Now compare wages vs inflation, and wages vs GDP. GDP of developed countries has climbed dramatically since the 80’s, while wage growth has slowed to a crawl relatively.

One must ask themself: where did all the money go?

Some people seem to use it as an appeal to authority. This only works if you think ChatGPT is an authority on anything, though.

Except it’s not game publishers who are suing. It is an organization representing musicians, some of whom have made music which is included in games which can be purchased through Steam.

That’s my understanding as well. I’ve seen dummy loads used when testing transmitters at power so that nothing gets too hot. They usually have a big aluminum heat sink.

They’re very cool and intricate indeed. But, as someone who grew up on a farm and is pretty familiar with combines: you’re drastically underestimating the engineering challenges in computers and space travel.

I’m not really familiar with the proposed scale of fusion plants, but how do you get to 120t/day? The paper says the theoretical gold output is 2t/GWth/year.

I’ve always been uncomfortable, honestly, with calling software developers “engineers”. Partly that’s because it’s actually illegal to call a non-PEng role an “engineer” in some jurisdictions (most of Canada), but I think this comment is an excellent point of distinction to make between PEng and other roles.

Legal responsibility along with regulatory requirements. There’s a reason everyone* trusts elevators and airplanes but shouldn’t trust most software.

And I ask you - if those same trillions of dollars were instead spent on materially improving the lives of average people, how much more progress would we make as a society? This is an absolutely absurd sum of money were talking about here.

A lot of LLM hype is wrapped up in how well it can write code. This hype is being used by corporations to justify pouring mind boggling amounts of money into the tech in the hopes that they can lay off all their staff.

I reserve the right to hate this state of affairs and enjoy seeing every headline that shows just how much of a pipe dream it is.

Wait, breathing?!

I saw one where the program ran a busy loop on startup to calculate how long it took. Then it used that as an iterations-to-seconds conversion for busy loops between scheduled actions.

So that’s what it is!

Netflix has that warning on every episode, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If they keep it up, I feel like they’re rapidly going to hit a generational impasse of nobody picking up even during daytime. I am very reluctant to answer numbers I don’t recognize, if it’s important they can leave a voice-mail.

Reading the article (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid), I feel like the least the committee could do is make an effort to call winners during their daytime hours. 😅 Sounds like too many cases of unexpected calls in the night.

100%. Unit conversion is a solved problem, and it is impossible for an AI to be faster or more accurate than any of the existing converters.

I do not need an AI calculator, because I have no desire to need to double check my calculator.

Pretty sure they’re using “design” to mean “aesthetics” in that sentence. I do think we need to less often use “design” to refer specifically to aesthetics or graphic design; every object and system that humans have made are designed.

== vs === is easy: == is wrong and bad, don’t use it. :D

I’ve never had an issue with webp on Samsung devices, either in Discord or not.

It’s like it’s leaping out of the page.