It's crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don't mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.
Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
There are also techniques where data centers do offline storage by writing out to a high volume storage medium (I heard Blu-ray as an example, especially because it's cheap) and storing it in racks. All automated of course. This let's them store huge quantities of infrequently accessed data (most of it) in a more efficient way. Not everything has to be online and ready to go, as long as it's capable of being made available on demand.
Edit: Clarifying that tape medium is typically used for the longest term storage with the caveat that read is slow, so that used for the stuff that is least likely to be accessed. For things that are accessed infrequently but still need to be available relatively frequently you can have a "caching layer" which is what I was referring to with the discs. It's a tradeoff between speed of access and information density. Here's an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta is discussing their design: https://engineering.fb.com/2015/05/04/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system/
Super cool, blew my mind! I would love to see it in operation. The logistics from the machine side + the storage heuristics for when to store to a disc that's write-only sounds like a really cool problem.
This is an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta was exploring Blu-ray for their DCs. You're definitely right though. Tape is key as the longest term storage.
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
This is such a great example of the potential consequences of making a decision without understanding the landscape/context. It's obvious this would happen in hindsight.
It's actually pretty shocking. It seems so normal to struggle to buy a house, yet most of the last generation have one. It's going to be a rude awakening for society as this trend continues. At some point the older generation is going to pass on and free up houses. What is that even going to look like? Are they going to be jacked up too? It's just not sustainable if you project it out. There has to be a tipping point. People need homes and renting is so limiting.
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
There was an article recently about this (too lazy to search it). It's already starting to happen. If most of the content they train on is the internet and more internet content is created by LLMs without being tagged as AI generated content (can't be guaranteed by all actors), then it's inevitable. High signal training data is out the window.
Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am....
The number of articles out about the latest and greatest game updates from a few hours ago which are rehashing patches released a week or more ago drive me nuts. How many times do I have to wade through multiple screens of preamble to find out that content is being recycled from week old news.
But yes, the ratio of low signal to high signal content is crazy in general. I get that people have to make a living and want to do it via communicating on YouTube/articles/... but I feel we've really lost access to high quality content. ChatGPT and other LLMs are going to make this wayyyyyyy worse.
Content recommendation algorithms push for length and frequency, which inevitably means meeting the quantity bar is more important than quality. Meanwhile we have really thought out high quality content buried in a mountain of clickbait and those creators both don't get as good monetization or exposure. It's a sad system :(. I want to see more ErrantSignal quality bar and less clickbait please.
Attention spans. News content these days are moving to video I stead of text to better grab your attention. When everything is really engaging, you have to be more engaging than that to get seen.
I agree. I much prefer text stuff. It's hard deny the shift though. Looking at TikTok as an extreme example, a whole generation is getting their news from someone doing a dance while two other videos play of cutting playdough. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I do think it's really hurting our ability as a species to exist without attention hacking.
If you've managed to exist outside of that band of information exchange, I commend you.
I have very limited background in programming. I quite want to develop the game myself, or with only minimal help. Is there one language that is better than others for game development, or is more versatile?
If your goal is to create a non-commercial game I second python. Though you could probably find ways to make that work commercially as well if you package it correctly.
My first big programming project was writing a 2D game in python as a final project in an intro to computer science class. It's pretty quick to translate ideas into working code without having the language semantics getting in your way.
Btw the target platform also matters for which language would be the best (ex. mobile vs desktop). I believe all of @LexaPrime's suggestions assumed you are making a desktop game.
The place i work in doesn't have an actual onsite manager, it's just me and my coworker. He's more physically capable, but computers are a foreign language to him; i can handle the physical work, but I'm slower than he is, but I'm much much better with computers....
Do you have a detailed list of duties? Ask for one. If you don't feel comfortable doing that look for duties of similar positions for different companies. If they are asking you to do these management related duties under some pretence that you'll be promoted to a leadership role, then that's one thing. I think it's fair to have a conversation with your manager about how you are feeling, what you are doing (make a list), what your career goals are, and how you can align that with the company.
#Autistic, #AuDHD, #ADHD folks who do mental labour (ie. programming): What do you listen to while working, and why?
When I was young I could work while listening to any music; even with my lyrics obsession it just helped me flow.
Round 40ish I found that I could no longer listen to music with vocals cause I could no longer "tune it out." So now it's Jazz, some Electronic music which is not really my thing.
Weirdly, there are some podcasts I can work while they're on. Uninteresting ones.
@jpaskaruk I do a lot of melodic electronic or jazz that can puts me in a "trance" state. I used to do a lot of high energy but like you it doesn't work as well anymore, especially if I have to do active thought. I include a small set of songs with a little more presence in the playlist to stop myself from zoning out.
Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)
How do social media companies like twitter or youtube not run out of space for posts?
I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.
Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)
Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited....
Incredible how nowdays it dosent seem a normal thing (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.
Homemade Tonkotsu Ramen (i.imgur.com)
The Diablo clickbait is unreal, is the enshitification of the internet reaching the gaming communities now?
Does everyone just think they can make a living playing games? Trying to search for Diablo 4 info gets you nothing but mountains of useless clickbait youtube videos. Gotta waste my time jumping thru the video just to find out the guy is dumber about the game than I am....
What programming language would be the best to learn to develop a game from scratch?
I have very limited background in programming. I quite want to develop the game myself, or with only minimal help. Is there one language that is better than others for game development, or is more versatile?
How do i judge if something is above my pay grade? At what point should i simply tell my boss, you aren't paying me to do this?
The place i work in doesn't have an actual onsite manager, it's just me and my coworker. He's more physically capable, but computers are a foreign language to him; i can handle the physical work, but I'm slower than he is, but I'm much much better with computers....