Argument doesn’t check out. You can still manage people, and they can use whatever tools make them productive. Good understanding of the code & ability to pass PR reviews isn’t going anywhere, nor is programmer skill

lights turn on

Yep that’s a working fridge!

I wouldn’t go that far

Hard to say. I mean, the easy answer is only 10x a soldier in America. But they also get free housing, food, varied benefits & bonuses – and retired generals often make millions via their influence and power. But yeah they have salary caps and somehow the whole system still works pretty well

Yeah like I said, there are insane outliers. But you gotta give it to him, he did crazy and creative things nobody else did successfully, over and over, and there is a clear intentionality to his conduct. He does indeed network very efficiently. I can’t imagine him being easily replaced either

You put em bags into a hard pitcher thing you have at home, and cut the corner. So I guess it’s a bit less waste

Paywalled but overall I’ve come to the conclusion that executive pay isn’t as insane as it seems. Like yeah okay there are outliers that are insane, but it’s actually a super difficult role to hire for, and certainly not a role AI can replace soon. It involves:

• high levels of creativity
• good taste and sound judgement
• a ton of politics and emotional intelligence
• mental stability and reliability
• a lot of intangible skills that are hard to survey
• connections & networking
• often unique and original views of the world
• organizational skills and high level problem solving

These aren’t skills to be taken lightly and they take years to develop, to be a good manager & bear responsibility for the lives of many employees. If AI made proposals, someone still has to actually judge which ideas to pursue, so you can’t really get rid of the job. Maybe you could reduce the amount of executives. But when a company has leadership that’s actually coherent and works, employees like them, it’s a goldmine that needs to be protected by the owners

Huh I guess it’s “normal” but I hadn’t heard of Linux OSes tracking active user telemetry. Turns out this is a fedora / rpm mechanism that tracks the ip addresses of people updating their system. Something to think about. Archlinux for example does not do any form of this tracking as far as I can tell

I don’t really see a market need for this, just use signal. C++ is also a weird language to use in the modern era, pretty much totally eclipsed by Go or Rust, not that you need performance anyway. Or just use webrtc for p2p connections with a standard TURN/STUN relay for network layouts that prevent direct p2p, this can be done pure web or via apps. Already has audio/video and encryption. XMPP and Matrix are also fine. But as a learning exercise, great project

Uhh idk about this article, it meanders randomly around various failings of the president (sure) but building a big room in 3 years with a ton of money available seems totally doable

It’s interesting that signal was partially funded by the American govt international propaganda wing (radio free Asia parent) early on. So I mean, not totally wrong. Though of course I’m a big fan of signal and it’s developers

Do a philosophy minor if you have any affinity for it. Do a major in something that pays. Use that set of big picture critical thinking + a decent fallback plan to secure yourself. Then decide later in life what you love to do

I think it’s pretty worthwhile being paranoid about Tor. Not because of hackers, but because of the government, they are clearly watching all the forums and markets there very closely, setting up agents and honeypots. Tor itself may or may not be secure, you never really know for sure. For pretty much all legal privacy usecases, a VPN is enough, and much more performant

Install this sign into your home to automate gaslighting your partner

I really don’t understand why lemmy hates ai so much. I get massive productivity gains every day from AI. I agree with this exec that we probably won’t hit AGI using current tech or maybe ever, but we still have:

• incredibly useful image generation that dramatically speeds up the work of designers
• coding agents that, when used skillfully, generate usable code, and review code pretty well in PRs
• suno, which can generate stems that my musician friends are regularly using instead of having to hunt through the Internet for days for the right trumpet melody

How this translates to profit is unclear since there is a race to the bottom, companies are choosing to give away the tech to gain market share rn, but the technology is undeniably useful, and already rolled out inside of every major tech company

*these dice

There’s a whole school of philosophy that has argued about this for … Well forever, but especially the last 100 years, the philosophy of mind. The problem is definition: what does it mean to think. Some may argue that it requires consciousness, but then the problem of definition is what the hell is consciousness?

So on the trivial side, yes, of course computers can think, if thoughts are nothing special. Computers have states, they can react to and inspect their own states. Is that thinking? LLMs use something like neural networks modeled after the mind to generate streams of words, and encode knowledge and concepts using statistics. Is that thinking?

On the other side, well no, computers don’t think because they don’t have souls. Are souls real? Or maybe there’s more to human thinking than just neural networks, like quantum effects? Or more complexity due to chemical biology? Is the ability to answer a question the same thing as understanding a concept (see Chinese room experiment)?

These are the questions that philosophers love to masturbate with, publish many papers on, and make no real progress towards. Definitions are funny like that

Guns?

Wow holy crap, great work - the world badly needs this. Im assuming the mechanism is the same, you inject a js script into your site. I’m also very interested in pure server side solutions for analytics, but they can’t hit all the features you did in a generic way afaik

Might as well just run Linux at that point and if you want android apps, waydroid. The value prop of Chromebooks was supposed to be that you can just factory reset it at any point and log back in