crystalmerchant
@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens 4 days ago:
If they’re talking about it openly, I bet it already exists
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
Leave it at home lol
- Comment on 109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas 1 week ago:
Funny Tim Ballard and OAR is nowhere to be seen
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 week ago:
I mean… Is that not reasoning, I guess? It’s what my brain does-- recognizes patterns and makes split second decisions.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 4 weeks ago:
Seen this like 10 years ago lol
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the prompt, the model, the parameters, which DCs, time of day, location in the world, and other factors. They answer the question but there’s so many variables that can affect footprint (and big hyperscalers do not release this data so you have to under a lot)
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 5 weeks ago:
When the fuck will you people get it?? Every technology will eventually be used against you by the state
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 month ago:
So take a fucking picture with your phone
- Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project 1 month ago:
This is only slightly less stupid than “float-ovoltaics” or “solar freakin’ roadways!!!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Maps I bet they won’t kill. Or GCP. On a long enough timeframe though, who knows
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is it technically unlimited, just very very slow?
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 month ago:
Amazing the Tesla dev team that made this was dumb enough to actually put it in the UI in real-time. Just updates the mileage behind the scenes in data, then only update the UI slowly along the way. Not actually double counting in the UI visibly fast lmaoo
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 2 months ago:
The phrase is “vegetative electron microscopy”
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 2 months ago:
Valérie Viale, the director of product management at Amadeus, a travel technology company, told the Times that the changes were “the biggest in 50 years”. She said: “The last upgrade of great scale was the adoption of e-ticketing in the early 2000s. The industry has now decided it’s time to upgrade to modern systems that are more like what Amazon would use.”
Lmaooooo yes let’s that famously consumer-first megalith as our baseline
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Lmao it’s like Snowpiercer. Exactly like that. The little kid/person in the machinery of the train is the big secret to how the whole thing runs
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
Lol you’re completely right of course but when you start adding all this it is less relatable to someone who is not familiar with it already
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
Power is water throughput in a pipe, energy is water filling a bucket. Simplest way I’ve found to explain it in my 15 years in the energy space.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 2 months ago:
riskingguaranteeing - Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 3 months ago:
Ahem excuse me you must mean the 51st state, or Switzerland, or something like that
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 4 months ago:
Lmao I hope Elon hates that Altman called it Twitter not X
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 4 months ago:
Lmao “Twitter”
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 7 months ago:
Can’t wait for Dan and Jordan to cover this
- Comment on Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team 7 months ago:
nflbite.com
- Comment on China debuts world's largest floating wind turbine: 20-MW giant set to power 37,000 homes 7 months ago:
“Float-ovoltaics” has been around a long time, with significant challenges and limited success. This doesn’t look that different. Very challenging mechanical and chemical environment