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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How much of this is the AI bubble collapsing vs. Ohiophobia

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 7 hours ago

Would you invest in commercial real estate, knowing there was a non-zero chance your tenants might come in one day to discover a thoroughly intoxicated JD Vance in a compromising position with the break-room furniture?

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So many of the responses pointing out how bad this is for the local communities in Licking County (lol), but I feel like this has to be a case where the bezzle is collapsing more than a decision causing new harm, right? The bubble wasn't sustainable and those jobs were unlikely to manifest past the initial construction, especially since data centers aren't exactly labor-intensive to run.

That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt for those communities, especially in the midst of the economic ruin left in the wake of Hurricane Tarrif, but I feel like there's an important lesson being lost here.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 hours ago

it's also such a weird position for critique to take, imo; DCs don't really do much in the way of Local Job Generation, and I'd fucking bet that each of these locations also got selected because of favourable gladhanding credits (tax incentives, power incentives, etc)

I suppose "all the ${whatever business} that got bought out and flattened (for buildout space) is still gone" is maybe one harm, but again... these things don't get built on high streets

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago

She Licking my County till I back away is this anything?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

I just made an unfortunate discovery so now y'all get to see it too

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What the hell

Why are there so many of them?

Why do they all look like shit?

Why do so many look suspiciously like a guy in a suit?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

I found it really fun to drag the filter sliders around and cackle at the remaining details

roll up to 180k and you get one that can do 18kg load! amazing

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Why? capitalism is the most effective system.

Why? Capitalism is the most effective system.

Why? Capitalism needs sla...

But yeah I think we might have ran out of ideas.

E: also "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power" but the power is walking at a leasurely pace.

No wait I remember this one from Asimov. Humanoid Robots ack-chewally make the most logical sense because we can reuse all the tools and control designs we already have for human ~~slaves~~ ~~wage slaves~~ workers. Why make a new tractor when you can make a robot to work on the one you've been using since the 70s? That's how this works, right?

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

@froztbyte @BlueMonday1984

Featuring:

Drunk Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/ambidex/

Obviously A Guy In Suit Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/clonealpha/

And not forgetting, Is That A Hat? What The Fuck Is Happening Here Robot https://humanoid.guide/product/kangaroo/

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Warframe already did that last one.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 13 hours ago

>humanoid robot

They're called "clankers"

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

If only Tombstone were here to help

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

baking a Hear Me Out Cake for Reachy 2

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

I also quite like Themis V2! "$120k for the privilege of being sued by disney for looking too starwars" is just one hell of a pitch

[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

A terrifying poster, spotted in the window of a tattoo shop in Dublin: A poster featuring images of leprechauns, celtic knots, harps, and other assorted paddywhackery. The images seem to have been created with AI. The poster lists prices for them as tattoo designs (!)

Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.

I mean, with the instantly recognizable AI lighting design it would actually take a fair degree of skill to make something look that garbage as an actual tattoo.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

I love to get my tattoos on clearance

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.

you know there's gonna be at least that one person with multiple of them

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

Turns out there is, but he also has Polydactyly

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's still on the front page, almost 300 comments. Haven't time to review them all but doesn't look like the promptfondlers have the upper hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Has your friend talked with current bio research students? It’s very common to hear that people are having success writing Python/R/Matlab/bash scripts using these tools when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to.

Possibly this is just among the smallish group of students I know at MIT, but I would be surprised to hear that a biomedical researcher has no use for them.

ahahahahaaha

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 3 points 1 hour ago

@froztbyte @gerikson if your code was written by an LLM your results are indistinguishable from Wrong

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

I have strong feelings on research students who are not able to learn how to write bash and python etc scripts.

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