zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 4 days ago:
Decoupling the market was them admitting their stuff is not as popular to the global market
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 4 days ago:
So even Canada has lower labor costs because of universal healthcare.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 6 days ago:
我这样说是因为我了解历史
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 6 days ago:
If you make Roman salute/Nazi salute than your opinion is not worth considering. Either you’re doing it because you approve of an ideology that will always fail, or you lack the contextual awareness to form an insightful opinion.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 6 days ago:
Where do you think the Nazis got the salutes from? And for that matter, where do you think we got the word fascism from?
- Comment on Self starter 6 days ago:
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
When requirements are “Whatever” then by all means use the “Whatever” machine: eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
And then look for a better gig because such an environment is going to be toxic to your skill set. The more exacting the shop, the better they pay.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Literally the opposite experience when I helped material scientists with their R&D. Breaking in production would mean people who get paid 2x more than me are suddenly unable to do their job. But then again, our requirements made sense because we would literally look at a manual process to automate with the engineers.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The stock market makes no sense to me.
That’s because “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Maybe it is because I started out in QA, but I have to strongly disagree. You should assume the code doesn’t work until proven otherwise, AI or not.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Why would you ever yell at an employee unless you’re bad at managing people? And you think you can manage an LLM better because it doesn’t complain when you’re obviously wrong?
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Just stop anthropomorphizing LLMs and you’ll get a better sense of it’s limitations. A junior developer actually learns from doing the job, an LLM only learns when they update the training corpus and develop an updated model.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
It’s usually vastly easier to verify an answer than posit one, if you have the patience to do so.
I usually write 3x the code to test the code itself. Verification is often harder than implementation.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
DOGE has entered the chat
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
When LLMs get it right it’s because they’re summarizing a stack overflow or GitHub snippet it was trained on. But you loose all the benefits of other humans commenting on the context, pitfalls and other alternatives.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Pepper Ridge Farms remembers when you could just do a web search and get it answered in the first couple results. Then the SEO wars happened…
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like the state won.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 3 weeks ago:
So Caeser can take the money and kill Christians with it instead? I’m not sure you’re making the point you think you’re making.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 3 weeks ago:
Jesus literally said to pay your taxes. What is a tax other that forced redistribution?
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point…
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call
This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond
Wait, that sounds like the last century as well…
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 4 weeks ago:
Oh man I have a story about an unhoused lady who has dementia. I walk my dog and sometimes she recognizes me, other times she has no idea. One of the days I was walking the dog and she forgot who I was and asked to pet my dog. She thought I was unhoused as well for some reason and told me about some good spots to sleep. These people know what it means to survive based on the kindness of others.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 4 weeks ago:
I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 4 weeks ago:
I think it was David Graeber that pointed out that the poorer you are the more you need to be able to empathize with your boss and clients in order to survive.
But this notion that the middle class are somehow more empathetic is interesting because I think it is based on the (correct) idea that people need to actually own something in order to be generous. However, I find from personal experience, poor people have an easier time giving what they have because they know they can survive having nothing.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 4 weeks ago:
Just unlock it using your white voice.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
Developers destroyed the internet. Or do you think normies built the new advertising surveillance paradigm on their own? Hopefully they were well compensated.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
The oligarchs wouldn’t like that precedent but they might go for purchasing SpaceX since it is owned by a foreigner. Kind of like with TikTok…
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 5 weeks ago:
Description: Elon talks about the implications to JD Vance.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 5 weeks ago:
Communists are just as selfish as anyone else. Their point is that if we want a better life we need to move beyond capitalism, communism is an appeal to our selfish nature as much as it is a call for cooperation.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 1 month ago:
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die