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  • phughestoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    5 days ago

    About five years ago the exhaust fan on my furnace started making noise. It sounded like a bearing issue, so I figured out the correct replacement part, ordered it and installed it myself.

    It cost a little under $200 all told. I know that the service call would have been at least $500.

    So many of the things we own are made of generic parts that you can buy off of amazon for less than the cost of getting a guy to come look at it.




  • This thread is full of people comparing OPs hypothetical about 10 years from now with last year’s capability.

    Will AI progress that fast? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It probably won’t get that good, but it doesn’t matter. If it gets as good as your average junior that’s going to mean something like 100% increase in productivity, which means 50% as many jobs and that’s going to be a BIG FUCKING DEAL.

    Especially when it’s going to be replacing a lot of other types of office workers. What kind of job is your average software dev going to transition to? Tech support? Not anymore. UI Designer? LOL. Manager? And who are you going to be managing?

    If the US doesn’t hit 15-20% unemployment in the next 10 years I’ll eat my hat. I’ll be eating it either way because I’ll be starving to death.







  • I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic

    Compare it to some other public space and see how ludicrous it sounds:

    You’d go to the bar to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.

    You’d go to the coffee shop to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.

    See? You’re used to people doing those things so it sounds normal, but exercising with your friends is just as normal as drinking with your friends.

    People do all sorts of things with their friends, but the reasons they do them invariably include “I like spending time with my friends.” Hell, I help my friends do home improvement projects because it’s just nice to do something productive with my friends. I’m certainly not going to install a new door on a friend’s house if they’re going to be away at work, so clearly the real reason is that I like spending time with my friends.



  • ’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.

    That’s retroactive marketing bullshit. “It was always envisioned as a trilogy, which is why the first one is a standalone movie and the second and third are two halves of a movie” Once you notice this talk you see it everywhere. The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean… really any big hit that they cashed in on with two more sequels.

    Just like Lucas’ nine part saga BS, when really he hadn’t thought past the end of A New Hope.