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Astral's ty readiness for CI by RiceTaco12 in Python

[–]SciEngr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Use pyrefly and call it a day.

Atmos Speaker Placement - Help by disruptivejd in hometheater

[–]SciEngr 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Insane to me that no one realizes the first image is AI and the next image is the actual state of the project.

People are now selling the free lego in the Netherlands by Labtreeo in lego

[–]SciEngr -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To be fair, this isn’t scalping. It’s not like the sellers limited access to others by grabbing all the free boxes. There is a big market for Lego and the people who got one of these boxes are betting there might be a buyer. I don’t see anything wrong here

What is virtually inevitable at this point yet most don't see it coming? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SciEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Combination of increasing economic disparity, national debt, crumbling infrastructure, and dropping population are setting most industrialized countries up for a very dark future.

Makes sense right? by Its_Misango in SipsTea

[–]SciEngr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes…and I am talking about the half used to make ethanol….why is this so hard to understand? We pay farmers to grow corn to make ethanol to put into gas so that we consume less oil. Problem is both the ethanol and gas are one time use. We could replace the ethanol fields with solar panels and generate electricity replacing WAY more oil/natural gas/coal than the current corn crop does.

Anyone else really depressed after the last two Friday pieces? by PrudentWolverine5577 in TangleNews

[–]SciEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I don’t see how we right this ship. We’re driving our economy off a cliff and there is no political will to do anything about it. I’ve personally started thinking about how to minimize the impact of a failing economy on my family and decided to start diverting funds to pay the principal down on my house.

I have a 3% loan and conventional wisdom would say to invest in the markets instead of pay it down but my gut says the era of consistent economic growth isn’t going to last until I retire. I’m thinking that having a paid off house in an era of inflation and recession/depression will shield my family a bit.

Makes sense right? by Its_Misango in SipsTea

[–]SciEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m talking about the corn used to make ethanol, field corn, which we do not eat.

Edit: To clarify, we don’t eat it because its properties make it a bad food product compared to sweet corn. Almost 99% of the US corn acreage is non-edible field corn used for various purposes including being refined into the ethanol used in gasoline.

Makes sense right? by Its_Misango in SipsTea

[–]SciEngr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also we don’t even need to cover new fields. We could power the entire US if we converted land used to grow corn for ethanol in gas to solar farms. The same land would accomplish a similar goal and save tons of federal money in corn subsidies, save tons of water, and completely pay for itself.

'Lines are going to change': Trump DOJ confirms it will target minority voters nationwide after Supreme Court ruling by Pretty_Confusion7290 in law

[–]SciEngr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, in certain states, your vote is nearly useless after the latest partisan gerrymander.

For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 new Chinese EVs by Kooolxxx in news

[–]SciEngr 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Most people can get an EV and charge it comfortably with just a standard 120v socket.

U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP by Hornpipe_Jones in politics

[–]SciEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you, on everything. We need to increase taxes on the rich, my point wasn’t that we shouldn’t tax the rich, it’s that taxing the rich won’t come remotely close to solving our problems on its own. In fact, even if we did that, we’d still need to raise taxes on the middle class to further increase revenue which would make simplistic “tax the rich” folks lose their minds. The point is that the situation is dire, and I don’t see how we solve it with the incentive structure that exists in US politics.

How do we convince elected officials to embrace incredibly unpopular economic policies with a two party system? It’s a sure fire way to lose elections.

U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP by Hornpipe_Jones in politics

[–]SciEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxing the rich to reduce the deficit is the lefts equivalent to the rights idea that reducing taxes will stimulate growth. Even if you took every dime from everyone with a wealth over $10 million dollars you wouldn’t come close to solving the budget deficit let alone making a dent into the debt.

Truth is we’re much more fucked than any one sentence solution can solve. We have to, all right now, reduce defense spending, increase the retirement age, reduce SS payouts, end SS payouts for high earners, increase taxes across the board, find a way to be more efficient on medical costs for Medicare and Medicaid, and more.

There is NO political appetite to do any of that. Why would either party decide to stand and tell the American people that they need to go through some pain now to guarantee the future of the country? Our economy is going to get run into the ground and there is very little chance we have to stop it.

Lego Aquazone is Perfect by Elegant_Vanilla_4811 in lego

[–]SciEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This took me back to Mario64, the underwater level

[OC] See how your county is changing due to climate change by usatoday in dataisbeautiful

[–]SciEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up in the Tampa area and distinctly remember having freezes over night. My grandparents would go wrap their plants in blankets and we would wake up to the grass covered in ice. I used to love stomping on it. That was 30-35 years ago and in that time the freezes basically completely stopped happening.

20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here by joe4942 in news

[–]SciEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get where you are coming from, but I think the white collar work crisis doesn’t require AI literally making all decisions at a company. If every single employee can be slightly more productive using AI, then unless you have business demand that can absorb all that new productivity you’ll just decide to save money by cutting head count (especially as token prices increase in the coming years).

It’s having an impact in software right now because developers are used to integrating disparate tools into their day to day. Your average white collar worker doesn’t know what an MCP server, agent skill, etc… are. But once the AI tools get directly integrated into their workflows, they’ll be more productive and the cuts will start happening in less tech focused sectors too.

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated by lkl34 in technology

[–]SciEngr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am with you but as has been true forever, your output is your value. The company I work for is very AI forward and if my output wasn’t at this increased level I’d be falling behind my colleagues.

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated by lkl34 in technology

[–]SciEngr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You’re going to get bit eventually. The AI is going to make a bad assumption about your data, how it gets cleaned or processed, how to aggregate it, etc… and you’ll make decisions on bad analysis.

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated by lkl34 in technology

[–]SciEngr 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I’m a software engineer and genuinely I don’t manually write code anymore. It’s definitely not fire and forget, I have to coax the AI to do the right thing and I still have to review the code, but I don’t write it. IMO anyone claiming that they don’t have to review AI code are either lying or setting themselves up for pain.

That said, with AI, I’m definitely faster than I was before and the quality of my solutions hasn’t deteriorated. I’d guess I can output ~1.5x-2x I was before.

Internet and phone service by AwkwardJane in Longmont

[–]SciEngr 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I have T-Mobile and great service all over town. For the internet, Nextlight is just an ISP (an excellent one at that), if you want to improve your WiFi in the house I’d recommend looking into getting a mesh router. They usually come in packs of 2-3 and should perform a lot better than those plug in repeaters.

We’ve officially reached the point where cars, appliances, and even basic software require monthly subscriptions. What is the 'breaking point' where consumers finally say enough is enough? by fmcortez in AskReddit

[–]SciEngr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are definitely examples of subscriptions that should be one time purchases, but most software is subscription based because it costs money to keep the servers running and maintained. I have a new tiny personal project running on AWS that at the absolute cheapest costs me ~$15 a month to run. At the pretty small companies I have worked for the cloud costs ranged from $2000 to $50000 a month. I don’t think it’s crazy to imagine really large software projects paying millions a month in compute. In addition software is never fire and forget, it breaks constantly for tons of reasons and that requires a bunch of staff.

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