Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 days ago:
I did say that, because this isn’t a pie chart situation, it’s a Venn diagram situation.
For instance AI at is 99% theft and 60% garbage. It’s both.
Stolen and bad aren’t opposites, why would this be a dichotomy?
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 days ago:
Oh, I enjoy lots of great art! But do you think I watch every film? Listen to every band?
Do you really believe, of all the songs that are written every day, that less than a third are crap? Even Taylor Swift doesn’t publish everything she does. Sometimes you work on something for weeks and then end up tossing it in the bin. More often, you work on something for 30 minutes before deciding “I’m gonna start over, try something different”. The majority of art is crap, but then you keep the stuff you think works.
And what’s that expression, “good artists copy, great artists steal”. I mean, that’s a bit satirical, but the fact is, everything is derivative to some degree. It’s not that is l there aren’t new ideas, it’s just that our new ideas are based on older ones. We stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least, on the shoulders of some people who came before us).
All I was really saying, was that the accusation “2 parts copying, 1 part crap”, well honestly that’s par for the course, that’s how humans work. (And we do some great work that way).
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 3 days ago:
AI artworks 1/3rd shite and 2/3rds theft.
To be fair, that could be said of most art.
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 4 days ago:
So… Ted voted against his own bill?
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 4 days ago:
Really you don’t want hackers using your random Internet appliance as a point of attack to access your whole network.
More IoT devices means a greater attack surface. And it’s an appliance you don’t actually want to spend time thinking about. You don’t want to waste time troubleshooting network issues with your dehumidifier… It just needs to work, or you use a different one.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 4 days ago:
Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. It puts them in a really tough position.
- Comment on Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks 5 days ago:
There could be money involved…
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 week ago:
I can’t really blame the studio though, I mean the publisher went bust. The game was coming along slowly, but it was definitely coming along, and I really liked what I was seeing.
I just wish Private Division wasn’t such a mess. It’s all just so disappointing.
- Comment on "Someday" is either much sooner than you think, or never 1 week ago:
Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 week ago:
What types of data does the US sell to advertisers?
Types you haven’t even thought of. Every type of data is sold, and then Derivatives of data are sold. Directly connected data, inferred data, guesses, it’s all packaged up.
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 1 week ago:
It’s already happened once. A couple years ago some astronomer spotted a small asteroid with a high albedo (it was very reflective, brighter than normal).
After some Internet folks verified, and with a few more observations they were able to calculate its orbit. Turns out the orbit matched that of the Tesla shit into space. The high albedo would make sense as the Tesla is still connected to the falcon 9 upper stage, which is painted all white.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
You seem really invested in making sure Teslas are off the road, but not at all interested in regulation that would keep all dangerous autonomous vehicles off the road. So… do you work for BMW, or Waymo?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
I didn’t understand the complaint. With a system like this, that wouldn’t be on the road.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
That’s almost like a “three strikes” rule for drunk drivers.
Oh man, that would be amazing. If after 3 strikes, all drunk driving could be eliminated… If only we could be so lucky.
He’s not talking about a per-vehicle points system, he’s talking about a global points system for Tesla inc. If after a few incidents, essentially Tesla FSD had it’s license revoked across the whole fleet, I mean, that’s pretty strict accountability I’d say. That’s definitely not handing out free passes, it’s more like you get a few warnings and a chance to fix issues before the entire program is ended nation wide.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
You weren’t the user who posted that video, but you seem to be quite knowledgeable in this specific case…
Can you link that crash report? Or can you cite some confirmed details about the incident?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
Not the article, the post that you were directly replying to.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
Actually, lots. The issue is that if it doesn’t work it’s dangerous.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
Man, I cannot figure out why that vehicle was turning. What is it trying to avoid? Why does it think there could be road there? Why doesn’t it try to correct its action mid way?
I’m really concerned about that last question. I have to assume that at some point prior to impact, the system realized it made a mistake. Surely. So why didn’t it try to recover from the situation? Does it have a system for recovering from errors, or does it just continue and say “well I’ll get it next time, now on with the fetal crash”?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
Oh yes they do… The diver is Tesla, inc. There’s no problem with charging a company fines, that’s easy. It is difficult to issue higher penalties though, jail time, or license revocation. We’ll need to work out solutions for that, they should not get off free.
But we can certainly fine the driver…
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
There’s no accountability for this horribly dangerous driving, so they shouldn’t be on the road. Period.
Well that’s exactly what his post was about, adding accountability.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 week ago:
It’s kind of brilliant, in a Lex Luthor kind of way…
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s cool.
Well I guess my opinion is that it’s essentially never “legitimate” to be the aggressor. Determining which party is the aggressor can sometimes be complicated, but it often boils down to this: which party is crossing the border?
In this case, I’m sure many would say that Iran took the first aggressive action by pursuing a nuclear program, but I have a few issues with that. First, Israel already has nuclear weapons, so surely that is an earlier provocation. Secondly, Iran still isn’t crossing the border, Israel was first to pull the trigger, and they pulled a lot of triggers (in Iranian territory). And finally, Israel and Iran have been in the process of forging nuclear treaties many times now, and nearly every time Israel has sabotaged the talks with provocative, often military actions, or they simply left the table - it seems clear to me that Israel does not want a nuclear deal, they will not accept any kind of compromise.
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 2 weeks ago:
I mean, lead is a very common element and can have many legitimate uses. If we’re talking about using some amount of lead in a camera sensor, do understand how tiny camera sensors are. This is likely a very insignificant amount of lead. And it will be fused into this sensor, it’s not likely to ever leave the confines of the component’s plastic casing, behind a lens, with a phone. That’s very different from say, mixing it into gasoline and burning it.
- Comment on Perovskite-based image sensors promise higher sensitivity and resolution than silicon 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard there’s been some real breakthroughs in perovskite for solar cells in just the last few years. As you said, chemical instability is supposed to be their primary weakness, but my understanding is that progress has been made in finding the perfect chemical makeup for the “sandwiching” materials between layers of perovskite. I’m pretty sure that “perfect” chemical makeup is the proprietary trade secret variety, so I don’t really know much more about it.
And admittedly, I’ve never been in the field of materials science, so you’re much more of an expert in this area. But I’ve been following a lot of green energy news, and I know promising progress is actively being made on perovskite.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
Man up
You can take that shit elsewhere. Grow a conscience.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a few years late for purely negative action to be useful here.
Hey, we can cross that bridge when we get to it, but first it needs to stop.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 weeks ago:
This is state sanctioned mass murder. This is state terror attacks across a national border. This is so unethical and obviously illegal, I don’t know what else to say about it.
We need to distance ourselves from Israel. We need to stop giving them weapons. Right now, the taxes I pay go partially to arming them, I am partially responsible, and this is not “ok”. I do not want to be doing this, I never wanted this…
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a messed up position. It’s made more complicated by then being half right. People do often like having fewer choices. Making a streamlined OS that doesn’t allow them access to the kernel or crucial components, that they literally can’t break by accident, that is indeed an appealing feature to many. But it’s not appealing because they’re stupid, it’s appealing they’re rational.
This has always been Apple’s method, make everything intuitive, easy to use for anyone and their mother. And a big part of that is removing all the extra clutter from the interface, all the options users would rarely if ever use. This is also the contentious part, removing the advanced options that power users might want access to.
But at least initially, they understood that the reason for doing all this, their goal, was to make their products better. These days it seems like they’re less clear on the goal. The idea that they’re “dumbing down” their products and controlling everything because their users are too stupid, this is a new attitude, and it shows a misunderstanding of the principals their company was built on. Apple was only successful because they made very good products which were comfortable to use. They certainly never won popularity through competitive pricing or having the most powerful machines…
Personally, I think it’s a foolish move to be this controlling over their iOS ecosystem. This is really making the product inferior. Sideloading apps will not destroy their walled garden, it just gives power users the options they want. Apple should be afraid of losing more market share, they don’t have all that much to lose…
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s hard to do without leaving a very clear trail. I assume most engineers want to keep their job and their income.
But programmers tend to use some form of a “versioning” system like git. This will record everyone’s changes to the codebase, when a change was made, what was changed, who changed it. And it allows you to go back and revert changes if something important broke. Very convenient for programmers, less convenient for sabotage.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude!