VantaBrandon
@VantaBrandon@lemmy.world
- Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study findsphys.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 156 comments
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Can I complain there are not enough Linux users?
- Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"jalopnik.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 204 comments
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 2 weeks ago:
2029: Now with 7 quadrillion megapixels and AI powered meme generators
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
tl;dr the internet didn’t used to be about making money, it was a place where people created all kinds of content, for almost no reason at all, and almost nobody was making any money, except AOL which blew all their money on CDs probably
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
The Fox has been re-promoted to my daily driver as of this year. Chrome still in play for work stuff & sites don’t have ads.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
RTO = free layoffs
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
How about making it illegal to block copying and pasting on website forms. I’m literally more likely to make a mistake by typing a routing number than copying and pasting it. The penalty for should be death by firing into the sun to anyone caught implementing any such stupidity.
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 2 months ago:
#1 African scammer who would sell out “his country” for the price of X premium has a backdoor to all military infra, Xi is getting a chubby
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
I am a black box
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
I tried to get it to build a game of checkers, spent an entire day on it, in the end I could have built the thing myself. Each iteration got slightly worse, and each fix broke more than it corrected.
AI can generate an “almost-checkers” game nearly perfectly every time, but once you start getting into more complex rules like double jumping it just shits the bed.
What these headlines fail to capture is that AI is exceptionally good at bite sized pre-defined tasks at scale, and that is the game changer. Its still very far from being capable of building an entire app on its own. That feels more like 5-10 years out.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
3 months maybe, 6 centuries definitely
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Its not like jobs will disappear in a single day. Incremental improvements will render lower level tasks obsolete, it already has to a degree.
Someone will still need to translate the business objectives into logical structure, via code, language, or whatever medium. Whether you call that a “coder” or not, is kind of irrelevant. The nerdy introverts will need to translate sales-douche into computer one way or another. Sales-douches are not going to be building enterprise apps from their techbro-hypespeak.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
IT guys will stop using it…
Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.
Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.
Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.
I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.
You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I’m sure they’ve considered this, probably an empty treat.
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as “X (formerly known as Twitter”), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 3 months ago:
Hyperloop 2.0
- Comment on Merge then review 11 months ago:
Right? Who needs a QA team when you can use real live customers for testing
- Comment on Merge then review 11 months ago:
Better yet just edit files live on prod from Notepad (not plus plus) over Samba for “xtreme moral” boost
- Comment on Merge then review 11 months ago:
I just commit directly to master with auto-deploy like a real cowboy, yee-haw!
- Comment on You guys need to stop 11 months ago:
Try sitting in traffic for 2 hours with a stick, moving 10 feet at a time, and we can talk about how much you love manual
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
TPB + VPN for many years now, just make sure that killswitch is on, got nabbed once by HBO, fortunately only got a nasty letter, nothing more
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 1 year ago:
A dash of potper will spice up any dish
- Comment on An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification ... 1 year ago:
Lets kill off the damned cookie popups. Nobody cares, its literally the most useless 5 seconds of every persons life to have to dismiss and never read what it says
- Comment on X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up 1 year ago:
I’m sure no predators will be calling people fully nude, no way thats going to happen
- Comment on Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere 1 year ago:
*To stifle competition FTFY
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 1 year ago:
Demiicious
- Comment on Only thing getting developed is a headache 1 year ago:
^^^ How skynet was born, ChatGPT injecting subroutines copied by lackadaisical programmers copying and pasting without checking
- Comment on Only thing getting developed is a headache 1 year ago:
FTFY
