kibiz0r
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- Comment on Badabadeedabadie! 1 week ago:
He’s even got some yellow as a backup
- Comment on UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry 1 week ago:
Classic example of what Cal Newport calls “vibes reporting”.
No quotes from agencies saying “we fired people because of AI”, but if you put “people got fired” and “AI threatens jobs” next to each other, you can get the reader to assume a more salacious story without technically lying.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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- Comment on mullberry figs 2 weeks ago:
When the moon hits your knees
And you mispronounce trees
Sycamore - Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
It’s massively impractical. You’re never gonna believe it.
These things require silicon (good luck finding sand!), but they’re mostly glass and aluminum (ridiculously rare substances that we can’t use willy-nilly on stuff that only lasts for 25 years, and then how are we gonna recycle that? we have no idea how to recycle glass and aluminum!), and then to make it scalable you’re gonna want some safe battery technology like sodium-ion (but where are we gonna find a bunch of salt on this blue planet?)
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 3 weeks ago:
Season 2 is coming! Probably late 2026.
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 3 weeks ago:
It’s Common Side Effects IRL
- Comment on Deep Time 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 3 weeks ago:
Of course it is! We’re just animals, after all. Is documenting the behavior of different species of beetles a science? The only difference is that we can replicate behavior through culture, not just genes.
- Comment on Deep Time 3 weeks ago:
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 2 months ago:
eff.org/…/age-verification-wont-protect-children
Imo, if you wanna protect kids from big tech, you gotta make their abusive business practices unprofitable. Enforce antitrust, make it legal to circumvent digital locks, require interoperability. Basically: restore competition.
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
It’s stabs all the way down
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 2 months ago:
You must have done something bad to deserve this. Trying thinking about everything bad you’ve ever done. That’ll help.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 months ago:
The seal looks like this:
Code completion is probably a gray area.
Those models generally have much smaller context windows, so the energy concern isn’t quite as extreme.
You could also reasonably make a claim that the model is legally in the clear as far as licensing, if the training data was entirely open source (non-attribution, non-share-alike, and commercial-allowed) licensed code.
That said, I think the general sentiment is less “what the technology does” and more “who it does it to”. Code completion, for the most part, isn’t deskilling labor, or turning experts into accountability sinks.
Like, I don’t think the Luddites would’ve had a problem with an artisan using a knitting frame in their own home. They were too busy fighting against factories locking children inside for 18-hour shifts, getting maimed by the machines or dying trapped in a fire.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For a majority of men, probably, but not an overwhelming majority. Which still leaves a ton of people you could be compatible with.
Don’t overthink it and try to be something you’re not. Just take your time, get to know people, be curious and honest. Stay true to yourself. Don’t apologize and adapt just because you assume you have to.
You’re not trying to date everyone, just the right one. So why bother with what the rest think?
You’ll find someone that “just works” with who you already are. When you do, your dynamic with come naturally as a result of your unique relationship, and it won’t be precisely the same as any timeshare sex model you might have tried to plan ahead on Lemmy.
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 months ago:
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 3 months ago:
I hate this timeline so much
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 3 months ago:
Like AI companies care about business ethics
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 months ago:
only a tool
“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological”
Every tool contains within it a philosophy — a particular way of seeing the world.
But especially digital technologies… they give the developer the ability to embed their values into the tools. Like, is DoorDash just a tool?
- Comment on You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine. 3 months ago:
“Is the stress of late-stage capitalism making you unproductive? Here are some ways to improve your efficiency without questioning the underlying logic of the system.”
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 3 months ago:
Those additional requests will reuse the existing connection, so they’ll have more bandwidth at that point.
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 3 months ago:
14kB club: “Amateurs!!!”
dev.to/…/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in…
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14kBpage can load much faster than a15kBpage — maybe612msfaster — while the difference between a15kBand a16kBpage is trivial.This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 3 months ago:
And now something much worse than SEO is gearing up to take its place: engadget.com/researchers-find-just-250-malicious-…
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 months ago:
The original source was much more sensible.
The comparison makes sense for evaluating whether you’re over-invested in something. Like, if Nvidia suddenly poofed out of existence, would it seriously be worth 16% of everything the whole country makes in a year to get it back?
Owning a car that’s worth 16% of your yearly income sounds reasonable, no matter what your actual income is. A Pokemon card collection that’s 16% of your income is probably too risky, no matter what your actual income is.
Also, GDP is a decent scale to use for charting investment in a productivity tool, because if GDP ramped up at the same time as investment then it looks less like a bubble, even if they both ramp up quickly.
But that’s not what we see. We see a sudden and volatile shift, nothing like the normal pattern before the hype.
- Comment on Review season 3 months ago:
But why the Random Capitalization?
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 3 months ago:
Probably a flea, based on this: brightside.me/…/10-bug-bites-anyone-should-be-abl…
- Comment on monumentale 3 months ago:
Yeah, just comments… with chapters…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Honestly, the developer experience was shit.
They tried to leverage their decades of prior investment and use it as an advantage, but what it actually felt like was a wobbly Jenga tower where every little thing had a caveat and no clear happy path.
Contrast that with iOS, where it felt like they basically started from scratch.
I think Microsoft thought they were lowering the barrier to entry by allowing existing WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight (lol) devs to reuse their stuff, but in practice it made it harder to get started. Every app felt like a legacy codebase from the jump.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Hard to say, actually.
- .NET took an unexpected turn towards cross-platform FOSS
- A third major player in the smartphone market may have abated the enshittificatory forces for a bit longer
- Having a platform that’s consumer-oriented, in contrast to their mostly business-oriented offerings today, might have clued them in to consumer sentiment a little better
- Having a viable path towards profitability might have made the all-in gamble on OpenAI less appealing
- Butterfly effect etc.
