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  • Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.

    What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?

    Cue all these companies in 5-20 years' time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.

  • In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource
  • I've found that demos can be a double-edged sword.

    I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there's only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can't really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.

  • In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource
  • Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I've wanted a game like this for literal decades.

    I'd try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.

  • Iron Maiden - For the Greater Good of God

    As an atheist watching my country about to commit itself to yet another war in the Middle East, I can't stop thinking about this criminally underrated track.

    Almost 20 years later it remains a poignant condemnation of religious extremism of all kinds, pointing out the hypocrisy of preaching the love of God for all mankind one day and crying out for the destruction of nonbelievers the next.

    And no, of course I'm not so naive as to think that religious differences are the only motivation for the current conflict, nor that people couldn't find reasons to kill each other without religion. I just wonder if it wouldn't be so easy to justify if the calls for blood weren't purportedly coming from the mouth of God himself.

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    Worm time
  • The problem is that my brain would immediately jump to picking apart the premise of the question. How did it happen? Is it permanent? Is your consciousness trapped in there or is it gone forever? The kind of thing that's obviously just going to piss off the person asking.

    I feel like what the question is really asking in a very roundabout way is whether you love that person unconditionally. That even if something happens such that they can no longer be the person you fell in love with, that you'll still love them just the same. But that's the problem: as a cynic, I believe all love is conditional; if it doesn't seem like it, that just means you haven't found out what the conditions are yet.

    Obviously that's not the right answer. So to me, it just seems like the question is a trap. Either you accept the preposterous hypothetical and give some sappy answer to make the other person happy and avoid a fight, or you get outed for the cold, unfeeling asshole that you actually are inside. But maybe that's the point.

  • Truly delightful
  • +Real Engineering +Technology Connections +EngineerGuy +Explosions&Fire +NurdRage +NileRed (more entertainment than education nowadays but his old videos are pretty information dense) +Chris Boden +MinutePhysics/MinuteEarth/MinuteFood +LegalEagle +Engineering Explained +Wendover Productions / Half as Interesting

    I got tons more but my legs are starting to fall asleep.

  • As rule as it gets

    Hey they're not lying, it definitely looks sharp

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    (OC) sour cream rule

    The order of the person ahead of me was still on screen when I pulled up to order. I took the picture in a bit of a hurry cause I didn't know when the screen was gonna reset.

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    "there is little incentive not to use it"

    http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

    (Archive link in case it's changed.)

    This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

    • one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
    • the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
    • due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved
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    [US] Has anyone else gotten emails out of the blue from random members of Congress that sound like replies to something you sent in?

    Over the past couple weeks I've gotten emails from both Senators and a House Rep from the State of Minnesota. All three emails have been concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, and are worded as replies to a some message I sent them.

    I've never set foot in the state, let alone lived there (I'm on the other side of the country). I've never sent messages to any of those members of Congress, and I've never signed any petition giving any group the right to contact Congress about this matter.

    I suspect my name and email address might have been used in some sort of astroturfing campaign targeting Congress. Or these might be spam emails impersonating the members of Congress for some reason. I noticed the House rep and one of the Senators is up for re-election this year.

    Has anyone else gotten emails like this?

    I've tried to send messages back to these people but the forms on their websites require submitting an address in their state/district, so I'm not sure what to do. The From: addresses seem like they might have been faked, or they're no-reply addresses, so I wasn't sure about just replying to the emails.

    I also thought about calling their offices but I wasn't sure if this was something important enough to bother their staff about, and they're two hours ahead of me so their offices are closed by the time I get off work anyway.

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    Meta AI supports spooky dookies

    This meme has become a running joke in my friend group: https://lemmy.world/post/7405623

    We were fucking around with the Meta AI in WhatsApp and I got it to say this

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