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- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 day 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 day 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 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
This asshole should retire from life.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s a race in Final Fantasy XIV.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 2 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.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
I’m no fan of capitalism, but nothing in it requires public schools to install surveillance software on laptops. This seems purely like an administration issue, which is often the source of problems in general, not just in schools, but also in other sectors like healthcare, where they put in stupid policies while sucking up funding for themselves and their pet issues instead of towards the core purpose of that sector.
Agreed on the snow days. In fact, I think we should reduce the number of school days (and work days, for that matter) in general.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 months ago:
I was already glad being out of school before widespread take-home laptops and required after-school logging in to check for homework and shit, but this AI-driven surveillance is on a whole other level. Sometimes I’m wondering if it’s just me getting old and doing the old people thing thinking things were better “back in the day” but is this current state not objectively worse, being monitored so much and having no way to really disconnect from school?
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
This is why the argument that paying for something would prevent ads falls apart. If they can squeeze more money out of people then they will, even if those people are paying $80k+ for the damn thing.
- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 2 months ago:
How is AI not buried under piles of lawsuits?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 months ago:
Funny thing to say after using their code to train the shitty-ass AI. Developers don’t need AI, but AI certainly needs developers.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 2 months ago:
Move over gamers, AI shills are the most discriminated group now!