cgannett

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13 saat öncediscuss

Disagree, corvids collecting bullet casings because they are shiny is heavily Shadowrun/WoD/Hellboy coded aesthetically. Regular birds gathering fiber optic cables for nests is EXTREMELY CYBERPUNK are you kidding? The image evokes so much: capitalist excess, tech waste involving computers/internet/cybernetics, war bad, environmental degredation etc... the only part about this concept that isnt heavily cyberpunk is that the bird isn't sick, dying, or dead and is somehow happy to find such a workable and durable nest building material.

13 saat öncediscuss

"A lot of reasonably good coders have never seen an example of a good manager, and have all kinds of weird ideas about what management is."

Banger of a quote that one.

19 gün öncediscuss

A drop in the bucket compared to the value of the collective human work that was stolen to train it.

edit: come to think about it I think the ratio of one drop to one bucket is vastly over estimating the ratio of the trainer's effort.

2 ay öncediscuss

What people dont understand is we already invented Roko's Basilisk in the 1600s. It just doesnt have the power to torment you for more than 1 human lifetime yet.

2 ay öncediscuss

I really want to see what would happen if you got a musically talented math teacher to teach a bunch of kids trig, music, and programming with this...

3 ay öncediscuss

Hopefully the EU can get the battery situation to mirror the charging cable situation. IE force them all to adopt an industry standard.

3 ay öncediscuss

You can go wherever you want whenever you want... until everyone does this and now you are stalled in traffic with no end in sight.

3 ay öncediscuss

pretty crystals are pretty, gonna file this under "cool game dev inspo"

3 ay öncediscuss

Literally giving children the means of production is way out of line. To the corporate owned gulag with you! /s

5 ay öncediscuss

if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing

6 ay öncediscuss

reminds me of a friend of mine who turned his alabama football passion into a cameraman career

7 ay öncediscuss

ugh what a pain

Another issue is that often effort is the only lever one has in providing value as what tasks you are assigned constrains potential value output.Hypothetically, If my boss assigns me a stupid project destined to failure and tells me to shut up when I push back I'm really not going to get much value regardless of how much effort I put in... unless I was wrong in my assesment which is admittedly possible. Good management I suppose would then use effort as a proxy to try to find projects with potential to match one's effort.

7 ay öncediscuss

This is further complicated by the difference between direct and indirect value. I build a thing that produces n value and is directly attributable to me. I also do things that help 100 others produce 10% more value themselves but most of that is attributed to themselves producing 10 * n value overall. How will I be rewarded if at all? Most likely as someone who produced n value.

10 ay öncediscuss

3. Private equity has made long term investment a poor mans game.

11 ay öncediscuss

I have had to tell several people I know they can't just take whatever OTC meds they want whenever they want with no side effects and it is always important to read the bottle's instructions/warnings.

11 ay öncediscuss

I suppose to mitigate that you could have that data not immediately viewable to the patient because seeing "stress line go up" would be pretty stressful and would skew the data anyway.

12 ay öncediscuss

mmmm plasma cruller uhuhuhuhuhu

-Homer Simpson

12 ay öncediscuss

Also because salt itself was much more valuable back then you wouldn't have as much or even any salt in your fresh food so you use the "preserved in an intolerable amount of salt" food products with the unsalted food products to get a quite tolerable middle ground at consumption time. Mash potatoes and pickle bits mmm

12 ay öncediscuss

Did anyone else hear mystical music in the background and smell fragrantly burning incense while they read that? I loved this, short, funny, interesting.

12 ay öncediscuss

Also almost everyone who works at that company gets laid off and the few remaining have the worst job ever now. LINE GO UP THO!!