WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on 😢 😭 😿 😢 1 day ago:
Chubby mega murder chickens
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 day ago:
That’s not it. They think you don’t have a choice anymore and will use their platform regardless.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 2 days ago:
Or to have someone to blame when the line goes down
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 2 days ago:
It’s the C-suite. They’re so corporatized they can’t differentiate between an over-the-top professional smile and somebody being genuinely helpful.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 2 days ago:
Cue that guy laughing in between mountains of toilet paper
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 2 days ago:
You would need to launch so ridiculously much into orbit. The ISS is rounded up 200 kW of solar power. 0.2 MW. Say you want the equivalent of a gigawatt data center. 1000 MW. Yeah, that’s about 5000 ISS sizes objects. It needs a bunch more cooling, and a data center doesn’t need habital zones, so a pretty barebones ISS. Launch about 3 roughly ISS sized objects per day and you’re done in 1.7 years. Somehow I don’t really see that as a realistic plan.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 3 days ago:
Using a system that has trouble figuring out you need to take the car to the car wash to control nuclear weapons does not seem like a good idea. Time to make a reboot of Terminator, and have skynet and the terminators do really weird things.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 3 days ago:
Back to punch cards we go. Or are they hoarding paper too?
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 3 days ago:
lol
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 3 days ago:
That’s the part they didn’t tell investors. Some call that the enshittification of the investment market. Lies everywhere.
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 3 days ago:
If people would always demand answers for those questions, we wouldn’t have speculative bubbles. For now, everybody seems to still believe the “it’s the worst it’ll ever be right now” and the “just more scaling bro” answers.
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 3 days ago:
Amazon didn’t make any profit for a decade and made 360 billion least year. They tell investors that AI will be the same.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 days ago:
One in ten of chemistries in the lab work in real world conductions. One in ten of those are cheap enough to consider production. One in ten of those can scale up to mass manufacturing. Most research works like that. You have to keep going until you hit jackpot.
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 3 days ago:
They kind of know. The dot com crashed many companies, and also gave rise to Amazon. They’re all just hoping they’ll be the one that invested in the next Amazon.
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 3 days ago:
Heh, that’s the joke going around now.
AI works, it replaces workers, we lose our jobs.
AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.
- Comment on xkcd #3211: Amperage 4 days ago:
500 amps? That’s no wiring, that’s cabling.
- Comment on xkcd #3211: Amperage 4 days ago:
“Who did the electrical work in this house?”
“That would be my nephew Thomas, he’s very handy.”
“When Thomas’s house burned down?”
“Oh about two years ago, how did you know.”
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 5 days ago:
Donations through a non profit, where the CEO and/or some of their family are on the board and paid a big salary from those donations, so only a fraction makes it to the stated goal.
- Comment on AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP 5 days ago:
Future Earth of course. We’re paying that down for the next century like bad student loans.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 1 week ago:
Also I don’t think he’s ever said AP drives safer than a human
He’s been carefull about saying it outright. There are many clips though about him saying it will be safer, up to 10 times safer, but always soon, in a few years, in the future. And he’s saying that for years now. Enough people assume it came true.
- Comment on lmao 1 week ago:
Usually they forward it to someone to explain, forward the reply to another underling to execute and copy/paste that one’s estimate or status update in the original mail’s relpy.
- Comment on Get. Out 1 week ago:
make some knowledge workers moderately more productive but that excess will be absorbed
That seems to result in a higher burn out rate. The worker had to do more soul crushing check and verify work instead of doing knowledge work.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 1 week ago:
When a criminals moves into the palace, the nation changes into mob turf.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 1 week ago:
These days with video compression and the like, even a terminal needs a minimum of processing power, enough to run basic things and a browser, especially if you want to make it lag free.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
Only in Fox news reality, I know
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
Assume either Trump will go after anybody saying anything critical about him and the party, or imagine AOC takes over the government and going after anybody saying something positive about Trump. Without privacy, you’re f-ed either way.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
BMW drivers use blinkers to signal other brands to clear the left lane of the Autobahn for them.
- Comment on From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch" 2 weeks ago:
Bazzite was the distro that ran my ancient hardware out of the box and allowed me to play my old games once in a while. No more Microsoft nagging me for upgrading and telling my hardware isn’t good enough.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 2 weeks ago:
Zero tolerance rules they usually have means you can go all the way and still get punished just as bad as a light punch, so no reasen to hold back anything.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 weeks ago:
So a 3 megawatt charger can charge 50 kWh in one minute. That’s some serious power.