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- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
I think I’d miss the free shipping and I might have to actually put things in a cart and wait until I reach minimum order to checkout. I could easily live without video and when I actually went to watch something on it the other day the ads were already enough to turn me off
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
It’s an interesting area. Are they suggesting that a human reading copyright material and learning from it is a breach?
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Don’t count on it. It turns out that the sort of stuff that graphics cards do is good for lots of things, it was crypto, then AI and I’m sure whatever the next fad is will require a GPU to run huge calculations.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m a data engineer and I get that there’s a lot of potential in analytics with AI, but you don’t need to hire a data engineer with LLM experience for aggregating payroll data.
- Comment on Stanford scientists design dichalcogenide solar cells based on tungsten diselenide 2 months ago:
The words definitely are. I have no idea what the initialisms are though.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I personally think the risk of not receiving updates is pretty overstated. I’m more concerned with when applications stop supporting it - which normally happens because libraries stop supporting it.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
This is how I feel as a software engineer. I’m sick of learning new libraries every time fashions change.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I’m staying on 10 until it really doesn’t work, and then moving entirely to Linux. I already don’t use windows much and I’m not missing most of it.
- Comment on Booktopia to begin trading again after sale to online store digiDirect 2 months ago:
I didn’t even realise digidirect was still operating.
- Comment on People used to think it was our ability to love that made us human. But it turns out it's our ability to select each image containing a crosswalk. 3 months ago:
Only until the AI model has sufficient data from the captchas you’re doing.
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 3 months ago:
Just the people who are enacting these laws
- Comment on Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric” 3 months ago:
It’ll come out in 2035.
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 3 months ago:
And yet they love the man you cheated on his wife with a porn star.
- Comment on Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla 3 months ago:
So 2024 Steve-O?
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
Stop.using.xitter
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
I’d be tempted to do it just for the chaos factor.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Just as long as “serve” doesn’t mean “pay” because then it’s first come never serve.
- Comment on After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned 4 months ago:
You think this will make much difference? It’s not like the current morons with money are doing a bang-up job.
- Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes 4 months ago:
We used to use them for the same thing in Kmart (Australia) when I worked there 20 years ago. They were used to clear the float so you didn’t have too much cash in the register. Now that 90% of transactions are on card I bet they don’t use them anymore.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 4 months ago:
They work in tech, promotions are achieved by moving employers. Internal mobility is always terrible in tech companies.
- Comment on Coconuts 🥥 5 months ago:
Just on statistics, it seems unlikely that in the period of time that coconuts have been floating around that they would only have made it there about the same time as explorers. Surely if they could make it there floating then they would have much earlier.
- Comment on An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous 5 months ago:
I remember thinking how “lucky” we were that COVID-19 was relatively mild, compared to say the original SARS which had a 10%+ mortality rate. This is a two edged sword though, because we shot our load on COVID-19 and too many people aren’t going to accept restrictions again. There’s a fair segment of society who will work against any efforts at public health now.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
All future AI will have autocorrect errors and will look like no one read it before hitting enter. You’re welcome.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
I still remember mine too. I wonder what useful information I could remember if I didn’t remember shit like this?
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
It’s so much so that every news article that quotes it still says “X, formerly Twitter”.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 months ago:
I use a 55" 4k TV. The screen real estate is great.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 months ago:
Which companies pay for WFH expenses? I worked for the biggest software company in the world in 2022 and there was no WFH allowance. We were 100% WFH at that point.
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 6 months ago:
I have young kids and recently learned what Roblox actually is. My kids will never be allowed to spend a cent on that. I am happy to buy them suitable games.
- Comment on Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades 6 months ago:
Because everyone on the sole is lazy. Except when we need assistance in which case we’re just a battler needing help, but everyone else is lazy.
- Comment on The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands. 6 months ago:
There’s no mention of apples in the biblical record, just “fruit”