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- Comment on 14 hours ago:
I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 5 days ago:
This is what you get when AI fanaticism combines with Rust fanaticism.
1 million lines a month is 2-ish line per second. That “engineer” is just someone to blame when things don’t work. They aren’t going to be contributing anything.
- Comment on Reginald D Hunter: Judge quashes antisemitism case brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism 6 days ago:
The problem is that the hate speech laws are, like in this case, open to abuse. Somebody can have their career damaged whilst they fight an abusive case for over a year just because somebody feels offended.
They shouldn’t be on the books. They need repealing, or at the very least made much more specific.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 6 days ago:
It’s a subsidy to the shops and businesses in a town. Businesses that pay taxes back to the council. A thriving town provides more funds than a dead one.
In a rural area there isn’t public transport to get people to the centre of towns to buy things (and there never will be because the population is not dense enough to be practical). It’s personal transport, or people order online and the town dies.
In an urban area the equation is different.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 6 days ago:
Yes! Councils see parking charges as a money making scheme to bolster budgets, but having available free parking attracts people to the town centre. This is especially true in market towns that might have a large catchment area.
There’s a reason supermarkets don’t charge for parking when they can avoid it.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
No. They are maroon.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
Ah the bubble is the expansion volume. Not the storage volume… got it. I had it backwards.
So yes, very similar then.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 1 week ago:
We had these things called Gasometers in the UK for a long time. They expanded with the amount of gas stored in them, and they kept the pressure of the local gas supply up. A local gas reservoir, or “gas battery” if you like.
These bubbles are basically the same idea but at higher pressure.
- Comment on We're putting lots of transition metals into the stratosphere. That's not good. 1 week ago:
The article also calls out copper which will be in PCBs and wiring looms.
- Comment on UK launches urgent review into foreign interference in politics over "shocking case" of former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill 1 week ago:
Was that while the other side was in power? Might have had a muted reception when it was delivered.
- Comment on Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst 1 week ago:
I think that’s a good observation.
Part of the problem is that all the while the stock prices stay up, those companies in the second bubble have the spending power of governments, and that in-turn inflates the first bubble.
- Comment on Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst 1 week ago:
Aye, and with all the money consolidated in a few big tech companies they’ve basically been able to form their own “oligarchy funded project” and act independently of any government.
An economy all their own.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 week ago:
No, but the companies using it should.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
You are comparing very well established brands to a company in a sector that is far less established. Yes, OpenAI is the most well known, but not to the degree of $300B.
- Comment on Why you think the net was born? 2 weeks ago:
Context for the context
- Comment on Cloudflare goes again 3 weeks ago:
The last one was plain old dodgy rust code.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 weeks ago:
I would say yes, or at least there’s no reason that a doctor has to run a business in order for a GP surgery to exist. They are medical practices, not small business managers.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 3 weeks ago:
This OpenAI RAM buyout really was a “If we’re going down, we’re taking everyone with us” move.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
So where are the regulators right now? Oh yes, they’ve all been completely gutted by the governments.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
All the lights go out on mine when it overheats, and then there’s a puff of white smoke.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
Unbounded capitalism is for sure.
I would say “AI” makes a good poster child for what to fight against. It embodies a lot of what’s wrong.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
It’s good for optimisation problems, where you have a complex high-dimensional space to search and you’re solving for some measurable quality.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
It’s already there for most of us. It only a few rich companies getting richer that’s making the line go up.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long… Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 weeks ago:
"our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!" -their motto, probably
Bravo!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 4 weeks ago:
All your codebase belong to us!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 4 weeks ago:
Nvidia is less speculation that the other companies mixed up in this. They at least sell physical goods which they’ve been shipping.
Microsoft, Google, X, Meta - Oh boy!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 4 weeks ago:
The stat that’s going around at the moment is that 30% if the GDP is transactions between the “Magnificent 7”. That one is fair because it’s economic activity.
The underlying economy is in recession with the AI frosting on top pushing it to break even levels.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 5 weeks ago:
…but what am I going to do while it’s compiling?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 5 weeks ago:
“We’re basically holding the planet together — and it’s not untrue.”
So he admits that it’s a bubble set to burst.