rottingleaf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally speaking, when a much stronger party forces upon you a mechanism, it doesn’t work in your favor. Whether they call it free speech (for bot campaigns too, while you get banned) or moderation (your opponent insults you in every comment, and they are fine, but you insult them once - you’re banned).

  The super weirdest thing is that people again and again believe that the strong party belonging to “their” side will do things right this time in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cheaper and more dangerous, and usually done where natural gas is much cheaper than gasoline. Yes, explosions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I love such headlines, as if every minute or every cycle don’t.

  Admittedly my eyesight is in sad shape, but better than my mental state, so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Security concerns usually don’t talk about themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s politics, all big companies do politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t even make sense. One can have a voice bot with an LLM, if it’s so bad. One can ask if the customer wants to get an SMS with an URL to support page. Asking them if they want to be sent to operators after that.

  But just 15 minutes basic wait so that less people would reach operators - why the hell, I don’t get it, how is it better than just waiting in queue when all operators are busy and not waiting when, well, not. If the operators are overloaded and perform worse - then allow bigger ACW times, more breaks, maybe hire more operators.

  Especially for a computer hardware company one can script most support calls pretty unambiguously. They are not going to be helping out a grandma via phone when “Internet isn’t working”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly aphantasia, though some kinds of imagination are close to that for me. Rather that something remote is very hard to imagine, while triggers, like sounds and smells and physical feelings and harmonic progressions, make something very easy to imagine.

  So if I know that I have to do something or else my head rolls off, the deadline being in 3 hours, I won’t be as concentrated as the typical person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, see, I even have a mental condition which should supposedly make that my problem more than that of most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen your wrong opinion, but without arguments it’s useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, about service problems and Steam - I understand why it happened, but sanctions on Russia causing my inability to not buy, but even find in store some games kinda affect it. One small nuance is that family members of those, well, making decisions in Russia are often in the western countries feeling themselves very well (including Steam games), and those who are not do not, I think, have problems dealing with this. And, btw, topping up your Steam wallet is possible, just via intermediaries with some additional expense.

  OK, this is not about Steam, this is about sanctions efficiency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One can use natural gas (usually combined with some amount of gasoline). In terms of safety - if you’ve ever seen gas stations with concrete walls between fueling spots, that’s where this is popular, so not very safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In some Star Wars book, of the period between PT and OT, there was a similar moment, but I don’t remember details. Context - it’s described as some slow transition, while the Republic of the Clone Wars had military censorship and many freedoms curbed, after the war supposedly ended and the Empire proclaimed, it legally and procedurally was mostly the same and the military limitations were in part lifted. So there were protests and attempts to use legal mechanisms, with such funny events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  13+ years ago when I’d say why I hate social media, cloud services, all this convenient dependence, everybody would act as if this was stupid.

  My logic was that if there’s a mechanism allowing such influence, no matter how small, its power will grow almost until the death of such an ecosystem. Because the returns of abusing it will always be more than the expenses.

  I don’t like this Cassandra feeling really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to what? I didn’t name a specific country, but you can pick some and let us compare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, there’s also extrapolation here though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s called human brain. If it makes sense that a missing punch card would contain jump to address from some register, then make another one such.

  I’m joking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn't really explain how it'll help [game] developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In WoT game there was such a category of mods called “оленеметр”, literally “deer-o-meter”, where “deer” is a word for, ahem, the worst kind of “noob”.

  I suppose that’s what they mean - a tool that analyzes players in a match by their previous games and stats and shows some colors and icons indicating that this one has good reaction, this one is likely to become erratic when their team starts losing, and so on. Also suggests best course of action against them.

  I suspect that this is also how they are weaponizing these things IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Calls for Tech Patriotism, Warns of AI Warfare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we think that having more efficient killbots in sufficient amounts is what a patriot wants - this doesn’t have anything to do with surveillance tech and companies stuffing it everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  All abstract ideas are good, and those with less assumptions are more abstract, but the problem is - nobody wants purely abstract ideas.

  Pretty Victorian conditions in factories producing all those nice things we have, for example, would not be acceptable in USA.

  Which means that this abstract idea is somehow mixed and divided with a border with another abstract idea.

  Differently in one place and in another.

  OK, I’m using a boring and long way to say that some things have to be balanced. Bad labor conditions allow cheaper production, skewing competitive balance. Tariffs or something like that can in theory balance it out back again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And most can be replaced with nothing with no loss in value

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  one can number them with a pen, and then find the missing one or guess what was there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and with all that combined twice as expensive and twice longer is kinda fine. Provided it will function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct, but people always want to believe their enemy’s enemy is their friend, and if their enemy is ideological, then that enemy’s enemy must be their ideological friend, and same with morality. That’s never so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Those with which you don’t have record suicide rates at workplace, probably, with workers jump out of windows, the solution to which was to put grids like in prison. Talking of Foxconn.

  I get it, people have it hard everywhere, but some have it harder, and between American and Chinese workers the relation is clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be used to give us the boot

  Right.

  so they dont need to pay us wages and benefits.

  Wrong. Simpler, so they feel they are better than us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was “scientific” when they’d “confirm” it with stats.

  What they call AI today is a family of obscure statistical instruments pretending to carry truth in that trait alone.

  No, other than having stats you should also know and be capable of proving how those stats apply to the task at hand.

  And they use the all-powerful electronic computation machine as a piece of technomagic to give it credibility.

  Have you read Klemperer’s book on Third Reich’s language? I recommend it highly. Nazis used a lot of names for their policies, the subtle semantics of which are usually lost when translating from German. They used terms from radio and from automobile industry, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but the face is a display of your genetical base, your hormonal exposure the last few years and of your health currently. Btw, that’s why the face is important in dating.

  Everything is a display of everything else affecting it.

  You are in some sense correct.

  But using statistical instruments requires deep understanding of how they work. The article hints at that too.

  And you do use it the same way in social context, although subsconsciously.

  My experience is very different. When I see faces on photos, I get a completely different impression than seeing their owners personally and talking to them. Including romantic context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Undernet and #bookz for me somehow turned out to be easier than more popular styles of piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I frankly only used those to generate pictures and sometimes helloworlds for a few languages, which didn’t work and didn’t seem to make sense. It was long enough ago.

  Also I have ASD, so it’s hard enough for me to make consistent clear sense from something small. A machine-generated junk to give ideas is the last thing I need, my thought process is different.