fonix232

joined 3 years ago
[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Man duck home depot

let me guess, you're standing in front of a home depot and are calling out things you see?

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

And the main boss smells like shit too.

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, I thought we should be putting the brakes on AI development, via government intervention (aka regulations). Now it's the opposite?

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

53 megawatts "during peak electrical demand" or "last year"?

Because timespans matter. 53 megawatts is the rough average annual power consumption of 5 households. So if that's the datacenter's annual power usage... they're not using that much power after all. On the other hand, if that's the monthly usage, that's more in line with compute/data center usage. And if it's daily use... 😬

Same with the water. 13 million gallons is about 260 thousand bathtubs worth of water. That's basically what a town of ~300k will use in one night for bathing only. So for annual usage it's not that bad. For monthly usage it's passable. For daily usage... again 😬

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There is actually a country level list of problem gamblers that the companies HAVE to ban. Problem is, these gamblers will find ways around the law to satisfy their addiction.

I do agree with the rest, regulation really needs to pick up. unfortunately most governments like the money they can make on gambling too much...

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Had to account hop as fedia.io is down...

The intent isn't necessarily predatory. To explain it from business/product side, it boils down to two options:

  • we keep the user's account and they can easily log in once they're back and continue spending money through us
  • or we can delete the account at which point the user will think "hey if I have to re-register anyway, why not go to a competitor", losing out on that business

Remember, that level of any corporation operates on a KPI based approach. They don't see people, they don't see individuals, they see profit per user, they see user retention after a long term break, they see user losses to competitors because "their company has features X Y and Z, while ours don't".

That's why regulations are a joke. These very same people will go on about how preventing gambling addiction and general negative effects of gambling is good, then do the polar opposite. This is a big part of the reason why I left. Zero accountability of the people who make the decision while us peons were forced to do biannual compliance training and other BS, even though we never interacted with customers...

[–] fonix232@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This sounds like literally an issue AI should excel at.

"Before submitting a bug report, analyse the past 3-4 weeks of the security list to see if the same issue was reported"