Tamo240

@Tamo240@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least an expensive car is usually a better product though, so many of these t-shirts are simply cheap cotton but the price is $$$$ because the logo of a company that also makes actually expensive products is on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with every point you made, and obviously this is better than having no cap at all, but this is exactly what makes the argument a false dichotomy, which the government is doing more than you were. Any positives are only relative to the single invented alternative, not any of the better solutions.

  The simple fact is that public services like public transport, the NHS, postal service etc should not need to be profitable. They should never be expected to support themselves financially and should be funded by taxation on those who can most afford, not increasing the cost for use by those that most require it’s services.

  Public services will continue to crack and fail until we have a government that understands this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks mate, editted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have renewed it at £2 and still increased the funding without taking it from people who rely on public transport.

  No false dichotomies please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cap has been increased by 150% from £2 to £3.

  Please under no circumstances do trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be in the camp of believing the hype. See this write up of an apple paper detailing how adding simple statements that should not impact the answer to the question severely disrupts many of the top model’s abilities.

  In Bloom’s taxonomy of the 6 stages of higher level thinking I would say they enter the second stage of ‘understanding’ only in a small number of contexts, but we give them so much credit because as a society our supposed intelligence tests for people have always been more like memory tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chris Kaba shooting: Firearms officer not guilty of murder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the immediate danger is the car, couldn’t they shoot the tires instead of the driver? I don’t understand how you can claim to not have intended to kill a person you have aimed a firearm at and pulled the trigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Third-party tool "Rebound 11" aims to improve the Windows 11 UI, while keeping system files intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This tool is FOSS, what do you really mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure you already can’t block him specifically, I’m not on Xitter but have heard from several people this is the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably Miniminuteman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should gather that before they set the price. Once the box office doors open, increasing the price is price gouging plain and simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with this whole ‘market price’ thing because as a consumer you don’t have constant opportunity to buy. You get one slot where you are are the front of the queue, and if you don’t like the price then tough. It essentially just rewards those who got to the front sooner, and punishes later joiners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that Epic complaining about being unable to compete with Steam, and therefore needing to employee anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices rings a little hollow given that they have significantly more resources available.

  I’m not here to stan for either company, I think if Epic wants to compete they need to create a better product, not fling monopoly accusation while actively pursuing monopolistic strategies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick google says epic has 13000+ employee while Valve has only 300+, and yet they can’t build a legitimate competitor and have to resort to exclusivity deal to force people onto their platform which is totally anti consumer.

  Also for the record console players whine endlessly about Xbox/PS exclusive games, so don’t act like this is some weird thing that PC gamers do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone in software engineering will tell you that as you get more senior you spend less time writing lines code and more time planning, designing, testing, reviewing, and deleting code.

  This will continue to be true, it’s just that there will be less juniors below who’s whole job is to produce code that meets a predefined spec or passes an existing test, and instead a smaller number of juniors will use AI tools to increase their productivity, while still requiring the same amount of direction and oversight. The small amounts of code the seniors write will also get smaller and faster to write, as they also use AI tools to generate boilerplate while filling in the important details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you completely, but he did say no need for ‘human programmers’ not 'human software engineers. The skill set you are describing is one I would put forward is one of if not the biggest different between the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that benefit devs? Epic should swallow the cost of it wants to do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a bunch of people photographed that same incident from different angles, clearly it’s real

  Interesting that this is the threshold because it might need to be raised. In the past it was definitely true that perspective was a hard problem to solve, so multiple angles would increase the likelihood of veracity. Now with AI tools and even just the proliferation and access to 3D effects packages it might no longer be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC water happens to appear similarly to a lot of explosives on the metric they use for what the composition of items in the scanner is.

  Improvements are being made though so soon we may be allowed to take water through unrestricted:

  Why Airport Security Suddenly Got Better (13:01) youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ?si=RTjA8GRuZaMIJs9d

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The goal is not to stop the people in the queue being attacked, its to stop someone boarding a plane with the means to hijack it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to talk about the PM of the UK.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually Maps are just ‘Honourable’, only Privy Council members are ‘Right Honourable’.