Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “We’re not as bad as the worst of the worst” isn’t the gotcha you seem to think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And how exactly do we know for certain that all that juicy web access data complete linked to whatever identifying information associated with a Mozilla account isn’t going to be sold?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions.

  They’re just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don’t add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran says Strait of Hormuz open to all except US and allies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump specifically plays tic-tac-toe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran says Strait of Hormuz open to all except US and allies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  America’s and Israel’s thought they were going to kick the little kid on the schoolyard and instead what they did was open Pandora’s Box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for putting down patients that die and turn into zombies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive Arian Master Race vibes on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ‘blackmail’ us: Europe rejects Trump’s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s the funny part: at this stage the war only really ends if Iran wants it to end.

  If the US stops bombing them they can still keep on blocking passage in the Straight, pounding American bases in the region and attacking Israel - America unilaterally disengaging will only make it easier for Iran.

  Further, America bombing a school full of kids means that Iran has a lot more motivation as well as internal and even external support to extract their pound of flesh from America, Israel and their allies, and all those Golf nations around Iran with American bases in them are the easiest allies of America and Israel to go after.

  Last but not least, if indeed as some say the US and Israel are running low on interceptors AND if Iran’s strategy for a war with America also included in this, then it’s quite likelly that we’re entering the phase when Iran does the most damage, which would mean that Iran is even less motivated to stop if America disengages.

  The shit that Trump and Netanyahu seems to have gone beyond the Kicking A Smaller Kid In The Playground and into Openning Pandora’s Box territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ‘blackmail’ us: Europe rejects Trump’s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you burned the bridges you don’t get to cross back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.

  What’s next NVidia, an AI driver that play the game for you?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DLSS 7: You don’t even need gamers to play the game. AI will play the game for you.

  (Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct.

  A little digging shows that unlike the CE mark in the EU for electronics, “UL certification isn’t mandatory, but may be required when selling electronic items to retailers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  UL certification is a requirement for an electric or electronic product to be licensed for sale to consumers in the US. This is enforced on US manufacturers of a product and on importers.

  Whilst people buying something from AliExpress for personal use and importing it themselves don’t have to obbey such requirements, those importing them or making them for sale in the US do.

  The CE mark does the same thing in the EU.

  No idea if in the US there are further licensing requirements for things to be connected to the grid that would close the importing for personal use loophole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kinky taxonomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because “they’re doing nothing” is the norm.

  Nowadays Engineering stuff isn’t done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it’s entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be no states based on ethnicity, which definitelly means no Jewish State, no White state, no Black state, no Muslim state and so on.

  States having ethnic majorities, sure, state constitutionally giving more rights of to those of specific ethnic groups than others, that’s just Racism baked into the very Foundation of the State.

  Those “Pro-Israel observers” are essentially saying that the idea that there would be no Fundationally Racist state that benefits them is unpleasant for them - that’s very much an open admission that they’re Racists.

  Those who can’t understand how all this is a problem, just read that quote of what they said but replacing the words “Jews” and “Jewish” with “White”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually made money from NOT putting any of my investment money in NFTs.

  Then again, from the very start the NFT mania looked like a more obvious and dumb version of the Tulip Bulb mania, so I can hardly claim great wisdom from not having put a cent in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  The best way to learn is to have done the work yourself with all the mistakes that come from not knowing certain things, having wrong expectations or forgetting to account for certain situations, and then get feedback on your mistakes, especially if those giving the feedback know enough to understand the reasons behind the mistakes of the other person.

  Another good way to learn is by looking through good quality work from somebody else, though it’s much less effective.

  I suspect that getting feedback on work of “somebody” else (the AI) which isn’t even especially good yields, very little learning.

  So linking back to my previous post, even though the AI process wastes a lot of time from a more senior person, not only will the AI (which did most of the implementation) not learn at all, but the junior dev that’s supposed to oversee and correct the AI will learn very little thus will improve very little. Meanwhile with the process that did not involve an AI, the same senior dev time expenditure will have taught the junior dev a lot more and since that’s the person doing most of the work yielded a lot more improvement next time around, reducing future expenditure of senior dev time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add to this:

  • When a senior dev reviews code from a more junior dev and gives feedback the more junior person (generally) learns from it.
  • When a senior dev reviews code from an AI, the AI does not learn from it.

  So beyond the first order effects you pointed out - the using of more time from more experience and hence expensive people - there is a second order effect due of loss of improvement in the making of code which is both persistent and cumulative with time: every review and feedback of the code from a junior dev reduces forever the future need for that, whilst every review and feedback of the code from an AI has no impact at all in need for it in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing I use the LibRedirect plugin in Firefox to redirect YouTube link to Invidious.

  In addition to uBlock, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that, at least for Europe, they’re doing pretty much the same thing as the US, only it’s higher tariffs rather than blocking the Chinese products.

  The effect of special protectionist tariffs on the competitiveness of local companies might not be as strong as for outright blocking of the competing foreign products, but it’s in the same direction, which is why recently even Tesla (which are shit at the actual building cars part of the business) were wiping the floor on EVs with massive European car making businesses which had enormous expertise in actually making cars and decades to evolve EV tech and failed to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corruption is so entrenched in Portugal that unlike pretty much anywhere in the World Libel is an actual CRIME prosecuted by the local version of the Public Prosecution Office, which in practice means that no actual damage has to be proven and only people with the proper political connections (i.e. politicians) get to be “protected” by this Law.

  Oh, and in a country infamous by an extremelly slow Court system, they in practice expedite Libel cases where politicians are the “victim”.

  So even descriptions of systems to detect Corruption have to be very carefully done so as to not even imply that anything caught by them is actually Corruption.

  I’m Portuguese and, having also lived elsewhere in Europe, firmly believe that in the domains of Politics and Law, Portugal is basically South America rather than Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly they think that gaming is the same as working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year— Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searchable devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit has been in place and in use since the Patriot Act.

  Part of the reason I’ve avoided the US for vacations or even just changing flights since the early 00s - I’ll just go to Canada instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Burning the future of the company for extra personal upsides in the short term” is pretty much modern management strategy summarized in one sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A loss of overall competitiveness of the local companies is actually a well known and studied problem with using tariffs and import restrictions to protects said local companies.

  So any competent government which desires for their local companies to survive and prosper will seek different ways to strengthen then which don’t suffer from that problem. The Chinese government is doing just that, the US government is not.