natecox
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- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 23 hours ago:
There have been repeated studies and examples where homeless people have simply been giving a house and basic living wage, with no qualifiers on who can receive it based on mental health or drug use. Every time this is done people thrive and pull their lives back together.
It absolutely is, at its core, a housing problem. Provide basic humanitarian safety and stability and people can pull themselves out of the darkness just fine.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 day ago:
Fun fact: there are more vacant houses in the US than there are homeless people. We literally have an empty, unused house for every single homeless person right now.
- Comment on So, did a new printer drop? LOL 1 week ago:
I hate the age of “viral marketing”. Are we still pretending the YouTubers aren’t just marketing tools?
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 1 week ago:
You can’t verify it because they didn’t provide any sources. Probably because any source on this would quickly show what a massive overreach these claims are.
Framework supports a bunch of open source initiatives, and some of those initiatives have figureheads that suck. Framework has basically stated that they are supporting open source as a whole and are staying neutral about the people running them. That’s a choice people may not agree with, I have fairly strong opinions on this myself… but there’s a huge gap between Framework’s actual statements and the author’s claims.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 2 weeks ago:
Oh fuck off. Nobody is “astroturfing” AI hate.
Plenty of us hate AI for perfectly reasonable ethical, sociological, and accuracy reasons.
Just because some anti-ethical twats are doing something with AI impactfully doesn’t justify the use of disinformation on our side.
- Comment on Does anyone know how I'm suppose to open this? 2 weeks ago:
I’d get a spare bit of wood, press it against one of the nubs, and then smack it with a hammer repeatedly. If you’re careful it shouldn’t stress the nub too much but the vibration may unseize the thread.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 3 weeks ago:
Fuck EA.
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 3 weeks ago:
Jeopardy isn’t asking questions, it is giving answers. The constraints need to figure out and provide the correct question to the answer given.
I’d imagine “who is the Eiffel Tower” would be wrong because that question doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 4 weeks ago:
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.
The music video: youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 5 weeks ago:
The dlc is important to some, to each their own.
It is pretty shitty to fail to release something and then go radio silence about it with no real explanation, though. On top of the regional pricing issue too.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 5 weeks ago:
Too bad they botched the deluxe edition / season pass release.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think I follow. Are you thinking that I’m saying Vampire needs character stats? Because I’m not.
I just think a game based on a TTRPG—a concept built around putting role playing first and foremost—should probably be pretty strong on the role playing aspect.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s just wild to me that a game straight out of a TTRPG is “light on RPG elements”.
Like, what’s left of Vampire without the RPG elements?
- Comment on Department of War Doesn’t Defend its Web Streams From Hackers 1 month ago:
Well duh; it’s the department of war not the department of defense.
(Hopefully obvious /s)
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
It’s funny to me that this is even up for discussion. It’s been a truism for as long as I can remember that reading code is much, much more difficult than writing it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 2 months ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 2 months ago:
And so the current Intel chipset I have will be the last I ever own.
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 2 months ago:
I am salty as fuck about PT.
As a standalone entry it was absolutely fantastic, I loved every second of playing it. As a demo it got me so incredibly hyped about the full game.
And then Konami pulled some of the dumbest shit I have ever seen.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
My dude, I worked home renovations for many years. Nice try to discredit me rather than my argument though.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
I’m not an expert on it, I’ve only watched a few videos on it, but from what I’ve seen they add structural elements between the layers at certain points which act like rebar.
There’s no framing of the walls, but they do set up scaffolds to support overhangs (because you can’t print onto nothing)
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
I mean, “to 3d print a wall” is a massive, bordering on disingenuous, understatement of what’s happening there. They’re replacing all of the construction work of framing and finishing all of the walls of the house, interior and exterior, plus attaching them and insulating them, with a single step.
My point is if you want to make a good argument against LLMs, your metaphor should not have such an easy argument against it at the ready.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 months ago:
I hate the simulated intelligence nonsense at least as much as you, but you should probably know about this if you’re saying you can’t 3d print a house: youtu.be/vL2KoMNzGTo
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Final Fantasy 7
- Expedition 33
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is confirmation bias, you know it’s possible so you’re discounting downsides.
Yes, a connector can fit in the watch, but the internal footprint of the connector is comparatively huge. All the other components of the watch would need to be designed to fit around a large connector essentially directly in the middle of the device internals.
If that’s really important to you, more power to you. I don’t have an issue with it existing. I do have a bit of a problem with pretending that compromises aren’t being made in features to accommodate it.
A standardized magnetic pogo pin connector would meet my needs quite a bit better, personally.
- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 2 months ago:
The title here is misleading.
Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.
“Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.
We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 2 months ago:
FWIW I wouldn’t do dish soap like all the time, I only go to it when IPA isn’t doing the job. Come to think of it, since I switched to 99% IPA I haven’t needed to use dish soap at all; doesn’t seem to leave behind that residue.
As always, experimenting is the key. If you’ve eliminated wet filament, z-offset calibration, nozzle clogs, nozzle heat, bed heat, bed cleaning, model issues (e.g., low surface area needing brims), and filament feeding issues… that PLA may just hate you.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 2 months ago:
I’ve seen the alcohol recommendation already (91% minimum) but have you tried washing the bed with hot water and dish soap? Sometimes when my bed adhesion just won’t take I find dish soap solves it instantly.
PLA does have a shelf life, if cleaning the bed isn’t working getting a fresh roll could definitely be worth a try. PLA+ in particular has always seemed extra finicky to me.
- Comment on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm 3 months ago:
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has boasted about cutting dozens of environmental regulations, saying he wants to make it cheaper and easier for industries to operate.
Yeah because we all know the primary focus of the “environmental protection agency” is protecting corporations.
Fuck everyone involved in this bullshit. And fuck everyone with real authority who is choosing to fail to act.