Nighed

@Nighed@feddit.uk

• ⁨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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be surprised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact defederation is a negative since now you have to worry about new signups, moderation, etc. While in a federated instance, you can leave moderation to other instances and only allow team/company members on your instance.

  They are going to moderate their communities, if its unfederated, you don’t have to worry about moderating (or the lack of) on any other instances communities at all.

  Users can sign up on other instances and still be able to interact with your instance for support, help and other stuff.

  Thats going to be too confusing for a lot of users - they just want to sign up and complain about/discuss things.

  It depends if they are saying, we have a community on lemmy (federation fine) or saying, here is our official forum thing (federation bad)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are a company looking for a forum, you want to be able to control it. Unfederated means you can control account access and don’t have to worry about someone going to All and seeing porn etc.

  Federated could work, but you need to make it clear that it’s just a community on a platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could force latest comment sort on the posts, but leave the comments sorting to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Reddit style voting/threading is superior of forums though.

  An unfederated Lemmy instance for example would actually be really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Old World?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I might just be bad at it, but all my games ended up being either a boring cake walk, or ridiculously difficult.

  Never really got into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking more of a spinlaunch thing, that would make more sense, but would require a fuckton of industry in space or on the moon to have it work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You still need to fire an engine on the far side of your orbit though which makes it more difficult as it still needs to be able to propel itself (while surviving the acceleration)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look for a square or an X (or a square with an X in it) right Infront of the stop line for the lights. If it’s there, that detects a car waiting.

  There may be more of them further up the road to detect more cars waiting/arriving.

  They tend not to detect cyclists, so I often have to move to the side and wave cars forward so lights on side streets will change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider temperature and fan controls to be safety critical for demisting windows etc for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t going to read the article until I read your comment. Wtf!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks to be about 50/50 between the dictionaries I looked at. Wikipedia includes friends in it’s definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that is included in nepotism nowadays (used to be family only, now more general)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite tech interview technique was the code review style. Give them some code with a range of deliberate issues and ask them to code review it live on the call.

  Tests their code comprehension and as you can ask them questions live, it’s reasonably AI proof (I think). You can ask them to refactor things on the call, which tends to be something AI is weak at. It also requires no take home work for the applicant.

  My company has just said that AI use in the interview is fine, but we will be asking questions as they work through it to check they actually understand things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Nepotism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to self-hosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of useful info, thanks!