wewbull
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- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 4 hours ago:
It could but I don’t see it being a big jobs spinner. I’d expect us to automate the hell out of it.
Of course, the issue still remains that the materials need to be supplied from “clean” sources.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 12 hours ago:
…but what are we actually trying to measure here? The miles travelled, or the wear and tear that’s caused by the wheels spinning?
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 12 hours ago:
Do they exist anymore?
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 1 day ago:
Interesting that it’s just a cost of doing business in China as well.
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 1 day ago:
Obviously. How much?
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 1 day ago:
I was more meaning “on what scale?”. I assume he wasn’t a few hundred short.
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 1 day ago:
He was fined €240M? What had he done?
- Comment on stay healthy with just these 6 exercises 2 days ago:
I’m the picture of health
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
I obviously have a different definition of “charismatic” to many other people, because Trump has zero charisma in my eyes. He was repugnant in the 80s and he’s repugnant today.
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 days ago:
“Iron Knight”?
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
Yes, but have you ever seen a vice president as visible and vocal as this one?
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 5 days ago:
Trump is certainly the wrong model, but they do need to communicate better. In particular I think they need to communicate the reasons behind their decisions.
- Why aren’t we standing with countries like Canada in response to Trump’s sabre rattling?
- Why haven’t they just told Trump to get fucked in trade talks when his administration is asking for changes in our laws?
- What are the cuts on winter fuels and disability benefits paying for?
- Why are we not looking to rejoin the customs union to remove barriers to trade with the EU?
Etc, etc, etc.
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 6 days ago:
Like this
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
No, which is why people saying “Buy it and don’t connect it to the internet” isn’t helping. More people need to not buy it and tell other people not to buy it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
To get them to stop they need to lose both the original sale and the additional advertising revenue. Right now their thinking is:
- People are buying our TVs
- Putting advertising on them isn’t causing our sales to drop
- Therefore it’s costing us next to nothing to do.
- It often gets us extra revenue if they connect to the internet.
- If they don’t connect, we still more than covered our costs.
There is no downside for them. Only upside. The equation needs to change for them to stop doing it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
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- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
They’re industrial boxes with a screen. Not aesthetically what I want in my living room. The displays are chosen for their longevity, not their picture quality. They’re often actively cooled with fans, so adding a noise level to their operation.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Have you asked an LLM to translate anything bigger than a few sentences? It doesn’t have enough contextual storage to keep a whole paper “in mind” and soon wanders off into nonsense.
Google translate is a different beast.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
You’re still rewarding bad behaviour. They still put all the crap on and made the sale anyway.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
I agree, but with TVs (or large displays" we’re at the point where there are no good options. Commercial displays are over engineered for the home and lag in technology Vs home TVs. So they’re not an option. Lg and Samsung are the display technology leaders, but their TVs are full of crap— so no. Monitors don’t go large enough for the living room.
Guess I’m stuck with what I have.
- Comment on US hits China with export restrictions on chips used for DeepSeek 1 week ago:
The US has an export ban from Taiwan?
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Translating is the process of rewriting the paper in another language. The paper has been written (in English) by an LLM.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Check the results though. Google translate is far far better at translation than a generic LLM.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Adding extra polish like nonsense phrases. Nobody is supervising it then.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Translating them…otherwise know as rewriting the whole paper.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
It’s not that the entire papers were being invented from nothing by Chatgpt.
Yes it is. The papers are the product of an LLM. Even if the user only thought it was translating, the translation hasn’t been reviewed and has errors. The causal link between what goes in to an LLM and what comes out is not certain, so if nobody is checking the output it could just be a technical sounding lorem ipsum generator.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
For a company like blue sky, you bow to all governments, or you bow to none. One way you become so milquetoast nobody wants to use you because nothing interesting is ever said. The other way you become 4chan.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
I think you’d find as many wanting Huckleberry Finn removed because it’s racist as anything else. Woe betide anyone who thinks such books need to be around to teach future generations with.
Americans are puritans through and through. It doesn’t matter what strain they are.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
I really wish they had their own language. It would make ignoring what they say so much more common.
- Comment on Privacy is ‘the most valuable right of all’, says Signal’s president. 1 week ago:
…and for that you get down voted.
I think you expressed that well.
