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VanTheBrand
·قبل 11 يومًا·discuss
My first thought reading this was I wonder if Sony is planning to wind down or spin off Sony DADC, their commercial optical disc manufacturing subsidiary they’ve run since the dawn of the CD.

Sony DADC presses every PlayStation games but also has spent decades manufacturing CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, UHD Blu-rays, software, and other optical media for 3rd party customers across the entertainment and computer industry.

If PlayStation discs disappear in 2028, that removes one of the last massive, guaranteed sources of demand for optical disc production inside Sony. Even if the plants continue serving movies, music, and third-party clients for a while, it’s hard not to wonder if this announcement is also the beginning of the end for one of the last major end-to-end optical media manufacturers in the supply chain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corpor...

https://www.sonydadc.com/productsandservices/manufacturing
VanTheBrand
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The certificate was issued before the Nightmare Eclipse zero day thing started but I suppose it’s possible there are other certificates expiring around the same time that could be connected to the Nightmare deadline. Probably a coincidence though
VanTheBrand
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yeah if you have an actual really good idea for a certain kind of under analyzed data that could give you an edge but it would take too much effort or time to compile or analyze the data, an LLM has potential to make a viable strategy out of an otherwise correct but unuseful insight
VanTheBrand
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
But Japanese autoworkers are unionized and have been for a very long time? So there is an example of a unionized group producing a great product!
VanTheBrand
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
so there is no data or there are counter examples to the data? because you seem to have shifted to an entirely different assertion... Also to say the counter examples are countless is a pretty broad statement itself.
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Most predictions about the Trump tariffs from Trump and the people railing against them have proven to be hugely incorrect in both directions. If anything this proves my point that these are complex systems that are hard to predict.
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Except that’s not how it played out at all! Fast Food employment did not go down but wages did go up 11%.

Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the employers ate (pun intended) the other half of the cost.

Here is the study by UC Berkeley from this April

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects...
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
An under appreciated part of a truckers job is being in the truck so someone doesn’t rob it.
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The problem with US ports being slow isn’t the longshoremen or the lack of automation, it’s the ports themselves.

This has been studied and the main takeaway is that automated terminals are generally not more productive than conventional ones *once you control for things like terminal layout, cargo patterns, rail/truck integration, and geography.*

A lot of the “look at Rotterdam/Singapore/Shanghai” comparisons are misleading because those are purpose-built megaterminals with entirely different infrastructure and logistics networks.

US ports have different constraints (that have nothing to do with longshoremen) that make the specific automations more common in foreign ports less effective and sometimes counter effective here.

That’s not to say there aren’t automation improvements that could be made or Longshoremen labor is currently at some perfect optimal productivity equilibrium with automation, but it’s not a simple we need automation and they are in the way stopping it scenario.

Automation can certainly reduce some labor costs and improve yard density, but the idea that US ports are uniquely inefficient because dockworkers are manually moving containers around is mostly political rhetoric, not what the actual studies by people designing and running ports say.

Some reading: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106498.pdf

https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/container-...
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
But based on pure physics alone it seems obvious that moving single truckloads of cargo over several miles of muddy road would be more difficult (and expensive) than moving dozens of loads simultaneously by rail over a significantly longer distance? That’s like the point of trains. How is this an indictment of teamsters?
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
You may need to retake economics 101 perhaps if you think raising a wage floor has a single predictable outcome in every scenario, which seems to be what you are implying.

It puts varying pressures on other elements in a dynamic system in different ratios and with second order effects that can’t be fully predicted until you “run the experiment.”
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
he most certainly did not
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
As mentioned in this very encyclical, nuclear proliferation. (though we seem to be backsliding on this one...)
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeah the current guidance from US copyright office is that if it were said to be solely authored by copilot it would not be eligible for copyright. If it were said to be solely authored by human A (who happened to use co-pilot) the elements and arrangement of it not generated by co-pilot would be copyrightable. I’m not sure the copyright office has released guidance on attempting to register AI as a co-author I assume the registration would be rejected but you’d be able to re-submit as sole Human author.
VanTheBrand
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It’s certainly an assertion.
VanTheBrand
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I would guess it’s significantly below 1%
VanTheBrand
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Accounting for inflation the 2026 budget is 2 Billion less than the 2016 budget.
VanTheBrand
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
yeah I'm sure Jason is just fine with that.
VanTheBrand
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
The option is you have to buy another machine. There are mac ec2 instances and several mac cloud hosts that all would abuse this if they could, instead to stay compliant they buy more machines.
VanTheBrand
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Okay post a really funny LLM joke about potatoes and post a great piece of LLM poetry about lemons.

I’ll wait. You should be able to do it quickly though since LLMs are so good at it.