mindbleach
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- Comment on No contest 1 week ago:
This basically happened. It’s TNG 2x01, “The Outrageous Okona.” Some schmuck in a jumped-up cargo shuttle harasses the Enterprise, and Riker asks, ‘can lasers even hit us?’
The pilot is a chauvanistic brigand, on the run, having dumped his cargo… wearing a white shirt and dark vest. It is genuinely surprising Memory Alpha does not explicitly call this a Han Solo expy.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
‘It’s only a problem for economics.’
‘But what about the economics?’
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
Less power, less traffic, less consumption… what part of infrastructure isn’t suddenly overengineered? For a value of “suddenly” that means in fifty years.
And as others note, this isn’t because the Japanese are suddenly averse to fucking. They’re overworked to the point of self-parody. This trend is eminently reversible, if the people addicted to the wiggly line can look further into the future than next quarter.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
Anyone obsessed with birthrates is an asshole until proven otherwise.
We went straight from ‘there’s too many people!’ to ‘there’s not enough people!’ on a dime. Even rates drastically below replacement aren’t Children Of Men. There’s just fewer kids and more old farts. So… Florida?
Oh god, maybe we should be worried.
- Comment on New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 2 weeks ago:
Carbon nanotubes as a pollution side effect sounds quietly horrifying.
- Comment on She's dead serious 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s worse than expert humans at everything. It still does a half-ass job, basically for free, in short order.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 weeks ago:
“Management pushing contradictory narratives as it suits them, while doing nothing to monitor actual work, which they know very little about. Just a priesthood of MBAs chanting catechisms invented out of thin air to justify their laziness.”
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 3 weeks ago:
It’s not meant to be understood. They are not arguing - they’re just saying it. That’s the sequence of words which signals loyalty and promotes the ingroup over the outgroup.
That’s the only thing conservatives ever do.
- Comment on Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest's Horizon OS with third-party headset makers 3 weeks ago:
Read: “Facebook lied to string people along.”
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 3 weeks ago:
Derrick’s “Spelling Bee” suggests cell D3 should be dominant.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 3 weeks ago:
Pressure toward taking swap seriously, now that it can be random-access.
The only thing that needs to be in memory is state.
- Comment on NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX 3 weeks ago:
… how? It runs locally.
Ohhh, you mean they stopped tweaking it, but used the wrong word for some reason.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 3 weeks ago:
Never give your TV the wifi password.
- Comment on Original ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Studio Gainax Officially Shutters After 42 Years 3 weeks ago:
Aria Winningson (@aria.labeledrude.online)
rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 4 weeks ago:
On the knife-edge of being really clever and deeply stupid.
the embedded gadget is powered by AI
Tipping away from clever.
- Comment on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business 5 weeks ago:
Which crucial consumer business?
… oh.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe with some kind of filter so a few people can sound like a whole cast of distinct characters, without necessarily mimicking any particular human being.
… wait.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 5 weeks ago:
Well good news, it’ll probably run locally by next year.
I’d love to be able to watch any show from any language on like a one-minute delay, with the robot faking the original voices. But I’d also like a fully in-character version of Revenge Of The Sith with the infamously bad Chinese subtitles.
- Comment on Dukmark 3D VS. Doom Benchmarking - Which is faster? Introduction of Dukemark 3D 5 weeks ago:
This man’s accent absorbs all the Rs that Jonathon Ross can’t say.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
That was not the question.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
Okay, so, every game on Steam having some generated asset wouldn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
Okay, so, complex projects having a small part you didn’t make doesn’t matter?
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 5 weeks ago:
All to stop children from seeing boobs.
Why even care?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
Is there an asset flip disclosure?
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Careful, you’ll summon Smartman Apps (with emojis) to insist mathematics has exactly one perfect unambiguous syntax, where 2*(1+3) is somehow different from 2(1+3), and also reverse Polish notation does-too have parentheses.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use 1 month ago:
Downvote all clickbait.
- Comment on Will quantum be bigger than AI? 1 month ago:
No.
It barely exists, and its greatest promises are less than what neural networks can already do. Except to weirdos and monsters who delight in breaking encryption.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Octopodes only live a couple years, and thank god. They would be the menace seen in sailors’ imaginations if they just kept growing and learning.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Octopussen.