kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 1 week ago:
Oh, I’m sure the US taxpayer is somehow footing the bills for those. We always pay full price on anything relating to trump.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 2 weeks ago:
I saw a bunch of articles in the past few weeks about seniors needing to work more years and the idea of retirement in the US needing to change. Seems like the republicans are coming for social security soon. Maybe we shouldnt be tossing out young immigranst from the US when they are the best labor pool we can possibly get.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Pretty fair analysis even though I dont enjoy the conclusion.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Between “no child left behind”, epstein island involving pretty much the entire monied elite and political class, and cabncelling health care and food aid for kids, I dont know what “for the kids” even means anymore in the US.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Celebrating nvidias big investment in Israel didnt help either. Daily killing of innocents continues while he ships pallets of money over. He’s not unique in tech CEOs being arseholes, but he’s definitely another trash human being. The world would instantly be a better place without most tech CEOs.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 2 weeks ago:
If my 3090 or mobo dies, for instance, I can send it to a repairperson and have a good chance of saving it.
While throwing out working things is terrible, the cost of servicing a motherboard outpaces the cost of replacing it. They can possibly still charge you 200 dollars and tell you the board cant be fixed, right? I think the right balance is that you observe the warranty period, try to troubleshoot it yourself --and then call it a day, unless you have a 400+ dollar motherboard.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 weeks ago:
the theory that distinct generational behaviors can be bounded in ~15 year increments (which you display nicely above) has always seemed a bit off to me.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 2 weeks ago:
when browsers overload the url field to act as a search field, can you blame people for not knowing the difference? To the users its become a distinction without a difference.
They say that whats tolerated is whats encouraged. Browser software companies have encouraged people to be uninformed about the tool they are using. Easier to mess with them that way.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 3 weeks ago:
It was made for pocket watches and they keep it around for no particular reason. I find it useless and a waste of denim.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 3 weeks ago:
They have dumb people too, same as any other population of humans.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 3 weeks ago:
Hard to imagine a more disgusting headline for Nvidia. I hope they go broke.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 3 weeks ago:
They’ll eventually destroy nvidia, like they do to everything else they touch. Nvidia is just a tool to them. The US government is just a tool to them too.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
complete worldwide boycott of american products. America is run by oligarchs who only care about money. They’d fold overnight.
- Comment on Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks 1 month ago:
yes. laws are laws.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
We’re all idiots. Even the titans of industry-- sit down with then-- they are idiots, at best. narcissists and criminals at worst. At least you and I lack the power to be that awful with our idiocy.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
I work in an company who is all-in on selling AI and we are trying desperately to use this AI ourselves. We’ve concluded internally that AI can only be trusted with small use cases that are easily validated by humans, or for fast prototyping work… hack day stuff to validate a possibility but not an actual a high quality safe and scalable implementation, or in writing tests of existing code, to increase test coverage (yes, I know thats a bad idea but QA blessed the result… so uh … cool).
The use case we zeroed in on is writing well schema'd configs in yaml or json. Even then, a good percentage of the time the AI will miss very significant mandatory sections, or add hallucinations that are unrelated to the task at hand. We then can use AI to test AI's work, several times using several AIs. And to a degree, it'll catch a lot of the issues, but not all. So we then code review and lint with code we wrote that AI never touched, and send all the erroring configs to a human. It does work, but cant be used for mission critical applications. And nothing about the AI or the process of using it is free. Its also disturbingly not idempotent. Did it fail? Run it again a few times and it'll pass. We think it still saves money when done at scale, but not as much as we promise external AI consumers. The Senior leadership know its currently overhyped trash and pressure us to use it anyway on expectations it'll improve in the future, so we give the mandatory crisp salute of alignment and we're off.I will say its great for writing reviews. It adds nonsense and doesnt get the whole review correct, but it writes very flowery stuff so managers dont have to. So we use it for first drafts and then remove a lot of the true BS out of it. If it gets stuff wrong, oh well, human perception is flawed.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 months ago:
I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons – except for you evidently.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 2 months ago:
yes but all the code will be wrong and you will spend your entire day chasing stupid mistakes and hallucinations in the code. I’d rather just write the code myself thanks.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 3 months ago:
yes, we give them all of our money.
- Comment on STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise 3 months ago:
Best ratings the star trek franchise has ever seen, by a huge margin, and they toss it in the trash.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 months ago:
yes, except the bullshit cancer discoveries are always in Israel, and the bullshit chip designs are in china.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 months ago:
sounds like bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
How does one become a corporate troll?
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 3 months ago:
We already knew cops arent smart or in any way serving for the American people, or informed about laws, this gives them the perfect vehicle to match.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 months ago:
Does blame itself matter though? Can we steer opinions with such a thing and make real change or is that ability an illusion, and blame a …verbal masturbation?
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 months ago:
I’m starting to lose hope in the progress of humanity at all. I am pretty sure we wont solve our critical problems. We just arent capable of doing so as a group. And we will keep bombing and burning until the planet cant sustain itself any longer. We are not really progressing in our social infrastructure and philosophies at all-- we might as well be humans from 5000 years ago, only sedentary, holding iphones and bathed in chemicals all day.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 months ago:
religions are the absolute bane of human philosophy. Its prepackaged bundles of ideas that no one is allowed to challenge. Most religions are basically ridiculous and easily proved false. They serve to control. All of them were written by flawed people from long ago, and it shows.
The meaning of all writing is based on the time it exists in. Whats in the bible (and Koran, and Talmud) today doesnt mean what it meant two thousand years ago, and even then it was probably sketchy. Now its worse and getting more irrelevant all the time. But say that out loud in any setting except an anonymous internet chatroom, and everyone shuns you, at best.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 months ago:
I’ve noticed no one has books anymore though. I used to be able to go to peoples houses, look at their bookcase, and learn lots about them. No one has bookcases full of books on display anymore except really old people. Even our library has been mostly emptied and has maybe a fifth of the number of books it used to have. I have no idea where all those book went.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 months ago:
where’s that Kylo Ren MORE! meme at…
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 months ago:
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