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- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 3 hours ago:
The name (dimetrodon ≈ two teeth sizes) is also a clue, as teeth specialization is very much a synapsid (i.e., mammal and proto-mammal) thing.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 hours ago:
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 day ago:
Death flights have quite a long history, sadly, and were a favourite of far right South American dictatorships promoted by the USA…
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 days ago:
You listed a lot of very interesting features and probably convinced me to install it and give it a try, thanks, but again, what faults?
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 week ago:
Shark’s only smooth from front to back. Otherwise shark’s sandpaper.
- Comment on Microsoft just issued a second emergency OS update for Windows 11 this month 1 week ago:
It does, but onedrive has a tendency to hijack your user folders, moving them to the cloud and deleting them from your computer unless you opt out (I imagine the idea is that this will exceed the free capacity and you’ll be forced to pay for more space to be able to access your files, a good old ransom racket), so you might think you had your PST in your documents folder, but it’s actually on the cloud, being crawled all over by copilot…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well, there was that little thing called the black death, if I recall correctly…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century
Hm… wasn’t there like a 33% dip back in the fourteenth, not counting subsequent migration to the cities and whatnot…?
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 2 weeks ago:
America is doing quite fine wreaking havoc on itself, no need for Europe to get involved.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 weeks ago:
They say ‘company X KPI are this % better thanks to AI’
They asked an LLM for the KPIs and it helpfully made up the figures they wanted to see.
Which became a self fulfilling prophecy once they showed those awesome “results” to the investors.
Of course it’ll all come crashing down once the investors ask for a return on their investment and there are no more new investors to support the pyramid, but by that point someone (probably not the brainrotten CEOs, who are drinking their own coolaid) will be far away with the money in a Cayman Islands bank account…
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a chance to look through? 3 weeks ago:
As someone with thousands of tabs currently open on about a dozen windows, just open more tabs.
And if you can’t find an adequate window in which to open them, just open them in a new window.
If even that becomes unmanageable, open another browser.
And if you don’t want to switch from whatever tabs you’ve got open and are already using all your monitors, open it on your phone.
Just make sure to set all your browsers to reopen all tabs after closing, and a session manager extension for when the browser refuses to reopen them (not that you should ever be closing the browser or most programs, or shutting down the computer, of course, but just in case.
Also, if you’re on Windows the SysInternals RamMap utility comes in handy when things start to get sluggish and you need to free memory in a hurry (paginate, really, but same difference). Killing dwm.exe also helps.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 3 weeks ago:
The images on the article clearly show that they’re not storing the data, they’re storing enough information about the data to reconstruct a rough and mostly useless approximation of the data (and they do so in such a way that the information about one piece of data can be combined with the information about another one to produce another rough and mostly useless approximation of a combination of those two pieces of data, which was not in the original dataset).
The legal and ethical failure is in commercially using the artist’s works (as a training model) without permission, not in storing or even reproducing them, since the slop they produce is evidently an approximation and not the real thing.
It’s like playing a telephone game with a description of an image, with the last person drawing the result.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 3 weeks ago:
Because they intentionally broke the search engines in order to make LLMs look better.
Search engines used to produce much more useful results than LLMs ever will, before google and microsoft started pushing this garbage.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 3 weeks ago:
It stores the shape of the information, not the information itself.
Which might be useful from a statistics and analytics viewpoint, but isn’t very practical as an information storage mechanism.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 4 weeks ago:
The USA is the only country in the world that hasn’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in good part because they don’t want to have to stop executing children.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft Bob.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 4 weeks ago:
The fact that they went with “Trump broke international law” instead of “America’s unilateral actions validate our unilateral actions” gives me some hope (for lack of a better word) that they’re going for a diplomatic / economic victory by trying to take the vacated US place as “leader of the free world” instead of going full Trump/Putin on a world that’s already got enough shit to deal with.
The end point is still the same, of course, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a very good one from an European citizen’s point of view, but at least this would take longer and be less violent overall, and might help defuse Putin and Trump.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 5 weeks ago:
Same here. Old PC (though quite good for the time), no issues whatsoever.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 5 weeks ago:
The most horrific part, is that we can’t tell the difference.
Controlled by LLMs or not, their actions would be indistinguishable.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 5 weeks ago:
We’re talking execs here, not people.
Of course they’ve got smart people they’re still in the process of getting rid of, but they’re not who the OP was asking about, and they’re mostly irrelevant anyway (and have been since long before LLMs became a problem), since they’re not the ones making decisions.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 5 weeks ago:
No. They’re drinking their own coolaid.
They’ve offloaded what little thinking they did to LLMs (not that LLMs can think, but in this case it makes no difference), and at this point would no longer be able to function if they had to think for themselves.
Don’t think of them as human people with human needs.
They’re mere parasites, all higher functions withered away through lack of use, now more than ever.
They could die and be replaced by their chatbots, and we wouldn’t notice a difference.
- Comment on Off the Rails 5 weeks ago:
They’re called sperm whales because of the spermaceti organ, which is probably used to make them loud as fuck, and which contains a liquid which whalers mistook for sperm.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 month ago:
Whenever I can hold them flat and horizontal without bending when grabbed by a corner.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Explain how protein folding software, which predates “genAI” by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Smartphones are actually useful, and don’t have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Of course not, but I think not supporting those that use it to produce something you want to enjoy doesn’t necessarily imply not enjoying what they produce, as long as it’s not too thoroughly damaged by their use of it and as long as it can be obtained in ways that won’t support them.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Yes. Shit’s buggy enough as it is, infect it with this crap and it’s outright malware.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
Good. Burn both companies to the ground. Set them as an example.
