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- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 days ago:
I’d have to rewatch, but I recall as they picked Adira up from 32nd century Earth, despite being a fully grown up person, went by feminine pronouns. Adira had to work up to come out, rather than being out from the onset.
I recall because I was very confused on Adira’s introduction because they kept yelling from the rooftops about how progressive they were by having a non-binary character, but Adira and everyone around Adira kept using feminine terms. I distinctly recall a ‘coming out’ moment which seemed to be played with trepidation.
The fairest thing I could say is that 32nd century earth was no longer “federation” and so maybe they had a big old conservative backslide and so Adira’s plight was due to the gloomy setting of isolated Earth with the loss of FTL travel.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 6 days ago:
nVidia had announced that instead of 100 billion for nothing to OpenAI that they were doing 30 billion for stake, and said they were probably not going to keep giving these ‘halo’ AI companies money after this.
I also saw a report that banks were starting to get a bit more stingy with money to the same companies.
I think that while there’s still plenty of money coming in still, it does seem like the ‘take our unlimited cash just because you have AI in your name’ phase is wearing out and they actually have to try to convince people now.
Which is a pretty big problem for them, as despite their brand recognition they aren’t really seen as the ‘leader’ in the AI space on any particular front.
- Comment on marriage update 6 days ago:
Absolute gigafrood energy.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 days ago:
startrek.com/…/star-trek-discovery-introduces-fir…
Is where they officially declared that Trek was doing a non-binary character for the first time.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 days ago:
Actually, as I recall the entire society was ‘non-binary’ and that specific alien wanted to come out as female. And of course Riker banging was a green light after she declared herself female. Probably not the best choice to have Riker banging her as part of the narrative, but yeah, that was famously an example of them trying to address a point by inverting real-world, the ‘norm’ is non-binary and the ‘unusual’ one is gendered and the Federation serves as the model of ‘we respect your people either way, you should too’.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
It got there, sure, but that coming out was a bit rough, because they treated it as a “big deal”, they were afraid of coming out and ultimately did, but seemed to harbor anxiety that should have not had a place anymore. They got over it (I assume, I actually kind of lost track of Discovery), but at one point it was too big a deal.
Also, out of universe, they were a bit annoying about bragging about being the first non-binary representation in Star Trek ever, which just seems disrepectful of the times it came up before.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
The thing was in TOS that kiss, in-universe, was no biggie. In DS9 with all the gender and sexuality shifts in the Trill scenario, it again just ‘was’. When it was a big deal, it was some alien culture being backwards and the Federation being an example of doing it right.
STD was oddly self-congratulatory. “First ever non-binary character in trek!” they proclaim as people were able to respond with just so many examples of previous non-binary characters. The character despite being a human, being on Earth, had to make a big deal of “coming out” and a big outpouring of support in-universe to balance out the trepidation of coming out. Which should have just been a very mundane scenario, you want the character to be non-binary, fine, they are, people will be respectful but it will be a boring mundane fact rather than some big deal.
Yes, there are those that are flipping out over too much representation that are done consistently with star trek. Probably the most fair point was that someone probably wouldn’t be out of shape, but by that logic, Picard shouldn’t have been bald, so…
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
Well not really, they added a field so that they could store date of birth in the way they have a field to store “real name”.
So you can be sure my birthday is 4/20/1969 as sure as you can be that my name is Bimbo Baggins.
Note that for the California law at least, this is “good enough” and the OS never actually has to validate anything. In practice a person without admin access could have their birthdate out of control, well, until they run a patched browser that skips asking systemd and just always sends a desired bracket…
It kind of works to keep kids under 13 sending the signal with parental administration, but doesn’t do anything for more resourceful people you tend to find over 13.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
Will that reinforces the point of the critique.
It invents an intent that may be inconsistent with the original vision.
E.g. it just assumes girls should all be wearing makeup, which may be very much at odds with the character or the scenario.
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
Strong “don’t you have phones” vibes.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 2 weeks ago:
Suits can override their art directors, or replace them with someone willing to play ball.
Mostly hope rests with indie devs, but that’s not too terribly new given the big business of micro transactions and forced online play only.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 2 weeks ago:
Well, somewhat good news: The best stuff of the times is generally still available, often legally for cheap, or even cheaper otherwise. As long as you aren’t purist about original copies on original hardware.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 2 weeks ago:
Business folks calling the shots over the artists cut back their hours and insist they let the slop generator make up the difference.
Every corner that can be cut to make running the business cheaper does get cut, and this is a pretty big possibility of corners to cut. It’s worthwhile to adamantly express the market for quality work.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 2 weeks ago:
Thanks to genai ads, we will all be schizophrenic soon as every electronic device will be taking specifically to each of us constantly.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 2 weeks ago:
Back in the 80s, the second any two boomers had some sort of camera at the same time they would immediately take a picture of each other talking each other’s pictures because obviously it would be hilarious. So maybe another gaggle if AI generated people are getting their pictures taken at the same time, and two of the aigen ladies wanted to make sure they had their own copies …
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t get why people like the default tone of those LLMs, they are so grating on me. When I get slop emailed that so greatly amused the person who prompted it, I can’t believe they are eager to share rather than repulsed at how cringey it was.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
And no one remembers the failures, except maybe their family with that wacky Uncle that had some crazy get rich quick scheme. In some other timeline, some kids think of their crazy uncle Mark Zuckerberg who dropped out of college because he thought he could do better than MySpace, and now he bounces around chasing various hustles that keep failing.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
Execs in this sort of company are narrative first, facts a distant second. LLMs speak their language, something agreeable that sounds right whether it is or not.
BTW, investors are largely in the same boat, they are investing with having no realistic way to know whether the nice things being said are backed by reality up front. They only know if/when it goes down in a blaze.
Further in gaming, maybe they tank some headliner properties with bad reviews if the mess them up, but it’s possible that most of the ‘sold’ games barely even get played, thanks to Steam hoarding. A lot of businesses can coast on past glory for years and years before things blow up, if at all.
- Comment on netgoat reverse proxy – "seriously messed up code" 2 weeks ago:
Of course I also see that the go spawns python and does stuff with that…
And there’s lots of other dubious issues that look like an odd mismash of intro level programming stuff with unfortunate performance implications, and a very strong vibe code smell, though the commit interval is a bit larger than I would have presumed with vibe coding, but the volume of changes seem AI sloppy…
Well, broadly it looks like slop, probably AI slop, but either way I wouldn’t go anywhere near this project…
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
This is why the LLMs are so popular with execs, they are the ultimate yes men. They will feed ego and purport to give a strategy that will support any dumbass idea without challenging them.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
People have repeatedly in this thread talked about how it also added details that were not hinted in the original, and in part it looks like adding makeup, which could totally undermine a character or setting if they are unlikely to care about our have time for makeup.
Characters that have barely survived in the wilderness for weeks somehow wearing lipstick and eyeliner and eyeshadow… That’s the sort of thing that can happen with this approach.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
Easy, if it needs that much GPU and even one GPU is hard to find, then it could make someone rent their games from Nvidia to use their GPUs…
Oh. Did you mean justify for the user? Lol, no, only the interests of nvidia matter.
- Comment on Every! 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 2 weeks ago:
More of an “everyone’s shit here” situation
- Comment on Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, the financial market is deeply rewarding the “tell us what we want to hear” approach.
Even if the time should come where the chickens come home to roost, the key players will have gotten billions out of the mania in the meantime.
So on one hand you have someone making a fair pessimistic assessment of current approaches that isn’t attractive to investors and his suggestion is very unproven. On the other hand you have someone that agrees with whatever the investors want to believe. The latter is, in this situation, an easy payday.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 weeks ago:
Problem with being a business is that Atlassian isn’t so much really a software company as much as they are a marketing thing that pretends to be software.
Agile consultants say “Atlassian”, companies lap that up at the executive level and the employees roll with it because selecting Atlassian is “thought leadership”. The people picking Atlassian are not the people using Atlassian. Paradoxically typical Atlassian rooted workflows are about as far from being actually agile as you can get.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 weeks ago:
As much as this is overly simplistic, there’s a sort of appeal here…
The good news when you have proper issue management is that you don’t lose any issues. The bad news is you don’t lose any issues.
In my work, the issue tracker has issues that are over 5 years old. Any time someone dares to just purge those, some one comes out of the woodwork to suddenly passionately care about this thing they have forgotten for years until the jira notification triggered them.
Projects that have pristine issue discipline tend to suck, as they waste so much energy on things that didn’t matter whether or is fixing or engaging in an argument about the value. The better projects tend to say “fine, we will hold that issue in low priority backlog and get to it if we ever run out of better stuff to do”, and the submitter is placated and everyone knows we will never run out of better stuff to do.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
This is the fascinating thing about this bubble. Usually people are suspecting a bubble/perceiving it, and are afraid of when it pops, but no one really wants it to pop, they just don’t like the fragility it causes knowing it could pop any minute.
So many people actively want the AI bubble to pop. I can’t recall a bubble so odious that everyone was rooting for it to hurry up and fail before.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you and I consider it similar to the ‘hollywood effect’: Ask any expert to review typical depictions of their expertise in film and tv and they will mostly groan at the inaccuracies that most people won’t catch.
Problem is that if you compare the works that do it ‘right’ to the ones that do it ‘wrong’, there’s no correlation between doing it right and being more popular, the horribly wrong depictions get plenty of ratings regardless.
Now one might reasonably argue ‘sure, but that’s purely fiction anyway, if it had real consequences, that would actually matter’, except it constantly happens in real world situations.
My work colleague picked up his car from some mechanic chain after having it ‘fixed’ and took us to lunch. There was just this awful squeal as he started the car and I said why is it making that noise after just getting fixed and the guy said “Oh, the staff told me that cars just sound like that after a repair until the parts break in” and that bullshit worked to get him to pay and walk out the door. I ask if I can take a quick look under his hood and there was a flashlight wedged against a belt. He just laughed it off and said “hey, free flashlight, thanks for figuring that out” and a few months later he had mentioned going back to the exact same place for something else.
A few days ago I went to a hardware store and their site said they had it, but under location it said “see associate”. The first one checked his device and didn’t understand what the deal was so he said “Oh, go over there and ask John, he knows all this stuff”. Ok, so I walk over to John, who takes one glance and confidently says “oh yeah, that stuff is in a cage in the back row locked up, just go up to the cage and press the button to get someone to get it”. I think “ok, good, a guy who really knows his stuff and the other staff recognize him for it”. I roll up to the cage and look in and realize “uh oh, this is not the type of stuff I’m looking for, he made a pretty amateur mistake”, but I push the button anyway. I show my phone to the guy who comes up and said that “John” said it would be here but I couldn’t see it, and at the mention of “John” the guy clearly rolled his eyes and it was abundantly clear that John’s “expertise” was a repeated annoyance for the guy. The actual answer is they kept that stuff in back and the employees all are supposed to see the notation in their devices telling them this, but none of them seem to figure it out and John just keeps sending people to his department instead.
This has also come out in use of AI. I offered that my group could crank out a quick tool to do something that could be a problem, and one of the people said “in this new era, we don’t need you for this quick tool, I just asked Claude and it made me this application”. So I tested it and reported that ‘a’, it didn’t actually work, it produced stuff that looked right, but the actual tool wouldn’t accept it because it didn’t se the right syntax, and ‘b’, if t did work, it faked authentication and had a huge vulnerability. He just laughed it off and said ‘guess LLMs sometimes aren’t perfect yet’, no consequences for what could have been a disastrous tool, no severe change in stance on using LLMs, and I am pretty sure the audience probably found the response about it not working to be annoyingly buzzkill and were rooting for the LLM to do all the work instead. People who need your expertise are desparate to not need your expertise anymore and are willing to believe anything to enable that, and are willing to accept a lot of badness just to not be dependent on you.
AI produce what is seen as plausible narrative, and plausible narrative can win even when the facts are against it. To be very charitable, a quick “usually” correct answer is indeed frequently “good enough” for a lot of purposes, and LLM’s speed at generating output can’t be beat.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
In IT the golden rule is regardless of technical media, you do not want a business relationship with Oracle under any circumstances.
They will use that foot in the door to make your life hell with audits and invoicing crap you never bought.