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- Comment on Ear virus 6 days ago:
🎶 Herpes are made of these 🎶
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
Of all the shitty AI products flooding the market right now, Atlassian’s Rovo has got to be the most useless I’ve had the misfortune of using.
They should be hiring more workers to fix their AI slop, not replacing them with even more of it.
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 2 weeks ago:
Considering how much shit Bungie ate over this (and rightfully so), I doubt they would’ve gone this route. All it would take is one Twitter post from the artist saying Bungie tried to stiff them again and the whole controversy gets reignited all over.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 3 weeks ago:
People who enjoy hardcore pvp and extraction shooters are hyped… but the important question is whether or not those people represent a large enough niche to sustain a game with such a massive budget.
I’m guessing it won’t be, but who knows.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 3 weeks ago:
Needs more crab
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 3 weeks ago:
Introducing: Microslop Cosmos!
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.
It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 3 weeks ago:
most moons
Pretty much every moon but Titan. Titan, however, would be excellent for heat dissipation. Long before generative AI was even a thing, scientists have speculated that Titan would be the perfect place for datacenters because low-temperature computation is so much more efficient.
Of course, building a datacenter on Titan would be a multi-hundred-trillion dollar endeavor, so… good luck bootstrapping your way into that industry.
- Comment on ‘World’s largest battery’ to provide 100-hour iron-air storage for Google data center 3 weeks ago:
It’s also clever politics. Minnesota has the largest iron mining operations in the entire United States, so choosing iron as your core battery technology is a smart (albeit cynical) way to drum to some local support with the promise of bringing new demand back to the taconite mines.
Whether that will be strong enough to overcome the extreme negative sentiments around datacenter projects? Who knows…
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 5 weeks ago:
A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 1 month ago:
That’s the neat part — AI comes pre-enshittified!
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 month ago:
God, I wish I could get groceries for 70…
- Comment on Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. 1 month ago:
Overuse of H-1B visas.
It’s literally a system of indentured servitude and corpos are just free to abuse it with impunity.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Man… of all the vibe coding tools, Lovable has gotta be one of the most useless, too.
I work with people (all middle managers) who love Loveable because they can type a two sentence description of an app and it will immediately vomit something into existence. The code it generates is an absolute disaster and the UIs it designs (which is supposed to be its main draw) is some of the most generic crap I’ve ever seen.
0/10, do not recommend.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 month ago:
The AI assistant answers are just synthesized from the shitty SEO results.
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- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 month ago:
the fact that the output of LLMs can’t be copyrighted
That may be the status quo right now, but I expect tech and media companies will fight tooth and nail to gain copyright protections over the slop they generate. A few
bribesdonations to the right politicians and you can get legislation that grants whatever rights you want. - Comment on Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage 2 months ago:
Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting…
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 2 months ago:
But how would you use words to explain the phenomenon?
I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified expansions encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic type cycle.
In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.
Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop investing will stop shoveling money into the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god
- Comment on AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds 2 months ago:
It refers to when an LLM will in some way try to deceive or manipulate the user interacting with it.
I think this still gives the model too much credit by implying that there’s any sort of intentionally behind this behavior.
There’s not.
These models are trained on the output of real humans and real humans lie and deceive constantly. All that’s happening is that the underlying mathematical model has encoded the statistical likelihood that someone will lie in a given situation. If that statistical likelihood is high enough, the model itself will lie when put in a similar situation.
- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 2 months ago:
“Hotseat” multiplayer isn’t in the game at all yet.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
I can’t remember specific examples (probably because I didn’t stick with any of them very long), but I’ve played several games that don’t even let you touch the options until after you’ve finished some tutorial section… which is especially annoying for players you play with inverted y axis.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 months ago:
Noooo, not even close. There may be some senior devs in AAA studios making bank, but the vast majority of people doing the day-to-day art and development work on games typically get much worse pay and benefits than similar roles in other parts of the tech sphere.
A lot of people are very passionate about making games, and the games industry heavily exploits that passion to short change its workers. A lot of (mostly young) devs are willing to accept less pay to work on games because they feel like it will be more fulfilling than working on other mindless corporate crap, and those who do get jobs in the industry are afraid to ask for more money or try to unionize because they know there are a dozen equally passionate candidates waiting to replace them for less money if they make too many waves.
The result is that wages stay lower than other tech jobs and hours worked are much higher. With AI on the rise the problem will no doubt get even worse as execs use it as an excuse to shrink teams and “do more with less”.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 months ago:
highly paid developers
Not in the games industry, lol
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 2 months ago:
People aren’t lazy, we just all live in a social media landscape where, when someone posts a link with an intentionally provocative title, it’s rarely worth the effort to engage with it enough to find out if they’re being sarcastic or sincere.
Sometimes this means that well-meaning people get downvoted. Oh well. Learn to read the room.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 2 months ago:
What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.
Ah, maybe that’s true. I confess I stopped hanging around HN years ago so I don’t really know how ‘flagging’ works and how much influence users have over post visibility. I thought the OP made it clear that something ‘inorganic’ was going on, but I guess that could be user reports just as easily as it could be moderator action.
Either way, it’s still true that getting your tech news from Silicon Valley’s most darling tech incubator is a dumb idea.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 2 months ago:
I don’t know, I think they make a reasonable case to suggest that someone is putting their finger on the scale.
But, honestly… duh? Y Combinator is one of the most influential investment firms in Silicon Valley. Of course they’re going to try to protect the image of their chosen investments.
Honestly the bigger story here is that people in tech continue to be so willfully ignorant of stuff like this. Big Tech is not benevolent. If you want unbiased tech news, don’t fucking get it from a company that has such a vested interest in the success of SV tech companies. You’d think that would be obvious.
- Comment on 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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.