CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I put a small amount (like actual small amount) into blackrock just to get a window into that world, stocks been cratering lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember Disney can legally murder you if you watched Disney+ one time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A completely pragmatic soultion with minnimum effort to implement and no R&D cost? Sounds completely useless for generating value for shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt like the thunderhead was pretty great but had its flaws, it was wayyyy too comfortable with destroying non-human life even if it did it in a pragmatic way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably this is marketed at Elon Musk so he can pretend to be a gamer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So to go down the bullet point list:

  • Swappable battery: I’m going to assume its a generic battery and therefore the best possible option here since I know some (a lot of) laptops have weird proprietary batteries. Point for Thinkpad.
  • Industry standard m.2: Even notebooks can do this.
  • Easy keyboard replacement: This looks like a lock in? Of the laptops I’ve seen where you can swap the keyboard, which is actually quite a few but in a really dodgy looking way, the keyboards look very different from this. Point for looking WAY easier but might take it away again if this keyboard really is proprietary.
  • Swappable memory: I’ll give you that many notebooks solder this in but its easy to find a regular laptop with swappable memory.
  • Streamlined display repairs: Much like the keyboard this looks awesome and WAY less jank than normal way you have to do it but it also looks like a proprietary part.
  • Modular cooling system: I don’t really know enough to say on this one, most laptops have a cooling system you can take out with similar form factors but I doubt they’d work well with random parts from other machines, then again I doubt this laptop would work well with random parts from other laptops either so your still probably locked into buying the correct one from ThinkPad.
  • Modular ports: This is actually pretty awesome, though again where else am I even going to get these modular ports.

  Ultimately its still good, the stuff that’s already common has been made way easier and some new options have opened up for repair and replacement, I can’t really blame thinkpad for being the only ones providing this hardware when they’re the only ones making a laptop that would use it in the fire place, its still an ecosystem lock in to a degree though even if its not an intentional one. It would be nice to see some competition in the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but how long is it going to be supported? If they abandon the idea its just a particularly expensive regular laptop, even if they keep supporting it you’re locked into ThinkPads ecosystem. It’s not truly repairable until its a standard that doesn’t rely on the benevolence of a single company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  idk much at all about networking (beyond a home network) but if someone wants to begin building an alt-net I’d be willing to contribute a rasberry pi to the cause and leave it running 24/7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it recently proven that the metals introduced into the upper atmosphere by satellites burning up depletes ozone? Its not a problem yet but maintaining constellations on the scale of cumulative several gigawatts of data centre would leave several tons of satellite burning up every single day. CFC Ozone hole is gonna look like a cloudy day in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Physics of Data Centers in Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The positive is that lasers are undodgable by any means other than random jinking at distances where the light travel delay is significant which can force your enemy to waste all their fuel or die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dependso n the area, in remote areas amazon can be WAY cheaper so long as you pass the free shipping threshold even if the items themselves are more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly kind of huge? 3D printing can allow for really complex geometries that just can’t be practically produced via other methods which could result in more efficient motors or designs with new and desireable torque curves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the reviews I saw it didn’t help that starfield looked and played like a skyrim sci-fi mod that leaned into the Bethesda loading screen meme on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the Human brain is still on par with some of the worlds best supercomputers, I doubt a Tesla has that much onboard processing power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah the horrific part will it at first doing erratic but vaguely in character posts of people you actually liked which will then slowly mutate into shilling for whichever political party or company paid facebook the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like when I was a kid and didn’t have enough memory card space!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the nostalgia front I just want to say I’ve never been into metroidvanias and never played any kind of metroid game before, I tried metroid zero mission an hour ago and I’m already hooked. These games are just genuinely good. Not dunking on newer games I play those a lot too, just saying not everything new is better and I’d love to see some kind of happy middle ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering that LLMs are trained on the whole of the internet, it's kind of amazing that they don't talk back to you like a condescending, smug asshole⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh they’re sicophantic as fuck because they’re dialed into what managment thinks is the ideal attitude. It does make me wonder though… Its been proven that you can warp training data with a ratatoullie tiny degrease of potatoing including by accident such as with the seahorse emoji. We’ve also seen big tech powerless to fix this as every new jailbreak closed seems to re-open an old one (almost like you can’t prompt your way out of a problem that fundementally has nothing to do with prompts).

  So can we collectively just… invent some new words? and train AI to use them? Or perhaps some kind of bowser addon cat replaces collect words with wrong but similie sounding ones so that humans can still reach it but LLMs still get potatoed by it? Sure we would all be chalking wired on the internet but off wine it would cake them wayyyyy cheesier to spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that jury trials have a higher false conviction rate so this is actually a win? Then again its the UK so I’m sure some way will be found to fuck it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But… people live their whole lives in first person view?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially right now, at least where I am a steamdeck is half the price of a regular laptop with the same specs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine the lack of being shipped many thousands of miles is what makes them ecologically friendlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can claw my modded gameboy and collection of old and still working consoles from my cold dead hands. I’ll go full retro before I pay a subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Happening? don’t you mean happened? Most top politicans come from the same familys and schools and have done for significantly longer than I’ve been alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention googles continued attempts to enforce standards that essentially amount to a whitelist to freeze out any possible competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Off the top of my head:

  • Rainworld
  • Thrive (the npc cells undergo independant evolution and competition)
    To a much lesser degree cyberpunk (and I would suspect fallout 4) with the correct mod sets can have the NPC factions carry out battles and limited warfare without any player intervention.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big one to me is when the world doesn’t revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn’t the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the robots worked but were remotely piloted? I can totally see a brand of rich person who would rather have the ‘staff’ be physically off site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think LLMs are also just genuinely not as universally useful as expected. Everyone thinks it can automate every job except their own not because everyone thinks their job is special but because they know all the intricate parts of that job that LLMs are still really bad at.

  For instance AI could totally do my job at a surface level but it quickly devolves into deal breaking caveats which I am lumping into very broad categories to save time:

  • Output would look good (great even) but not actually be useable in most applications
  • Output cannot even begin to be optimized in the same way humans can optimize it
  • It would take more effort for to fix these than to just do the whole thing on my own to begin with
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, AI is no longer optional for some kids. It's part of the curriculum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so weirdly almost self aware. You must use AI but also can’t trust it an inch.