It’s doing a shit job at replacing people, it’s still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.

In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.

Doesn’t matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.

They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.

They’ve burned through all their hype and still haven’t made it reliable yet. I think they’re not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.

It’ll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.

Isn’t going to disappear but it’s absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.

Lemmy is structurally just super reddit. It just hasn’t been flooded by children yet so the discourse is still college level.

UI is too difficult for iPad babies but as the apps catch up the dumbass summer children will flood here too.

Most people who stay in academia do so because they couldn’t hack it in the real world.

That’s why they get so squirrelly when you ask about work experience, they either don’t have any or they blew it super hard and had to return to the academia bubble.

I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.

I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.

It’s like yeah that’s a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don’t make the grade we don’t finish and have a mountain of debt.

On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how “it’s a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back.”

There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.

These people have brains the size of planets but couldn’t comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.

Yeah I was thinking of it like black people going to trump, not like racists being set in their ways and finding “their guy.”

So I misunderstood/misread the original statement

“Dude, the difference is the scale… back then they could hint at it, if they overdid it, that was a career ending mistake”

That’s really more like a 15 year window because I remember the 90’s and early 00’s and by today’s standards, people were racist as shit and it was considered acceptable.

Literally watch any comedy from that time and you’ll quickly learn how different the discourse was.

In the past 5 or so years it’s swung back super hard, I’ll give you that, but PC culture as you’re describing it had barely started in the 90’s and really only got off the ground in a way you would recognize in the mid-late 00’s.

Literally look like two comments down I already provided two sources.

How is that different from Republicans at literally any other point post 1960?

Are you having a stroke? Should I try to get help for you?

Decades of racism drove people to trump? I don’t think so

Here’s a bbc article about how the lawsuit was dismissed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39982239

It includes a picture of his “invention.”

Here’s an archive link of a Washington times opinion piece after the 3rd attempt at frivolous suits failed.

https://archive.ph/5wiop

Clockboy was a straight up scam

Clockboy was the biggest crock of shit.

The kids dad put the thing together and prompted the kid to get in trouble with it for lawsuit bait and to boost his political career.

It wasn’t even impressive he literally just took the guts out of a RadioShack digital clock and taped it inside a pencil box.

It was 100% low effort bait, it was literally a timer sticking out of a briefcase shaped pencil box that’s obviously supposed to look like a bomb.

He didn’t even get in trouble for having it, he got in trouble for repeatedly pulling it out to disrupt class.

The family got a ton of free shit then a year later tried to sue the city for 15 million and some conservative talk show hosts, all dismissed.

They then accepted a scholarship to a school in Qatar and moved there in 2015.

This is such a good example of the dumbass culture war shit that drove people to trump.

“… died as virgins.”

Holy shit, one of us?

It’s still inert.

Inert simply means that the chemical bonds are relatively stable, not that they’re indestructible.

You can decompose anything if you get it hot enough.

Different slopes.

On top you kill one person per whole number increment. 0 -> 1 kills one person

On bottom you kill infinity people per whole number increment. 0 -> 1 kills infinity people

You can basically think of it like the entirety of the top rail happens for each step of the bottom rail.