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- Comment on Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software 2 hours ago:
Sure would be a shame if a hacker from a country that doesn’t prosecute these sorts of things (e.g. most of eastern Europe) noticed that the dev was keeping all of the source on an otherwise blank computer with a default password.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 day ago:
Nor John Kennedy, who’s even more of an asshole.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 day ago:
Yeah, the reason is that RFK Jr. is a hack.
- Comment on do what you love 5 days ago:
So there is a way to use your philosophy degree for evil.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 5 days ago:
That’s still way newer than I thought. I guess they started updating it again.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 6 days ago:
Yeah, like the Nexus 5. Not anything you’d want to actually use today.
- Comment on Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools 1 week ago:
Robocop’s intelligence is natural, it’s the rest of him that’s artificial.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
Well, you could get a 60W LED, but it would be extremely bright. Generally, a household bulb is a 60W incandescent, an 18W CFL, or a 9W LED.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
A lightbulb for an hour is about 60 Wh, assuming you’re talking about an incandescent one.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think LLMs are close to their peak. Any new revolutionary developments in LLMs will probably be in efficiency rather than capability. Something that can actually think in a real sense will probably happen eventually, though, and unless it’s even more absurdly resource-intensive it’ll probably replace LLMs in everything but autocomplete (since they’re legitimately good at that).
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 2 weeks ago:
A barer, one who bares. What are they baring? Presumably nuts.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 3 weeks ago:
That’s cumulative deaths, so the graph is definitely trailing off. The deaths aren’t, but the graph is of confirmed deaths, which require hospitals to confirm them, and there aren’t any hospitals left.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 3 weeks ago:
It’s only trailing off because they can’t count the dead anymore. The toll is estimated to be 7-8x the confirmed number.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 3 weeks ago:
Evolution by artificial selection is still evolution.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 3 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s fucking horrible at writing entire codebases. I’m talking about specifically tab completion. You still have to read what it’s suggesting, just like with IntelliSense and other pre-LLM autocomplete tools, but it sometimes finishes your thoughts and saves you some typing.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 3 weeks ago:
I’ve found it better than the weighted dictionary for prose, and way better for code. Code autocompletion was always really limited, but now every couple dozen lines it suggests exactly what I was going to type anyway. Never on anything particularly clever, mind you, but it saves some tedium.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 3 weeks ago:
LLMs are actually really good at a handful of specific tasks, like autocomplete. The problem arises when people think that they’re on the path to AGI and treat them like they know things.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The 7G4 is on par in speed with the 888, but it uses a lot less power. And with decent software updates, a Snapdragon 820 is still fast enough for most people (including me).
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 4 weeks ago:
And hopefully they know the difference between podiatry and pediatric medicine.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 1 month ago:
That wouldn’t change anything in this specific case, since you can’t buy the whole anymore either.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 1 month ago:
How would you even start to enforce those laws against a company that no longer exists? It’s one thing to prevent the AI companies from selling a product that relies on continual support in the first place, but these earbuds will work until the batteries degrade (and theoretically longer if you can manage to replace them without destroying the things) with or without the company’s existence. The fact that the user lost the case with no company to replace it doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of thing that you can really address legally, unless you make the companies put a certain stock of parts in escrow or something, which seems potentially clear more wasteful than the status quo.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 month ago:
This is because “vegetable” is purely a culinary term. There’s no botanical definition of a vegetable. Tomatoes are berries, which is a type of fruit, from a botanical standpoint. So are cucumbers. They’re both vegetables from a culinary standpoint. Lettuce is a leaf. Broccoli is a flower. Carrots are roots. Celery is a stalk. All vegetables culinarily.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 1 month ago:
It’s called gunplay!
- Comment on two wolves 1 month ago:
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 months ago:
I’ll ponder it, but only from a safe distance. It’s important to make sure that the orb doesn’t ponder you back.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Which he can afford because of ChatGPT. Checkmate.
- Comment on Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended 2 months ago:
Maybe Elmo could, now that they broke up. He could argue that TikTok existing makes Twitter’s videos less popular.
- Comment on this thing fucking sucks 2 months ago:
Meh, it’s 0K.
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 2 months ago:
Note: this is only the best argument they have right now because politicians will never be persuaded by people bringing up Palantir’s war crimes.
- Comment on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog 2 months ago:
If you use LLMs like they should be, i.e. as autocomplete, they’re helpful. Classic autocomplete can’t see me type “import” and correctly guess that I want to import a file that I just created, but Copilot can. You shouldn’t expect it to understand code, but it can type more quickly than you and plug the right things in more often than not.