WanderingThoughts
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- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 12 hours ago:
archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox
One of the classics
- Comment on Onion forgets the satire (again) 3 days ago:
The Overton window is again threatening satire?
- Comment on Huh? 3 days ago:
while saying you have to be in the office because of the interaction
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 days ago:
layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts
Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 days ago:
Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 4 days ago:
That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.
Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.
- Comment on Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause 5 days ago:
Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.
- Comment on Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause 5 days ago:
Tales from the field:
One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.
One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 5 days ago:
Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 5 days ago:
AI works, we lose our jobs.
AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.
AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.
Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.
Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement
- Comment on Hostile architecture 6 days ago:
That’s going to be used by teens for finding new ways to sit and show off their balancing skills until it inevitably breaks, gets vandalised because it’s already broken until it ends up surrounded by dumped household waste and rats. The budget for cleaning up is used up for making that monstrosity in the first place, so it remains there as a blight on the landscape.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
And then you have Lock-picking Lawyer bypassing the smart lock in seconds.
- Comment on Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways 1 week ago:
I’ve lived long enough to go through multiple AI winters. This is just business failure as usual.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
And they’ll probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.
- Comment on Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
Lactose intolerant after Christmas dinners be like
- Comment on DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM 2 weeks ago:
It’s like with climate change. The worst 10 years are always the last 10 years.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 2 weeks ago:
Without scams, spam, slop, bots and ads, facebook would be rather empty.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 2 weeks ago:
Funny enough, the only thing that works is AI generating YouTube fanfic videos about bosses being awful and receiving karma.
- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 2 weeks ago:
To avoid the doorman fallacy, companies must recognise jobs are more than the visible tasks listed on a job description.
It’s why malicious compliance and work-to-rule actions are pretty devastating for a company. You got to assume AI will act with malicious compliance, or at least hallucinate and lie about it.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
You also have a Bluetooth FM transmitter, so they phone audio becomes just another reason station. You can even get a Bluetooth remote control for common media functions to put on the dash.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 weeks ago:
It feels like the elite are doing one last big haul before they’re out of there, looking for new regions to exploit.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 weeks ago:
It was not unexpected. Most big powers in history end like that. The rich always want more and eventually start taking it from everybody else, even if it’s detrimental to the future if they nation.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Manosphere fanfic everywhere.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
And even worse, it doesn’t realise it and can’t fix the errors.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“If Google was a guy” vibes
- Comment on It's the truth! 3 weeks ago:
A black box is orange. A red panda is brown. A great white is mostly grey.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 4 weeks ago:
of the United States throwing its weight around like it’s in charge of the world
After telling everyone they’re not the police of the world
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 4 weeks ago:
The latest tend is retro tech and back to a flip phone. You can’t have ads in the app store when there is no store.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 weeks ago:
The elite know what’s coming. There isn’t enough to keep economic growth going and sacrifices will have to be made, and that’s not going to be the top. That means something is needed to detect and remove “problems” before they get big.