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- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 6 days ago:
Anyone who makes that argument has no idea how bad things can get and how fast.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
Hm that seems like something I’d want even if I don’t want Windows 11
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
My PC is really up to date and yet somehow it fails the Windows 11 ‘test’ you can run. Not sure why but it’s pretty nice so I haven’t looked into it.
- Comment on My toddler is on to me... 4 weeks ago:
I though Trump would be in this punchline somehow
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
My wife said it’s fine
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Oh yeah my favorite is a plain cheeseburger with fresh sliced jalapenos. So yummy.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
In my experience the spicier jalapenos are also the tastier ones so I have a hard time imagining how this works.
I mean, I also probably wouldn’t eat the spicy stuff if I didn’t love the flavor - I’m not suffering just for bragging rights! So I’d definitely be down for trying something like the coolapenos here, just would be going into it with some skepticism that it’s anything more than a mild pepper with the mild flavor they produce.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 1 month ago:
IMO it’s even worse than that. At least from what I gather from the AI/Singularity communities I follow. For them, AGI is the end goal - a creative thinking AI capable of deduction far greater than humanity. The company that owns that suddenly has the capability to solve all manner of problems that are slowing down technological advancement. Obviously owning that would be worth trillions.
However it’s really hard to see through the smoke that the Altmans etc. are putting up - how much of it is actual genuine prediction and how much is fairy tales they’re telling to get more investment?
And I’d have a hard time believing it isn’t mostly the latter because while LLMs have made some pretty impressive advancements, they still can’t have specialized discussions about pretty much anything without hallucinating answers. I have a test I use for each new generation of LLMs where I interview them about a book I’m relatively familiar with and even with the newest ChatGPT model, it still makes up a ton of shit, even often contradicting its own answers in that thread, all the while absolutely confident that it’s familiar with the source material.
Honestly, I’ll believe they’re capable of advancing AI when we get an AI that can say ‘I actually am not sure about that, let me do a search…’ or something like that.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Why does that work?
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 2 months ago:
Not an expert but I’d suppose it’s nothing more than marketing getting in the way and insisting on an over engineered solution because it’s flashy
- Comment on Why Vacuum Cleaners Are So Loud 2 months ago:
So the Dark Forest theory is true
- Comment on Steam’s improved family sharing is out now for everyone 2 months ago:
Oh nice I’ve been waiting for this.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
I thought the larger point was that they’re using plenty of sources that do not lie in the public domain. Like if I download a textbook to read for a class instead of buying it - I could be proscecuted for stealing. And they’ve downloaded and read millions of books without paying for them.
- Comment on Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products 2 months ago:
It’s what Google does, launch products -> cancel them, buy products -> cancel them. I have been burned enough times by them that I don’t use anything they make anymore out of the certainty that it’ll get canceled just as soon as I’ve grown to depend on it.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 3 months ago:
You didn’t know they had a thing? It lasted until Australia found out Pluto wasn’t really a planet.
- Comment on Why does Olympic Breakdancing get top 40 music, while other events get a lot of royalty free stuff? 3 months ago:
I wonder how many songs they licensed are by artists that would actually need that kind of exposure.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
They’ve done this so many times now, one of these days we’ll know better
- Comment on Day 1 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until A) I forget too post a Screenshot or B) I somehow run out of screenshots too share 4 months ago:
That’s the one thing I finally learned with the DLC that I should have learned long before this - leaving and coming back later instead of fighting and dying to a tough boss 30 times in a row
- Comment on Day 1 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until A) I forget too post a Screenshot or B) I somehow run out of screenshots too share 4 months ago:
Huh, is this maybe the newer Tomb Raider?
I’d do this too but every screenshot I posted would just be Elden Ring.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections 4 months ago:
Great idea, because it’s less important to hold someone to account when they’re lying to become President. God it is so infuriating how much power loves to support power, fucking sociopaths.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
I guess I’m OOTL - what happened with Valheim?
- Comment on “Don’t worry honey, I got this” 4 months ago:
You think Trump will walk away with it?
- Comment on “Don’t worry honey, I got this” 4 months ago:
Honestly, if it’s a close call Trump/SCOTUS and all their cronies will steal it anyway
- Comment on ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Launch Trailer 5 months ago:
Yeah I stopped about 15 seconds in because it seemed to be showing multiple boss characters.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 6 months ago:
And photographers when Photoshop was invented
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Good idea, is it on the same release schedule as fivehead?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
I second this, this has been my experience exactly. It’s gotten so bad that not only do I not need the Google fallback, but I’m starting to feel like the DDG results are better than the Google ones in the first place.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 6 months ago:
I feel like I saw somewhere that men message dozens of times more women than vice versa. I get their non-nuanced temptation but you can hardly call a system that encourages one gender to incessantly spam the other ‘engagement’.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 6 months ago:
There are a lot of problems keeping VR from going big and I think Meta’s strategy of cornering the market is one of them. They think if they get all the exclusives they’ll be the next iPhone but I think instead they’re fragmenting an already tiny market which really needs a bunch of impressive experiences (and there still aren’t a ton right now, even after years of VR development). I feel like the reverse would win them more users - they should win on hardware AND software but make their software available for any VR headset to use. Because right now they need to help create a market for VR because there really isn’t one worth cornering yet.
