It’s toxic at low rank too. Not every match but a solid number have at least one rager.

That is breaking corpo face pretty heavily, imo. Starting with “this is bullshit” as a public-facing figure, in response to a very straighforward anti-AI take is about as meltdown as you can expect from a CEO on social media.

I’m gonna have to put some context here, because Linus’ opinion is alittle more nuanced than written here. I will say i don’t agree with him personally, but I also see where he’s coming from.

In multiple different interviews, now, Linus has lamented trash ai-generated code being pushed at codebases and flooding reviewers, so Linus is acutely aware of the problems caused by irrisponsible AI use. He sees how much people just push out AI slop without ever reviewing it. The thing is, Linus has been maintaining the linux codebase for over two decades now, and I imagine he is very aware of how much humans can pump out garbage code on their own.

He’s gone on the record, though, that he uses AI himself to rapidly create tools for troubleshooting and prototyping structures. As far as i can tell, he still views the final code as being something which should be written by a human, but he sees the value in being able to rapidly produce tools and test different data structure configurations in a few minutes where he’d normally have to jerry rig something together over a matter of hours prior.

I have not heard him weigh in on the environmental impact of LLMs yet, though I imagine he assumes that LLMs will become more efficient in time and that they’ll be less memory-intensive over time, to the point of being run locally on a desktop while still being just as powerful.( this part is one I have serious issue with, but i can’t fault the assumption since this guy literally started his career writing machine code by hand - not assembly, machine code.)

Damn this is dark in that context lol.

Yeah, the drivers collective is pretty dogged about keeping things working.

GPU drivers are hella difficult to not cause breakage on, I expect. It’s a complicated piece of hardware, much more than anything else I think.

‘There’s always a bigger fish’

Probably because the entire western world didn’t systematically buy and enslave kidnapped pale people, treat them as subhuman and breed them like livestock - so it’s not as touchy a subject.

Edit: Guess that’s still a touchy subject. You wanted an answer for why it’s still socially acceptable to joke about pale skin but not dark skin, and that’s pretty obviously the answer why it’s not the same thing.

Or maybe the downvotes are because the breeding only happened in the Southern US and French, German, British, Australian, and Belgian lemmies don’t wanna get roped in on that specific colonial history.

Perfect example of how legislation doesn’t really make roads safer when the designs directly encourage the illegal behaviour and there’s not enough police to enforce it everywhere.

Narrow the intersection to one lane, elevate the crosswalk to sidewalk height, block parking two car lengths before the crosswalk, and turn the beg buttons into hard-countdown crossing buttons.

Since pedestrians have right-of-way at crosswalks, we should be designing the crosswalks to reflect that. Otherwise we’ll continue seeing this kind of behavior from drivers.

I got a Fairphone 4, thing’s survived many a fall. It’s a Shame that fairphone doesn’t ship spare parts to the US, makes sourcing those parts much harder.

That lion was given something and is clearly not feeling right.

Behind every successful person there is a shark

Is this based off an allegory?

I wanna know how much of that irrigation goes to corn and lawns/greens.

Seems to me to have always been a meme, even before the internet. I suspect it’s some amount of shit-talking going to an extreme, propaganda that has long just turned into an incomprehensible slush, or it’s adopted from other countries’ hate of france being treated as self-explanatory and just becoming a given.

Very rarely is the hate for france real, it’s pretty much just a joke anytime it’s been used while I’ve been in earshot.

The joke template is: Anyone: *says something disparaging about the french that is either very vague or about them being snobbish or quick to surrender*

Everyone else: *agrees without question or elaboration.*

I’m sure some portion of the US genuinely does view the French in a bad light, but I’ve yet to meet them.

I got Ritalin at around 11 or so. I’d get home from class on pass out for hours. Anecdotally, Being hyperfocused as a little kid can be extremely exhausting.

Algorism outpaced the abacus for a reason, and the slide rule outpaced algorism for a reason as well, but they’re all good skills to have some practice with. Have you ever had to do long division on an abacus? It ain’t pretty.

Buy used, compensate for the loss in power with algorithmic ingenuity, yadda yadda.

Also, if you can do the thing the app does on paper, you should just do it on paper and can save the computer for more difficult tasks like the old-timers that paved the way for our modern-day laziness.

Use the public library, also.

I dunno, man. Seems like all the convenient options at this point require you to capitulate to some asshole trying to jack up prices and deny payouts, and the only option now is to take high roads that are unpaved.

Literally from Malthus himself. He argued that due to overpopulation we’d cause mass famines, leading to war and societal collapse. And he solidly pointed blame on developing countries overbreeding and called for population control and oven culling in those nations. All arguments directly derive from his original argument.

Because that is the only solution to overpopulation, is population control and population culling. Population too big, either start killing people or forcing couples to not have children. That’s what you’re arguing for every time you agree with an overpopulation argument.

The new twists of ecological destruction are also highly misplaced. You’d have to pin the blame on the places which are reproducing the most, which is not the case. The damage we do with deep sea fishing, fish farms, and meat farms is not the fault of the poor nations overbreeding - the only groups we could blame for overpopulation right now.

In reality, we’d not be causing nearly as much damage to our environment if we weren’t using fossil fuels, weren’t transporting a massive portion of our goods from overseas, weren’t getting most of our meat from cows and other methane producers, weren’t fishing in such a way that destroys the seafloor, etc. There’s literally hundreds of ways I could list that we’re doing which if we switched to an alternative would solve large portion of our ecological damage.

We all are carrying out these unsustainable practices, regardless of population. Those practices are the problem, not overpopulation. We could still be producing enough food with sustainable methods that don’t destroy the world ecology.

Those numbers mean nothing to refute the overpopulation as a myth. The core premise of overpopulation is that humans can no longer produce enough food to sustain its people. So mammalian biomass doesn’t matter, total amount of farmable land doesn’t matter, and percent of avian life does not matter.

It’s never been a question of our impact on the environment. it’s a question of our impact on ourselves and how much past our means we are.

How much of our farmable land is currently being used to produce non-edible crops such as maize used for fuel additive or soy used for cosmetics? How much farmable land are we sabotaging with pollution which could be cleaned up? These are more pertinent questions for this, because if we could be making more food instead of maize or soy, we could still feed our people.

I’ve been using a Dvorak dactyl manuform for 2 years now. It’s quite an experience, but it’s surprisingly easy to get used to the manuform layout if you know touch typing, and Dvorak comes to you pretty quickly with a regular practice. I started using Dvorak comfortably after the first couple days, and am now at the same speed I usually am with my qwerty work keyboards.