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- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
I mean the marketing guys are doing their job which is to convince you that you are getting a video feed for your to do cool things with. The actual reason is free camera wearing automatons are cheaper than ones you have to pay for.
- Comment on BAAAAAABY SHARK DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO 2 days ago:
It hurts to read “The original song dates back to the 20th century” in the Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 3 days ago:
It’s a hard life but I’m working through it with my therapist.
- Comment on cigs w/o u 3 days ago:
At some point in the late 90s or early 2000s they banned cigarette advertising.
I didn’t think about it but at this point i don’t know any brands anymore. My father smoked players when I was young, and Benson and hedges used to sponsor some public events but otherwise I guess it worked.
That or cigs got too expensive to smoke brand name. My grandfather, before he died of lung cancer was smoking big clear bags of cigs from the reserve.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 3 days ago:
I have an 82 inch TV that is wall mounted.
My girlfriend can’t lift one side of it so if I ever need to take it off the wall I gotta get a friend to come over to help.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 3 days ago:
I just google the tv model number and find an image of the inputs, then I go by feel.
- Comment on planned date fell apart so i'm going clubbing wearing a see-through bra as a top with my girlfriends instead 5 days ago:
And like the rest of the Internet encouraged regardless of the rules
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
That is what they are technically doing but they often don’t always consider the consequences and often react poorly when they realize that an Amazon (it whatever) comes along and contributes nothing and monetizes their work while dumping the support and maintenance on them.
That is the name of the game though if you use an MIT license.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 1 week ago:
It can be both.
Intelligence agencies love to gently nudge and provide support to someone who might do their dirty work for them.
That said it’s way more likely they have kompramat on Trump and also that he is senile and thinks he is back in the 80s during the hostage crisis.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
Sure, I’m not telling you how it should be, I’m telling you how it is.
The LLM just increases the damage done because it can do more damage faster before someone figures out they fucked up.
This is the last big one I remembered offhand but I know it happens a couple times a year and probably more just goes unreported.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
They shouldn’t and we know that but this is hardly the first time that story has been told even before LLMs. Usually it was blamed on “the intern” or whatever.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 1 week ago:
Are you in the US? My take away here is American healthcare is bad but we’re treating the symptom not the disease.
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 1 week ago:
Fighting sports and CTE addled domestic abusers, name a more iconic combo.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.
At first you Sandbox box it and your careful. Then after a while the sand box is a bit of a pain so you just run it as is. Then it asks for permission a 1000 times to do something and at first you carefully check each command but after a while you just skim them and eventually, sure you can run ‘psql *’ to debug some query on the dev instance…
It’s one of the major problems with the “full self driving” stuff as well. It’s right often enough that eventually you get complacent or your attention drifts elsewhere.
This kind of stuff happened before the LLM coding agents existed, they have just supercharged the speed and as a result increased the amount of damage that can be done before it’s noticed.
There are already a bunch of failures in place for something like this to happen. Having the prod credentials available etc etc it’s just now instead of rolling the dice every couple weeks your LLM is rolling them every 20s.
- Comment on Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI 1 week ago:
Which of why they are all Trump’s friend. They are the friend of who ever is in power and doesn’t get in the way (or helps) make the stock price larger.
If Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with a progressive they would change their tune immediately.
Corporations don’t have morals and have no qualms about being hypocritical. If they are publically traded the only language they speak is “stock go up” and “stock go down”.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.
I agree with their repair stance. It just feels like one of those things people will tell you they want and then never do.
Still maybe the explosion in memory prices will change the incentives and people will start holding things longer. It will be interesting to see.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Bears are less unpredictable. Also the woods are a context you expect to find a bear in so it’s not out of the norm. All that combined with years and years of true crime stuff makes the answer to that question pretty predictable, regardless of the gender.
I have not actually read the primary source for this though, only encountered it on social media so maybe they asked men the same question and they chose another person? I should probably look it up.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
A think pad t series is not really much harder to take apart than a framework. Just more screws and fewer magnets. The screen is probably an exception however.
- Comment on W rizz skibidi 2 weeks ago:
It still is isn’t it? Or is it enforcer? Or is it “GET YOUR PARLAY IN NOW WITH BET365”
- Comment on A modest proposal 2 weeks ago:
Nah Vietnam was because there cold war was too cold and that’s not good for military industrial complex. 60k people is not really enough to make a huge difference in housing.
- Comment on Can't unsee 2 weeks ago:
My default view is past 6 hours which I think is nice. Missed it the first time though.
- Comment on Can't unsee 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but explain the calarts bean heads.
- Comment on Make a note 3 weeks ago:
When consuming edible THC there is a time between when you have consumed the drug and when the drug kicks in. During this time you would wait and not consume more drugs because you will over consume and have a less pleasant experience.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
The appeal of Amazon is the things that surround the store.
When I buy from a random website it often takes weeks to ship, costs more to ship, makes me deal with CC fraud if something is untoward, fights me on returns and I usually have to pay to ship back etc etc.
Amazon is bad for a number of reasons but the main driver for me is not the choice of things on there, it’s everything else.
- Comment on the wok agenda 4 weeks ago:
You could sorta Yik yak before you join a herd?
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 4 weeks ago:
In a large enough group there is still anonymity even if your face and name are on there.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 4 weeks ago:
Every time I hear that I always say the same thing.
It isn’t enough that you have nothing to hide.
All that’s required is that the general public think they have access to information that someone might want to hide.
Once the public thinks that data can exist or is accessible all that’s required is for them to lie or fabricate the required data.
“It would be very unfortunate if there was questionable content ‘found’ on your phone”
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
As a non FF player who played 8 and 9 I thought 13 was kinda bad.
Lots of hallways when the previous games had more discovery to them.
Have not really played one since as I wasn’t into MMOs and figured I would try the 7 remake when they finished which it looks like they never will.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 4 weeks ago:
No, there are a bunch of things required to be met in the US for libel and a bunch of precedent which is why it’s hard to sue for it and succeed
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 4 weeks ago:
As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn’t really sound like a winning formula.