T156
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- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 1 day ago:
Sure, but that’s on Krafton for buying Unknown Worlds for $500 million, and then offering an additional $250 million if they achieve particular goals.
If it was unrealistic, then don’t buy the company for that much, and provide a contract with those terms.
From Unknown Worlds’ perspective, it would have been irresponsible not to take the deal, assuming no other conditions.
That Krafton’s CEO got buyer’s remorse isn’t their problem to deal with. Caveat emptor and all that.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 1 day ago:
To be fair, $500 million is a lot of money.
You can barely blame them for not wanting to turn that down.
Should it pan out as planned, they’d get another quarter of a billion. That’s money enough that if you’re halfway sensible with it, you and your descendants would never have to work again.
Even when evenly divided across the entire company, it’s still a life-changing amount. ($1.6 - 2.3 million per person)
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 2 days ago:
An ice-cream cake is better eaten with a spoon, for example.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 5 days ago:
It’s also quite unexpected, given that it’s Apple, and they’ve traditionally made more expensive machines, with worse hardware. In my country, for example, it is nearly unheard of for a new Apple computer to cost less than four digits/US$800+.
Particularly at a time when it’s more typical to hear of new computer prices going up instead, due to shortages.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
A projector might be an option, but they have their own problems, like with the contrast not being great.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
Would it not make sense for them to? Since they make budget televisions, they have to subsidise the cost somehow.
Either that, or because they’re so budget, you’d expect them to cheap out on the electronics and not bother with anything that sophisticated compared to a bare-minimum chip.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t download a citizenship
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 1 week ago:
It’s also pretty important infrastructure. Even before AI, one of the major providers datacentres going down would take out a solid chunk of modern internet.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.
You’d need to mod it in.
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 1 week ago:
It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.
The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what’s on the market.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn’t support the TPM requirements it put it place.
Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. It depends more on what wattage that the power supply can give, and what the laptop is willing to take. USB-PD is pretty smart, and will only give as much power as the laptop wants to take, up to the limit of the cable/power supply.
But if it’s capable of supplying the same wattage, it makes no difference if you’re giving it 65W by phone charger, or 65W by manufacturer power brick.
- Comment on Diphalia 2 weeks ago:
Probably to make mating easier, since they can protrude out on either side, rather than the snake having to reposition, or end up poking straight down.
But genital shapes can be pretty weird in general.
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
It could power stuff. Tesla was working on it, and there have been a few small companies over the years that have done it.
Just turns out that it’s not very practical compared to a wall socket.
- Comment on Death by a thousand slops 2 weeks ago:
Right, but the volume was the issue. The cURL team could only work through and verify them so quickly, so the deluge of bug reports just made it impractical for them to dedicate time to sort through it for the Bug Bounty. The idea being that they got rid of the bug bounty, so there was less of an incentive to generate and write a bogus bug report.
- Comment on Death by a thousand slops 2 weeks ago:
It was volume that was more the issue with the bug bounty program.
They were flooded, and recognising it is all well and good, but not if there’s no good way to filter it out.
They didn’t have the manpower to keep up.
- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 2 weeks ago:
It does make it harder to find them, because the phrasing is similar, but not identical due to randomness.
Whereas before, you could probably filter a good chunk of it out by just finding the same message/keywords and filtering by that.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Do you realize how terrifying that would be? Get pulled over for a burned out tail light, your drivers license doesn’t count any more (realistically - how quickly could you clear out a day to visit the DMV?)
Especially in the US, where a lot of things are car-centric. Sure, you could drive to the DMV, but your licence is invalid, so you’d be driving without a licence.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
My. Immediate thought was it’s intentionally leaving out the part that says you’ll be issued with a replacement so won’t stop you from driving so no biggie right?
Nope, it says you’ll be issued a new one once it is surrendered, but it also says that it would be invalid immediately, so would not be legal to drive with.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 3 weeks ago:
Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?
That’s not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it’s multimedia.
- Comment on Karim Diané Gets Support From George Takei For Playing Star Trek’s First Gay Klingon 3 weeks ago:
At the same time, it was also good enough that it made Paramount want to pop out more shows.
SNW couldn’t exist without DSC giving us a taste of Anson Mount as Captain Pike, for example.
If people had left it, chances are, they’d have left it buried for a few more years.
DIS was shit but the worst thing about it was really that it was the first thing after the pause.
Honestly, I don’t think it was that, as much as its production was just a mess. Showrunners and writers were consistently fired partway into the season for at least the first two, and it shows, because the plot would just suddenly fly off in another direction mid-season, which doesn’t exactly work well for a serialised show.
Past that, it basically turned into an experimental testbed for show ideas, and never really seemed to find its own identity before it ended (though it came close in its last season).
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don’t care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
It’s pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn’t just nothing happening.
The eyes don’t just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
There’s also the question of why would it experience horror? It’s not exactly in pain, and they way they make the eyes grow is just to add the hormone signal that makes eyes grow when developing.
So from its perspective, it just got told to make eyes, so it has rudimentary eyes now. Hardly the most horrifying existence.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don’t know it.
Your eyes technically are part of your brain.
But it’s certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if they do. That seems like a lot of effort to go to for the average person for a scammer.
It seems easier to have a generic voice, rely on the fact that phone audio quality isn’t great to bridge the gap, and use a shotgun approach.
Some places do, since there were a few high profile attacks, but they were nearly all targeting organisations by pretending to be the CEO or something.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 weeks ago:
So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.
There’s also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 weeks ago:
Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 3 weeks ago:
Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.
Specifically since RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.
Whilst people really shouldn’t use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the “results” like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.
It’s probably also bad for people who don’t use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 4 weeks ago:
Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?
Humans don’t have LIDAR because we can’t just hook something into a human’s brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?