ilinamorato
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- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 week ago:
Yeah, I bet someone would do it for Youtube views, but you’re right, that’s too much.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 week ago:
I get it. In my opinion being made of plastic isn’t as bad as feeling plastic-y, but I realize that’s a personal thing
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 week ago:
My experience with Framework is exactly one unit, but I would disagree with this. The Thinkpads I’ve used all felt more plastic-y and less sturdy than my Framework. The keyboard did feel cheaper until I wore the powdery feel off of the keycaps, at which point it felt amazing.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 1 week ago:
They’ve had AMD for a few years now. No Intel one, but they do sell empty GPU module shells, so maybe someone could cut down a desktop Intel card to fit in one?
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 1 week ago:
Not entirely sure why that doesn’t feel like a robot to me. Hm.
Maybe it’s because washing machines existed before electricity. I don’t think there are any gas-powered dishwashers.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 1 week ago:
AI’s water usage is a pretty well-known problem with the industry.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 1 week ago:
They chose literally the only widely-available home robot. 😆
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 1 week ago:
Interesting question on the fediverse. I tend to think that redditlikes aren’t, while twitterlikes are; so what does it mean if they’re federated? Does it depend on how you access the content?
Maybe it’s a spectrum. Bulletin board forums are on one side, then Stack Overflow, then redditlikes, then twitterlikes, then Instagram-like image sharing, then Facebook on the far other side.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 1 week ago:
So, I think this story has two parts to it: one from years ago, wherein he moved into a place with his girlfriend and his best friend; and another from today, wherein he moved into a place with his wife. Unclear if it’s the same person as the girlfriend from before.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 1 week ago:
I really like the Department of Temporal Investigations book “Watching the Clock.” Very clever time travel story.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Who said anything about foresight? This is entirely historical. Thanks for actually reading anything I’ve said.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
I’m saying they can only do it because the big innovation was “throw more money at it.” Yes, given a functionally infinite amount of hardware, electricity, legal free reign, and publicity, I could invent a machine that does at least one (1) impressive thing, too.
Remember, these models weren’t created to identify cancer in patients. They were created to do everything. And the fact that they are mediocre at everything except identifying cancer in patients (and a handful of other things) means that they’re failing at 99.997% of their goal.
That doesn’t mean that it’s innovative, or a breakthrough technology that deserves time to mature. It just means that you get more swings at the law of averages if you have a lot of money.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
First of all, because it doesn’t matter whether it’s actually real or not, investment doesn’t actually follow innovation. The actual value of a company or idea has almost nothing to do with its valuation.
But more importantly, why do you think that’s the important part of this conversation? I’m not talking about its long term viability. Neither were you. You were just saying that it was a new innovation and still had to mature. I was saying that it was actually a much older technology that already matured, and which is being given an artificial new round of funding because of good marketing.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Are you trying to claim that the fact that there’s lots of money flowing to these AI companies is proof that AI isn’t just a bubble caused by money flowing to these AI companies?
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Please let me know what major breakthrough has happened recently in the machine leaning field, since you’re such an expert. Throwing more GPUs at it? Throwing even more GPUs at it? About the best thing I can come up with is “using approximately the full text of the Internet as training data,” but that’s not a technical advancement, it’s a financial one.
Applying tensors to ML happened in 2001. Switching to GPUs for deep learning happened in 2004. RNNs/CNNs was 2010-ish. Seq2seq and GAN were in 2014. “Attention is All You Need” came out in 2017; that’s the absolute closest to a breakthrough that I can think of, but even that was just an architecture from 2014 with some comparatively minor tweaks.
No, the only major new breakthrough I can see over the past decade or so has been the influx of money.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
AI isn’t “emerging.” The industry is new, but we’ve had neural networks for decades. They’ve been regularly in use for things like autocorrect and image classification since before the iPhone. Google upgraded Google Translate to use a GPT in 2016 (9 years ago). What’s “emerging” now is just marketing and branding, and trying to shove it into form factors and workloads that it’s not well suited to. Maybe some slightly quicker iteration due to the unreasonable amount of money being thrown at it.
It’s kind of like if a band made a huge deal out of their new album and the crazy new sound it had, but then you listened to it and it was just, like…disco? And disco is fine, but…by itself it’s definitely not anything to write home about in 2025. And then a whole bunch of other bands were like, “yeah, we do disco too!” And some of them were ok at it, and most were definitely not, but they were all trying to fit disco into songs that really shouldn’t have been disco. And every time someone was like, “I kinda don’t want to listen to disco right now,” a band manager said “shut up yes you do.”
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 2 weeks ago:
The mayor of NYC has a lot more power than the governor of, for instance, Wyoming. More power than the prime ministers of a lot of sovereign nations, even.
- Comment on Xbox Is Investing In AI For Their Next Gen Console 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically, I think AI used to generate content within parameters would be pretty interesting; like procedural generation, but more so. NPCs could have more realistic, fully-voiced conversations with you and with one another that reflect the state of the world and actions you performed; landscapes and creatures could be more realistic and fantastical; side quests could be generated within some parameters to fit your play style or your character’s build; faraway locations that aren’t a part of the main storyline could be generated as you explore them rather than built by the developer. It could be used to make a world feel more expansive, but also more personalized, while simultaneously freeing up developers from the pain of crunch.
In reality, I don’t think that modern LLMs or diffusion models are well-suited to such a thing, and AAA companies are more likely to use it for more efficient microtransaction monetization and cutting development jobs anyway.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 2 weeks ago:
Actually, it may be that it quite literally can’t take any time inside a singularity! As you approach a singularity, the spacetime curve representing the passage of time approaches zero, meaning that from your perspective, the universe outside the event horizon moves more and more impossibly fast, and from an outside perspective, you move more and more slowly until your motion appears to stop entirely.
At the singularity, our understanding of spacetime basically just shrugs in an infinite manner, puts on its hat, and clocks out for the day. It may be that, for the singularity, the entirety of time between the collapse of the star that formed the black hole and the eventual evaporation of the black hole due to Hawking radiation are compressed into a single instant, and no time at all passes for it.
So you might not need any books at all, because by the time you reach the singularity (which wouldn’t take a particularly long subjective time), it may well be the end of the universe. Hope you paid the meter.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 2 weeks ago:
Well, the end of it is, at least.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
Codeberg is a service. Forgejo is a platform.
It’s more like how a warehouse company doesn’t build its own forklifts.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 2 weeks ago:
Also, the big surprise about, uh…who is… talking to Mariner…is absolutely incredible. Just a complete mind-bender.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 2 weeks ago:
Definitely read it. Don’t read anything about it. Just read it. It’s very good, but you could very easily get spoiled about a major part of it.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
Modern software like Lemmy, for instance?
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is news to me. I think Codeberg runs on Forgejo, and just the other day people were singing its praises when GitHub became part of Microsoft’s AI team. This feels like a sudden shift.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
It’s an open-source repository management platform that they’re self-hosting. What on earth could possibly be questionable about it?!
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
There’s a phrase that gets passed around the tech scene: “Linux is only free if your time has no value.” Because, yes, Linux and other open-source apps are free to download and use. In a world driven by money, you’d expect the free version to overtake the paid one. The problem is, the paid option…just works.
Sure, until the paid option does something anti-competitive or gets too expensive or shuts down entirely, and you have to switch to a different paid option, sometimes burning dozens of hours in switching time (and/or hundreds of hours of work through lost or corrupted data) in the process. Not to mention the transition costs of just figuring out the new thing. Why not just switch to something that won’t go away, or be changed under your feet?
The problem is that it needs that initial time investment to get it working the way you want it.
Maybe I’m just enough of a tinkerer in any situation that I’ve put pretty much the same amount of time into fiddling with my Linux settings as I did with my last Windows computer.
If your hardware isn’t working properly, you have to find drivers that run on Linux; if the developer never made Linux-compatible drivers, you have to figure something else out.
People have been talking about this for my entire life, but in the past year of my switch to Linux, it has literally never happened once. I downloaded a new, open-source driver for my drawing tablet because it had some extra features that I wanted, but even it worked out of the box. I’ve never experienced this incompatibility. Honestly I’ve never even had trouble with software I wanted not being available for my distro.
Am I doing Linux wrong?
Windows doesn’t have this problem.
LOL.
Installers made for Windows don’t need any special TLC;
ROFL!
you double-click them and they work.
OH wait they’re serious?!
Once they’re installed, they work. If you need to install a driver, it works. You open a document in Office, it works.
Sure, if you don’t run into a permissions issue. And if the system registry doesn’t get corrupted. And if you’re not on an ARM machine. And if your TPM is the right version. And if you’re on the right subversion of Windows. And if a previous install didn’t leave some remnant of itself behind. And if you don’t want to do anything with an Apple device at all. And if sometimes you have the right fonts installed?
Honestly, I think I’ve had fewer problems installing Linux applications than Windows applications, but I can’t attest to that. I think I can be pretty confident in saying that they’re mostly equivalent. Both of them are pretty mature platforms with fairly minimal hiccups, in my experience.
And if something doesn’t work, we can yell at Microsoft until they publish a fix that makes it work again.
That’s a weird way of spelling “until they ignore it for six months and then lock the support thread for inactivity.”
Microsoft has gotten us into a state where we don’t need to think, tinker, or troubleshoot our software. We just double-click the icon and wait for it to “just work.” If it doesn’t, it’s someone else’s issue to solve, and we flood social media and support emails until the issue is resolved.
Here I have to agree with the article, because whatever the reality of installing applications on Windows, this is the fiction they’ve sold us. Apple, too. All operating systems have troubles, and all vendors try to downplay them and fix the stuff that causes problems for most of their users. Linux is just honest about the fact that they can’t make everything a perfectly smooth experience for everyone.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 4 weeks ago:
I hope so, but it’s such a lame one. Just incoherent. Maybe someone prompted an AI to post troll comments, and it’s just doin’ its best.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 4 weeks ago:
So I’m just… politely disagreeing with you.
Honestly…this is the first time in a decade or more that I’ve actually believed anyone online who said something like that. Hey, you’re cool. I like this sort of disagreement.
Anyway, that’s the way I see it and unless we get facts on the table from somewhere, I don’t see how we could agree in this.
“We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No bad faith arguments, no logical fallacies…fact against fact alone.”
“You mean…you’ll put down your anecdotal data and I’ll put down my cherry-picked personal experiences and we’ll try and convince each other of our points like civilized people?”
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 4 weeks ago:
I know that some people value physical media. But most don’t. Most people value convenience.
I’m not talking about “everyone in the world,” I’m talking about “more people than ten years ago.”
I recognize that the internet is allergic to context and nuance, but seriously.