brynnbee

It's just Wesley in there, no big

My biggest issue with "the" unemployment rate is that the one everyone hears all the time is around 4-5%. I think this is massively misleading because it lends itself to people thinking if you picked 100 random men from ages 25 to 54, you'd expect about 5 of them to be unemployed. The real number is actually around 20% are unemployed:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

If you can dismiss 15% of them because they're not actively looking, or being a full-time parent, or disabled, I think it's missing the bigger picture that I would guess almost all of them want to work and have income, but can't due to things that we can fix as a society. Instead we divert to a 5% number that feels like "don't look over here" strategy. It's also entirely not capturing underemployment, which I imagine is a huge issue too.

Have a bad first date? Higher RAM prices.

Your dog ran away? Higher RAM prices.

Lower RAM prices? Believe it or not, higher RAM prices.

A lot don't care if it is. I've had friends share things and I stopped replying with "you know this isn't a true story/fact/real image, right?". Their response is always "idk i thought it was funny/interesting" which is valid. I felt like I was raining on parades so now I usually just respond with an emoji.

It's worse than that, it's every 3 to 7 hours of fossil fuel pollution roughly equaling the total death toll of all nuclear power accidents in history (around 4000 indirectly, most from cancer resulting from Chernobyl - but there's only around 100 total in a direct way).

If you look at net damage to the planet, fossil fuel burning energy sources kill literally 8 million+ people a year. Coal plants are vastly more radioactive than nuclear plants, and the effects of burning coal will have a vastly outsized share of damage to the planet in the long than nuclear. Its effects are just less concentrated to a single area.

I made an idle version of the 1999 MMORPG "EverQuest". There's maybe around 50 people playing at any given time and has a enthusiastic discord group for it. It's relatively fully-featured to the original game, and has a lot of new mechanics to make the idle format work well. The 3D graphics aspect of it is really more of a screensaver, though, and all game interactions are done through menus.

I recently converted a bunch of stuff to be client side instead of server side (turns out running a real-time MMORPG server is expensive) so there's a new round of bugs I'm still resolving, but it's still fun to play:

https://www.idlequest.net/

It showed my BPM at nearly half of what it really was

You can also look at the prime-age employment-population numbers, which show ages 25 to 54.

It shows nearly 20% unemployment rates.

I think this is a better number, personally, than the 4.4% one that conveniently skips out on so many. It's always felt like an "optics" number to me. Like asking themselves how much can they possibly massage the data to look as good as possible.

I think it's meaningful to consider the amount of people who are unemployed even if they're not looking for work or can't work. It better highlights that there are societal level problems that are preventing a lot of these people from working when I imagine most of them would like to be - they just can't because of childcare needs, disability, incarceration, lack of access to opportunities, domestic abuse, etc.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060

I think "link" here is serving the same function as telling your GPS to navigate to an address. It's obviously not navigating to a string of letters and numbers, it's navigating to what it represents (the physical matter located at the address). Same for saving a link.

I have never used any of those in a right click context menu in my entire 20 years of using Firefox

He was asking about the trend of him commenting with "Source?" leading to downvotes on other posts. I was giving an extreme example to represent why that may be happening elsewhere. I agree that in this case with the 3% rate it's likely not applicable.

I would imagine it's more you're being skeptical of something that is unpopular to be skeptical about. It's like someone saying climate change is impacting our planet, and then asking "source?" in response.

Start a software business, presumably.

I mean 2025 had the weakest job creation growth numbers outside of recession periods since at least 2003. The world seems to care in a pretty tangible way. There are other big influencing factors for that, too, of course.

I personally learn best by doing which is why I love learning with LLMs. They're going to be wrong a lot, and give bad advice, and do things in silly ways. I learn well from the process of working with them, seeing them fail constantly, then learn the tool yourself by researching what it's doing wrong to fix it. I just attempted to use Ghidra to reverse engineer the game Shenmue from Dreamcast. I was previously unfamiliar with Ghidra and I mostly did it as a learning exercise, but it wasn't really the right tool for the job. However the project itself made lots of progress without it:

https://www.newyokosuka.com/

I'm sensitive to detecting LLM writing and it wasn't distracting at all reading this. It read well! Awesome work.

Sure, but I meant consumption on a per-task basis. I would also add that at some point building new software is going to become rather valueless as society trends towards building effectively any variant of software anyone could want relatively instantly and cheaply.

There is also a finite number of consumers of AI content on the planet - sure maybe everyone want 4k-per eye live feed video of anything they want 24/7, but once you accomplish that for all 8 billion humans, there is no further demand for it.

Generation costs are very likely to continue to trends rapidly downward and there is a likely final wall of saturation of demand.

Considering that current energy usage of AI is very likely to plummet in the coming years due to efficiency gains (which we've seem massive improvements on in the last couple years) and most of these large companies building datacenters are looking for and investing in specifically clean energy sources (nuclear) I don't think AI is a meaningful contributor compared to all the other high causes of global emissions.

I think the point was to get headlines and attention, as someone else said it sounds like the FAA is frustrated that the DoD isn't cooperating, and this seems like a possible attempt to make this frustration public to pressure DoD into playing more nicely.

It means they didn't reference any existing or decompiled code from the original client. None of it is directly infringing on any copyright, though it may be doing so indirectly since there have been plenty of lawsuits for tools that contain no copyrighted information can but can used to facilitate infringement (e.g. a tool that decompiles a game ROM)

I would guess it's a lot more to do with globalism and the increasing ability for work to be done remotely (offshore). The US actively encourages American companies using foreign labor, which I have no moral qualms with, but it does make the value of American labor plummet when we're competing with groups of people that will do similar work for 1/10th the price or less.