[–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The partying? That's just humans united by a common (and good) cause, bonding and letting off some steam before they go into a perilous situation.

It's harder to hide the sinking of a boat than it is to hide arresting people.
And activists have more boats than trucks, due to protests against drilling, fishing, wars. And I guess there are protections in international waters that don't exist when travelling through different sovereign nations.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    Yeh, but you only need 10 vibe code cleaner-uppers per vibe coder.
    And a vibe coder is a 10x developer.
    You just have to mitigate the increased cost of AI API calls.
    It pretty much balances out, with the obvious 20% efficiency boost - which is where everyone makes their money: companies, developers and shovel AI platforms... All 20% efficiency boost. Which directly relates to profit boosts. 20% line goes up!
    Which also pays for the datacenters, the shovels GPUs, the power, the cooling and the water for the cooling. It's all cheaper, cause AI is at least 20% more productive.

    Even if your vibe-coder-code-fixers turn into vibe-coder-code-vibe-fixers... That's just another 20% efficiency boost. Basically printing money! Oh, but you need to buy more shovels GPUs. But that's also a win because shovels GPUs don't have unions or require holidays. Think of the profits! They work 24/7.
    And all you need are vibe-coder-code-vibe-fixer-code-fixers.

    ...As long as your vibe-coder-code-vibe-fixer-code-fixers don't turn into vibe-coder-code-vibe-fixer-code-vibe-fixers (I'm so lost, I think that's right).

    Edit: forgot some shovels

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Dunno. The guy probably resold it, tbh.
    One of those things where I had a pile of old ram I didn't need and was bored of storing. None of my friends wanted it, so found someone that would take it.
    I couldn't be bothered selling it, cause I thought it had minimal value. And listing it, packaging it, shipping it... Meh.

    I know the gold tabs on the card edge connector can be recycled. Cut off then dissolved in chemicals, and gold precipitated out.
    Not sure if the memory chips can be processed for anything.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's used for LAUNCHING drones of war, guys. It's not a drone of war itself. It doesn't participate in the war, it doesn't kill people. It's a non-war application of starlink, guys.
    The drones it launches could just as easily be used for scientific research.
    It's not a war drone.
    Perfectly legitimate use of American technology that is in no way supporting an aggressive regimes strategy of targeting civilians.
    Starlink is not being used for military applications, and should still be a private company. It shouldn't be militarised government owned system like GPS. Cause the mother drones could be launching science drops.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Probably doesn't help that a bunch of the decent channels were bought by private equity and are now churning out boring, safe and uninteresting content.

    https://youtu.be/hJ-rRXWhElI (a yt link, lol).

    A brief summary from https://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube-channel-private-equity/

    Some channels like Donut Media, Veritasium, and Task and Purpose have been acquired publicly. Others, such as Dude Perfect and Coco Melon, have been acquired more privately, with no public disclosure.

    Plenty others. A key giveaway is when a channel diverges their risk. When the front man who is the reason you have watched the channel suddenly has co-hosts and large segments from other channels in their regular content.

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