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Roguelazer

@ roguelazer @lemmy.world

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  • Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

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  • The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren't seeking cognition, they're seeking quick rewards; "working" with "AI" isn't a cognitive task so much as it's a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of "prompting".

  • sci-fi series recommendation

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  • Dan Moren's Galactic Cold War series might be a good fit. Like Scalzi, it's very soft sci fi, with a somewhat military bent (spies, in this case) and well-written characters.

    Also, if you liked Old Man's War, I actually thought Scalzi's Interdependency series was better so you might enjoy that.

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    Don't you think that our entire modern civilization is a bubble?

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  • Yes. We're consuming lots of natural resources at a prodigious rate, like topsoil, phosphorous, and even fresh water — never mind fossil fuels. It seems fairly clear that the planet cannot support a population of 7 billion humans for very long (on a geological timeframe), so either we're in a civilizational bubble that will pop or we're going to have to come up with another round of magical technologies à la the Haber Process to keep the bubble going...

  • What is a router ?

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  • Technically, a router is any device which routes traffic at the IP layer (layer 3; based on IP addresses like 10.1.2.3 or fe80::abcd:1234), as opposed to some other later (e.g., a device which routes at layer 2 is a switch; a device which routes at layer 7 is a load balancer).

    In colloquial usage, "router" usually refers to a home internet gateway, which is a device that does a few things:

    • serves as a masquerading gateway for your local network (allowing multiple devices inside your home to share a single IP address provided by your ISP)
    • serves as a traditional router for IPv6 if your ISP provides such access
    • contains an Ethernet switch allowing you to connect multiple Ethernet devices
    • often contains a WiFi access point, allowing you to connect WiFi devices and bridge them into your main network
    • has firewall/ACL systems to prevent the outside world from getting into your network

    It usually does this by being a single box containing a small Linux or BSD computer running some custom software, dedicated WiFi and Ethernet chips, and some antennas. No magic there; you can do the same thing with any computer if you put enough elbow grease into it.

  • Trump says FISA extension must include voting bill

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  • Great! Glad to see neither item pass!

  • Stargate update from Michael Shanks twitter

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  • In the US, why doesn't a personal savings account make more sense than health insurance?

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  • Because everything costs more than you think. Having a child without insurance is often over $100,000. Any visit to the ER for an emergency? $25,000 to get in the door and often millions of dollars if you need lots of interventions. Heck, even with insurance, chronic conditions often cost thousands of dollars per year. Even simple procedures like my daughter's tympanostomy tubes have self-pay prices in the tens of thousands of dollars.

  • Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00

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  • There are still some of those that I'm familiar with, mostly entry-level white collar professional jobs like "receptionist" or "desktop IT".

    Beyond that, the 9-5 is dead, though. A lot of the rest of American white-collar jobs are 24x7 where you're expected to respond to slack or email within a few minutes all day, and probably also be in the office 8-10 hours per day. And working-class jobs have all moved to unscheduled part time nonsense where they'll give you 29.5 hours a week (to avoid having to give you benefits), but won't tell you which 29.5 hours until the last possible moment.

  • Are people who make 200k a year "poor"?

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  • Licensed childcare runs between $2500 and $4000 per month per child here in the Bay Area; $200k salary is about $150k after tax. Doesn't take a terribly big family to totally exhaust that amount if both parents need to work to bring it in.

  • Trump was ready to fire Tulsi Gabbard until Roger Stone stepped in: report

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  • I was skeptical of the rumors that Gabbard was some kind of foreign sleeper agent, but if Roger Stone is standing up for her, then perhaps she is working for the Russians...

  • How do you find the right wedding photographer?

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  • Read a lot of portfolios to find one where the work was split between freelance photojournalism and commercial / wedding photography.

  • How do you find the right wedding photographer?

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  • I looked for a professional in the area who had a photojournalism background because I was more interested in accurate photos of what was happening all around the party than in glamour shots of my wife and I. The pictures turned out amazing and I treasure them.

    Main moral is to figure out what you want first, then look for that rather than trying to explore the whole space.

  • It's the dream.

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  • That's bigger than any workspace I've ever had in my entire 20+ years of working. It has a window and drawers and some modicum of privacy? How did this office drone get so lucky as to avoid the last few decades of open plan double-hot-desked bullshit?

  • New to Rust - what is the most fun way to learn the language?

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  • Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

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  • Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there's still no IPv6.

    I'm sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • (this is the same reason that big solar systems require an oversized busbar on your main panel)

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • I think the risk is more that someone has a 15A-rated outlet on a 15A circuit breaker, plugs a solar panel into one socket and then a power strip with 30A of space heaters into the other socket. Breaker doesn't trip because the main panel is only providing 15A, but the outlet lights on fire.

    Not sure why that isn't a problem in places these are more common.

  • Mozilla's "State of Mozilla 2025" is AI nonsense

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  • Good word.

    You’re absolutely right - it hadn’t even occurred to me that the paid support tier is probably just going to be ChatGPT in a trench coat. Ugh.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Roguelazer @lemmy.world

    Mozilla's "State of Mozilla 2025" is AI nonsense

    stateof.mozilla.org /roadmap/
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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • I was on the bus yesterday and was watching someone copy numbers out of Excel, paste them in Gemini, ask it "what is the total of these numbers", then paste the answer back into Excel. I truly despair for the brains of some of the most AI-pilled folks.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

    www.statnews.com /2025/05/20/fda-vaccine-framework-new-covid-shot-recommendations-vinay-prasad-marty-makary/
  • Oakland @lemmy.world
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    TIL: Oakland doesn't accept BPI-Certified Compostable Plastics

  • Ioniq 5 @lemmy.world
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    biennial DST complaint