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New comment by madmask in "The Rise of Whatever"

madmask — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:11:10 +0000

The point is what value can the common man reasonably provide in the free market to support a family when most of white collar work is also automated?

The industrial revolution automated a lot of blue collars, AI is starting to seriously automate white collars to the point less people are needed.

They are automating the mind, there’s not much else to compete with to provide value. Which color people should pivot to?

New comment by madmask in "Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System"

madmask — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:57:00 +0000

And the horizon you see standing on the beach is just about 5km or 3 miles away!

New comment by madmask in "What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)"

madmask — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:01:40 +0000

Building muscle is a real reason

New comment by madmask in "What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)"

madmask — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:38:34 +0000

That’s almost nothing. 1 hour a week, at least in Italy, and mostly sports stuff close to cardio no weight training.

I feel good with at least 4 hours a week of bodyweight training plus some cardio.

New comment by madmask in "Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs"

madmask — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:11:41 +0000

Also italian

New comment by madmask in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

madmask — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:46:53 +0000

Yes. See Europe

New comment by madmask in "Poll: How often do you bathe?"

madmask — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:34:03 +0000

Apparently not because I am fine

New comment by madmask in "Poll: How often do you bathe?"

madmask — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:32:22 +0000

Every day. Now that I am in my own home I actually have a warm bath every evening, it’s a great way to end the day. I can skip one day in rare occasions but feel too uncomfortable going more than that, not because of stink or others noticing but because I just don’t feel clean

New comment by madmask in "An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution"

madmask — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:29:43 +0000

I saw them myself with my naked eyes! They look like the iss

New comment by madmask in "An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution"

madmask — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:50:47 +0000

I wonder what uncontacted tribes think about starlink

New comment by madmask in "What my stroke taught me (2017)"

madmask — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:15:15 +0000

I have no inner monologue unless I switch it on consciously, which I don’t like doing as it slows down thinking by orders of magnitude. In your example, I see things like graphs, numbers, maps, make connections and see possible futures, no explicit words involved.

Edit: I also tend to “simulate” what is going to happen by conjuring up a small video of people dealing with the situation, or myself in that situation.

New comment by madmask in "A Postmortem of a Startup"

madmask — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:32:38 +0000

A decent 3d CAD and multiphysics FEM (cheap comsol) would be a good start

New comment by madmask in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

madmask — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:37:05 +0000

I still don’t understand what’s the goal of this shitstorm alienating allies and destroying the economy with crazy uncertainty.

But fake money will not save the country from ww3. A superpower needs to have an independent manufacturing base to be taken seriously, nukes deterrent is eroding.

New comment by madmask in "Gemini Robotics"

madmask — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:34:44 +0000

If those things can be automated, we should not waste time doing them. It’s not like they are enjoyable anyway. Count the time wasted sorting stuff and multiply for millions and millions of households

New comment by madmask in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

madmask — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:05:06 +0000

Why learn if the computer can do it better than you and by the time you learn the roi on the market approaches 0? This wave of llm removed a lot of my interest in coding professionally

New comment by madmask in "Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI"

madmask — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:43:11 +0000

We wish, it’s more like half in many places

New comment by madmask in "Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI"

madmask — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:39:46 +0000

Come to Italy where 1.1k is enough

New comment by madmask in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

madmask — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:43:42 +0000

I am considering buying a used one, prices are very low now. And if someone messes up with it they better run fast

New comment by madmask in "Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help"

madmask — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:51:44 +0000

I still write like that

New comment by madmask in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

madmask — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:10:19 +0000

My take is that many games are not worth even playing, let alone winning