phutatorius
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- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 3 days ago:
My internet-connected dental floss didn’t work either until DynamoDB came back online.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 6 days ago:
The difference now is that they have power. All that talk was what they said they’d do if they got power, but now that they’re in, they’re behaving just like they always have done, only worse.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 6 days ago:
That’s up to us.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 6 days ago:
Another reason to boycott Texas.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I’m putting up a wall.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 1 week ago:
Bring back the futhark. No point in half-measures.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 1 week ago:
IPA conceals etymology.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.
- Comment on Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials 1 week ago:
there will be some sort of reconciliation process
Fuck that. A little people’s justice goes a long way. And I want a lot of people’s justice.
- Comment on ‘Godfather of Silicon Valley’ Quits Board Over Benioff’s (Salesforce CEO) Backing of Trump 1 week ago:
It’s such a shit product, it’s really incredible that they’re still in business.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
Cry me a river.
- Comment on OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Did anyone ask Altman if Trump had a diaper change before Sam licked it? My guess is not.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
As a more general principle, don’t build nitpicky implementation detail into a strategy document. That’s how you get brainfarts like the 3/5 compromise.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Just look at who’s in charge of the Senate, and ask yourself if they are to be trusted to do anything but lie, steal and carry out witch hunts.
As for LLMs, unless driving contact-centre customer satisfaction scores even further through the floor counts as an achievement, so far, all there’s been has been a vast volume of hype and wasted energy, and very little to show for it, except for some highly constrained point solutions which aren’t significant enough to make economic impact. Even then, the ROI is questionable.
- Comment on Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible 2 weeks ago:
It’s the new open source in the same way that it’s the new left-handed bowling.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 weeks ago:
There are no pearls. It’s uniform, blenderized raw sewage.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 weeks ago:
Partners and managers (at least senior ones) are held accountable for profitability. A fine directly hits their bonuses. But holding the partners personally liable for fraud would be a good thing to do as well.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 weeks ago:
At very least, they should be banned from bidding on Australian government contracts for a couple of years.
If a doctor did this, they’d lose their license to practice.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s more than a picowatt-hour, it’s too much.
LLM delenda est.
- Comment on Hydrogen's Big Year Continues With New California H2 Transit Project 3 weeks ago:
only really needs to deal with the volatility issue
H2 is the smallest molecule there is, and among the worst to contain. It’s also quite reactive. And the production of H2 for storage is not wonderfully efficient, nor is the whole lifecycle from production to consumption.
The only real reason for hydrogen is to repurpose rather than scrapping the existing gasoline supply chain. That benefits nobody but the fossil-fuel companies. And that’s why it’s being endlessly hyped, despite being a profoundly suboptimal solution.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
I prefer calling them Goebbels or Himmler.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
Vegan dildo.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
“You leotard!”
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.
Didn’t stop me, though.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
Cancer sufferer works in the Netherlands
Kankerlijer. You can replace cancer with any of a number of other nasty diseases.
It’s also customary to tell someone “get cancer!” (krijg de kanker), “get tuberculosis!” (krijg de pleuris) or “get leprosy!” (krijg het lazarus). All map to English-language sentiments such as “eat shit and die” or “fuck off.”
You can also just use “cancer” as a prefix to anything that happens to piss you off: cancer-influencers, cancer-sandwich, whatever. And the same goes for other diseases.
I personally prefer “klootzak,” which means ball bag. The word rolls off the tongue so nicely. But then, everything said in Dutch sounds aggressively pejorative, even sweet talk.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
You fucking spanner.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
My, what a lot of conclusions you just drew on zero evidence. Almost impressive.