Bishma
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
Future winner of the Nobel prize in Minecraft
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 3 days ago:
Maybe this is wishful thinking but this, at first glance, seems like a sign that we’re already entering the LLM plateau. Like when they got the point with phones that each new version is just more cameras, smoother UI, and harder glass.
- Comment on Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option 3 days ago:
When I had to start using MS for work, among the first things I did was turn off all clipboard formatting capture in office apps. I can count on 2 hands the number of times in my life I’ve wanted the destination formatting to match the source - plus office sucks at it and half the apps don’t respect ctrl+shift+v either.
I still probably won’t use this (on purpose), but it sounds a bit better.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 6 days ago:
There are very few use cases where an append-only database (like the blockchains that web3 are supposed to be based on) are a good idea. So the idea web3 is most focused on is artificial digital scarcity. That’s about as anti-web as I think you can get.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 days ago:
It helps when the band runs their own label.
- Comment on Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide 1 week ago:
I’m told the 3rd coma in a person’s net worth is the most delicious.
- Comment on Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide 1 week ago:
If only they managed to keep him contained indefinitely. Now he’s just back out defiling everything he touches like metastatic cancer cells.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
All the streamers suck; plus Spotify definitely sucks the most and it has the most subscribers. So I do my best to support artists I love by buying their albums in some physical form (vinyl if possible because it encourages active listening), t-shirts when I need a t-shirt, fan clubs, etc. It’s all I can think to do.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
We’re in the process of adopting BitWarden at my job. I’m liking it so far. Not enough to convince my family to switch (yet), but enough that I wouldn’t hesitate to jump over there if I needed to.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
It’s probably a narrow demographic that immediately recognizes Yahoo Serious, isn’t it? Especially in the northern hemisphere.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
I use 1Password as my Passkey holder so it’s device agnostic. But if 1Password ever pulls a LastPass, it won’t seem like a clever solution anymore.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
I love the idea of jumping straight from swords to nukes. Writing prompt: a 16th century blacksmith suddenly realizes, “If I surround an unstable rock with a neutron reflecting earth metal, I can trigger a runaway chain reaction that’ll get that stump out a me yard.”
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 1 week ago:
Heh. I pictured the seal saying
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Integrations (or the lack there of) have me day dreaming about returning to Spotify once in a while. I moved to Tidal and while the catalog is great (except for a weird dearth in Jonathan Coulton songs) and gradually discovered some things I miss Tidals Alexa app, for example, still can’t play play lists. The Roku app buggy and There’s no desktop app for Linux, swapping music playing from one device to another is not inbult, and things like that.
Also because there are fewer of us Tidal users, FOSS integrations are lacking. The options open to me in home assistant for building things on top of spotify are are vastly greater than anything I can do with Tidal.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 2 weeks ago:
Where do you buy fuel grade uranium in order to run your own reactor?
I’m asking for a friend.
- Comment on Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor? 2 weeks ago:
Trains are only a good idea in tubes now. There was a memo about it a few years ago.
- Comment on Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor? 2 weeks ago:
Different companies have different plans. Arizona has had auto-driving trucks on freeways off and on for a couple years now as part of test programs. Always with a driver in the cab though.
A few years ago I would have though robo-convoys would be where things landed because three or four companies where working toward that. That’s where the front truck has an operator and all the other trucks follow that leader driverlessly.
Now I feel like I have no idea where any of it is going. Step 1 in driverless should have always been to adopt an industry-wide mesh-network for all vehicles with level 3 (or higher) autonomy. If I’m on the road with (or inside of) an autonomous vehicle I want it to be able get help from every other nearby car if its sensors suddenly die or start feeding it bad data. Especially after they’ve been on the road, poorly maintained by their owners, for a decade or more. If there are autonomous cars where will eventually be autonomous jalopies that drive like a drunk toddler because they sees lidar echos.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
In your google account settings there should be a page called “Data And Privacy” that has loads of things to turn off or at least limit the amount of time before they say they delete it.
They keep changing where it is and how the pages are laid out in order to keep us on our toes. I think there may be a privacy center somewhere too. There used to be.
- Comment on I cast Demoncore 2 weeks ago:
Plutonium is an synthetic element, so Alchemy Achievement Earned
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
That’s how think about it too.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
I have all my histories turned off and once a year or so I go in and make sure they haven’t added anything new for me to turn off.
Now the question is, are they really not collecting my data or have I just made it so I can’t see what they have on me?
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 2 weeks ago:
Such a good idea it gives me an idea for an award.
- Comment on history buff 2 weeks ago:
I had a roommate who joked about making a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger (this conversation happened in the early 00’s) was in an engineering degree program, and lugging around each day’s textbooks was how he got so ripped.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
He’ll happily use the last watt in each car’s battery. Owners will get to their cars, find out the supercharger crashed after 30 seconds and no one noticed, then see that their batteries are dead because an atlas robot is struggling to learn the floss dance.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Outwardly this looks like steering the boat toward the waterfall. I’m guessing this is predicating another move by Musk to “prove” to the stock market that Tesla is an AI company that happens to make cars, rather than a car company that has potential AI products. And it probably ties into that remark he made about using idle Teslas as compute resources.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
For a blissful moment I thought the headline was saying “Google Lays of Sundar Pichai”
Before I got the hyphen I was starting to get down on the floor.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
I keep hoping that its crapness will at least teach me to proofread before I hit the Post button. It hasn’t… but I can hope.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, no one can make it say “I don’t know” because it is not really AI. Business bros decided to call it that and everyone smiled and nodded. LLMs are 1 small component (maybe) of AI. Maybe 1/80th of a true AI or AGI.
Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.
- Comment on Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote 2 weeks ago:
In 12 months when he gets called on it buy debtors (since Shitter has no shareholders) he’ll try to buy Pluto TV and claim that was the plan the whole time.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 weeks ago:
Since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be an inventor but I don’t think of marketable things and hate the idea of locking my ideas up behind legal restrictions (I prefer to license my personal software and 3D print designs under the MIT “just make sure my name stays attached” license).
So yeah, I’d just design stuff and put it into the world…
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
In the wild west days of the internet we used to connect consumer CDMA phones straight to our servers. You’d walk around your COLO and peak in racks of crazy expensive, rack mounted hardware with the world’s cheapest flip phone sitting on top.
The telcos caught wind and started terminating accounts. It was a great way to have a server tell you it fell off the network.