vrighter
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- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 5 days ago:
there is already a federal law about it. Minimum is already minimum for everyone. Tipped positions simply let the employer save some of that money. If you didn’t tip, the employer must pay the full wage.
- Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane 1 week ago:
as far as i had read about it, accurate enough to rely on for a whole flight without worrying about drift
- Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 1 week ago:
Eh, it’s a stopped clock type of thing
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
“good catch! That’s a very astute observation. Here’s a bunch of paragraphs explaining (incorrectly) how you’re wrong!”
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
the windows just works argument actually refers to the fact that it’s consistent.
If you have a problem with the desktop, nobody needs to ask you which de you use, or which parts you have substituted out. You have a graphics problem, nobody asks if wayland or x11. You have a problem with audio, nobody asks you whether you have pipewire-pulse installed and to use pipewire. Shit’s the same everywhere.
I say this as an arch linux user. The choice we all love, is actually a detriment to the average non-power user.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 1 week ago:
because they stay smol!
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 1 week ago:
is there any picture of the guy without his hand up like that?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
oh quit that bs. There was waterproof (not resistant) micro usb more than a literal decade ago. If anything they should have gottn better.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 2 weeks ago:
imagine having never played the original (me, unfortunately, at the time). Then, what are the whispers all about?
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 5 weeks ago:
exactly. But what if there were more than just three (the infamous “guardrails”)
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
the downvote wasn’t from me
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
so?
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
this isn’t low effort. These are freaking great!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
three, point, oh
for copy and paste.
Not one, tuy three point oh!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
what trend? they made thi ipod, they made the iphone, they’ve been late, really really late, for very basic features on either. And a bunch of just plain bad stuff.
Butterfly keyboards, magic mouse, touch bar on macs, not cherry picked at all. There are tons of examples
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
that would be more believable if they didn’t release the apple vision pro.
Or the years they took biding their time before they finally implemented battery charge time estimation on ios.
Or the time biding their time refining, erm, copy and paste?
Come on!
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 1 month ago:
oh for fuck’s sake. A mistake is rendering the wrong emoji. Sending your password to elsewhere is inexcusable
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 month ago:
and the only reason it’s not slowing you down on other things is that you don’t know enough about those other things to recognize all the stuff you need to fix
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
yep. you could of course swap weights in and out, but that would slow things down to a crawl. So they get lots of vram
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
that’s why they need huge datacenters and thousands of GPUs. And, pretty soon, dedicated power plants. It is insane just how wasteful this all is.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
imagine that to type one letter, you need to manually read all unicode code points several thousand times. When you’re done, you select one letter to type.
Then you start rereading all unicode code points again for thousands of times again, for the next letter.
That’s how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome 1 month ago:
funny how everyone who wants to write a new browser (except the ladybird guys) always skimp on writing the actual browser part
- Comment on Broadcom Eyes $2 Trillion Club as AI Chip Demand Explodes 1 month ago:
ai chip demand explodes amongst manufacturers of crap who hope that demand for ai chips amongst consumers somehow explodes too
- Comment on Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months 1 month ago:
in yes/no type questions, 50% success rate is the absolute worst one can do. Any worse and you’re just giving an inverted correct answer more than half the time
- Comment on Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months 1 month ago:
they are improving at an exponential rate. It’s just that the exponent is less than one.
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 month ago:
that’s why you get a little robot friend to clean it for you
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 1 month ago:
so? It was never advertised as intelligent and capable of solving any task other than that one.
Meanwhile slop generators are capable of doing a lot of things and reasoning.
One claims to be good at chess. The other claims to be good at everything.
- Comment on Europeans have a meter fetish 2 months ago:
you made me snort coffee out of my nose. I hoepe you’re proud of yourself
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 months ago:
i bought an original cartridge and played it on the vcs i iherited from dad
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 months ago:
i still enjoyed the crap out of it. Sometimes zoning out and just running around collecting stuff is just what I need.