JohnAnthony

@JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the general idea of the article, but there are a few wild takes that kind of discredit it, in my opinion.

  “Imagine the calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM, more than older computers had in total” - well yes, the memory leak went on to waste 100% of the machine’s RAM. You can’t leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine. Correct, but hardly mind-bending.
  “But VSCodium is even worse, leaking 96GB of RAM” - again, 100% of available RAM. This starts to look like a bad faith effort to throw big numbers around. “Also this AI ‘panicked’, ‘lied’ and later ‘admitted it had a catastrophic failure’” - no it fucking didn’t, it’s a text prediction model, it cannot panic, lie or admit something, it just tells you what you statistically most want to hear. It’s not like the language model, if left alone, would have sent an email a week later to say it was really sorry for this mistake it made and felt like it had to own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, autonomous bodywide scratching

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is more specific in France, but I actually dug around regulations a year ago when the other homeowners in my building wanted to install a security camera. The common parts of a residential building are considered somewhere in between public and private.

  The short version is you need majority approval, the tape can only be accessed if something happens, you can’t film apartments doors or windows and as few people as possible may have access. Which put quite a damper on my neighbours who were already celebrating how they would watch who enters and leaves the building at all times.
  Bunch of fucking weirdos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  rsync -avzhP gang unite! I knew someone would have posted my standard flags

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨psycho killer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is well said and something I often struggle to express without sounding super creepy. If someone is attracted to kids, but would never touch one because they know it would be profoundly wrong, I believe they should be congratulated and directed to therapy. Prison, a public lynching or self loathing and isolation are not going to help.

  Which doesn’t have much in common with pedo island, obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My interpretation was that pink lady shouted out some crap formula FBI guy does not understand anyway so they would be left alone again.

  Last panel half contradicts it, half just leans harder into the absurdity of it all. I wouldn’t expect physicists to care much about Rubik’s Cubes, I think even the cliché fits mathematicians much better.

  Basically, my spontaneous takeaway was “government and media are so science-illiterate that nobody understands anyone anymore”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I an idiot for trying to match the "DODOdo"s with Darude - Sandstorm?

  They don’t match. Don’t try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ok, imagine a gun."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be biased by the question but I spontaneously thought of “pistolet à clous” as the most common term (which indeed translates to nail gun)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The future is now. The future is also ten, twenty and thirty years ago! According to GitHub’s Chief Executive Idiot himself:

  the skills that will matter most include system design, AI fluency, delegation, and quality assurance

  Except for “AI fluency”, this has been true for fucking ever. No serious work environment evaluates their developers on how quickly they can vomit code (or so I hope): the job is indeed about design, quality and working as a team in general.
  Which means a tool that does not help with any of these is already not a revolution. When the tool actively makes quality worse and collaboration more complicated, I get the impression it is actually detrimental.

  Mind you, I might be dead wrong. I am personally not impressed so far. It seems to be a better autocomplete, but I don’t want to throw a glass of water out the window every time I press tab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but at least Abilene was insured against such an attack

  Oh, well that’s great. I hope the people, whose identity, medical records, or whatever else was stolen will be compensated accordingly. Would be a shame if the money went into building a new, just as unsafe system.

  Not that anyone gives a fuck. At this point the argument is “your data had probably already been stolen somewhere else”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly would never have guessed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is the expected amount of negativity in the comments, but also more positivity than I expected.

  I watched the video. I am not really a fan of the style, I don’t agree with all of the content. But damn, a big influencer is using his reach to talk about retaking privacy and control in your online life. It can be such a difficult subject to pitch without sounding crazy. I think the video existing is great and pushes general awareness in the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, little Bobby 3d we call him