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- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 1 hour ago:
Just RMA it (or the motherboard?)
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 10 hours ago:
Because then you have an expensive robot not being used, while still keeping the wage bill.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 5 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks ago:
You would be surprised
- Comment on Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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) 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.