Mobius01

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18 days agodiscuss

I remember in 2006 when online sports gambling was banned, and witnessed first hand some sleaze bags flee to Costa Rica where many of the actual operations were located. What I witnessed regarding addiction and exploitation put me off sports for a long time. Now here we are, with the tech industry and political capital behind it, this time engineered to engulf the entire population. It's repulsive.

23 days agodiscuss

> I do not see AI taking jobs, I see it more as everyone got a great secretary/junior to offload 'busy' work onto.

I’m afraid that your perspective is flawed. There are many jobs whose output can’t be enhanced by offloading certain tasks to improve productivity - the output itself is replaced by AI.

For instance, a family member who is a successful freelance illustrator and whose field has dramatically shrank with the introduction of image generation. They don’t need a secretary, they need clients. The same clients that now are happy to replace 50%-80% of their demand with AI-generated imagery.

2 months agodiscuss

Timely, just this morning I took an interest in Obsidian and the immediate query about it being open source returned a disappointing “no”. So count me in to try this one.

2 months agodiscuss

Becoming aware of typography practices will drive you insane. The world is full of atrocities. Live in bliss. But still buy the calculator :)

2 months agodiscuss

I had some credits sitting on Audible doing nothing, so I picked this up out of curiosity about Mr. Yudkowsky's reputation as an irredeemable AI pessimist. Hopefully this is better than the AI Doc film, which was borderline insulting.

2 months agodiscuss

Am I supposed to take The Department of Defense seriously when the presentation of these alleged real findings looks like a website best described as marketing for the Call of Duty crowd?

2 months agodiscuss

Microsoft has historically made poor choices in product naming, but this has to be a new low.

3 months agodiscuss

Thanks for sharing Bookshelves. It’s great.

3 months agodiscuss

It would require an administration that had a modicum of care for the average consumer/taxpayer, and the current one isn’t it.

3 months agodiscuss

What is this? An AI generated article based on a podcast? Are you serious?

3 months agodiscuss

I will take a wild risk here and say that… it’s probably by design.

4 months agodiscuss

I grew up in the 80s/90s further south, and still the film was very much a high fidelity memory playing on-screen. The production design will never be fully appreciated by people that didn’t live that time, it was truly special.

4 months agodiscuss

This is really unfortunate. Google Fiber has maintained a low, no-nonsense price for years with near-perfect uptime, and besides the odd upselling email, they have never really pushed upgrades. More importantly, I can use my own hardware without having to engage in a war with technical support on 2 hour long calls.

Maybe I was in denial that Google would behave differently about this product considering their track record.

5 months agodiscuss

I have to be honest - build a blog and post your thoughts. Human thoughts, your ideas, the projects, the tips, and the art. Just add more human voices to the internet. We need them.

5 months agodiscuss

Engineering is never the bottleneck… until it is. I have at this very moment months of completed design features that engineering should have already implemented if they were not in a constant churn of refactoring, reorganizing and spiking to fix self-inflicted defects.

Bottlenecks happen everywhere.

6 months agodiscuss

My mental health improved in meaningful ways when I dropped all social media close to a decade ago. Now I can feel the impact when someone insists I look at some shared item they sent me on Instagram or whatever. I´d rather not return to algorithm-driven services if I can avoid them.

6 months agodiscuss

Definitely a perfect timing situation, though with substantial risk. Considering the time the game was in development, an alternative could have showed up in the market.

However, I believe Stardew Valley’s appeal wasn’t simply of fulfilling a void in the market. It is great because there is genuine passion for the subject in the execution, and the content in the game is truly compelling for a wide audience. An amazing story.

8 months agodiscuss

This seems like a breach of publishing terms / loss of confidence on Colossal Order. They released CSII in late 2013 clearly unfinished and unoptimized, delayed paid DLC expansion and content for nearly 2 years and there seems to be no end in sight for the performance problems. But the key part is that the announced console ports never materialized, leaving a large addressable market on the table. That Colossal Order may have captured lighting in a bottle with the first title when there was a gap in the market after the demise of SimCity, but looks like the second time around they were overambitious and may have put the franchise in a position to be sunsetted.

8 months agodiscuss

The only solution for that - all caveats and compromises considered - was paving over Windows with Linux. I tried to be patient. Yet Microsoft is hellbent on justifying their AI investments to shareholders by sacrificing their user base at the altar of the invasive LLM. I’m out.

8 months agodiscuss

I wonder if Apple’s doomed car project distracted them from creating a viable CarPlay strategy with OEMs. CarPlay Ultra looked like the salvageable part of that failure and it was too late then.