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- Comment on oh no 9 hours ago:
Microbiology is one of the few professions that motivates you to wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 1 week ago:
I’m 60 now and am literally a Boomer; fast food has definitely gotten worse. Especially in the last 10 years or so. The foods and processes have been tweaked and tuned to the point that the value of the food hovers just barely above the price and not a tick more.
Health concerns also play a role. McDonald’s fries are a good example. When I was young they were cooked in beef tallow and they were so good they would roll your eyes back in your head in in ecstacy (not kidding). They switched to vegetable oil due to health concerns over saturated fats and they’ve just never been the same.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s useful for my firmware development, but it’s a tool like any other. Pros and cons.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
I’m just happy to see someone remembers the Spin Doctors.
- Comment on xkcd #2992: UK Coal 1 month ago:
Islay Scotland has burned a shitton of peat over the last couple of centuries to make malt whisky and it’s very small. Wonder how much if their elevation they’ve burned?
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
Guess I’m out of the loop. Who’s Elmo?
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
Fitting username.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
I use LLMs for C code - most often when I know full well how to code something but I don’t want to spent half a day expressing it and debugging it.
ChatGPT or Copilot will spit out a function or snippet that’s usually pretty close to what I want. I patch it up and move on to the tougher problems LLMs can’t do.
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
We’re at a point where not only should the Internet be classified as a utility, so should Search.
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 3 months ago:
From each according to their ability; to each according to their greed.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
I know the tricks, I’ve been peeling garlic for decades. There’s just something really satisfying about thin, visible slices of garlic in some recipes though.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
Garlic is a pain to peel but the more you peel the more worth it it becomes. No pain, no gain.
If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel just one clove then you will hardly taste it. If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel and mince four, then now you can taste it and now it was worth it.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I use paid search engine kagi.com; search results with no ads or “promoted” crap.
Seeing search results without all the advertising is shocking the first few times you do it. It’s amazing how much advertising pollution has crept into Google’s search results.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
I use kagi; love it. As an embedded systems developer I’m more productive with it.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi’s Discord. I’ll continue to monitor Kagi’s behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little “AI” assistance as I want.
Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of “free” search engines.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
You’re right of course, but in a broader sense there is literally no action that anyone takes that is altruistic. We only do things that benefit us or, rarely, our group as a whole.
- Comment on FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks 6 months ago:
Razer designing and selling a piece of medical equipment is an idea that should never have survived the brainstorming session.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 6 months ago:
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
- Comment on physick 7 months ago:
It’d still be physics if they had used glue.
- Comment on billions and billions. 7 months ago:
I also thought it odd that the strip had such a nice setup for a crude fat joke.
- Comment on Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed 7 months ago:
Brexit was such a monumental mistake. Worse than the US electing Trump once, but probably not worse than electing Trump twice.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 8 months ago:
I’m sick of being lumped in with people that elected Trump because I live in the United States. But that’s how it is, we’re part of a collective.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware 8 months ago:
The origin story.
- Comment on 10 Years Passed Since Flappy Bird Left Its Fans 9 months ago:
At its height Nguyen was making $50,000.00 a day from ads in the game. Whew.
- Comment on 10 Years Passed Since Flappy Bird Left Its Fans 9 months ago:
Yeah, he didn’t.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
I’ve been saying for a year now, generative AI is going to foster a resurgence in stage theater. When movies are all 100% AI with no humans in them, we’ll want to see humans act. That and “organic” movie labels.
- Comment on Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data 11 months ago:
Reminds me of the guy who paid a million dollars for unlimited American Airlines flights for life. He racked up millions of miles and dollars in flights so they eventually found a way to cancel his service.
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
Gemini can’t do a lot more stuff than Bard can’t do though.
Bard is also a crap name. Bard will be on killedbygoogle.com soon enough.
