itsathursday
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- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 2 days ago:
He’s been on Newsweek podcast recently and given his assessment with new events and focus on datacenters and hardware.
- Comment on Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 1 week ago:
The man clearly disagrees with the implication that he has too much money and he should instead be free to do with it what he pleases, which without irony, includes proving that he has too much money by spending it to lobby against us and convince us otherwise.
It’s one tax act Michael, how much could it cost?
- Comment on This startup is building the first data centers powered by human brain cells 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Trampolines are socially-accepted pens for kids 1 week ago:
I like to think of it as rage in the cage, like wrestlemania but for kids
- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 1 week ago:
Punters derives from people placing a bet, or having a punt. So from gambling and horses it became the term more generally used for any group having paid a price of admission, because they are “having a go” at the experience or taking a punt on it. It’s very common in media here but less in the daily lexicon.
Bluesfest has been going for yonks though, so no idea about why it’s suddenly gone to shit.
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a grift card, only redeemable by the employer with your time, without the card.
- Comment on After the deluge: Australia’s wettest summer in a decade was also one of the hottest ever 2 weeks ago:
Nice to know the data supports my perception and I am not going insane. Now, what does it mean and how do we fix it?
- Comment on US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 4 weeks ago:
But how do you vibe code a password manager without having itself use AI? That would require actual programming knowledge.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
KPI for friendliness! I get that customer service is a thing but at a fast food restaurant where people are working multiple jobs in addition to earning minimum wage, I’m just going to be satisfied if the food actually comes out and isn’t a hot mess. Forced pleasantries for tip paying jobs is bad enough but this is just begging for malicious compliance.
How about manufacturing friendliness by giving the employees a real reason to enjoy their job.
‘Peas’ and ‘fuck you’
- Comment on Just Watched the First Episode of Voyager and I Get the Hype, Regarding Janeway, Now 4 weeks ago:
Compared to the rest of the characters it’s not too hard to hate her.
- Comment on When I eat a handful of chocolate-covered espresso beans, my stomach functions like a coffee maker to brew a small, internal caffé mocha 4 weeks ago:
The shitpost I was pooping for.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 4 weeks ago:
If GTA came out more frequently then this game would also. You can’t parody what isn’t there.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 4 weeks ago:
No fuck that noise, there is no “I told you so” that will ever lead to understanding. Experts with experience in their fields should be respected and their advice followed, no exceptions.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 4 weeks ago:
Missed this one, thanks
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok: The ‘Disney Stars’ of Sudan’s Civil War 4 weeks ago:
Is this really technology news ?
- Comment on If you called someone "skinface" it would feel like a huge insult even though it's meaningless and people's faces are made out of skin. 5 weeks ago:
My meatbag - Denzel Washington, Training Day
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 5 weeks ago:
“Anybody can do this. It’s stupid, it feels like there are no guardrails there,” says Harpreet Chatha, who runs the SEO consultancy Harps Digital.
This is the dumbest timeline
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 5 weeks ago:
Optical recognition is inferior and this is not surprising.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 5 weeks ago:
Eh… funny is funny
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 5 weeks ago:
Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 5 weeks ago:
You are conflating the produce “cheese” with a specific cheese product made in a specific place. You can make cheese where ever you want, but it won’t ever be from that place unless it’s from that place, that’s how the naming scheme works. The name isn’t that name because they named it and gave it a label, the name is the name because it’s where it came from. The only compromise that would make what you are saying more accurate would be to say that all cheese you are taking about outside of the Parma region is “Parma style” cheese.
Trade works both ways, so if the Victorian cheese you are talking about gets its way to Parma shelves, then it’s a mislabelled product.
- Comment on Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco 5 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not a type of cheese. You only think that because you have seen so many imitations. The type is a hard crystalline structured cheese made in a wheel. Many have this profile, but when that’s made from the region with the methods perfected by the history of makers in that region with specific ingredients from that region (lots of history to get to the point where are now), then it’s known as Parmesan. Anyone else that eats a cheese similar to that specific cheese made elsewhere has had a copy, which while being similar, is not from that region and not Parmesan cheese. Globalisation doesn’t change a villages history or countries culture of identifying produce, and yes, that’s something worth protecting for them.
It’s like calling a Lepatata from Botswana a Dodgeridoo because they are both wind instruments. It’s their type of horn, like a Didgeridoo and you might call it a Didgeridoo, but it’s not. Most people would get what you mean but to the people that it matters to, you would be wrong.
In geopolitics and when it comes to free trade, respecting the history and origin of a product is diplomatic and the right thing to do, especially since the point of the trade deal is to exchange these goods. Once actual Parmesan hits shelves more freely, it shouldn’t have to be labelled as “real” Parmesan, or vice versa with the local produce because it just doesn’t make sense in the context of the thing you are talking about.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a common old world view that going to a restaurant is either for rich people with too much money or for stupid people that don’t know how to cook. So it’s more a class based frugality thing that then also is a comfort thing because doing something outside the norm would be to be in public and not be in a private space where everyone can be themselves and follow the usual family dynamics. Restaurants are also commonly a special occasion thing too but seems your folks don’t have the memo on that one. Devils advocate, they probably want you to save your money and want more quality time with you and give you the “opportunity” to host them as they have done for you and others in the past and probably they enjoyed doing so?
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 5 weeks ago:
The cost of doing business is to pay a poor to close a door and keep the wheels of progress spinning.
- Comment on When you get older you lose the ability to do things quietly, such as fart, or let young people live their lives. 1 month ago:
For a post about farting this is definitely a shitpost.
- Comment on AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. 1 month ago:
The point of open source and contributions is that your piece of the larger puzzle is something you can continue to maintain. If you contribute and fuck off with no follow up then it’s a shitty way to just raise cloat and credits on repos which is exactly what data driven karma whore learning bots are doing.
- Comment on Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks 1 month ago:
TIL there’s a new updated site. The old site is also easy to scrape weather info for any automations, so apart from human resistance to change in UI it could also be a resistance to updating code.
