WanderingThoughts
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- Comment on Make it make sense 10 hours 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 10 hours ago:
Nicely demonstrated here: youtu.be/Suugn-p5C1M
- Comment on bmw 2 days 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?? 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Oh, it’s the old “Calculation is futile. You will be… approximated!”
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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' 1 week 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.
- 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' 1 week ago:
They could, but in Europe each country has at least one local payment systems. It was just more convenient to provide a few global players instead of dozens local ones. Many online shops here too is just local player + visa/Mastercard. That might change now that the global players get too controlling. (Not speaking for entire EU, just the part I visited.)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That would require more logistics to get different modules, checks to make sure the right ones are installed and labor to install them. Somewhere there is a cutoff point where modularity is cheaper.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Most car for the last decade or two already come with a lot of options built-in that are simply disabled by software in the factory. It’s cheaper to just build in a standard set of electronics and disable what’s not bought by the customer because many brands still like to milk the customer with options. Subscriptions just take the buying of options to renting.
VW here also also has the “lifetime subscription” for this. That makes it basically the same as you buying the option and they switch in it on in the factory. It’s just plain in your face that it’s behind a paywall while the old checking options didn’t feel as much as a paywall.
Anyway, I went with Hyundai. They didn’t do options and subscriptions. You only get to choose the model and looks, that’s it.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
to purposefully distract with gays, immigrants so they could keep giving out blowies to billionaires
- Comment on Tech bosses spend millions more on personal security 1 week ago:
They like having the monetary high score too much to ever give it up and make any changes that would hurt their score. On the contrary, they’ll change things to increase the number and call it winning in the game of life. The people complaining about it are just annoying inferior bugs to them.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They’re still speaking, but at much higher vibes.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
The two or three juniors they’ll eventually have to hire to do the job
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
It’s been the same way with every AI tech at far. They run down the hype cycle and you get the classic AI winter while academics tinker until they find the next upgrade. Just now they’re plowing billions into this because “this time it’s different”. Or they just needed something to keep the tech bubble gravy train rolling.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
It probably won’t stop until everybody starts asking for tips, so that those that traditionally receive tips are losing it on tipping everybody else.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
Murica
- Comment on Fan Subber 2 weeks ago:
Got to love the ones giving the figuratively translation but add in a panel giving the literal translation and cultural context
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Social networks are all about making and keeping people angry to make people come back. AI is all about brown-nozing and giving any information with absolute confidence to keep people coming back.
- Comment on OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise. 2 weeks ago:
“GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.”
Yeah, feels like. Not actually examples of thinking and doing things at that level.
“These systems, as impressive as they are, haven’t been able to be really profitable,” … “There is a fear that we need to keep up the hype, or else the bubble might burst, and so it might be that it’s mostly marketing.”
That’s the painful truth. No profit, a lot of hype and a market in a 2008 financial crisis bubble.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 3 weeks ago:
That’s the standard tricky wing operating procedure: “Everything we do is morally good, therefore we can do no wrong” and that leads to the classic “rules for thee but not for me”. It hurts any logical brain.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
Are you sure?
spoiler
se7en
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
Oops, wrong thread.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
