largepeepee (u/largepeepee)

largepeepee commented on Did a 1997 merger ruin Boeing? finshots.in/archive/did-a... · Posted by u/moose_man

dylan604 · 2 years ago

I'm guessing a lot of the purchase orders were placed well before the MCAS incidents occurred. These purchases tend to be contract based, and not something you can just leave with the cashier when you suddenly decide not to purchase them. So you're contractually obligated to spend the money, so might as well get a plane out of it and hope for the best

largepeepee · 2 years ago

Exactly, the 737 was the highest-selling commercial aircraft before the incident, and the MAX was promised to be a simple but efficient upgrade to that popular series that many already had.

largepeepee commented on Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law ctvnews.ca/politics/googl... · Posted by u/matbilodeau

tomComb · 3 years ago

It’s not dumb nationalism, it’s typical lobbying, sold as nationalism.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

What's new?

We have been using that same excuse to block out Japanese and Chinese goods in various eras.

Just feels weird the Canadians are copying our playbook

largepeepee commented on How AI can distort human beliefs science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/headalgorithm

invig · 3 years ago

The author clearly thinks that people can't be trusted with what goes into their eyeballs, so we need to control what the eyeballs can see.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

You can summarize it as

"they want more control over the people"

And AI seems to be another tool being twisted to do that

largepeepee commented on Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator mastodon.delroth.net/@del... · Posted by u/airhangerf15

dustymcp · 3 years ago

isnt that the sane option just keep the steam price higher than your own price and people would mostly prefer to buy directly to save money, then you get the exposure from steam but you can convert them to your platform.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

Well they are also discovering that many people would rather pay the 20-30% extra than deal with the hassle of a subpar platform.

The cost to build/maintain a competent platform is also not cheap even for the big boys like EA.

largepeepee commented on Former Dolphin team member addresses Steam/Valve’s takedown of Dolphin emulator mastodon.delroth.net/@del... · Posted by u/airhangerf15

sk0g · 3 years ago

Sega do not produce games to drive console sales. Nintendo's games rarely, if ever, hit other platforms.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

Which speaks to his point, once upon a time Sega would hog their IPs for their console and arcade games.

They changed their strat abt a decade ago.

largepeepee commented on JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents old.reddit.com/r/antiwork... · Posted by u/notRobot

andrewclunn · 3 years ago

Worked there (in Chase tower downtown Chicago) last year. The oddest thing is that it was hybrid work (where we were onsite 3 days out of the week). So good luck tracking things the other two days. I took to listening to midi files of old VG music as my "background tunes" during work, so as to not use bandwidth that would be tracked for streaming music while coding. The tracking didn't really get to me (after all, it is "their time" that they're paying for). The tough part is that it makes "Oh I need to do a personal thing for 5 / 10 minutes." a near impossibility, and a change in my personal life drove me to switch jobs for better work life balance.

So no, I don't think that this tracking is the dystopian nightmare it's being portrayed as, but it does have consequences, which make the post-covid work / life intermingling schedule impossible to maintain. The real dangers of such a policy are who they will lose as a result of it.

EDIT -

I feel the need to add, that the tracking at the time of my departure was not as extensive as some of the claims being made here, which I am a bit... skeptical of.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

You do realize once this is normalized, it wouldn't even come as a surprise to have them eventually mandating company devices to be on when at home and so on.

largepeepee commented on Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/tyjen

rst · 3 years ago

The metrics used in this paper are... deeply flawed, to the point that the authors admit that they label nearly half of known good papers in a curated sample as "fake" -- and particularly likely to generate false positives for researchers whose institutions don't, say, run their own email systems (as is common in large chunks of the world). Here's a rundown of the flaws from an epidemiologist with a sideline in scientific communication:

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357259338364341

largepeepee · 3 years ago

You know what's funny? Even if the numbers are hot garbage, they proved the point about how easy it is to publish fake science papers, since it got published.

Kinda similar to those researchers years back who proved how easy it was to go into certain social science journals as long as you copied their ideology.

largepeepee commented on When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think twitter.com/paulg/status/... · Posted by u/blueridge

marginalia_nu · 3 years ago

Plato's criticism is very true on an individual basis. What he didn't consider was the effect the written word had on a social scale in terms of being able to exchange ideas over physical and temporal distances.

It turns out that was a greater benefit that to some extent makes up for losing the exceptionally well trained memory of scholars from a verbal tradition. Not that that last part isn't a loss though, and his warning against false wisdom is more relevant than ever today when it feels like half the people you talk to online are just googling up wikipedia articles to base their world view upon on the fly.

--edit-- sometimes me not grammar good

largepeepee · 3 years ago

It's also useful to point out that historical verbal tradition trained a very specific type of memory recall but that doesn't automatically make anyone wise.

Just because you memorized 10000 random articles on Wikipedia, doesn't mean you now have the wisdom to apply that in a particular circumstance.

Very much like early AI models.

largepeepee commented on I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/Corrado

Corrado · 3 years ago

I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at. I have some similar examples to the ones in the article. I recommended that my brother-in-law get a Google wifi AP some years ago. Recently, I got an email from Google saying that they are no longer supporting it and after a certain date you will no longer be able to make changes to it. WTF?!? My Apple Airport Extreme is older than the Google AP and it still gets updates and I'm free to change the settings at any time.

Another example was my old Nest thermostat. I was so excited to up-my-game and replace the old, crappy thermostat with something that could change the temperature based on the weather forecast. My happiness was short lived; Google purchased Nest and forced everyone to change over to their Google account. Then features stopped working. I finally had to remove the Nest and replace it with something else, mostly because Google just seemed to not care anymore.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.

Many of Google's software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.

Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.

largepeepee commented on OpenAI ignored the ‘have a problem to solve’ rule, says president Greg Brockman fortune.com/2023/05/04/op... · Posted by u/redbell

BudaDude · 3 years ago

It's too early to say it hasn't worked out. Apple is planned to reveal their headset this year. If thats the case, VR/AR may become the norm the same way Smart Phones and Smart Watches are.

If you don't think Meta will release Horizon on Apple's headset, then you havn't been watching.

largepeepee · 3 years ago

Obviously it didn't work out for meta. That isn't even up for debate.

Meta has admitted to pivoting to AI and cutting down their metaverse teams significantly.

Besides, even if Apple succeed. Meta will still be stuck in the exact same situation - under Apple's boots again, which it so desperately tried to escape from by going hardware heavy in VR in the first place.