Pluckerpluck

joined 11 months ago
[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh? What does having some jobs replaced have to do with humanity being replaced?

Jobs can disappear overnight due to technology updates, and it's always highly disruptive when that happens. If large sectors suddenly have to find new jobs, then that creates highly stressful environments and people suffer during that transition.

The reason AI is scary is because it seems to be something that could result in many job losses very quickly without opening any new accessible jobs as working with AI tools isn't super accessible.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I appreciate how weird this comment is if you don't know what computers used to refer to...

It's also a good example of how you very much can have technology replace jobs.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

While not impossible, you have to try fairly hard to fuck up your phone like this. I'd be actively impressed if your story is true (particularly as you used the plural), and if so I'd like to know what they were specifically trying to install that fucked up their phones.

It's just statistically more likely they downloaded a malicious app from the Play Store than had any chaos side loading.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

No you fool! Don't you see that because Wish exists buying from Best Buy is also a scam?!

Honestly I don't get people like this. Are they trying to protect other people? I've never seen it framed that way, but it's the only reasonable explanation.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Fractal cases are basically black boxes with decent airflow designed to be quiet.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Latency is still so bad. It doesn't really have to be either. Low latency tech has existed for ages, but nobody seems to care!!

I can't stand it though. How anyone uses Bluetooth headset with, say, the Steam Deck, I have no idea.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It'd still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Of course WeChat dominates china when they ban other apps from even operating. WhatsApp can't operate there. Facebook is entirely banned in fact. Twitter is blocked as well.

Amazon failed to get a foothold due to complex regulations restricting them, which forces them to shut down their marketplace there.

So you can't really compare that to a much freer market.

[–] Pluckerpluck@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Except the point of this post is that a different sort with worse Big O could be faster with a small dataset.

The fact that you're sorting those 64 ints billions of times simply doesn't matter. The "slower" sort is still faster in practice.

That's why it's important to realize that Big O notation can be useless for small datasets. Because it can actually just be lying to you.

It's actually mathematical. Take any equation:

y = x^2 + x

For large x the squared term dominates. The linear may as well not exists. It's O(x^2). But when x is below 1? Well suddenly that linear term is the more important one! Below 1 it's actually O(x) in practice.