GenosseFlosse
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- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 day ago:
AI stands for “actually indians”?
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 4 days ago:
Then what’s the point? If I deliver some code that gets right maybe 4/10 then my boss would tell me to get fucked and never deployed. Yet when companies slap an “AI” sticker on the same bad results it its somehow worth billions and the next hot thing.
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 4 days ago:
It’s absolutely not, because AI will just make up stuff, even if the email is just gibberish. I get assigned jira tasks where the manager tirs hist 8 word notes into a whole paragraph, except ai does not kow the context, problem or the product he is talking about and just generates some buzzword filler text that is 80% wrong.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
Now, one place it’s more of a problem is in things like transformer windings. There are kilometers of wiring in any of them, so the higher resistance of aluminum is a problem.
Is it? As far as I know you can use a larger diameter wire to get the same resistance as copper, if your device has enough space for bigger coils.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
In a lot of cases you can also use Aluminum instead of copper. You need thicker wires and it’s less flexible, but it’s doable and cheaper. Some old electric motors from the eastern block used aluminium coils for that matter, because copper was much more expensive there.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
East Germany
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
Remember the slaves with 12+ holidays a years, 20+ holidays, free healthcare, free education, free child care and price controls for rent and food and no billionaires?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but if you have it as a Windows program it’s easier to configure on a screen with mouse and keyboard, change settings, display help files or give the source code to someone else to make changes or add features.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
In highrises with lots of stops and users, it uses some more advanced software to schedule the optimal stops, or distribute the load between multiple lifts. A similar concept exists for HDD controllers, where the read write arm must move to different positions to load data stored on different plates.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
This task is not that complicated. You have a list of timestamps with the seconds and the number of interactions for that second. All you need to do is to find the seconds with the most interactions. On a 1h video this would be only 3600 calculations if currentValue id greater than maxValue. If you store it as a Plain integer array you would need ~14KB of RAM. For comparison, a 1987 homecomputer with a 68000 CPU would do ~7Million calculations per second and have ~512kB of RAM, depending on the options.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Why do you need “AI” for this? That is something that can be done client side on a 30 year old phone without sweat!
- Comment on License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 3 weeks ago:
Flying cars are both shitty planes with terrible aerodynamics, and shitty cars with terrible dimensions, interior space and handling.
- Comment on Spoon 3 weeks ago:
Oh, i thought they where used because the would hold pretty much exactly 1g of coke so dealers used them?
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 3 weeks ago:
It used transistor to Transistor logic or ttl, which means chips are wired together on the board to build the “code” and handle Inputs and Outputs, because affordable CPUs, ram or storage did not exist when the first arcades came out. However with more complex games this became increasingly expensive because each additional chip caused costs for parts, soldering work, warranty, potential failures during operation.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 weeks ago:
Tired that as well, no luck.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 weeks ago:
The problem that i cant find the setting, or it’s in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some “feature” where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 weeks ago:
“Hey Dave, I installed CandyCrush and the LinkedIn App for you for windows during the latest update!”
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 weeks ago:
Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent…
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, except that ai is almost 40% wrong, yet it pretends to know everything and sounds very convincing. It will never tell you “i don’t know” or “that’s a bad idea, don’t do that” like a real person or friend would do but instead encourages your with everything. Still, app developers sell ai chat bots as “virtual friends” to insecure people.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 month ago:
Yeah, just not on the consumer side 🙃
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 month ago:
Booking is also pretty scummy. There was a blog post a few years ago from a hotel that always showed up as sold out, even it had plenty empty rooms. In the end it was a “feature” where hotels could “promote” their business so it would show up first, but the competition would also be listed as unavailable to force visitors into the promoted business. The other thing is that booking will show “only one room left” to pressure you into booking right now, but what ot actually means is that a hotel might only allocate 20 of 100 rooms to booking, and still has 81 free rooms if you call them directly.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 month ago:
Neither will the rest of the world, if their cars fail the safety requirements in all the other countries.
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- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
It’s just a map pack for Far Cry 3 anyway…
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
I use AI for programming questions, because it’s easier than digging 1h through official docs (if they exists) and frustrating trial and error.
However quite often the ai answers are wrong by inserting nonsense code, using for instead of foreach or trying to access variables that are not always set.
Yes it helps, but it’s usually only 60% right.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Yes, but this only works if you connect your VPN via 3 block chain proxies.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Ad Networks use browser fingerprinting to detect duplicate clicks, which is tied to your hardware, system locale, installed fonts etc.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 months ago:
Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours… 🙃
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 2 months ago:
What are you talking about? There is more than one tax, on top of municipal or federal there are taxes for income, products and services, wealth, profit etc. - not just vat.
And tax is not “taken away” from people, ot goes back into the economy by building roads and brides, social care for the elderly can afford rent and food, employment and contracts for people working in the region.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 2 months ago:
Lol, go and visit some country with a very low tax rate or no tax. need to visit a hospital? That’s a 3h drive across some unpaved road on the next big city. Want to cook your food? Go and collect some wood for your brick stove, because the city does not provide gas or power to your house. Need water or power? See gas. Want to read a book? Bad luck, there was no free school service in your village to learn how to read. House on fire or crime in the neighborhood? Well I have more bad news for you .
