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- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 1 week ago:
There was a cheapo Japanese restaurant downtown. Plastic everything. Went there for lunch a while back. Worst Bento box ever.
Six months later. Hmm, Bento box sounds good. Go to this Japanese restaurant. Halfway through the awful meal, remember I’d been there! Swore never to go back. Again.
This cycle repeated SIX times.
What broke it was the whole building burning to the ground because of a grease fire.
Point is… hmm… Bento for lunch sounds good.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They have these on a college campus nearby. I once watched one of these things try to get from a walkway onto a road after a delivery.
It didn’t just backtrack the way it came. It was looking for a sloping ramp, but the sidewalk ledge was too high for its tiny wheels. It kept going back and forth, retracing the same paths over and over, failing, then returning to the original location, turning around and doing the whole thing again. I stopped paying attention after 15 minutes of this.
It was like watching a drunk come out of a bar and stumble around trying to find his parked car.
- Comment on How to be attractive 1 week ago:
Gas station down the street.
- Comment on Elephant in the room 1 week ago:
The sample essay is… interesting.
- Comment on Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
When this automation fad showed up, many people pointed out that there would be plenty of cases where the training data just didn’t cover edge-cases. Problem is, life is FULL of edge-cases. This is where humans are uniquely good at improvising and adapting in real-time, when faced with previously unknown situations.
In fact, you can argue humans are really, really good at handling exceptions to the rule. Pretty much the textbook definition of “creativity.”
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 2 weeks ago:
In the dotcom era, the push was to create lots of free services. Once you had enough users, you wanted to see how many would be willing to pay for it. There was a formula that justified getting more investment (it varied by domain). Back then, almost nobody other than Amazon survived the hard shaking of the tree.
We may be coming up to the point where customer acquisition through free service ends. Whatsever is left standing will move to the next round.
Everybody else gets dropped on the floor.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
Agnostic, for development. iOS and Android.
Daily driver is iPhone, but keep a Pixel for staying uptodate with services and latest updates.
- Comment on Smart Glasses Companies Are Getting Shamed Into Covering Their Cameras 2 weeks ago:
There are a TON of third-party attachments online, designed not to cover the camera and enhance privacy, but to cover the little light that reveals it’s live-recording or streaming.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Opportunity for some excellent, weirdo hijinks.
- Comment on I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama 2 weeks ago:
The more local inference, the better. Nice work!
- Comment on bro 2 weeks ago:
If you have a password manager, you can set the answers to random, junk strings. My first pet? Why, dear Flag!spl@tch9. As long as the answers match next time.
And if they give you the option to create your own question, that could be a random string. As well as the answer. Static noise is your friend.
It’s lazy security.
- Comment on Fucked up 2 weeks ago:
Pre, or post-9/11?
- Comment on Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology. The use of two GPUs is required right now as DLSS 5 still has a long way to go in terms of optimisation - both in terms of performance and its VRAM footprint. However, DLSS 5 is designed for use on a single GPU and that’s how it will ship later this year.
So much easier when you can just throw 2x the hardware at things. Let’s wait and see how it works on a single card.
Also, guessing it will be set up so developers can turn it on and off as needed in their game. If they make it a user-facing global setting, it will quickly turn into a meme generator.
- Comment on China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
Cat-9 tails.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 weeks ago:
Hugging Sonic.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 3 weeks ago:
MySpace reboot vs Spotify.
- Comment on The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More 3 weeks ago:
Beautiful works!
If viewed on an iPhone or iPad, you can take it into AR mode and drop the piece on a table in front of you, then walk around it. Don’t know if that works on Android.
- Comment on I heard you like pointers, so I put pointer to pointer in your pointers 3 weeks ago:
Villain flashback backstory for Rust.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 4 weeks ago:
The way money-laundering works, you take ill-begotten funds and somehow churn it into legal tender in ways that can’t be traced back to the source. Another angle is to create corporate entities that show loss against gains, so you can deduct and don’t have to pay taxes on your windfall profits.
In the olden days, these were physical, degrading assets. Like strip malls, real-eestate, and dodgy, money-losing businesses that somehow stuck around forever. At the end, you were stuck with physical entities you couldn’t unload.
Crypto and NFT were just digital variations of the same financial model, minus the hassle of having to manage the property.
- Comment on [REPOST] Worker Gets Around His Casual Office's 'No Shorts' Dress Code Using Malicious Compliance 4 weeks ago:
Go big or go home. Burkas.
- Comment on Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's quite simple really 4 weeks ago:
There’s no allowing for Unspecial Soundness.
Or where most fun knowledge resides: Unspecial Unsoundness.
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- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 4 weeks ago:
Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.
Non-story. He let Terraform zap his production site without offsite backups. But then support restored it all back.
I’d be more alarmed that a ‘destroy’ command is reversible.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 4 weeks ago:
Public articles like this will likely be used to train future models, and end up crushing their self-confidence.
You do you, little LLM. Here, have a cookie.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 4 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between ‘repairable’ and ‘upgradable.’ Most of the comments seem to conflate the two. Lenovo isn’t doing a Framework.
It’s a smart move. Differentiates them from other laptop-makers for corporate IT, who can do the parts swaps themselves. Also smart is associating the brand with iFixit and working to get a 10/10. That’ll be what sets them apart from all the others, at least for the next year or two.
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 5 weeks ago:
Ah, pregnancy… when internal organs migrate to the arms.
