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- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 1 hour ago:
I like to buy the least I can every day. If the economy relied on my purchasing habits, it would collapse.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 1 week ago:
If only there were a way to combine the two, then we could keep an even larger bubble going.
- Comment on card game shop 4 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion but I agree. Maybe I don’t hang around enough stinky people, but I’ve encountered far more instances of punch-in-the-face perfume/cologne than body odor.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 5 weeks ago:
The idea that spending on coffee or avocado toast or whatever single food/drink item is causing a widespread drop in home ownership is idiotic enough, but this absolute moron managed to pick something with hard evidence of declining sales.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
The non-corrupt ones are a tiny minority and get drowned out by well-funded opposition. If the tide even hints at turning then the billionaires turn to straight-up fascism, as we’re seeing now.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
In 2016 both Hillary and Trump had a lower than 50% approval rating and yet they were the frontrunners: pewresearch.org/…/an-examination-of-the-2016-elec…
Congress has a less than 50% approval rating and it’s made up of elected politicians: statista.com/…/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-c…
We don’t have a democracy, we have a system where you can only choose which representative for billionaires you dislike the least. They’re all corrupt, any that aren’t are quickly drowned out by well-funded opposition.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Its not a bubble but most people here dont think for themselves.
But the ones who believe the AI hype think for themselves. Right.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Microsoft was ready to lose money on Xbox for 10 years to take a place in the console market. And it’s a very profitable market for them now. Is it? They recently had mass layoffs in the Xbox division and had to jack up prices for gamepass. Compared to Sony and Nintendo, their console sales are pitiful. This is after pouring billions of dollars into the Xbox brand.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
It’s too bad the servers aren’t still up. I loved the multiplayer of Crysis Wars.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 2 months ago:
I would try eating this. The texture probably wouldn’t be great, but the taste might not be all that bad.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 2 months ago:
This asshole should retire from life.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 months ago:
Do you? Control over the medium is far more powerful than being a mere user of that medium.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Maybe. It’s probably not high quality training data for the most part, though.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
I’ve used it to explore some avenues without having to write a complete implementation. If the approach shows promise, then I go through the code and mostly rewrite it because the code it generates is terrible. I also use it if I don’t care about the project I’m on. They want to “do test-driven development” while having poorly-defined requirements that constantly change on a whim while also setting unreasonable unit test coverage thresholds? Cool, I’ll let the AI shit out a bunch of unit tests and waffle stomp it to satisfy your poorly thought out project requirements.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
That’s the P in ChatGPT: Pre-trained. It has “learned” based on the set of data it has been trained on, but prompts will not have it learn anything. Your past prompts are kept to use as “memory” and to influence output for your future prompts, but it does not actually learn from them.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
With enough duct tape and chewed up bubble gum, surely this will lead to artificial general intelligence and the singularity! Any day now.
- Comment on We Investigated Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s Scarier Than You Think - More Perfect Union 2 months ago:
I think it also highlights the absurdity that the stock market has become and how it directly contributes to a culture that allows for human suffering as long as record profits are believed to be around the corner.
I don’t even understand what record profits they’re expecting at this point. Their sales numbers are dropping, they’re facing stiffer competition, the carbon credits and ev tax credits which benefited tesla so much are going away, and more of their newer offerings like the cybertruck and the taxi service have been absolute disasters. Somehow the company still enjoys about a $1 trillion market cap.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s less “stability in world events” and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 2 months ago:
Also “3D Movies” is a whole joke on its own.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 months ago:
It’s possible to complain about both because the improved hammer makes the guy smashing everything with it an even bigger problem. Either way it brings attention to the issue, but I have no confidence in politicians making a change for the better at this point, they’ll probably just make it even worse.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 months ago:
These assholes are a drain on society.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 months ago:
AI has been around in many forms for decades FYI Enhanced capabilities and availability of tools make a difference. If a company gets the “brilliant” idea to “use AI” to file DMCA requests, encouraged by recent hype of AI and proliferation of many AI tools to make it easy to deploy, then it suddenly becomes a problem, hence why this article exists right now.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 2 months ago:
AI makes it easier, thus amplifying the suckitude.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 2 months ago:
That’s when my electric car is plugged in and taking up quite a bit of power.
- Comment on Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue 2 months ago:
Is this a CoreWeave-like setup? Smells fishy. I don’t know how the almost $4.5 trillion market cap is justified.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 months ago:
It’s a race in Final Fantasy XIV.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 months ago:
This plus all the different Italian names for coffee which, as far as I can tell, are mostly just describing the amount of dairy added.
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 3 months ago:
If a cryptocurrency concentrates into the hands of a few, as assets tend to do in capitalism, then wouldn’t proof of stake mean those few control the cryptocurrency anyway?
- Comment on Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,’ pleads guilty to fraud charges 3 months ago:
Couldn’t those transactions be cut off at those swapping points to fiat? I assume if a bank doesn’t support a business directly transferring funds for a particular purpose then they’d take issue with indirectly transferring funds for the same purpose and would work to close those accounts.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 3 months ago:
Yep, and they were helped a lot after the 2008 financial crisis when interest rates were dropped super low and loans were cheap. That’s a major reason why the market has been screaming for the fed to cut the interest rate as much as possible.