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- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 hours ago:
13! is definitely not a prime number, but it’s too large to be useful in this context (I know, I know, you didn’t actually MEAN 13-factorial, but I’ve studied enough maths that I couldn’t help it).
- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 2 hours ago:
Best we can do is 996 with the new 6-day weeks.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 days ago:
Only if they’re underwater.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
More to the point, if everyone is tied up at that point, who tied them up?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 week ago:
Reading this analysis, I think it’s all but guaranteed that the person at the switch on the last step is Davros.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
Privacy may be dead as you suggest, but that doesn’t compel me to dance on its grave.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
salt the fuck out of it.
I misread this as ‘fuck the salt out of it’ for just a moment.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 1 month ago:
Many US states have sales tax, but I don’t think it counts as VAT.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 month ago:
Oh, yeah, that does make sense. I’m not sure why my brain went up the garden path on that one.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 months ago:
Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose…), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 2 months ago:
One of my go to sites has a jump to recipe button…works on my computer but fails on my phone 😔
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
Eh, I don’t think it’s an outright scam, rather “just” a bad investment / overhype. The language model programs do have some real uses, after all.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level SE
You don’t “get it”?
AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more devs
Yes, I think you do.
I largely look at this as leadership using AI hype as an excuse to cut staff regardless of actual productivity. The house of cards hasn’t come down quite yet.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be a good implementation, it only has to be good enough for a demo to get the C-suite saying “Oh, slap a chatbot on there and then fire half the department that handles this now”.
- Comment on The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger 2 months ago:
AI isn’t destroying any jobs. Greedy “leaders” in the C-suite are cutting jobs using AI as an excuse.
It’s a sick joke at our expense.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Joke’s on them, my phone only cost $300
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Joke’s on you, I never used that word at all.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 2 months ago:
People at my office have a bot attend meetings. AFAIK it does speech recognition and generates notes from the meeting. Sembly maybe? I’d have to look again to be sure.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Need?
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.
I hadn’t expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
What is gluant? I couldn’t find it in the dictionary.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We have them where I work. I’ve used the standing function, oh, maybe 2-3 times. Is that enough to count?
- Comment on "The Continental United States" should include Alaska since it's still a part of the same continent, but common usage of the phrase seems to exclude it anyway. 3 months ago:
I was going to post to mention “contiguous”, but you beat me to it
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 3 months ago:
The technology isn’t there to accurately assess damage. It’s there to give Hertz an excuse to charge you extra money. It’s working exactly as the ghouls in the C-suite like.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 months ago:
It’s less about technology and more about evading accountability, I’d say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of “How dare you accuse the baron’s son of tipping your cows?! He’s a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless.”
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 months ago:
It makes me super uneasy. I can easily see this type of model being expanded and applied to more and more things.
Call for a refund because something you ordered never showed up? Wrong trust chain, you’re automatically lying, refund denied.
Report someone for T-boning you? Wrong trust chain, you’re now arrested for hitting them.
Etc…
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 months ago:
90ies
I can’t help but “hear” this as “Ninety eez”.
- Comment on I dislike it when somebody says "so" and then pauses. 4 months ago:
OTOH, I finds sopes delicious.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 months ago:
The price is the price, yo
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 months ago:
ABC. Always Be Closing.
A - set of steak knives B - set of steak knives C - set of steak knives