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- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 8 hours ago:
Please stop okay it’s dunning-kruger at its finest.
Any agreement of a ceasefire has to be ratified by NATO if it isn’t ratified by NATO then it doesn’t happen. So Trump and Putin can have their little play acting session but it’s not going to result in anything because no one will ratify it if Ukraine isn’t part of the negotiations. America it’d been big is irrelevant.
What’s America going to do to enforce their version of the ceasefire, if Ukraine disagrees with it if the rest of NATO disagree with it? NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, and Ukraine will continue to use those weapons. And Trump will do what?
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 10 hours ago:
Oh God there are so many problems with your response where do I even start?
lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement.
That’s just Trump doing Trump things, it’s got no basis in reality. You cannot have a negotiation where one of the parties is not present. Anything agreed with Russia will not be enforced by the international community. This has already been condemned by pretty much everyone else in the western world so I don’t know why you brought it up.
they’re switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they’re in it for the long haul.
So? They are at war so obviously they are switching over to a wartime economy. That doesn’t indicate any intention to attack NATO.
Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.
They are hardly getting given the latest stuff. Meanwhile Russia is Fielding Soviet era tanks. I think will be okay.
Just to demonstrate what I mean, the estimated military casualties for the Soviet Union in WW2 was around 8.6 million. And then they won.
Firstly that was 60 years ago and wasn’t under the auspices of Putin. Who is widely regarded as a nut case. Secondly they wouldn’t have won had it not been for the allied forces having already severely hammered the Nazis.
Throwing meat into the grinder is not a tactic, it’s just desperation.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 12 hours ago:
There’s more to it than that, there’s also the cost of implementation.
If a self-driving car killed on average one less human than your average human does, but costs $100,000 to install in the car, then it still isn’t worth implementing.
Yes I know that puts a price on human life but that is how economics works.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 12 hours ago:
You’d have to be an idiot to merge anything from an AI without going through it line by line. Which really is the problem with AI, it’s mostly fine if you keep an eye on it but the fact you have to keep an eye on it kind of renders the whole thing pointless.
It’s like self-driving cars, if I have to keep an eye on it to make sure it won’t randomly crash into a tree I might as well drive the damn thing myself.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 12 hours ago:
I guess I have no problem in theory with AI agents taking a look at my code it’s just I would want it opt in only. I don’t want to have to deal with them on legacy projects that I’m not working on, or anything mission critical (if there is a bug in the code but the application overall still works, I’d rather not have an AI dick around with it until I have time to properly go through it).
To be clear, I would have the same objections to a human doing the same things. It’s just that most humans don’t randomly submit pull requests on otherwise inactive repos.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 13 hours ago:
Oh great so if you remove bitcoin your argument works, trouble is, bitcoin exists
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 23 hours ago:
Wait but that’s like saying that as long as the world has at least one electric car the internal combustion engine can continue to exist without issue.
If the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are still power hungry and the most commonly used cryptocurrency is power hungry then the fact that some of the others are better doesn’t really help.
- Comment on A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year 1 day ago:
People could get tons of flows improved by not abusing Excell as a database.
We have our knowledge articles in an excel spreadsheet. If you wrote a virus that would scan every single Excel file and just delete any spreadsheet without any formulae in it you would cause enormous amounts of suffering but not do any actual damage.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
You need to be getting the radon infused versions.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 1 day ago:
Does he have a robot army I’m unaware of? Where is he getting the troops for an attack in 4 years?
They are effectively already at war with NATO and they’re getting their asses handed to them, a direct full-scale no holds-barred conflict would not end well for them.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 1 day ago:
Don’t worry they’ll probably give the contract to a company that up until now there’s only ever manufactured shopping trolleys. That’s usually the play.
If they ever are delivered it’ll be sometime around 2099 just in time for all the oceans to dry up.
- Comment on LinkedIn lays off 281 workers in California, including many Bay Area engineers 1 day ago:
I’m surprised they even have that many workers. What do they do all day?
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
I do like that the picture on an article about a 40 TB drive is overdrive clearly labelled as 1 TB. Like couldn’t they have edited the image?
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
That’s pretty impressive a couple of those and you could probably download the next Call Of Duty.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
If bitcoin didn’t use 40 terawatts to mine and was more reasonable in its electricity demand then I don’t think that many people would care about it. It still wouldn’t make it useful but at least it wouldn’t be actively damaging the environment.
We might even be able to find a use for it at that point. But as it stands now the energy requirements essentially make the technology not worth it given the very minor benefits.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I hate that argument because it’s already been disproven. People use guns to kill people, often in heated situations.
If everyone wasn’t wandering around with guns in their pockets all of the time then they wouldn’t be the opportunity to shoot someone. Things would massively improve if the law was simply adjusted to not allow people to carry guns in public and they’re only allowed to own them in their house. The gun nuts will still be able to play with their toys, but the murder rate would drop.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
The fact that they stopped due to volatility kind of proved my point.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I don’t know what you’re saying. If I charge a particular amount for a loaf of bread and then the price drops halfway through the day then that person still has the bread but I now don’t have the money.
The whole point of currency is to get away from the fluctuating value of exchange that everyone had to deal with when we used to buy things with gold and semi-precious stones.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I certainly wouldn’t keep anything in cryptocurrency. I would transfer it to something stable.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I mean, it is worse
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
Most people shouldn’t buy them until more places accept them for payment.
It’s not going to happen. You can’t price things when the value of the currency changes every 10 minutes.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 days ago:
They’ve been saying “AGI in 18 months” for years now.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 days ago:
The biggest thing holding back flying cars is that everyone calls them helicopters.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 4 days ago:
I just like the idea that previous administrations just delete all of the documentation on the way out, rather like a fired sysadmin worker deleting all their automation scripts. “Work it out for yourself”
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
I don’t think image generators are really in the same category though. They’ll have their applications but they’re not going to be a fundamental change to society the way AGI will be.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 4 days ago:
It’s like a really cold shower.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 4 days ago:
Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
Well one of the big problems with it is it’s never properly configured. One of the most annoying things that it does is that it generates tasks only when previous tasks are closed, in theory that makes sense but really the result is that you close a task, and then you have to go looking in the ticket queue for the new task it’s just generated, so you can close that one too. Total waste of time.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
It already has script automation and has had for years so I’m not sure what AI is going to bring to the table.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
It was actually a really good product, way better than Facebook, unfortunately if you have a social media platform that’s invite only then it’s never going to succeed. I really have no idea why they did it like that.