Technus
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- Comment on No weirdo's please 1 week ago:
What’s the number, OP
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Futurama s2e5: I Second that Emotion
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
“Yeah, right. You’d have to be some kinda genius to count that high.”
“… He’s seven.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
- Comment on Y tho 2 weeks ago:
We used to make these all the time as kids. You need a second pair of magnets in push configuration on the back for this to work.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 2 weeks ago:
I would 100% volunteer to be the first person to cross the event horizon of a spinning supermassive black hole, just to see what’s on the other side.
Like yeah it’s guaranteed to be a one-way trip and probably a horrible death, but there’s also the possibility that it’s actually a gateway to alternate universes, and that’s something I’d give anything to see with my own eyes.
- Comment on SlaveDriver Engine for the Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave gets open sourced 2 weeks ago:
I played Powerslave: Exhumed but it wasn’t quite the same game I remembered playing. I think it’s more of a “reimagined” version than a remastered one.
I’m hopeful that this means the game could be ported to modern platforms so it doesn’t have to be run in DOSbox.
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 3 weeks ago:
I like how you’ve deliberately ignored the specifically chosen wording of my statement, and completely disregarded the rest of my point, simply because you perceive it as counter-factual in your world-view, thus exhibiting the exact kind of behavior you were talking about. That’s really funny.
- Comment on Political map of the Americas 2025 3 weeks ago:
Maybe swap California and Canada, US and Florida.
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 3 weeks ago:
A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.
Even if they don’t remember everything they were thinking about, they can reason based on their knowledge of themselves and try to reconstruct their mental state at the time.
This is the behavior people are expecting from LLMs but not understanding that it’s something they’re fundamentally incapable of.
One major difference (among many others, obviously) is that AI models as currently implemented don’t have any kind of persistent working memory. All they have for context is the last N tokens they’ve generated, the last N tokens of user input, and any external queries they’ve made. All the intermediate calculations (the “reasoning”) that led to them generating that output is lost.
Any instance of an AI appearing to “correct” their mistake is just the model emitting what it thinks a correction would be, given the current context window.
Humans also learn from their mistakes and generally make efforts to avoid them in the future, which doesn’t happen for LLMs until that data gets incorporated into the training for the next version of the model, which can take months to years. That’s why AI companies are trying to capture and store everything from user interactions, which is a privacy nightmare.
It’s not a compelling argument to compare AI behavior to that of a dysfunctional human brain and go “see, humans do this too, teehee!” Not when the whole selling point of these things is that they supposed to be smarter and less fallible than most humans.
I’m deliberately trying not to be ableist in my wording here, but it’s like saying, “hey, you know what would do wonders for productivity and shareholder value? If we fired half our workforce, then found someone with no experience, short-term memory loss, ADHD and severe untreated schizophrenia, then put them in charge of writing mission-critical code, drafting laws, and making life-changing medical and business decisions.”
I’m not saying LLMs aren’t technically fascinating and a breakthrough in AI development, but the way they have largely been marketed and applied is scammy, misleading, and just plain irresponsible.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules 3 weeks ago:
Even as an American with everything going on here, this bullshit makes me feel bad for the Brits. How fucked up is that?
- Comment on GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team 3 weeks ago:
All aboard the enshittification train! Choo choo!
I mean, it’s been well underway for a while now but this is certainly a transfer over to an express train.
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 3 weeks ago:
I get scoffed at every time I call LLMs “glorified auto-correct” so it’s nice being validated.
Anyone who actually has a grasp of how Large Language Models work should not be surprised by this, but too many people, even engineers who should really know better, have drunk the Kool-aid.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta been treating you to infinite loading screens? EA are on the case 3 weeks ago:
A triumphant return to the series’ roots with the exact same game-breaking bugs as Battlefield 3 had. Nice job, EA.
- Comment on AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed 1 month ago:
No information on the 9000 series, why? Kinda sus.
- Comment on The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting 2 months ago:
Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.
What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
- Comment on You can do it. It's an easy one 2 months ago:
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There’s a starving furry artist out there who would jump at the chance to take your commission.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 2 months ago:
The article is full of typos, too.
Who let this dreck out the door? Did Forbes lay off all their editors or what?
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 2 months ago:
I downloaded the demo last night. It’s pretty fun but definitely rough around the edges. I hope the developer is amenable to feedback.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 2 months ago:
I’ve found that demos can be a double-edged sword.
I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there’s only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can’t really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 2 months ago:
Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I’ve wanted a game like this for literal decades.
I’d try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.
- Comment on [Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 2 months ago:
It’s still using the Blink engine, so it only provides an illusion of competition just like all other Chromium-based browsers.
If the web becomes nothing but Chromium, then Google can dictate web standards as they see fit.
And don’t count on Apple to save you, either. WebKit’s monopoly over browsing on iOS is slowly being eroded by anti-trust rulings. The first browser most people will install when they have a choice is Google Chrome.
Ditching Firefox entirely because of a few missteps by Mozilla is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 2 months ago:
That’s what I figured after thinking about it, that there had to be some procedural reason for it.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 2 months ago:
Which, funnily enough, would also qualify the murders as first-degree under Minnesota state law: www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.185
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 2 months ago:
The suspect faces several charges of second-degree murder.
This baffles me. Looking up your fucking victim’s addresses isn’t enough evidence of premeditation to qualify for first-degree charges?
- Comment on Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough 2 months ago:
And ofc the original paper is paywalled.
- Comment on China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture 2 months ago:
It’s probably just regurgitating stuff from a paper from 2017 that no one paid attention to.
Which has value in itself, I guess. It’s just intellectually dishonest to say the AI came up with the solution.
- Comment on Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server 3 months ago:
As someone with a lot of web backend engineering experience, this had me yelling at the screen at a few points, but really cool nonetheless.
- Comment on Worm time 3 months ago: