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- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 days ago:
Something to keep in mind when people are suggesting AI be used to replace teachers.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 5 days ago:
This is why it’s silly hearing billionaires, who do the most damage to our planet, telling us how urgently we need to “get off this rock” which has supported life for millions of years in favor of some dead planet. It’s really just an extension of capitalism that demands infinite space to exploit, instead of being content with sustainability.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Now do israel.
- Comment on Veggie 4 weeks ago:
Pot of greed’s coomer cousin.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
How do you short a privately-held company?
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 1 month ago:
Hey I know that guy, he streams on twitch!
- Comment on Clipped it blud 1 month ago:
MODS!!!
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
Now imagine if they had to pay for the content they’re training the models off of.
- Comment on Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium 1 month ago:
Exciting to see all sorts of batteries for different applications. Is lithium-ion still standard for home power backup? I’ve heard characteristics of the new sodium-ion batteries being ideal for that use case.
- Comment on Thank you! 2 months ago:
You espress it?
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
The tech-savvy reputation comes from the “digital native” narrative i.e. because they grew up with computers they must know computers, which is a silly fallacy because how one interacts with technology makes all the difference. It’s the same reason why everyone who grew up with electricity isn’t necessarily an electrician.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
That explains your optimism. Code generation is at a stage where it slaps together Stack Overflow answers and code ripped off from GitHub for you. While that is quite effective to get at least a crappy programmer to cobble together something that barely works, it is a far cry from having just anyone put out an idea in plain language and getting back code that just does it. A programmer is still needed in the loop.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain to you that AI development over the decades has often reached plateaus where the approach needed to be significantly changed in order for progress to be made, but it could certainly be the case where LLMs (at least as they are developed now) aren’t enough to accomplish what you describe.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn’t make them crazy.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I did, and still didn’t see the crazy. In fact, all it did was make me wonder why an instance with such little activity gets talked about so much.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Do you have any examples of this? Since world is defederated from that instance, I only end up visiting it when people like you come in and talk about how absolutely crazy it is over there, so occasionally I’ll take a curious peek. This time I see… a post about Indigenous rights, a post criticizing capitalism, a post dunking on musk, a post about FOSS… when do I start seeing the crazy?
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
There are essentially infinite choices for entertainment these days. Hypothetically, even if they somehow stopped 100% of piracy, I still wouldn’t pay for their overpriced slop.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
This will be used as an excuse to try to drive down wages while demanding more responsibilities from developers, even though this is absolute bullshit. However, if they actually follow through with their delusions and push to build platforms on AI-generated trash code, then soon after they’ll have to hire people to fix such messes.
- Comment on The Tme of the Harvest 2 months ago:
I don’t think this plan works anymore with the prices the way they are now.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
Ah, thanks for the clarification on the details. Either way it boggles my mind that they didn’t have checks in place.
- Comment on BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS) 2 months ago:
If I were a BMW customer, I’d be suspending my purchase of their rip-off vehicles.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
They tried to walk it back by claiming “we’d only be doing this to reduce prices” which clearly shows they want to do it but are trying to introduce it in a way to minimize outcry if they can.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
Nothing shady about that commentary after seeing how they screwed up. I couldn’t believe how amateur hour the cause of the crash was (the program not validating definition file contents, which spectacularly failed when fed a file consisting only of zeroes). They should rename themselves to ClownTrike.
- Comment on How does a car cigarette lighter work? 3 months ago:
It’s cool how elegant the design is that it automatically ejects when it’s done heating up without needing a sensor and digital system to read and handle that action. It’s also cool how a feature designed solely to light a cigarette has been adapted to power all sorts of other things. I wonder if these ports will be obsoleted in favor of only having USBs.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
The problem with that is they will eventually introduce ads to the paid service as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Limit 1 IQ point per customer.
- Comment on A Nintendo World Championships Gold NES Cart Is Available For Sale For The First Time In A Decade 3 months ago:
Not bad for a peak!
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns 3 months ago:
It felt better when VR was the hot new buzzword, right? Oh well, there’s the AI division also burning money, but at least it’s the current buzzword!
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
No it isn’t. The image of mickey mouse was literally copied (hence copyright, literally right to copy). Regardless, that’s still IP law being violated so I don’t know how that helps your case.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
If I include an image of mickey mouse (ripped straight from disney) in my application in a proprietary compression format, then the application decompresses that image and changes the hue (or whatever other kind of modification), then these are technically “transformations” but they’re not transformative.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Still, the AI model itself is not transformative, it is merely incorporating that data into its training set.