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- Comment on 6 days ago:
Using an IDE to write code is like using a pie tin to help you make a pie.
Using generative AI is like going to the local bakery, breaking their window, and stealing the pie.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 6 days ago:
That perfectly describes what my day-to-day has become at work (not by choice).
The only way to get anywhere close to production-ready code is to do like you just described, and the process is incredibly tedious and frustrating. It also isn’t really any faster than just writing the code myself (unless I’m satisfied with committing slop) and in the end, I still don’t understand the code I’ve ‘written’ as well as if I’d done it without AI. When you write code yourself there’s a natural self-reinforcement mechanism, the same way that taking notes in class improves your understanding/retention of the information better than when just passively listening. You don’t get that when vibe coding (no matter how knowledgeable you are and how diligent you are about babysitting it), and the overall health of the app suffers a lot.
The AI tools are also worse than useless when it comes to debugging, so good fucking luck getting it to fix the bugs it inevitably introduces…
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 6 days ago:
Typical C-suite. It takes them three months to come to the same conclusion that would be blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain: if you build something that no one understands, you’ll end up with something impossible to maintain.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 week ago:
The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this, especially because of its countless engineers and the billions of dollars it has poured into AI development.
I honestly don’t understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google.
How? How?
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but that article just isn’t very compelling. They seem to be framing the question of “is there free will” as a sort of Pascal’s Wager, which is, umm… certainly a strange choice, and one that doesn’t really justify itself in the end.
The author also makes a few false assertions and just generally seems to misunderstand what the debate over free will is even about.
- Comment on LET IT DIE offline version announced 1 week ago:
I’ve never played this game and don’t know anything about it that I didn’t just read in the article… but there’s just something so rad about a game called “Let it Die” having such a graceful end-of-life plan like this.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 1 week ago:
I think the reason we can’t define consciousness beyond intuitive or vague descriptions is because it exists outside the realm of physics and science altogether. This in itself makes some people very uncomfortable, because they don’t like thinking about or believing in things they cannot measure or control, but that doesn’t make it any less real.
I’ve always had the opposite take. I think that we’ll eventually discover that consciousness is so explainable within the realm of physics that our eventual understanding of how it works will make people very comfortable… because it will completely invalidate all of the things we’ve always thought made us “special”, like a notion of free will.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 week ago:
Fusion neutrons are able to cause fission in ordinarily non-fissile materials, such as depleted uranium (uranium-238), and these materials have been used in the jackets of thermonuclear weapons.
Fun(?) fact: something like 50% of the energy output of thermonuclear bombs comes from secondary fission events in the bomb casing triggered by the high energy neutron flux of the fusion reaction.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 weeks ago:
Considering the number of NMS updates that are just back-ported features that were created for Light No Fire, I suspect the game loop will be pretty much the same as what we already have in NMS
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 weeks ago:
Statistically, there are no small numbers.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 weeks ago:
I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 5 weeks ago:
Nvidia down ~8% this week, Palantir down ~10%
Maybe the needle really is shifting.
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 5 weeks ago:
The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.
I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.
I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.
The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.
- Comment on Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company 5 weeks ago:
he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)
That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I always cringe a little bit when someone says a person has ‘become a parody of themselves’… but honestly, what else is there to say about Molyneaux?
Peter Molyneaux really has become a parody of Peter Molyneaux.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 month ago:
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 month ago:
You may be interested in this new research from a few weeks ago! space.com/…/the-search-for-life-on-venus-just-too…
- Comment on ugly little cutie 1 month ago:
MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 2 months ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 2 months ago:
I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ and optimistic extrapolation: www.orionsarm.com
Man… if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I’d hate to find out what you consider pessimism!
- Comment on United States of Autism 2 months ago:
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 2 months ago:
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 months ago:
Yeah, neutrino detectors don’t work like conventional telescopes because neutrinos don’t behave like light. Technically, neutrinos are actually a type of dark matter since they don’t participate in the electromagnetic interaction, and that makes them very hard to detect.
When a beam of light shines on your body, some of that light is absorbed as heat and a lot of it is reflected off of you. Neutrinos don’t do that. Tens of billions of neutrinos from the sun hit your body every second and just… don’t do anything. They pass straight through you with zero interaction whatsoever. Very, very rarely they’ll interact with something, and neutrino detectors are designed to both maximize the chances of such an interaction happening, and to make those interactions more easy to spot.
I’m not up to speed on all the technical details of JUNO in particular, but most neutrino detectors are searching for events that look something like this:
A neutrino enters the detection medium and directly collides with an electron. Enough energy is transferred into the electron that it is stripped free from its parent molecule and moves through the medium at very high speed. If it moves fast enough, it can even exceed the speed that light travels through the medium, creating something sort of like a sonic boom — only with light. We call this Cherenkov radiation. The scintillating properties of the medium boost this signal and photomultipliers at the perimeter of the detector gather this radiation so that the event can be reconstructed by computers.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 months ago:
The liquid is the detection media.
[Linear alkylbenzene] was identified as a promising liquid scintillator by the SNO+ neutrino detector due to its good optical transparency (≈20 m), high light yield, low amount of radioactive impurities, and its high flash point (140 °C) which makes safe handling easier. It is also available in large volumes at a relatively low cost at the SNO+ site. It is now used in several other neutrino detectors, such as the RENO and Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiments.The material performs well in deep underwater environments. One study suggested LAB as a suitable material to be employed in a Secret Neutrino Interactions Finder (SNIF), a type of antineutrino detector designed to detect the presence of nuclear reactors at distances of between 100 and 500 km.
Neutrino detectors are basically just huge scintillators (systems that absorb ionizing radiation and re-emit that energy as light). The liquid inside of JUNO (Linear alkylbenzene) has especially attractive scintillating properties.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 months ago:
Footnote: The artwork was generated using AI
Ehhhhhhh…
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 2 months ago:
Fusion restaurant
Can I get an order of the yellow cake to go?
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
If you say so… but some of the Funko collectors I know are definitely die-hard nerds. Having bad taste doesn’t exclude you from nerddom.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
Working in tech, I’ve seen a lot of them in people’s cubicles.
