WanderingThoughts

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t do a large rollout of these things within the current regulations. They’re simply not made to accomodate all that traffic. Creating the regulations and systems around it will take a long time so best to start early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a fully automated and certified air traffic control first. That’s only been discussed for a free decades now so any time now it’ll arrive. Nah, nobody wants to put in any funding or take on the liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s job titles, with a bunch of very unlikely cyberpunk jobs in between. Weapon specialist, information runner, leaflet designer, hacker, virtual reality host, …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  That’s what it looks like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS IS A SHITPOST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the only way to preserve our way of life. We had to do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t. Paywall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids learning to avoid government control and setting up covert communication seems like a very important lesson later in life these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For something simple in a greenfield it works reasonably well and often faster than by hand. Complex code in a greenfield is maybe some help. For working on complex code in a brownfield it breaks down and you’ll be much faster doing this by hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By now AI are feeding on other AI and the slop just gets sloppier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if the comments by Putin and Xi about immortality would trigger a rush on biotech and longevity projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time has come! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The main character has arrived! Heat up the meteor fragment. It’s time to forge his new blade!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It really feels like a “biggest grift so far” moment and they’re just desperate for a new hype to suck ungodly amounts of money into. Quantum computing, biotech or whatever they come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big small doesn't want you to know that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they start talking about the capsule wardrobe for minimalistic living. Every season, throw away half and replace it with the latest fashion. In the end you still buy a lot.

  My clothes fall apart before I throw them out, and those that don’t will be used for gardening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At 1.6 meter for the metric minded. If you really stretch out and can hit the tv with your toes it’s about the right distance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are stopping shipments to the US - Kiwix⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Large corpos might set up fulfilment centers in USA and do bulk import. Small companies will just stop export to USA. Setting up manufacturing in USA is unlikely with all the volatility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Netflix appeared, piracy dropped. And when the movie streaming market fragmented, piracy shot up. Like they say, it’s a service problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New self-assembling material could be the key to recyclable batteries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idea

  Lab tech <- the article is here

  Prototype

  Mass production

  So, the usual Battery Tuesday message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It always comes to a point where the only way to improve traffic is to flatten the buildings people drive to, defeating the purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nicely demonstrated here: youtu.be/Suugn-p5C1M

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The law of the asphalt jungle dictates a strict hierarchy maintained by the current value of the vehicle. The rare and elusive hypercar at the top, Bentley and Rolls Royce after that, BMW, Audi, Mercedes claim their place after the big boys, then comes the rabble with the commoner brands like Opel, Renault, Peugeot, Volkswagen and after that the economy cars. Trailing all of them are the sort of cars that are officially quadricycles and hated by all. The right of way follows that order and no signaling is required for lesser cars. They are expected to yield and make room for their more noble brethren. It’s a stupid status game, all of it, and it endangers safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't you creating more workers??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they do the calculation on the costs to raise the children and decide it’s not economically viable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time some new measure is released “for protection”, the next day it’s being used to snuff out dissidents. That usually means journalists, activists (political, labor, environment, …) and sympathisants to give them a bit of pressure to straight up arrest them on some pretense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI vibe shift is upon us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Researchers at MIT published a report showing that 95% of the generative AI programs launched by companies failed to do the main thing they were intended for — ginning up more revenue.

  Allegedly the remaining 5% that makes a profit is mostly specialized in spam and spam adjacent marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next time I swear bro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google did something similar. They made search worse on purpose so people would do more searches and see more ads, boosting revenue.

  But yeah, diminishing returns means investor money drying up means squeezing customers and hoping all that putting AI into everything translates to lots of paying customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next time I swear bro⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They had one trick: scaling. And that trick is getting diminishing returns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it’s the old “Calculation is futile. You will be… approximated!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The company that’s involved with the payment disputes between Steam, MasterCard, banks, 18+ games and Collective Shout. Stripe is the one handling payments between Steam and MasterCard. It got blamed, blamed others in return and suddenly is known to a lot more people but not in a good way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the end it’s a word generator that has been trained so much it uses facts often enough to be convincing. That’s its basic architecture.

  You can ask it to give a confidence level to have an indication of how sure it is of the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost all companies deploying generative AI don’t see their revenue change significantly. AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That works for account to account transfers and in shop payment with your card. The online payment world is still a lot more fragmented.