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6 minutes ago, BeardIP said:
I think what you are saying is true but I can't fathom how this is an explanation for the entire problem of: "The current economic mood in America is unusual. Voters report feeling deep economic pessimism, but statistics show they are living through an objectively strong economy.", especially when the aforementioned encompasses a huge portion and demographic of democrat and independent voters and isn't political party specific. It's maybe class-specific, if even that, but certainly not politically.
You're so close to describing the massive inequality of wealth we see today. Sure the COVID recovery has been good, but wage earners are basically back to where they were before (which is not great) while the investment class has been reaping massive gains and buying up housing to turn around to rent to the wage earners at inflated prices. Companies are going gangbusters, but flesh and blood people aren't getting any of that trickle down action.
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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:
Yep. Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons and Dragons have been consistently profitable, and they grew their revenue 40% in the last quarter (whereas many parts of Hasbro didn't come close to that), but Hasbro is gutting them, and it's fucking weird, because they aren't laying off the last hired, or one or two projects, but people who were helping with that profitability and whose jobs impact a lot of other employees, or that couldn't be easily made up by assigning their duties to other people. Of course, there are conspiracy theories that it's a sign that they are going to kill off Wizards/DND, but I'll save that for the gaming thread.
I think it's more MBA toddlers that see their IP as just numbers in a ledger doing the "well if I can't exploit the shit out of this playerbase and goodwill, NOBODY can!" There's probably some placs that will get them a chance at a marginal increase in return on investment, so it's the signal to burn it all down
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22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
The man is facing four different trials and they ain't doing shit when his back is against the wall, no matter how much he's deliberately name-dropping the AGs, clerks, judges, prosecutors, etc. MAGA still isn't doing shit to any of them, even though we all know he's name-dropping to try and get MAGA stirred up to threaten the people he's name-dropping.
You gotta stop repeating that "MAGA ain't doing shit". Trump's judges are getting credible death threats.
Unless your standard is: "it's only bad if there's blood spilled", MAGA is certainly doing shit. You try threatening a judge and let me know how seriously they take it.
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15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
The argument boils down to the broad construction, which the DC Circuit called "the most natural," is unconstitutionally vague.
Something tells me that SCOTUS wouldn't entertain this argument for anyone but trump. It's incredible how far they're happy to torture verbiage and logic just to give trumpco the air of credibility. This is the same tactic of bringing a bunch of specious cases that are treated seriously that fuels more uncritical and specious cases - just like how we saw with the attempt to subvert the election.
The court's failure to promptly and LOUDLY rule against trump and to happily legitimize the fascistsoc bullshit is a lasting indictment against our legal and justice system
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7 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
Some of us have been advocating for investment in Central America. Not the thread to discuss immigration I understand, but this shit pisses me off.
I mean, we "broke" it back in the 70s and 80s what with all the bloody state sponsored regime change. We'd sure as shit better chip in on fixing shit, otherwise we're going to continue to have fodder for republican border crisis rhetoric.
Which is of course, why the republicans oppose doing anything to right past wrongs.
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23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
When you think about it though, E3 just didn't make sense. Companies could spend millions on a keynote and booth space - OR - they could just do a live stream from their office for $0 and get the same level of engagement online
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Sheeeit voted for the leopards eating faces party and is now shocked that his face is in danger of being eaten by a leopard
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19 minutes ago, safe sex said:
It only takes the one at the end.
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3 hours ago, YGIFS said:
Paxton's sudden embrace of the minutiae of hospital policy is curious, if not disturbing.
Fascists don't give a fuck about whatever lever they're using to exert power against their "under" groups. It's historically consistent for fascists to find something and abuse and weaponize it to their own ends. And the second they're defeated on it, they'll move onto the next angle to keep trying to realize their preferred ends. You can't fucking take anything they say seriously - it wrongfoots any meaningful attempt to contain the damage they can do.
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On 12/12/2023 at 1:06 PM, Shaggy3.0 said:
i agree. solutions architecture from experienced technologists will be needed in the future. product and business nuances must be taken into account for any technical design. i don't think ai/llms are mature enough to define solution trade-offs, much less cite official documentation with 100% accuracy. i tested @latest chatGPT with a sample aws cert questions and it failed.
you should check out amazon's new Q agent thing in the console - it's basically a LLM chatbot connected to the AWS docs, whitepapers, and Q/A pages for RAG to populate and document responses. It's pretty dang good in my experience, if nothing else for searching the docs for me lol
Edit: lulz I just realized there was a reinvent talk on building a a SAaas (Solutions Architect as a service)
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9 hours ago, fattyflattie said:
Correct. I couldn’t give a fuck either way, which is why I stay out of this abortion of an abortion thread. You really think I want more baby D’s to care for, that will all be voting themselves more benefits down the line? Fuck outta here.
This is a pretty crazy look into fartys inner thought process. By his framing, all (D)s are pure takers that do not contribute to society, and political power is driven through high birth rates. It's just pure, uncut right wing talking points, and he is so fundamentally intellectually dishonest he'll never admit as such.
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10 hours ago, Shaggy3.0 said:
Interesting take. I wonder how LLMs might account for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Most companies I partner with are hybrid + multi-cloud + regulatory compliance.
It'll be as good as the documented cases and examples of multicloud/hybrid workloads. Which are few and far between to the level of detail needed to author a decent solution. I don't see architecting solutions going away - there's as much an art as there is a science to navigating the business needs and balancing those against the sets of technical tradeoffs that you make in the design phase. IMO I think when the dust settles it'll be a useful tool to sift through loads of options, but it would be unwise to just full send whatever it comes up with - nevermind the need for maintainability and feature development on those solutions.
IMO multicloud is infinitely worse than hybrid though - you end up designing against the most common denominator of features and lose access to much of the promised efficiencies of the cloud. Data transfer costs alone between the different clouds is gonna eat up a decent chunk of development budget
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8 minutes ago, HiggyBaby said:
SIAP, I don’t lurk over here often but this seems like the right thread. Was having a conversation with a mortgage lender buddy and brought up business. It’s obviously down but he says there’s a steady flow of customers cashing out at a higher interest rate just to get out from their credit card debt. I had to look up the stats and it’s crazy since the end of Covid.
https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/
It's almost like people are keeping less of what they take home nowadays, or something
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1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:
I didn’t join this thread. Someone brought @ me into it with their assumptions, even though I’ve never posted once about giving af if you want to 86 your babies. Hell, I would prefer had most of your mother’s opted for that. Bunch of miserable fucks. But sure, want to make assumptions and drag my name, fuck it. Enjoy it. I’ll take pleasure that many of you will the be the first of generations to be pushed out of your home. I’ll catch you in your new place a few times a year when the skiing gets right.
You voted for trump in 2016, which set the table for dobbs to go down and for this to happen. Take a big bite of this shit sandwich, you fucking ordered it
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44 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:
So if Amazon is screwing up, where is that market share moving to? I’m interested because my son works in sales for Amazon and the stories are…interesting.
There's an ultra-cynical take that amazon is stirring the pot to get people to leave/quit and reduce headcount without layoffs. Throw in the recent moves with LLM's integrated into the console for handling "how do I do X" questions, and it's not a stretch to frame it as a move towards solutions architects as a service.
Azure is feasting with their control of Windows licensing and their OpenAI moves, but it still remains to be seen if there's a viable business model in LLM's as a service. Lots of firms are investing in them right now but nobody really can articulate an actual business case for using them
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Nothing better than the resident fascist apologists coming in to tell us all it's the hospitals fault that a woman can't get care, and not the fucking christofascists passing laws to have this exact effect. For fucks sake, y'all's logic applied in the 1850s would have been cheering on slave catching cops because "hurrrrr durrrrr das wha duh law says". Y'all are just completely disengaging your critical thought and intrinsically dismissing the mere notion of women having a right to any sort of medical or bodily autonomy.
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23 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
This maneuver by Paxton is woefully unpopular, even with a decent-sized chunk of his base.
So why's he doubling down on it?
Because y'all keep talking about him. Good, bad, or indifferent. He's an absolute master at remaining relevant no matter how shitty the context. When you're in the headlines, you're safe.
You're leaving out that Paxton is only able to pursue his christofascist agenda because of the complete and total failure of our justice system to effectively prosecute fascists when they break the law. I have it on good surly legal authority that it is all very legal and very cool though
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1 hour ago, B00M said:
On that note, it seems like a good time to at least partially refill the strategic reserve. We’re not still depleting it, are we?
I don't think we're depleting it but the DOE deputy secretary said they can only intake 3M barrels a month due to physical constraints and maintenance on the SPR infrastructure. A 700M barrel reserve is gonna take a long damn time to fill up at that rate. If being lucky is preparation meeting opportunity, DOE isn't doing themselves any favors by being such poor stewards of the SPR infrastructure
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24 minutes ago, Goredho said:
Some interesting articles from the last two weeks.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
In my experience, coding companions like copilot and code whisperer are really useful for getting to the actual problem solving and not fucking around with the best way to write a Kafka shard iterator. The programmer will still need to know how to actually make the business logic work in the code, they just won't need to have library or language specific knowledge to get there. If my only skill is being able to read and implement a coding manual, then yeah I'd be sweating, but if that were the case I probably already wasn't adding that much value to the business.
I am very eager to see what data and ML scientists are able to do with feature extraction/vectorization of non "language" information. The entire premise of LLM's is to learn the pattern of a prompt's vector to a response's vector and train a neural net to replicate that sort of response pattern but in natural language. If we could convert geological or stellar phenomena into a similar vectorized state, we would have all the ingredients to bake a "natural" understanding of higher order phenomena that humans are still studying but lack the man hours to explore it's depths. It would be a hell of a tool to test a hypothesis and rule things out as not possible or extremely unlikely without burning a few years of some poor grad students life.
We just need some sort of generational leap in computing along the lines of moving from vacuum tubes to transistors to have access to the computing power to train it. If silicon photonics ever gets worked out and commoditized like computers have, it'll change the world as we know it. We could build state machines that have a built in modeling of quantum phenomena that could compute the best probabilistic ML model weights and biases in O(1) time, rather than our current brute force and stochastic method of training an ML model
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23 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:
Or maybe he is just an idiot.
Perhaps even a useful idiot
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Just now, Neonmoon said:
Twitter running out of money ≠ Elon is broke
If you’d like me to explain why, we can set up an appointment for later today
BagOfHammers is doing his cute troll move where he tell us not to believe our lying eyes, just like how elmo definitely wasn't explicitly endorsing "hitler was right about some stuff you know..." according to hammers. He's been on a roll lately
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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:
I don't know you, but you very likely do not lack intelligence. You are likely not inherently evil. You do not lack some modicum of morality. But you have one gaping blindspot. You lack vision.
He's fucking trolling you and reveling in finally putting women back in their place. He does not lack vision, this outcome is exactly what he fucking votes for.
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20 hours ago, bernorange said:
Season 1 is now available on Prime video. I'm a few episodes in now (watching for the 1st time).
The action scenes are allsome. The rest of the series is thoroughly just ok
Markets still falling like whoa
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