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- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 1 day ago:
There were those that tried, especially with memes, but they’ve been hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Now it’s just the small band of pro-AI users that go blank whenever someone explains how generative AI works.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
And the hippie mums dig it.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
Like this tweet wasn’t paid for by billionaires.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 3 days ago:
It’s just Markov chains running on a heap of poorly governed sources. Expensive because Markov chains are brutish to process.
But processors get faster and faster to calculate and conclude a chain rapidly. I could see why people think it’s intelligence since it is chains running through sources of human intelligence, but it’s not. It’s simple math from the late-1800s and we’ve been using it for predicting many things for a long time. Funnily enough, language was what Markov started with.
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 5 days ago:
I once got called a Nazi and a Communist at the same time.
It was in response to a remark about social healthcare systems, which I can’t deny both Marx and the Nazis’ NSV were all for that. But one could note some slight differences in opinion on how to go about it, plus a few other little things here and there.
- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 5 days ago:
My first thought is its not the microwave unless they’re multitasking TV dinners and League of Legends a few times each evening.
I just got this hunch it’s something like clogged channels or something, but OP thinks a microwave just sitting there is the issue. But that seems just as unusual.
- Comment on Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – just 5 days ago:
It’s more like comparing a review of Chapter 1 to a book report.
We know a computer is faster at things. It relies on that to perform iterations, overcoming the core shortfall of actual intelligence. Whereas the ideas a human gets are established almost instantly, especially with experience, but they perform slower.
Literally, this is the “development” in software development.
- Comment on Don't worry it builds character 1 week ago:
That’s what the crying’s for. Keeps ya ride-fit.
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
“Oh, what the fuck?! There’s jizz on my mail again!”
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 1 week ago:
I assume they push you hard to connect them at first use.
Duh. How else do you expect people to improve their muscle mass and cardio?
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 1 week ago:
That said, I don’t like that after playing Suzerain my queue still gets other “Visual Novel” recommendations.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 1 week ago:
Sony Pictures appears at the start of many awful films. I think it’s their thang.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 1 week ago:
I like it boring. I get to customise a blank slate how I want. I really rather not have things in my life that are by someone else’s interpretation of “good” design. Ending up with more shit like my Dyson, or a modem trying to be the centrepiece of the living area…
- Comment on When you're stressing against an opponent, remember, they're stressing just as much about you too 2 weeks ago:
When I was competing in climbing I knew I’d do well and just wanted to have fun. I didn’t think about others beyond seeing if I’m friends with anyone in my next group.
This has been the case in everything I’ve competed in. Never noticed anyone stressed, just really focused.
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 2 weeks ago:
It’s been like that since the files got X on the end; docx, xlsx, pbix. They are just zip files containing XML and stuff. This is how you can turn off any password protection of a file, change to zip, disable protection in the XML, change the extension back.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 2 weeks ago:
Sauron may have filed but he was way better at his job.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 2 weeks ago:
Big fan of chilli flakes and just a little salt on seared pineapple.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 2 weeks ago:
In Mass Effect, it’s VI (Virtual Intelligence), while actual AI is banned in the galaxy.
The information kiosk VIs on The Citadel are literally LLMs and explain themselves as such. Unlike AI, they aren’t able to plan, make decisions, or self-improve, they’re just a simple protocol on a large foundational model. They just algorithmic.
Simulated Intelligence is okay, but virtual implies it mimics intelligence, while simulated implies it is a substitute and actually does intelligence.
- Comment on Two Tesla Robotaxis Use Center of Four-Lane Road for Pickup and Dropoff… With One Getting Stuck for 4 Minutes 2 weeks ago:
In referring to AI Mania and the disdain people got discovering genAI is still disappointingly a long way off. It wasn’t a leaps and bounds thing, just LLMs bringing the attention back on like there was a breakthrough, though the pace of the tech has not changed.
Expect a resurgence in a few more years once the world is done with betas and thing improve at the same old rate. I think the best we got coming up is genAI assisting the increase of speed toward actual AI as a whole. Reliable generative iterations would be really helpful, but we’re obviously not there yet and likely not for a little while more.
In the meantime, the global open betas not advertised as such have done their job, but have left a foul taste in mouths.
- Comment on Two Tesla Robotaxis Use Center of Four-Lane Road for Pickup and Dropoff… With One Getting Stuck for 4 Minutes 3 weeks ago:
It feels like AI Mania has come to an end. Kind of like Facebook, the only ones still on it are your parents.
- Comment on Japan to raise bar on foreign driver's license conversion test 3 weeks ago:
Good point.
If you drive like the test in Australia, you’ll be pretty good. If you drive like the test in Greece, you’re a rolling hazard. But also doing mandatory motorcycle tests in some SE Asian countries were insanely easy. Just demonstrating bike control and then doing a short 5 min ride around a block, literally breaking the rules to keep in flow of traffic, and they pass you. Though I’ve found in most countries that have that, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to fail, they just tell you what was wrong and have you keep doing it again until you get a tick.
So again to your point, it’d be very country-specific on whether the driving culture there makes the test an absolute nightmare or not.
- Comment on poor jeremy 3 weeks ago:
In shell
Drawing pictures
Of fence tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Eyestalks raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of pale blue belowScientists tried to give attention
To the fact that his shell turned left
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his world, butJeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid todayClearly I remember
Pickin’ on the boy
Seemed a harmless little mollusc
Oh, but we unleashed a hedgehog
Gnashed his radula
Shot darts at mantles
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise bump
My shell left hurtin’
Oh, tipped right over
Just like the day
Like the day I heardScientists tried to give affection
But the boy was something she wouldn’t mate
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his worldJeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid todayTry to forget this… (try to forget this)
Try to erase this… (try to erase this)
From the postdoc paperJeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today - Comment on Japan to raise bar on foreign driver's license conversion test 3 weeks ago:
Good.
Whenever I drive in another country, I’ve done some decent research on not just the law differences but the culture difference. But it’s never enough and at the end of each day I look up the things that puzzles me on the road earlier.
You can easily be involved in an accident if you don’t know, “That’s just how they do it here.”
Some countries the standards are loose, others are very tight. Some countries have things unique to a state or region that are totally different in other parts of it. Driving around people that have transitioned from one to the other is always tense.
And at the end of the day, if you can drive how you’re supposed to in Japan, there’s nothing to worry about with the test.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 4 weeks ago:
Yesterday it tried to tell me Duration.ToralYears() and Number.IsNaN() were M functions in the first few interactions. I immediately called it out and for the first time ever, it doubled-down.
I think I’m at a level where, for most cases, what I ask of LLMs for coding is too advanced, else I just do it myself. This results in a very high counts of bullshit. But even for the most basic stuff, I have to take the time to read all of it and fix or optimise mistakes.
- Comment on If you don't own one you will never understand it 4 weeks ago:
Play fireworks compilations on YT to desensitise. My dogs sleep through fireworks. They’ll some times bark but it’s because they hear other dogs barking down the road.
- Comment on What are the chances 4 weeks ago:
Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.
- Comment on It was inevitable 4 weeks ago:
The US sees an item not referred to by a corporate brand name, and wouldn’t have it.
They’re not alone in it, but their suseptiblity to macro-marketing can only be described as “American level”.
- Comment on 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me' 4 weeks ago:
That’s not disturbing; that’s completely fucked up.
If they want to buy data to use for AI, they can pay someone to license their voice for its use. What they’ve done is no different to bootlegging, but it’s worse because it’s personally identifiable data.
- Comment on Bounce bounce bounce 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had someone recognise I’m a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 4 weeks ago:
It would be quicker to either:
- Type that into your search engine of choice.
- Read the article’s second sentence.
