spongebue
@spongebue@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI Summary 3 weeks ago:
It’s a solution in search of a problem. And boy are they searching.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yesterday I accidentally commented in .ml and mentioned that voting third party in our current voting system is playing with fire to get a worse candidate in office. I was told I must therefore start a grassroots movement for ranked choice voting, because apparently I can’t have an opinion without a movement.
Normally I let a few downvotes get under my skin more than I care to admit, but in this setting it was kind of a badge of honor. Honestly it was kind of “fun” to see what people were saying.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
In theory a decent QA team will catch things being done by shitty developers. If your dev and QA is shit, management is shit for letting it happen.
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 1 month ago:
It’s working in this area for me
I’ve said this in other comments, but it’s easier to change your audience than your content.
What you said is the important bit: at the end of the day, you’ve got a computer working as a tool for a human. That’s what it should be all about. Instead we have so much AI slop that’s hardly trying to do anything for people, but rather trying to get another algorithm’s attention so it can be shown more - whether a person actually wants to see it or not.
If AI is a tool to create a thing, under the close supervision of a human, for other humans, I’m a lot more open to it. Just don’t let it get carried away and forget about the humanity of it all.
- Comment on ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem. 1 month ago:
Ask anyone who works support how fucking stupid the general population
They’re going to have a huge selection bias though - much of the “general population” will start elsewhere with things like documentation or brains.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
I forgot about that! And most songs sound like ass when you hear it over a phone, especially before whatever they did in the last decade to make voice calls more clear
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
I don’t think that’s going to be an unpopular opinion around here. Maybe a little tricky in the logistics of distinguishing between an artist and influencer and finding an artist who you like and can pay for a phone background, but other than that you’re not going to find many Lemmings saying “no, pay an influencer!”
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
Remember when people paid for ringtones? Doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid, especially as a subscription, but people do stupid things and other people take advantage.
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
Not really. There were plenty of random pages, but you really had to seek it out to see it. Now an overwhelming majority of non-ad posts are stuff like this (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they pay to have this stuff seen, basically making it an ad)
- Comment on What's going on in Colorado? 2 months ago:
I live near Aurora. One of those city councilperson’s background is in owning a restaurant of all things. Totes an expert in international gang activity.
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
I’m not sure that’s necessarily true. There are plenty of military contractors out there, and a driver is the kind of position you would expect to be likely contracted out. That in no way makes one a soldier.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
Part of the problem comes when companies go out of their way to provide a service on their end that could be covered reasonably easily on the consumer’s side of things. Why put a few cents worth of storage in a device and make it locally accessible when you can make it cloud-connected and hosted to turn it into a revenue stream?
Another example, GM has had OnStar for ages. It does the same things your cell phone does, so it’s hard to justify the subscription. Plus Android Auto/Car Play works really well and relies on something you update more often. So naturally, GM revamped their infotainment to do the things you’d have your phone do and got rid of Android Auto/Car Play.
- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 2 months ago:
I’m not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.
I don’t quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that’s more subtle.
X can fuck the duck right off.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 months ago:
They don’t already? My library system has since at least the early '00s.
- Comment on m/Polyamory is LIVE 3 months ago:
The average person has approximately one boob and one testicle
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
If you’ve got an open area like a department store, that’s a lot of square footage that can be divided out. Walls can be built too, not uncommon at all in commercial construction I’m sure. And there are raised floor setups in data centers to make it easy to run cabling and stuff. If they can handle giant server racks, I’m sure a couch would be easy peasy.
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
Load bearing as in, structural? Isn’t that the existing floor? Something built over the top wouldn’t be load-bearing unless you’re talking about any walls that would go up as well. It certainly wouldn’t be holding up the ceiling or anything higher.
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
I mean, the headline does say 20 years soooo…
Also, Teslas are approaching 10 years old and as far as I know their batteries are still going strong (yes, I know their quality control is otherwise sketchy). The Nissan Leaf batteries are getting pretty sketchy, but they don’t have any battery conditioning - just air-cooled. That’s not doing longevity any favors. All other major EVs have battery management systems and seem to be holding up ok. They’re also generally warranted for 8 years. I don’t think they’d only have a 2-year buffer between warranty and expected life.
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
A whale is just one animal. If I look at my driveway, I can see hundreds of ants. Why on earth would I look anywhere else if I wanted to see animals?
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Generally speaking, people who contribute to society.
I don’t see “gambling on the right cryptocurrency” as a contribution to society. I also don’t see how “individuals that own the overwhelming majority of dollars, euros, etc.” wouldn’t simply become “individuals that own the overwhelming majority of cryptocurrency” by virtue of working with that
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Ahhh yes. Some of them are just made up things that people say is totally money, while the others are actually just made up things that people say is totally money. Huge difference, I’m sure.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
If by “a big cut” you mean maybe a few percent, and that most businesses take electronic payments anyway because there are advantages (people are more likely to buy stuff when convenient, accounting is easier, less risk of theft/loss than physical cash, etc) then sure, I guess.
If you think the solution is to make up a new kind of imaginary money that takes a shitton of energy to maintain, which has tons of different types (Bitcoin, Ethereum, whatever one was referenced in the initial comment) and would happen to greatly benefit those who happened to be early adopters (TOTAL coincidence, I’m sure)… No.
- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 4 months ago:
Why would it have to be a crypto donation? Their bank accounts are in USD. Most of their readers have USD. People can transfer USD. What does some arbitrary crypto thing you want to pretend is money add that makes it better for those “most people”?
- Comment on The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world. 4 months ago:
It’s funny because Rhode Island is so smol that you need 3 of them to make a mile!
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 6 months ago:
Or just… Not have 500000 partners in the first place
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
A friend was telling me he pays that much in Hawaii, but you’d probably expect as much on an island like that
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
What kind of electric mileage do you get? My Bolt gets about 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour, and my electricity costs $0.12 per kWh. I figure a car like that would get about 30MPG if it were an ICE vehicle. To go 30 miles would take about 8.5 kWh, which would cost about a dollar. Yes, your electricity is 4x the price (ouch!) but 8x the gas equivalent?
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 6 months ago:
Then there wouldn’t be as many CEOs or C-suite executives 😢
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 months ago:
Cargo shorts were in style at the time, so there’s that
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
no significant competition? Is that a joke?
For the type of service they are (hosting random one-off videos and series that anyone can load and optionally kicking back a portion to the content creators) - who are they competing against? If you go on the street and ask random people to name 3 streaming services that do that, you’ll likely get YouTube, “ummm”, and “I dunno”