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- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 10 hours ago:
They pack them in as tight as they can, so doing that fucks up two stations instead…
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 13 hours ago:
These work well. I have to power mine through the cigarette lighter, but newer cars should have USB power as standard.
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 13 hours ago:
That’s really annoying for everyone else though.
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 13 hours ago:
You can configure that I think? (The every keystroke, not the stupidity)
- Comment on IDEA to make this site standout why don't you make a live chatbox for people who have logged in? 1 week ago:
No.
People (mostly) use sites like this because of the threaded discussions.
It would also be hell to moderate.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 2 weeks ago:
I have to admit I didn’t read it through properly
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 2 weeks ago:
Just RMA it (or the motherboard?)
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 2 weeks ago:
Because then you have an expensive robot not being used, while still keeping the wage bill.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Places with the wireless battery powered payment terminals will still work without power for a while. Lots of them don’t even need network, they just sync up later.
But for the most part, if there is a significant power outage, things are screwed anyway.
- Comment on Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out 3 weeks ago:
I think the idea is that there are other events with similar risk profiles, the papal election is just an example of one.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 3 weeks ago:
That’s a cool photo, from 2022 apparently though, not this year.
Give it a couple of months and they can take photos for next year’s drought lead up…
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 weeks ago:
… Then the original meter must have been faulty?
All the smart meters do is make it easier to collect the readings (end enable fancy tarrifs)
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I can read way faster than I can type though. You still check it, but it’s pretty good as that kind of stuff once you have an example for it to follow.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Those are the easy time savings though, the safe easy stuff the developer doesn’t have to worry about anymore. (Giving them time do the gnarly stuff)
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Would be interesting to see how they measured that metric. Are they tagging individual lines as AI generated?
What those lines are too would be interesting,AI as auto complete is less dangerous than complete generation, but probably also less dangerous.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 5 weeks ago:
Is it the first ‘political’ one? (Not that this should be!)
I can’t remember many that reminded me it was a US based (I assume) comic.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 1 month ago:
I think he meant to just not ship to stores until all the online, pre-release orders had been delivered.
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 1 month ago:
No one wants to use their fabs because they’re bad!
(Not awful, but not cutting edge really any more)
- Comment on 11-year-old boy died cycling home after bus driver "beeped and startled him" before collision — but coroner concludes driving in line with Highway Code 1 month ago:
Horns are a hell of a lot louder when you’re not in a vehicle. There is really no such thing as a ‘friendly’ beep.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 month ago:
The company I worked for tried that as an experiment on how much money it saves.
Absolutely awful, even removing connectives causes problems.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 1 month ago:
You would be surprised
- Comment on Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? 1 month ago:
It looks like an open source project. Makes a hell of a lot more sense to implement using that than rolling your own? If it’s missing something you need, write it for them.
Writing your own implementation is extremely unlikely to differentiate your app/product. There is a spec, either you implement it and it works, or you don’t and it doesn’t. Using a maintained library is by far the better option.
Focus your time on the product you are building not the tech.
- Comment on The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests 1 month ago:
That’s why it’s on a preprint server I assume
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 1 month ago:
Yes. This is the technology community, not the buy European one.
Framework is pushing laptops in the right direction.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Build new computer. Old computer to be a home server running Linux or something fancy.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
That requires lots of cropland though. Hydrogen can effectively be made by offshore wind farms etc.
It might work if we reduce standard fuel requirements for cars etc enough.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
Electricity has been around that long too though, yet there are no serious electric passenger planes (with a decent range)
It has it’s flaws, but it may have a higher ceiling in terms of usefulness. They say they can make it work, which is more than I hear about electric planes for example.
We should be financially encouraging 0 carbon planes, without controlling how, then let the engineers work what tech to do it with.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
What are the other 0 carbon flight options? They are all flawed.
We can engineer our way through flaws with enough effort though.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
…then there should be regulatory actions to help make them viable
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
If anything, it’s way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance. …that was entirely my point.
Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? lots of small apps, orgs, communities etc just have a subreddit and a discord server. Lots of bigger companies have official or semi-official subreddits.
We’re all a big community. I think people get this quickly. Someone wanting to get support for their hoover or something may not. they create an account to discuss the pros and cons of certain hoover and see loads of random stuff about American politics and Linux. Their going to get real confused. Most people have heard of reddit now though (and to a lesser extent discord)