peopleproblems
@peopleproblems@lemmy.world
woah holy shit a bio?
- Comment on Dummy Thicc 2 weeks ago:
I guess I don’t need vision anyway
- Comment on Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle 2 weeks ago:
A solar powered car that topped at 70mph would be ideal,
But goddamn, could you imagine just having one that topped at 30 MPh in a city? Infinite travel!
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. Windows XP Professional 64 bit. Each “upgrade” used the same license and never really got screwy until 10. Won’t go to 11.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Office 365. I hate it, but I don’t need a windows PC to use it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Wait. They want me to pay for something I already paid for?
Well guess my $2.5k new windowless machine is looking better everyday.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
… Because it all becomes Crab?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sorry I’m late guys Image
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to get a mac anytime soon, but at least it would stop my cat from powering down everything spontaneously
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Look, I got enough for two hours with one whore, or enough for 10 minutes with a dozen different whores.
I actually don’t know where I was going with that, but something a long the lines of so many different distros and only so much time in a day.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Oh this one got me. Goddamn lol this is a good one
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm.
So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
Yup.
I don’t know why. The people marketing it have absolutely no understanding of what they’re selling.
Best part is that I get paid if it works as they expect it to and I get paid if I have to decommission or replace it. I’m not the one developing the AI that they’re wasting money on, they just demanded I use it.
That’s true software engineering folks. Decoupling doesn’t just make it easier to program and reuse, it saves your job when you need to retire something later too.
- Comment on How you dune? 3 weeks ago:
No kidding.
He decides “eh, maybe a jihad with 66 billion people killed is fine” but becoming an almost immortal space worm hybrid crosses the line.
- Comment on SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source. 3 weeks ago:
Weird. My employer is stupid strict about open source. I suspect it’s because we contribute a bit.
Open source is usually preferred from a security and time to evaluate and implement standpoint, but it all needs to go through review to ensure we meet every licence agreement. This process can be annoying for some things and closed commercial products are used instead, who will happily sign business agreements in exchange for cash.
Because this was such a barrier to open source adoption, they actually implemented a process of cataloging approved open source software allowing projects to get the correct licenses arranged quickly.
Tech firms have no reason to abuse open source licensing, unless getting sued is cheaper than the software, which I suspect is largely not true, it’s just also expensive for the developer. Maybe we need some sort of union-like organization for open source developers with special commercial licensing that they can contribute union-like fees to for suing these shits.
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 3 weeks ago:
Oh I haven’t seen this before and it sound amazing.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
The oversimplification was intended - you also caught my meaning of it being able to synthesize new rules.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
LLM’s are not the only type of AI out there. ChatGPT appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Whose to say the next AI system wont do that as well?
I’m not sure what I’m misquoting. A large language model is not AI, a large language model is a non-human readable function used by a generative AI algorithm.
Simply put, ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
Debugging and being able to interpret documentation when it exists.
But good lord, the amount of programmers I work with that never use an IDE debugger is unreal. I get that you don’t have to, but Jesus Christ, if yout not getting an expected result, it’s way fucking faster to step through the code and see where the data changes then to slap logging into every line and attempt to read the output.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
Proper design will save an epic shit ton of money when it inevitably needs to be changed or fixed.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
doing that involves a ton of googling and reading awful documentation
Yes. That is programming.
To most of us, the syntax is the easy part to remember, and our IDEs take care of most of it. Being able to bang our heads through the documentation and experiment with libraries is pretty much what our jobs are.
AI coding is basically a shortcut to some of the stuff we have to repeat with slight changes in our software. It’s also useful for setting up more complex code that we know we’ll have to tweak.
Expecting it to produce something with the desired results is a recipe for disaster. It’s basically a cheaper outsourcing method that can’t actually compile and run it’s code before giving it to you.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
You said ChatGPT appeared out of nowhere. ChatGPT is basically Eliza with an LLM.
- Comment on xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales 3 weeks ago:
Real Celsius 10/0 , Galen | 4/-4
Lmfao. Surprised there isn’t one that is something like sqrt(-1)/10. Probably something to do with E&M lol
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere.
ChatGPT is an LLM that is a generative pre-trained model using a nueral network.
Aka: it’s a chat bot that creates it’s responses based on an insane amount of text data. LLMs trace back to the 90s, and I learned about them in college in the late 2000s-2010s. Natural Language Processing was a big contributor, and Google introduced some powerful nueral network tech in 2014-2017.
The reason they “appeared out of nowhere” to the common man is merely marketing.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
10 to 30? Yeah I think it might be a lot longer than that.
Somehow everyone keeps glossing over the fact that you have to have enormous amounts of highly curated data to feed the trainer in order to develop a model.
Curating data for general purposes is incredibly difficult. The big medical research universities have been working on it for at least a decade, and the tools they have developed, while cool, are only useful as tools too a doctor that has learned how to use them. They can speed diagnostics up, they can improve patient outcome. But they cannot replace anything in the medical setting.
The AI we have is like fancy signal processing at best
- Comment on Op, Op op op 3 weeks ago:
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The fuck out of here with that date. My kid loves that song too no way it’s over a decade old. Goddamn
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
I knew it was bloody and thousands had been slaughtered, but I’m so surprised they fought back. I never learned they actually had the chance to. So many survivors and observers too. That’s reassuring.
It means that the Chinese know their government is not omnipotent. That’s why all legal communication is unencrypted and monitored. If citizens were allowed to communicate as they do in the West, they’d be able to organize and overthrow the CCP.
That’s what they are afraid of. The people aren’t afraid of the mechanized power the PLA has, and as demonstrated in 1989, the power is in numbers. If the CCP doesn’t wipe out all memory of Tiannemen Square, they are doomed. But the CCP can’t. Unless they cut China off from the rest of the world entirely, the knowledge will remain. The CCP can only get stricter and harsher, speeding up the time for a pressure cooker to explode. They know this. The people know this.
At some point in the future, they will go too far, and the people will end it.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
And then, compare it to No Man’s Sky, who gave us lofty expectations, failed to deliver on launch, but actually kept with it despite no new revenue flowing into the game from existing buyers. And now we have something incredible. We have a universe that is unfathomably large. We have multiplayer, we have all sorts of events and quests. Freighters! You can piece together your own ships now.
I hope we can eventually build space stations or pilot Capital Ships. No Man’s Sky came out in 2016. In 8 years it has done far more than SC has done with far less of a budget.
Do I wish we could have everything that Roberts promised? Sure. But I also have a bridge to sell that you can at least walk over.
- Comment on Why Choose? 4 weeks ago:
I’m divorcing. I will have to do that for 5ish years.
Not remotely enthusiastic about that, but at least I can afford it.
The real evaluation I did is discovering just how fucked marriage is.
