MajorHavoc
@MajorHavoc@programming.dev
- Comment on UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation 6 days ago:
World’s shortest investigation:
“Guilty as fuck, right?”
“Oh, yeah. Guilty as fuck.”
“Lunch?”
“I could eat.”
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 2 weeks ago:
Those look like military industrial complex budget numbers.
I try not to let my kids play games that normalize war, ever since my nephew enlisted out of a sense of duty - after playing a lot of CoD.
Enlisting basically ruined his life. His choice to enlist interrupted his successful small business venture and left him with PTSD.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Leaks Ramp Up as New Patent Suggests AI Image Upscaling Tech 2 weeks ago:
What I’m hearing is that Sonic and Mario are going to sometimes render with a full set of five fingers (since AI often randomly adds extra fingers)…
- Comment on US recommends encrypted messaging as Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks 1 month ago:
“fuck it. We tried. Oh well.”
- Comment on Trump threatens a 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they abandon U.S. dollar 1 month ago:
To your point, I think we’re agreeing. My point is that government is for when the open market fails. Providing margin against known common disasters and shortages is one such case. Tariffs and subsidies can close the gap to provide incentive to have local production of things like clean water, food, power, medical supplies, and computer chips.
- Comment on Trump threatens a 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they abandon U.S. dollar 1 month ago:
Except corn, which is heavily su subsidized.
I’m in favor of additional subsidies to support local manufacturing of critical products, to protect the local population against the whims of the global market.
I’m not a huge fan of tariffs, but in theory tariffs can get the same job done. And I’m willing to concede that a balance between subsidies and tariffs might be the sweet spot for practicality, or might be a necessary a step on the journey to pragmatic people centric policies.
- Comment on Trump threatens a 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they abandon U.S. dollar 1 month ago:
I’m with you, but I can see the other side of this.
The US experienced shocking shortages during the global pandemic.
I’m not personally a huge fan of tariffs as the way to keep manufacturing local, but I think it’s a goal worth pursuing.
And I value of impact of global trade toward peace, and I’m increasingly inclined to believe it’s critical for our survival as a race.
But I’m sympathetic to having some provision for ensuring local production of basic necessities. It’s foolish to always assume that someone will be willing and able to ship what we need halfway across the globe.
I’m not sure that tariffs are an acceptable answer, but I am sure that we need to stop assuming there will always be another impoverished nation excited to be exploited to produce things for us cheap.
It’s wise to have some provision for locally producing critical things.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 1 month ago:
made a bunch of mods to it, still chugs along.
Ooh, that’s a good point. I had a similar experience. Specifically, I didn’t really know what I needed when I bought my Prusa, so I didn’t get all the features. I was pleased to be able to buy/print and mod in a few of the features I was missing in my initial purchase.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 1 month ago:
I’ll second the Prusa Mk III. I feel like no 3d printer is really hassle-free, but my Prusa felt more reliable than my level of experience probably deserved at each stage of my journey.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Sure but an automated ban and manual review and removal could easily leave them blocked for more hours than not, each day.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Lol. That’s true. I suspect that Xitter doesn’t have the staff or engineering talent left to pivot to enforce any new rules internally. It should be possible to catch them in a constant automated ban without hitting anything worthwhile.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 months ago:
Let’s at least block the government agencies from using it in favor of open platforms and protocols to communicate with its citizens.
Yeah. When public services solely use Xitter or Facebook pisses me off. We can and should make that shit illegal.
- Comment on Boeing issues layoff notices as aerospace giant cuts 17,000 jobs 2 months ago:
Boeing is in the “and find out” phase.
Naturally, a leaner Boeing will emerge. An emaciated Boeing. A Boeing ready to continue to royally fuck up, while running more ragged with fewer resources and less talent.
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 2 months ago:
They are not all the same.
Measure the diameter of the hole at the bottom of the water holding tank. It’s the main difference between older and newer toilets in the US.
Any US toilet repair kit should list what diameters it supports.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.
“Tres Comas is for winners.”
- Comment on Toast 2 months ago:
Thank you for your service to the public.
- Comment on Glow Filament Quickshot 2 months ago:
Sweet.
- Comment on NLRB: Grindr used RTO mandate to reduce headcount 2 months ago:
Oh my. It was never about productivity at all?
I am shocked! Shocked, I say!
- Comment on Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct. 2 months ago:
Lol. Yep.
Anyone want to jump in and confidently vouch that Musk’s moral code won’t allow him to harvest human brains from living humans, shove them in a bottle, and use them as a fake AI in his fleet?
- Comment on Maybe the concept of nothing does not exist. Maybe the fabric of Spacetime is always there. 2 months ago:
Historically, “nothing” is the label we apply when none of the things we are currently able to detect are present.
After we can detect what actually is there, we update our description to the much more accurate term “practically nothing”.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 2 months ago:
There isn’t a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
Lol. Yet.
No doubt it will be discovered by a tool assisted speed runner.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 2 months ago:
Large corporate donors decide, in a non-representatives systems.
Also, I think they meant to say “both parties”.
- Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 2 months ago:
It was browser hijacking malware.
I don’t like when people talk about my friend, Bonzi Buddy, that way! Lol. It’s completely fair and accurate, but I still don’t like to hear it. He was so cute!
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 2 months ago:
Was the byline written by AI?
This comment was also brought to you by the artificial intelligence boom, and has as much to do with it.
You can still purchase this comment as an NFT.
I’m working with a supplier to create a limited edition Pog, with this comment printed on it.
This is the official comment of the new millennium.
This comment is drifting slowly backwards in time, in hopes of escaping the AI hype machine into an earlier, equally stupid hype train, but one made more tolerable by nostalgia.
This comment still only costs 5 cents.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 2 months ago:
They are absolutely, positively, going to breach their face database and purchase history all over the Internet.
I’ve been watching for this with popcorn ready, and I’ve got a good/bad feeling that they’re playing for keeps in the race to be the biggest consumer privacy headline public relations disaster.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 2 months ago:
Honestly, they’ll probably miss that and pay massive fines in Illinois. It seems to be the traditional approach by companies that get into this to also not bother to listen to anyone who could have told them not to.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
If even 1% of their companies pay off, they make a profit.
I suspect they make a profit even when 0% pan out. They just need to find someone gullible enough to buy in at the peak, and there’s a new sucker born every minute.
- Comment on 'Garbage in, garbage out': AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds. 2 months ago:
Agreed!
I don’t mean sarcasticly, honestly. As you said, it’s still valuable science.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 2 months ago:
Looks like a successfullybtrained learning model, to me. (Sarcasm)
- Comment on U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken. 2 months ago:
“border authorities and their supporters in Congress are continuing to promote unproven, AI-driven technologies as the latest remedy for years of failures, including the ones voiced in the memo obtained by NBC News. These systems involve cameras controlled by algorithms that automatically identify and track objects or people of interest. But in an age when algorithmic errors and bias are being identified nearly everyday in every sector including law enforcement, it is unclear how this technology has earned the trust of the government.”
It’s easy to conclude that the intent here was always to establish an automated general threat of harm - to all poor people in sight of these towers.