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- Comment on Rant on technology 40 minutes ago:
After the latest Android update, When I turn on the torchlight on my phone, I get a notification with a blingeling sound.
I often use the torch when going to bed, and the audio notification is EXTREMELY annoying since I’m trying not to wake my wife.For fucks sake, a notification for tuning on the torchlight? I would think it’s kind of obvious since first I pushed the button to turn it on, and for fucks sake it a TORCHLIGHT, how could I miss having turned it on?!?! That notification is insanely moronic, and I can’t find anywhere to disable it???
Fucking stupid Android updates.
PS:
My phone is a Xiaomi 13T Pro. - Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 2 days ago:
For me I have a brother, and the family resemblance for both of us to our father is pretty obvious.
I also have never detected any inconsistencies in anything my parents have told me about when I and my brother were little. - Comment on Best general ebook reader for Android? 2 days ago:
You suggest librera instead of librera???
Also linking a download link directly instead of the page that describes it is bad form.
Librera reader on F-Droid:
f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/ - Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Women are as different as men are.
You may still meet someone who is right for you.
But you probably need to adjust your attitude. - Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 5 days ago:
Why would you do it with people you don’t trust?
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 1 week ago:
But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
It not only gave way, it actually paved the way.
Brainwashing about American individual freedom ideals, have become idolization of billionaire sociopaths as the ultimate expressions of individual freedom. - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
No need for social darwinism or sketchy eugenics-flavored arguments to explain this.
Oh for fucks sake with the strawman arguments. u/freedom never stated anything indicating support for eugenics. But apart from that you are totally wrong about the social Darwinism, it’s just not genetic but Memetic as Richard Dawkins has defined it, bad ideals spreading like disease. As in the idolization of personal freedom and money resulting in idolization of sociopathy as the ultimate expression of individual freedom.
So u/freedom was more right than you, it’s just not genetics driving this problem, it’s cultural insanity. - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
That’s a conclusion you pulled out your ass, and is not supported in what he writes.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
It is not genetic, USA is not an old enough country to have had any significant genetic evolution.
It is instead as Richard Dawkins has described Memetic.
Americans have a tradition of being extremely proud of being free, this feature has been advertised as the most significant thing about USA to Americans to a degree that is akin to brainwashing.
While freedom admittedly is a good thing, the way Americans praise it religiously has turned out to be toxic.
Because sociopathy is now seen as the ultimate expression of individual freedom, so sociopathy is widely admired as a virtue.
This combined with how sociopathy is often rewarded economically, because exploiting people and grabbing all the money for yourself is considered being smart, and the #2 thing religiously praised in USA is money that also reward sociopathic behavior.This is all about social standards, and the values of society, and has nothing to do with evolutionary shortcomings.
That said, the way some people here claim you are pushing eugenics is completely baseless.But contrary to your thinking, it seems to me that evolution favor the intelligent more now than it ever did. The demands to intelligence to do well in society are ever increasing, and doing well is an advantage when wanting to have children.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Empathy is most definitely a very significant aspect of intelligence, just because it isn’t measured in your standard IQ test doesn’t mean it isn’t. Scoring high on an IQ test doesn’t necessarily mean you are very intelligent, it only means you are good at recognizing the type of patterns used in the test.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
This is complete bullshit, by someone who has an idea but knows nothing.
At 70 break distance is longer, time to react is shorter, and collision speeds are higher. All factors that increase danger and damage.
You might as well claim that driving 250 is perfectly safe if everybody do it. - Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
The evidence is very clear that speed kills. You are spreading misinformation.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
Since this article is regarding USA, it’s worse than that. We are living in the age of insanity.
Delusional religious people and sociopathic Nazis have taken over USA.For the civilized world there are warning signs, but insanity is unlikely to take control.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
It’s similar to burning books IMO.
Buying something just to destroy it will always be moronic no matter what the item is.
It only accomplishes to make the company that makes those items make more money, so they can make even more items. - Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea why they call it “integration”? It’s just a search option like any other search option.
Personally I have 10 search options enabled already, so this is number 11, and if I don’t like it, I will just disable it, which is dead easy to do, with a button for the purpose of changing settings right beside the search options.I tried it for 2 terms I know very well, and the response was very good, but I would never trust an AI response without double checking.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
It is not “normal” to run a 4 year money loser and claiming to be worth billions.
Maybe not, but it is absolutely normal to lose money for years to make a profit later.
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.
Microsoft tried some of the same with Windows Phone, where they invested billions for years before they gave up.One of the most hyped AI companies is probably OpenAI, and they absolutely have products that makes them money. They are not profitable yet.
But among the bigger stock holders are Nvidia and Microsoft, and if OpenAI goes under, they will absolutely survive just fine. But I don’t think they will.
OpenAI is owned by companies that know how to make money, and apparently OpenAI knows how to do it too, and has been quicker to make money on for instance ChatGPT than Google was on making money on YouTube.Some AI companies will go down, that’s the nature of being in a cutting edge business, and it’s the nature of competition. But I think the AI business will mature and stabilize like most businesses have, not burst like a bubble.
Nobody called it a bubble when the smartphone market exploded. Because everybody could see the value of the product, although it’s not quite the same, many companies have been forced out of the smartphone market due to competition. I think the AI market will be mostly similar.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
I think VW had it right when you had to do it manually. But I’m not sure that’s still the case.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
For me that’s no different than anything else Stelantis.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
Bricked usually means beyond repair. The device is worth the same as a brick, as it is worthless exactly because it can’t be repaired.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
If it doesn’t pop, it’s not really a bubble, it just looks like it.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
It’s perfectly normal for a growth business to invest more than they make, I didn’t say they were profitable yet, but they are making money.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Especially your first paragraph is probably spot on. Short attention span.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a bubble, first there is absolutely zero comparison to the housing bubble, which was a financial problem, and this alleged bubble is mostly driven by companies that have lots of money, so it is not credit based.
The better comparison would be the dot com bubble, which was dominated by companies that didn’t even have a product and didn’t make any money. The frenzy is similar, but the fundamentals are different.
AI investments may cool down because obviously there is a frantic race in an attempt to get ahead.
But the reason I don’t think the AI bubble will burst is because it is driven by companies that actually make money.
They may lose money investing too heavily in this, but they most companies investing in this can afford it.If it is a bubble, it is a very very long one, Nvidia value has been exploding since 2016 based on their AI products.
If this is a bubble, I think it will go down in history as the longest living bubble ever.Is the market frantic? Yes absolutely.
Is the value of some AI companies extremely high? Yes absolutely.
Is it a bubble that will burst? No if it’s a bubble, this one will be more like deflating to a less frantic level, because ALL the main players have the money to weather losses. - Comment on Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia 2 weeks ago:
For any other country, buying a company to gain the patents and knowledge of that company is completely normal and business as usual. But for some reason China isn’t even allowed to buy knowledge, and when they do they are accused of stealing it!?!?
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 2 weeks ago:
I 100% dress for others, I don’t really care about clothing, and I hate to buy new clothes. I only do it because I think I may be nearing some limit of what is considered decent to wear in the presence of other people, who 100% always are better dressed than me.
The other day I was at the supermarket, and had seen they had a special offer on “plaice” I think it’s called.
Well the special offer was sold out, and I asked an employee if they had anymore.
The employee was extremely nice, and asked how many I had planned to buy? And I said 2, then he took 2 bags that had 50% more content, and wrote the price of the special offer on them, and said I should just mention his name at the register.
I though Wow that stellar service, and it was only when I came home I realized I had some of my worst pants on that are so warn they had holes in them.
I have newer pants, but I don’t like them, because they have no sway and they are some sort of stretch material to be tight, and I absolutely hate that. And I also hate shopping for clothes.Anyways because my clothes are (to put it mildly) sub par for normal people, I figured he probably thought I was some sort of destitute.
I am married, and our economy is absolutely fine, we own an almost paid out house, and we have a car that was bought cash without borrowing, and we have a good amount of money in the bank.
Anyways I don’t care, maybe because I don’t have to. I just want clothes that are comfortable.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
Nice chart, but I don’t get the payment part, I looked it up for Proton and it states:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, or Proton credits
Nothing about cash???
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
No computer I know of ever came with an actual hardware reference.
However the concept is shown for instance on page 60, that shows peek and poke address for border and background color.
The C64 had a lot to get you started, way more than most, but it is still just to get you started.
If you want to get serious you don’t peek and poke much, but program in assembly. - Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 2 weeks ago:
The problem is lack of welfare, you make it sound like there is too much?
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
I don’t sense that you have any actual experience programming on that platform,
I absolutely did, and I programmed sprites in assembly, and made a program we called sprite design, where you could design and animate sprites, which we never released, because we were under the false assumption that you didn’t release software with known bugs.
Later when i didn’t use the C64 anymore, a friend of mine borrowed all my software, and came back absolutely ecstatic about how professional Sprite Design was, and was very puzzled he had never heard about it.
We had build in help using our own 90% efficient compression, we used self modifying code, and utilized the 6510 ability to switch off the ROM to have access to the RAM at that address space, and swapped where the character set was located and used our own 6 pixel wide character set, with an interrupt to give a tiny beep sound with key presses. The main structure was made with the Petspeed compiler, but everything surrounding the sprite animations was assembly. ( fuck 8 bit programming 😜 ) I made pretty sophisticated algorithms to make the weird 8x8 or 4x8 graphics format in color easier and faster to work with.
The C64 was amazing for its time for its speed and hardware capabilities. Despite being a machine that ran slightly below 1 MHz it was quite fast for its time.You just probably isn’t aware that all that was openly available on the C64 wasn’t on most other computers of the time.
A collection on C64 books: archive.org/details/commodore_c64_books
An example of a book describing assembly and hardware registers:
archive.org/details/…/2upBut also there was a ton of info released in magazines like RUN etc.
I’m not sure what info exactly you think was lacking? Except of course there were a few things that were possible that even the creators of the chips were unaware of, But was figured out by hackers. Such things can obviously not be part of the documentation.