tiredofsametab

I just opened my browser for the first time in hours and refreshed the page. This is literally the top post for my sort. Mbin jackpot!

What time were you talking to the guy in Japan? I live in Japan and am (very slowly as technical and legal japanese are hard) working on my HAM license and would love to chat with my dad in the US eastern time zone. Still not 100% sure about propagation and other such. Thanks!

I actually work with ML a lot (at the intersection of my domain with it), though I am not an ML/AI engineer.

I think short-term, ML/AI has a great chance of helping hugely with accessibility issues with users of various systems. My secondary thought is maybe related to elder care, but I’m not sure yet.

I have largely had bad experiences with AI assistants (coding, search, and other domains), except maybe helping with finding/generating code samples for libs/packages with poor or missing documentation (though I go to the docs and code first and those results aren’t always correct).

I do see virtual assistants in various forms being a possible near-term implementation with promise, but most are still heavily trained on and biased to. A handful of languages (in the case of LLMs and such) which limits global appeal.

I am both frightened (the race to market without considering the near- nor long-term costs to society as a whole neither ethics in many cases) and hopeful about the whole thing.

I think you are probably correct, though I also feel we might have something in physics or robotics that has ripple effects opening new avenues. Only time will tell, I suppose. Cheers!

I’ll admit that I didn’t really get YouTube when I first heard of it. I think justin.tv was the thing that made me realize there was something there, even though I only watched it all of about twice. Then again, I thought music CDs were a scam for the longest time. I’m old.

During a short window, a samurai could’ve faxed president Lincoln (though I believe the samurai and Lincoln would have had to be in the same country)

Doctor’s notes are usually up to the company to decide. There are various insurances and such as well that can kick in for long-term illness. Japan has a program that pays 60% of salary for some period of time, though I don’t know the details.

Well, certainly less ominous than being based on where I’ll die.

I inherited a Kubota from the early '90s and she’s still chugging along.

Religions that support reincarnation is one, though most would say you get reincarnated as something more/less favorable depending upon the life lived.

By no stakes above, I was mostly referring to an eternal amount of time to do anything, supposing a bit that one could accomplish a lot in many of the version of afterlife I’ve heard of. I wasn’t thinking of it in a ‘no morals’ or similar way, but I can see how it could be read as such.

science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife

Well, for one, you “probably proven” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense unless maybe you’ve got a paper waiting on peer review confirmation. In any case, it is exceedingly difficult to definitely prove something isn’t for cases like this. Does every bit of evidence point to ‘no’? Yes. However, it’s still technically not proven to be false/absent.

Anyway, that’s not the actual important part here. One human lifetime is generally a long time. There are lots of meaningful interactions that a person can have in that time. I would argue that, since it’s not an eternity, the pressure is on to do something better with your life. That doesn’t require gods or afterlives. Volunteer, meet up about hobbies, find a social group, etc.

we inherently know this and want there to be something after death, because it feels right, or more meaningful

I disagree. For one, if you get do-overs on life or an eternity to do whatever, isn’t it inherently LESS meaningful since there are no stakes? Secondarily, I personally don’t like the idea of trying to exist for an eternity; that sounds like it always ends in boring monotony… at least so much as something ‘endless’ ‘ends’ anyway (English be silly).

I was specifically referring to the ability to communicate in writing at that speed. I guess the telegraph technically existed as well, but it was expensive and awkward.

I think they meant the location at which the photo was taken and not their positions within the photo?

Heh, that’s nostalgia. I always wonder what the young people of today’s equivalent will be. Probably something quantum.

98 still had plenty of jank, but it was worlds better than 95. I would add 3/3.11 to the “good” list if only because that was basically the only other option for a lot of people and it did what it needed to. I don’t recall personally seeing windows 1 or 2.

edit: I guess I could throw NT mostly into the good section, but I mostly just did tech support for it rather than using it.

An egg came first, but it came from something genetically extremely close to a modern chicken (you can’t hatch a chicken from anything that is not a chicken egg and there’s no compelling evidence that one suddenly mutated itself in all the right ways to become a chicken before laying that egg).

Anyway, on the actual topic, yeah, I think I agree with everything you’ve mentioned here. I think it would take YouTube doing something profoundly stupid to give enough of an opening that any alternative (which may not necessarily even wind up being PeerTube – people may end up going to even something like PornHub instead (and I think all the others like DailyMotion are (mostly?) dead now)) to get a chance. I don’t see companies like Nebula ever going the route of opening up like YouTube .

That is a statement I definitely can agree with in some ways. I think some of it is cultural difference and expectation being different between many western consumers versus Japanese. I think Japanese are far more used to certain practices and won’t push back as much and, generally, also make up most of the companies’ income. Not that I think that means something doesn’t need to or shouldn’t be fixed, but what I see from being here.

Yes. You have now named two whole companies but your complaint was leveraged at literally every company in the country.

Creators won’t go there because (a) almost none even know about it (b) there’s no audience there for the ones that do and © there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

Audiences won’t go there because (a) even fewer people who watch youtube would know what peertube is or that it exists and (b) creators are not natively there leading to a loop.

Those things need to be fixed first.

As someone who’s lived in Japan for nearly a decade now, what are you on about? There are certainly shitty companies, as anywhere, but this is just wrong.

ドブネズミ、みたいに、美しくなりたい。。。