takeda

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What save person would want to get photographed or provide an ID before viewing porn?

  If they truly cared about kids they would introduce mechanism where sites could declare their target audience and provide a way to punish if a company does lie.

  Parents could then use parental controls.

  This mechanism is more about censorship. They are aware that people are trusting less and less MSM so want to make sure they control Internet too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this why they needed (and also I’m turn compromised) social security data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually right now US is not dependent on Saudi. Thanks to shale revolution it is now a net exporter.

  Though, yeah that still pollutes and it didn’t remove our allies’ dependence so. The green tech should have been the next step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This moron doesn’t understand that green energy was a new sector where US could dominate for decades.

  A lot of countries are forced to import fossil fuels as they can’t produce their own so replacing that with local alternatives actually increases national security.

  Do people think China went into renewable energy because suddenly Xi became a tree hugger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨howy mowy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a drag queen, but my understanding is that it is done for comedy. This is why they do the over the top makeup or have a huge beard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a chat bot. It is a good compared to the chart bots we had in the past, but still a chat bot.

  The reason it can be used for programming is because programming language is still a language.

  They only seen to forget that programming languages were already invented to be a bridge between human and a machine language, but being able to do software engineering is much more than just knowing programming languages.

  This makes me wonder, anyone knows how good are those tools at creating assembly code? I don’t program in assembly, but I know that the “language” is very simple, but you actually need to be constantly aware of the state of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just had the opportunity to test GPT 5 as a coding assistant in Copilot for VS Code, which in my opinion is the only legitimately useful purpose for LLMs.

  The best use of LLM sadly is to use it on social media to spread disinformation. At that point making shit up isn’t a big but a feature.

  For coding I am still not sold on it. It seems to excel on tasks that were done millions of times like programming assignments at school, example/tutorial code, interview questions.

  For me while it helps in stone cases, I still have to go over the code and understand it and very often it introduces subtle bugs or I can write a more concise chose that fits my need. In those cases all the advantages it did are nullified, I suspect it might actually be slowing me down.

  It feels to me that LLM is a godsend to all the coders that previously copied code from stack overflow. It greatly streamlined the process and also included all code published on GitHub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you zoom at the screen it also doesn’t look right. It supposed to be a pixel that’s either on or off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨howy mowy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will say that this is not the same (kind of like Vance has old pictures being dressed as a woman), but if Bugs Bunny was released today it would be labeled woke.

  Drag queens are doing this for comedy, that’s why their makeup is over the top and that’s why many have a massive beard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨howy mowy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t interesting that some people who grew up on these cartoons would today say that those force “LGBT ideology” on kids, if those exact same cartoons were produced today?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Release the Trumpstein files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They think they can hire less SWE because of it. Though from my experience all benefits it gives are neutralized by mistakes or does. I have to pay more attention to what it produces to find bugs (and they are subtle, and even then successfully sneak them).

  I also frequently notice that I actually can produce more concise code for my user case.

  And it is plagiarizing (Microsoft apparently provides some legal protection against a lawsuit, but I don’t know if that is for everyone).

  A while ago I found a bit less popular code and it came with library. I didn’t like their implementation so I started writing my own and copilot basically was suggesting the code from the library I tried to rewrite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wondering about why they got fooled. Have they noticed that LLM can do a better job than then and they think that this will also translate to software engineering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot is shit.

  Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

  It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played it, but people say Being a dik game is quite good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the Register, it is targeted to people familiar with technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assange joins pro-Palestinian protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah cnn.com/…/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden-administ…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advertise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, DUI is serious, you could kill someone. Maybe it is a long and expensive process to make sure people will remember it and not drive while being drunk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, I got Alexa (the first one with a good speaker) when attended a sales event of another company. I set it up, but after seeing its network activity even when no one was home I shut it down and didn’t use it again.

  I don’t understand why people don’t feel weirded out by having an always on listening device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk on the other hand already experiments on adding ideology and use such bots (makes as regular users) on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft said this, but this likely applies to AWS and GCP too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they going to brick the console they better refund the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you don’t publish details of investigation. You publish indictments once investigation is done. That’s essentially weaponization of DOJ.

  Republicans were promising to release (and suggesting Democrats are on it). Now as they have the power, they refuse. Claim the files don’t exist then that they are fake, then they are boring.

  At this point it is very clear that trump is in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why they used Delorean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned that somebody already did such thing: stopice.net and it existed before this app even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  stopice.net? Yeah that looks like much safer alternative to iceblock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might be simpler.

  All the app could do is to report location of the user to ICE.

  While people might be interested to show up to ICE raids, immigrants might also want it to know places to say away from.

  Since the app is on the phone the location can be tied to the phone number and since they are going after documented immigrants they might have phone numbers from their applications.

  I think this should be a mobile website instead of an app is the goal was privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with phone apps is that they already have access to personally identifiable information.

  I would much prefer this was a mobile friendly website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They had the same at SpaceX

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit assemble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it never was about ideology, it was always about supporting USSR and now Russia. This is why they nearly indistinguishible from each other despite supposedly being on the opposite side of the spectrum.