QuaternionsRock
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- Comment on Winner's Luck 5 months ago:
The core of the joke is that Russian roulette is a terrible game to play if you intend to do anything after it.
he killed her
That’s not how you play Russian roulette, btw
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Hah, cool fantasy bro. GPT-9’s first output was
As an AI, I cannot predict whether humans can solve climate change. Is there anything else you would like help with?
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
I really hope that on-device AI becomes competitive soon. It’s nice to see that on-device is the way large portions of the industry is going, but cloud AI just uses way too much energy. Not to mention the resources required to manufacture millions of large-die GPUs.
It’s probably naive to think that the corporations that created this problem will solve it, but it honestly seems like the most feasible path forward in the near term. I certainly don’t expect the world’s governments to be effective at regulating AI any time soon.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 months ago:
IIRC dude went home and played Civ all night
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I mean, nobody intrinsically cares how many competitors there are, so long as the all content can be retrieved from a single source. Of course that doesn’t mean people wouldn’t care if a single company were to abuse their monopoly e.g. by charging unreasonable rates or forcing ads (looking at you, cable).
It’s worth remembering that monopolies aren’t inherently illegal in the U.S. or anywhere else really; it’s not against the law to have the best product by a mile, nor should it be. Antitrust is illegal, which in this case would be defined by signing exclusive rights for all content and then providing a shitty service.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
No, dude… Spotify doesn’t have exclusive streaming rights to its music
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
Upon receiving the recovery email from Proton Mail, Spanish authorities further requested Apple to provide additional details linked to that email, leading to the identification of the individual.
The user specifically requested that Proton retain this PII for account recovery.
Speaking of which, how do they implement recovery emails? Do they save your private keys only if account recovery is enabled?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
I doubt that. Paper losses are not an indicator of profitability.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 7 months ago:
I do not want to see what your desktop looks like lol
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now 7 months ago:
Ah yes, I am aware. Gotta love open source :)
Were you under the impression that I said anything to the contrary?
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now 7 months ago:
Huh?
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now 7 months ago:
Really? It spotted a missing
push_backlike 600 lines deep for me a few days ago. I’ve also had good success at getting it to spot missing semicolons that C++ compilers can’t because C++ is a stupid language. - Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit 8 months ago:
Can you link your mod files so I can sell them without your knowledge or consent please? Seeing as you have no problem with it…
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 8 months ago:
(probably shouldn’t) HyperV
What makes you say “probably shouldn’t”? WSL use is widespread at this point
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 8 months ago:
going from 10 animators to 6
It’s still crazy to me that like half of Across the Spider-Verse was AI generated
- Comment on It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists 8 months ago:
I clicked on this using Voyager for Lemmy, and won’t stop playing now that I’ve closed the browser window, lol
Really amped up writing this comment, though
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
It probably means that they don’t scrape and preprocess training data in house. She knows they get it from a garden variety of underpaid contractors, but she doesn’t know the specific data sources beyond the stipulations of the contract (“publicly available or licensed”), and she probably doesn’t even know that for certain.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 8 months ago:
Only by upgrading to the MMI navigation system do you get access to the app store. From there, Audi forces you into add-ons like adaptive cruise control or Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for a one-month, six-month, one-year, or three-year subscription. Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently—although Audi doesn’t say for how much.
Sounds like you’re right, but people are still right to be wary of this scheme, as the additional market segmentation will likely push up the cost of buying the feature outright.
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 8 months ago:
A fifth
Surely their target would be the four fifths, then?
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 8 months ago:
out of lethal range
Would they not be?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
OneDrive redirection is hilariously bad. Official Microsoft documentation recommends against using it. Imagine having that little faith in your own product.
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 8 months ago:
all the US would have to do to completely and entirely nuke an app (or an entire federated platform!) in the US would be to declare any foreign entity (country, state, corporation, person, etc) their “adversary”.
Declaring a foreign country to be adversarial to the U.S. is a huge deal, and I highly doubt they would do so just to ban an app. They would much sooner try to pass an unrelated “special case” legislation, and the success of such a bill would hinge on the persuasiveness of the justification.
I’m fine with the U.S. forcing the sale of TikTok for a different reason, though: internet companies operating in China must be majority-owned and -operated by a Chinese domestic entity, yet the same restriction is not imposed on Chinese investments in U.S. internet companies. Asymmetric markets like this cede a great deal of influence to China, and it just doesn’t sit right with me.
It can often be beneficial to both parties when two countries influence each other, but such influence must be bilateral.
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 8 months ago:
They didn’t? The CCP happily allows the export of potentially nefarious internet products, but they still don’t allow the uncensored internet in.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Agreed, audits are beneficial in virtually every situation. I just think that, of all the well-formed arguments to be made against cryptocurrencies (especially PoW coins), the fact that it is software isn’t one of them. In my opinion, fueling distrust of software in general is ill-advised.
- Comment on No tip 8 months ago:
If you continually work for a place that doesn’t pay their staff better, all you’re doing is rewarding the business owner and telling them to keep doing what they’re doing. It solves nothing and doesn’t get rid of tipping culture to keep giving these shitty businesses your time.
I obviously don’t agree with this opinion; I don’t think either of them makes sense. Boycotting a business from the consumer side leads to fewer tips and layoffs, while boycotting a business from the employee side results in… unemployment. Both scenarios objectively harm workers. Change either needs to come from the top down via legislation, or from the bottom-up via unionization.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Just enter incorrect info and the ledger is wrong.
The concept behind cryptocurrency is that the ledger is the info, because you’re right, a half-assed blockchain ledger used for external (e.g. cash) transactions doesn’t really solve the root problem. Proof of work is fucking stupid though, and it has (rightfully) ruined the perception of blockchain technology among those who can see past their own crypto wallet.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
As a fellow programmer: what kind of doomer take is this? I don’t have any opinion on the efficacy of blockchain technology, but all of us put an immeasurable amount of trust in software every single day. And it’s not like current banking practices are different in this regard, either: blockchain tech requires faith in the software implementation, while contemporary banking requires faith in banks and the software they use (including a borderline unmaintainable COBOL stack, from what I’ve heard).
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.
