zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 days ago:
Restaurants are allowed to pay their employees below minimum wage.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 days ago:
It should but it doesn’t. Like for a while starbucks tips would go towards the shift that cleans the place.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 4 days ago:
Are clean surfaces something special?
- Comment on CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI 5 days ago:
Started my own LLC and moving to contract work because I don’t want to deal with assholes like this being my boss.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
For the Epstein list to be released and for all the wealthy pesos to be executed.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
The point is that being a consumer of AI is not seizing the means of production. If you’re not spending millions of dollars training and operating the AI to actually own it, the power you have is on lease and the terms can change at anytime without regard to your needs or wishes.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 week ago:
A functioning judicial system is a prerequisite to any sort of accountability. And if we had a judicial system that served the people, then the Epstein client list would be known and prosecuted. The problem is we have a two-tiered justice system.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
More like national socialist
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
AI isn’t your pal, it is not the cure for isolation under capitalism. It is also not free to run unless you are the product.
Frankly this take that AI will lead to a communist revolution if people embrace the technology reads more like Vulgar Marxism. You’re not seizing the means of production by being a consumer of a technology. And training a communist aligned LLM is a dubious value proposition.
- Comment on Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science 1 week ago:
it’s all computer!
- Comment on The struggle 1 week ago:
Get a squatty potty and it will flow with more ease
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
DOGE has entered the chat
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
It sounds like the state won.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Jesus literally said to pay your taxes. What is a tax other that forced redistribution?