ZoteTheMighty

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can sustain everybody on Earth right now if we all eat beans and rice, give up all meat, stop plane travel, and limit your commutes to ones you can do without a personal car. Even if we get rid of billionaires, the rest of western life is unsustainable at this population.

  If you are reading this message on a smart phone, it’s already too late, you don’t meet this criteria. The only solution for us to sustain your lifestyle is to reduce the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, lmao even. You must not work in software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you suggest that there is a future beyond next quarter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The free part is actually the harder thing to deliver on here. Free to play games are more recent than this hardware can handle since it’s a newer trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t reliably detect all steroids. The Olympics has a long history of under detecting novel steroids. A lot of sporting competitions below the Olympics level have a tendency to undertest as well and underdetect. You could have a long and successful career as an athlete from doping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bloat, they wasted an extra integer operation with argc–.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s highly likely that EVERY video game dev team has at least one person who is using cursor, whether it violates their AI policy or not. It’s massively popular, looks just like VSCode, and can be hard to detect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Typically 10NM is the cutoff for what you’d call x rays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least she didn’t cut every interesting program in Mozilla’s portfolio when every other company was laying off employees. She wasn’t great, but she was operating in a bad economy.

  This new guy tho, he sounds like good news if you’re the CEO of Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The job offer would read “Let us use your voice to train an AI to replace you, and if you say no, we’ll hire someone else who will.” Most actors are highly replaceable, so they have very little bargaining power. This is why actors have unions and why they’ve been fighting AI hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I think GPT 4 will be the best “most human-like” model we’ll ever get. After that, we live in a post-GPT4 internet and all future models are polluted. Other models after that will be more optimized for things we know how to test for, but the general purpose “it just works” experience will get worse from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell peppers are the same colours as traffic lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, a real shower thought instead of a thinly veiled political commentary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent, I will catalog my journals of my metamorphosis into a giant worm on these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And their relationship with reality. It always reminds me of that graph that shows a modern tank is less likely to hit a child in the road than a GMC Sierra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pretty great use case for AI. Instruction manuals exist for almost every product online, so models would be trained on them. Most tech is very similar to each other, so in the context of hardware repair, it should be a reasonable tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies can’t do this if you don’t use an app to shop for you. There are a bunch of reasons you shouldn’t use apps to shop even before you get to the insanity of the video.

  • The people who fill your cart are instructed to grab older, worse looking produce to reduce waste
  • It takes someone filling 10 instacart orders longer to shop than you would, meaning cold items will warm up more
  • You are already being charged a premium for the service, as well as maybe a delivery fee
  • The items you see to choose from are pushed by an algorithm. You’re practically unable to find unpopular items or compare two similar products

  Don’t use an app, don’t use a rewards program. If those things didn’t end up costing you money overall, companies wouldn’t offer them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a lost cause. Essentially both crypto and AI were big because someone figured out how to offload shit to a GPU efficiently. There’s probably a ton of other appllications for GPUs we haven’t even tapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHY???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who works in the field, that sounds like something I’d pitch to shareholders when I’m trying to steal their money, not when I’m trying to fuse particles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fusion releases a daughter particle and a neutron. Thr daughter particle is much larger and will deposit its energy back into the plasma, the neutron will travel much further until it hits a collector outside the chamber, heating it up, which will heat water. You don’t get to decide which direction the neutron goes, so you have to build this absorber around the entire thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gummy bears are also flammable, so this all tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally why people spend $500 on a switch 2; it has the only arcade racer on the market worth playing. If you don’t want a single-game console or Mark Kart isn’t whst you’re looking for, tough luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BFG Edition or OG?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who lives at an altitude above 50ft, most cookbooks always kinda sucked out-of-the-box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you asked me to name a major gameplay innovation in the last 5 years, I literally couldn’t. Clair Obscur won a fuck load of awards for doing basically what Final Fantasy did 15 years ago, but not completely losing the plot. Hollow Knight blew everyone’s mind for making a decent Metroidvania game. Balatro made a game where you make a series of combos that people have been making for over 200 years. You don’t need fancy gimmicks anymore to be considered good, you just need to be good. Major publishers waste their time because they don’t know how to put “be good” on a spreadsheet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As the readme states, you can’t actually compile the source code. The compilers are lost to time and it’s from a very obscure, proprietary fork of an obscure language. Essentially, this headline should read “Microsoft owns code not even their engineers could comprehend, so they released it for free since they couldn’t possibly make money from it”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the point. It doesn’t matter how many middle layers there are, if you’re using a web browser, there are hundreds of pieces of information that can still be used to uniquely identify you. Do you have WebGL enabled? If so, you could be identified with 100 constantly changing proxies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downdetector is down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing cloudflare is only used on half of all websites, otherwise this would be a major outage! Let’s keep centralizing our services though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have voted for Icarus.