douglasg14b
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- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 hours ago:
I always love it when folks who don’t actually know what they’re talking about, comment like they do…
It’s not just the browser. This example is the browser, but it’s your entire system stability that is affected by random bit flips.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 hours ago:
Honestly yeah it’s 100% checks out.
I have device that has ECC ram and I can keep it online and applications running for well over 18 months with no stability issues.
However, both my work computers and my personal computer start to become unstable after about 15 to 20 days. And degrade over the course of 1 to 2 years (with a considerable increase in the number of corrupt system files)
Firefox and chrome start to become unstable after usually a week if they have really high memory usage.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 2 days ago:
That’s literally not possible.
I’m not talking about from a practical standpoint I’m talking about from a theoretical standpoint.
Given that social media being a form of media where humans socialize with each other is not something that can be banned because humans are intrinsically social creatures and modern technology facilities media based communication.
What we don’t need is social media banned. We need regulation and enforcement and teeth for those regulations.
Almost all of the bad and negative parts of social media are results of companies driving profits and engagement at the cost of everything else, including the well-being of their users (Such as artificially, inflating, negativity and division because that drives more engagement).
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
Why?
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
Yeah ofc they are chasing the buck.
It’s either they find alternatives revenue streams or we no longer have Firefox as a viable alternative anymore.
Browsers development is crazy engineering heavy, and this, expensive.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s a catch 22.
They either fail to get a big enough use base because their core users are not enough and they fail from a lack of funding.
Or they try to follow trends to increase their appeal and user base, and annoy their core users.
Most users don’t realize that Mozilla is doing what Google is doing with Chrome with an engineering team 1/4 the size of the chrome team. And that the grand majority of their costs are engineering related.
Browsers are expensive, and Mozilla needs to find revenue streams to pay for it.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
Contact centers, software development, automation, images and video analysis, data analysis, semantic search, entity recognition…etc
Many of these are cross-cutting across many sectors.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
To be clear, it only wildly fails to meet expectations in sectors that you hear about.
It’s most definitely medium expectations in sectors you don’t hear about because news and social media have a huge negativity bias because that gets views and engagement.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 1 week ago:
You can thank walled gardens like Discord for that.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
So it’s not that they’re going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own
- Comment on Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long 1 week ago:
Police are to society like HR is to workers.
They are not there for you, they are there to serve and protect their masters and enforce their masters will against the rest of us.
- Comment on Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long 1 week ago:
When in fact the crime was actually just not being rich
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Guaranteed the software in many of these printers is going to require an always online connection and is going to be baked with DRM in the near future.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about firearms.
It’s about controlling what you can 3D print.
When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it’s allowed to print what you just sent it. That’s a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.
Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they’re blocked.
Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that’s banned.
Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that’s banned.
Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing. This isn’t about banning weapons. It’s about controlling access to IPs and preventing right to repair.
A forcibly Internet connected online. Only 3D printer that has to first check a public database to see if it’s allowed to print the thing you just sent is most definitely going to be used to block you from printing parts to fix your appliances or devices.
And definitely going to be used to provide copyright protection and blocking to IPS of large corporations and companies.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 2 weeks ago:
Speaking the truth about the fascists in power.
Laws don’t matter anymore, there is no more order. They are not being followed, and the ones used to hard you are being made up.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 3 weeks ago:
Dude, my team members put out code that’s like this or worse on a regular basis that gets caught in PR review without using AI tooling…
I’ve supported legacy projects that of course were built without tooling that didn’t exist. That are structured and written in ways that are far far worse than this.
Nothing here screams vibe coated.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 3 weeks ago:
Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who’s built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.
With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.
And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM coding tools.
With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.
With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it’s possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.
So the time spent doesn’t necessarily say that it’s vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 3 weeks ago:
This is misinformation.
You can self host it, for free.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 3 weeks ago:
Trash guide to be fair.
Discord has more functionality than all of these, yet it gets ranked lower than… Rocket chat??
If we’re objectively finding alternatives then we need to be objective, this guide seems sus AF.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 3 weeks ago:
They taste like it too
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 weeks ago:
Do… Do you not know what price manipulation is?
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just license plate readers anymore. They have cameras that perform facial recognition and other identifying recognition.
Your car is in many ways uniquely identifiable by its markings and its model that vehicle with many pictures of it and that license plate are already in a database. If you have stickers, if you have big dents or additions and changes from the base model of your vehicle than you are quite identifiable within a particular geographical area depending on the urban density.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 3 weeks ago:
It’s always projection with Republicans
- Comment on Rent is theft 4 weeks ago:
For real.
$2800/m total with insurance, taxes.
$400 of that goes to principal. The rest is burnt.
120 year old house.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
We have ours configured pretty well at this point and it does an absolute bang-up job at code review. It will point developers towards tools and utilities that our monorepo has If they appear to be reinventing the wheel. It will catch common problems and issues that we have in our instruction file, and does a pretty good job of catching bugs and small issues like typos and what not.
Perhaps you need to tighten up your instruction file?
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
How would they though?
They cannot learn and do not have memory. Which means they cannot actually follow a “decision”, and remember that an action has been taken. All information is limited to the context window, which is only an illusion of memory. Not actually memory.
They are effectively RNG’ing incredibly capable word generation machines.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
They don’t have short memory, they have NO MEMORY AT ALL.
These are statistical word generation machines, that’s what LLMs are right now. They are REALLY good at this.
But they do not have memory, they do not learn, they do not make decisions. Which means they are incapable of cooperation as such a thing cannot exist without memory or the ability to learn, and decisions cannot be made without either of those.
These tools provide the illusion of such attributes.
- There is no memory, the whole context is sent on every request, the LLM does not have knowledge of prior conversations. It only knows what it is provided in that request only.
- Lots of tricks and hacks to make this illusion really good in incredibly small scales. But it’s still an illusion. Outside of fine-tuning and retraining new LLMs, which is not feasible to do on a frequency of communication.
- There is no learning.
- Without memory learning is impossible. Learning requires retraining a model, and to a degree fine tuning. Both of these are resource intensive and are static. And only provide the illusion of learning
- There is no memory, the whole context is sent on every request, the LLM does not have knowledge of prior conversations. It only knows what it is provided in that request only.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 4 weeks ago:
That doesn’t conclude anything.
Are these the same games that are part of this lawsuit? If they are not, then what does Epic giving away different games conclude that this is a false premise for the lawsuit?
Critically think about that statement, it’s not logical.