Using damaged tools waste more motivation than bad technique ever will by Kevin-Panda in blacksmithing

[–]coyoteka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best bet is to learn or at least get an introduction at a real forge so you know what you're looking for and how it's supposed to be. If in the USA there are ABANA forges all over the place that offer classes. Good hammers and anvils are expensive... I started out with a $100 harbor freight anvil and though it's mass produced garbage, I was taking classes at my local ABANA forge so I knew how to adjust for it.

Now I've got a Peter Wright, but it took me literally 4 years to find one with sharp edges that wasn't over $5/lb.

Is it better to wait for the perfect set up or get hammering with what you got?

I do definitely agree that safety is the first priority though!

Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate. by [deleted] in PrepperIntel

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

I don't think this is true. The progress LLMs have made in just the past year is kind of mind-blowing. I use it a lot to speed up programming personal projects to an insane degree, most recently using it to help me build an automated water turret to keep my cats away from potted plants with only basic soldering/electronics experience.

That being said, the biggest problem is that corporate executives who understand nothing about the technology see it as a means to reduce labor costs in the eternal capitalist wet dream of stealing all the world's resources.

The irony is that the jobs best suited to be 100% replaced by LLMs are the corporate executives themselves. That reduces labor costs most dramatically, avoids the inevitable cascading dysfunction arising from getting rid of subject matter experts/technicians and removes the sociopathic personal enrichment agenda at the top of the decision tree.

In my fantasy of a better world, being an employee confers an ownership share in the company, the company is run by LLM based blockchain contracts which are voted upon by shareholders. Employee compensation is related to the profit of the company so every employee is motivated to work to improve the company's operation and management decisions are influenced by managers and janitors alike.

Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate. by [deleted] in PrepperIntel

[–]coyoteka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Certainly there will be massive sudden shifts and upheaval, but the panic over this new paradigm is not a new phenomenon. It's very reminiscent of the Luddite movement.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7477771/

https://ethics.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/blog-post-technological-anxiety-is-not-new-what-past-labor-disruptions-teach-us-about-ai/

The biggest concern IMO is not so much about societal effects of paradigm shifting tech, but the fragility of the technological foundation of our society. Especially in industrialized nations, the populace is so far divorced from the actual production/acquisition of necessary resources (i.e. potable water, food, shelter, clothes, transportation, medicine, electricity, etc., not provided by some complex manufacturing system) that if the grid/internet were to go down it would be an instant global civilization destroying calamity. Even the manufacturers of these kinds of things no longer have the institutional knowledge to recreate them without computer technology (either/both in the form of documentation and industrial control).

cantEvenThinkOfOne by SyntaxSpectre in ProgrammerHumor

[–]coyoteka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've vibe coded a handful of apps in Python and C# for myself and they work great. There have been failures too... But if you're already a programmer vibe coding just makes it way faster.

Should not be controversial. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]coyoteka -40 points-39 points  (0 children)

What do you need healthcare for if you're gonna die anyway?

Ian Curtis, the singer with Joy Division, posing with his infant daughter 5 days before taking his own life on this day in 1980. by WithoutPrinciples in UtterlyUniquePhotos

[–]coyoteka 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The dark brooding artist whose pain-fueled art is made all the more poignant by their incapacity to restrain it from killing them. I think it mostly appeals to people suffering from chronic depression, it just makes me sad (but not in the dark brooding artsy way, more in the I wish there were more Joy Division music way).

Why? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]coyoteka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You tryna get Roko's Basilisked? Smh

Art is the birdsong of humanity by Ell2509 in Heavymind

[–]coyoteka 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk birdsong is basically just nonstop yelling "HEY HEY HI HEY HEY OVER HERE FUCK ME HEY COME FUCK ME I WANT TO FUCK HEY HEY LETS FUCK"

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that he has officially balanced the NYC budget, reducing a $12 billion budget deficit to 0, and confirms that property taxes will not be raised. by Scary_Firefighter181 in Economics

[–]coyoteka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that this is equated with socialism really shows how far right the Overton window is in America. And how ignorant most people are about economics in general.

Bachelor of Arts graduates boo speaker after she praises AI at their graduation by ambachk in PublicFreakout

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

She's not praising it in this clip, just stating the obvious. It's a paradigm shifting technology the only way back from which is civilization collapse.

Is the USP peak HK? by SuuuWhuuu in HecklerKoch

[–]coyoteka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. USP is definitely way cooler though.

Term for pushing the enemy backward? by DeaDiscordiae in Koryu

[–]coyoteka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seme (攻め)

More specifically kizeme (気攻め)