No one will pay money for that. The Internet and various websites on it make it trivially easy to expose yourself to as many differing opinions and perspectives as your or anyone else could ever want and yet most people freely choose the silos. The only way to get most people to expose themselves to viewpoints counter to their own is if you drag them kicking and screaming. If you're lucky a few may thank you later in life, but most will only take it as an opportunity to condemn you for daring to expose themselves to such evil.

I don't think there's a fix for this. Some percentage of the population is wired in such a way that makes them incredibly closed-minded to anything outside of their own views, regardless of what those are. It's no different than some people tending towards religious beliefs even though their individual faiths differ widely or people being extremely introverted regardless of any other aspects of their personality or belief systems. It's just how they are as person and there are limits to how their nature can be changed.

I'd even argue that college is probably far too late to intervene even if you were to take a sociological perspective and thought that all humans could be trained to adopt an open-minded perspective. I think that the best we could ever hope to do is ensure people get enough exposure to ideas that they don't like that they can encounter differing views without having emotional breakdowns. I think some colleges and some instructors are trying to do that and while trying to make someone more socially well adjusted at 18 is better than having to start at 28, it's really something that needs to occur sooner than that. I'd even further generalize is to young children needing to be exposed to far more adversity from a young age than they currently are. Stop handing out participation trophies and find something the kids suck at so they can learn to lose and not feel too emotionally crushed by it that they don't even try to improve.

Anyone who would champion and fight for the liberty of the individual will never be safe anywhere. All governments are tyrannical by nature and will not tolerate opposition to their will. The freedoms we have now are far from the norm across the world and are an oddity by historical standards. Some day the world may look back on us the way we have looked back at the Athenian Greeks.

I await the day that an AI and other robots can replace me and replace whatever jobs I might do after that. Human labor is one of the most expensive components of many goods and services and removing that makes everything less expensive in the same way that unintelligent machines have done throughout history and particularly since the Industrial Revolution. If an AI robot can replace any human, it seems rather trivial to buy an AI robot and have it replicate itself. I'll be glad to have extra time to read, go hiking, or spend time with other hobbies.

If you think AI will completely upend civilization why hasn't industrialization already destroyed it? Why have conditions only improved as existing inefficient human labor was replaced by more efficient mechanical labor? If your hypothetical horrendous future ever does come to pass I suspect people will complain more of ennui and boredom than impoverishment.

I'd like it if you could speed up the program that helps my friend the traveling salesman produce an optimized route. The algorithm he has now works perfectly, but it's not very fast.

3% isn't unreasonable, and is likely undershooting. Their hiring process isn't perfect and they'll bring on some people they shouldn't have or they'll have some employees who stopped caring for whatever reason and aren't contributing. These people will be replaced by someone else that MS hopes is going to do a better job. The replacement hiring won't get any news coverage though.

People have been dunking servers or other computing parts in oil for ages long time now an alternative to traditional cooling methods. I think the only reason Intel certified this product is so they can get kickbacks from Shell who is no doubt charging a premium for this to clueless managers who are looking for a way to save Pennie's by spending dollars.

Low profile keyboards are shit. I personally find myself making more mistakes on them, but the real reason they're awful is the ergonomics. I was once at risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome and switching to a good mechanical keyboard made such a difference that even though I'm decades older my hands feel much better despite the extra years of use. Anyone whose work involves multiple hours of keyboard use should absolutely use a mechanical keyboard. Slim keyboards are the programmer equivalent of bending at the back. I'd tell someone to try smoking crack before I ever recommend that they use a low profile keyboard. If they had existed in the time of Dante, he would have added a passage about those in the tenth circle of Hell typing on them.

There are plenty of switches that don't make a lot of noise, but in my opinion anyone complaining about the clickity-clack of a mechanical keyboard either hates the sound of their own productivity or is working in a cube farm or some kind of open desk hellscape and should find a job where programmers are respected. A good mechanical keyboard will last forever. I've got a Model M that will still be there long after I'm gone. It will be handed down to newer generations when I am done with it and some day a future archeologist will uncover it (along with the fully intact remains of the programmer smart enough to shelter beneath it during the earthquake) and marvel at the wonders of our civilization as the keys are depressed beneath his curious fingers to the most satisfying sounds known to mankind.

What an intellectually dishonest smug cunt response that makes me think you'd be much happier on Reddit where everyone will stand up and clap and tell you how brave you are for making it. Presumably the OP is referring to any number of subs related to women, women who want to date women, or other subreddits where that discussion is completely germane, and yet here you are banging on about beekeeping as though it's somehow relevant in the slightest.

Are you applying for a Minitrue position or something? Anyone who was on Reddit when it first started knows the modern incarnation is a censorious hellhole. You only like it because it agrees with your personal politics, else you'd be screaming about how awful it is. In case it wasn't clear, fuck you and the high horse you rode in on.

Chat GPT probably scraped all the same resources that Chegg had or put out. For a while they made most of their stuff accessible or would let users have so many page views before asking them to sign up. All of that either got archived or cleverly crawled by whatever built the training sets for the AI models. I don't feel at all sorry for them in the least.

As long as someone keeps a progressive series of USB adapters around so we can plug in the USB-C connector to whatever they're up in the future we should be good to go. Joking aside you do pose an actually interesting problem in that the duration it will last isn't all that useful if the knowledge or ability to interface with it is lost.

Perhaps if bananas weren't largely a monoculture rife with clones there would be some varieties or trees around more resistant to the pests or weather. I almost wonder if some of this is intentional so that in a year or two the farmers can be sold a new banana tree engineered not to experience all of these problems.

There's nothing that's ever quite as expensive as something that's "free."

Relevant Penny Arcade

The whole story is a Slashvertisement to promote the website. I'd never heard of Aftermath before (or for that matter the game this article is about which is apparently some micro-transaction driven free-to-play shovelware), but for whatever reason the summary decided it was important to point out that the site is worker owned. After looking into it, it appears to be a bunch of former Kotaku writers that were laid off. One of them probably knows or is Twitter friends with EditorDavid who posted it to try to drive clicks to their site.

I've never heard of this company. I'm sure they realized the silly promises they made would burn through whatever venture capital they had amassed and have altered the deal (pray they do not alter it further) so that everyone (or at least the management) can ride the gravy train for a few more months before the bubble bursts. They already know that they're dead, but they just want another six months to line up their next job.

Most people won't care about this. They've already been getting full body scans when going through security for a decade. If they don't care about that, why would they care about a computer scanning just their face?

This bill is not about any kind of personal liberty. It's a jobs program for people that can't do anything more useful for society.