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- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 1 day ago:
The power company AI will generate the regulatory reports. The regulatory commission’s AI will summarize and score them for faster turnaround. Only 30% chance of hallucination making it through each cycle.
After a few iterations, they will get fully approved to deploy the giant hamster wheel with Bluetooth, powered by Nuclear-flavored RedBull.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 1 day ago:
Humans shopping online allows the seller to offer discounts, upsell services, create serendipity (“How about a lip gloss 50% to go with those shoes?”), and build brand loyalty. Or if you’re a techie, how about 50% off an SD-card with the purchase of a gadget?
This is why retailers create these expensive e-commerce websites instead of just dumping their wares into E-Bay or Amazon. They also do things like web heatmaps and other types of analytics to optimize the UI/UX.
Having an AI agent do the shopping means they lose all that. It’s any wonder they’re going to fight AI shopping agents. Be prepared for a lot more complex captchas when roaming around the web.
- Comment on Interesting looking ring. Wonder what it means? 4 days ago:
… to have and to hold, … in sickness and in health …
- Comment on Save us!!! 5 days ago:
Always been amazed this song doesn’t get used for Rickrolling during the last two months of each year. It’s a systemic failure.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 week ago:
Hasbro headquarters.
- Comment on How do you organize your components library? 1 week ago:
I got a couple of these off AliExpress. Added printed labels on the drawers. Work pretty well. For larger projects, a plastic shoebox with all the bits and bobs needed for that one project.
- Comment on Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests 1 week ago:
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
Watched a video years ago of someone doing this before re-seasoning and baking the pan in the oven.
The end result was actually pretty fabulous.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 week ago:
Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 1 week ago:
I sat hunched under my elderly mother’s car, video running on the phone in one hand, showing how to remove a ridiculously complicated headlamp cover, just to replace a busted headlight. Hand scraped and bleeding, but it got done. Would have NEVER figured it out otherwise.
Thanks that one YouTuber.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 week ago:
This, in a folding, commuter e-bike.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
No we’re not.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 2 weeks ago:
Privacy, shmivacy.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 2 weeks ago:
Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?
Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 weeks ago:
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Way back when, MSFT would set up developer meetups and give everyone who showed up a free Windows phone for development. I still have a couple in a box somewhere. People would take them, but nobody wanted to make apps. Everybody was busy enough with iOS and Android.
MSFT even tried to pay companies to port their popular apps to Windows. A few took the money and did the port, but nobody wanted to support it.
Samsung was also trying to get people to write apps for their watches. Same issue. It’s really hard to break in if you’re entering an already crowded market.
- Comment on Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network 2 weeks ago:
Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.
I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.
On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you’re 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it’s a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I’m not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.
Come to think of it, that’s actually a good thing. Carry on.
- Comment on The Weirdest "Car" I've Ever Driven - mkbhd's video about the Aptera EV 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it’s basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.
If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.
Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.
FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: theautofuture.com/…/toyotas-three-wheeled-road-ev…
- Comment on Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs 2 weeks ago:
MPs: You wanna bet?
- Comment on ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay 2 weeks ago:
The browser is one of the few places users interact with the internet. To train models, you need data and here you are getting a firehose of data including destinations, clicks, messages, everything. You can’t really get that from a browser extension because it’s not always running for every window and tab.
The only stream missing are user interactions via apps. They already offer SDKs for embedding inside apps, but they need to sweeten the deal to encourage adoption. That will come through offering ad embedding services or revenue-sharing with devs.
If they truly wanted to get every interaction, they could offer discount ‘smart’ WiFi routers, and either cut deals with telcos or create MVNOs to have visibility into those data streams as well.
It’s not Man-In-The-Middle if you invite them in. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 3 weeks ago:
Advantages of running things locally:
- Saving on electricity, bandwidth, and processing
- Able to customize for individuals or families
- Enhanced privacy
- Option for future federated/mesh applications
- Keeps running when network/cloud goes down (Hello, AWS!)
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 3 weeks ago:
AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 3 weeks ago:
Subscription service. This is why you get an MBA.
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- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 4 weeks ago:
In San Francisco, self-driving cars had a small, usability issue. Let’s hope these don’t.
- Comment on Stocks IRL 4 weeks ago:
Only if you’re doing it right.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Kora fighting Aang? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Completely tone-deaf.
- Comment on Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show 5 weeks ago:
Amazon Leadership Principles: www.aboutamazon.com/…/leadership-principles
- Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 5 weeks ago:
Bullshit filters.
