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- Comment on Stephen Colbert Reveals ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Role As Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date — NYCC 1 hour ago:
His son now owns Paramount now, but Larry can actually control every aspect
no single shareholder can outvote David, but it also means that he needs his father to approve everything from budgets to key investments
- Comment on Stephen Colbert Reveals ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Role As Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date — NYCC 6 hours ago:
I haven’t hoisted any sails yet, as I’m actually kind of enjoying reduced content consumption subs I cut my streaming services this spring.
The current media landscape is too concentrated and somehow too fragmented behind disparate services. They’ve taken a problem that was briefly solved by Netflix and made it more confusing than cable while also trying to jam more ads in and jacking prices. It’s disgusting.
I wish we were getting more independent publishers as the costs have never been lower, the infrastructure is all commoditized, and consumer grade cameras are fantastic for 4K raw video. There’s also tons of artists around the country/world that want to make content, they just don’t have the capital and distribution options available to make it a full time job.
Frustrating.
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 6 hours ago:
That’s not really feasible without phones doing this automatically.
Even then didn’t the first Trump admin already argue iPhone video can’t be trusted because it’s modified with AI filters?
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 6 hours ago:
This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.
There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.
Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert Reveals ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Role As Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date — NYCC 7 hours ago:
Fuck Larry Ellison and by extension now Paramount.
Sad I won’t be watching this.
- Comment on AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds 2 days ago:
I am asking that all the people doing this watch Jurassic Park at least once.
I’ll let experts do their thing, but this kind of thing worries me. I never had “there is no singularity, AI just engineers a generic disease by accident and kills is all” on my bingo.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
Most software shouldn’t saturate either RAM or CPU on a modern computer.
Yes, Photoshop, compiling large codevases, and video encoding and things like that should make just of an the performance available.
But an app like Teams or Discord should not be hitting limits basically ever (I’ll excuse running a 4k stream, but most screen sharing is actually 720p)
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
I’ve been thinking of having a small model like a long context qwen 4b run and do quick code review to check for these issues, then just correct the main model.
It feels like a secondary model that only exists to validate that a task was actually completed could work.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
How can your code be too pythonic?
Also type hints are the shit. Nothing better than hitting shift tab and getting completions and documentation.
Even if you’re planning to migrate to a hypothetical new code base, getting a bunch of documented modules for free is a huge time saver.
Also migrations fucking suck, you’re an idiot if you think that will solve your problems.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
I’ve been working at a small company where I own a lot of the code base.
I got my boss to accept slower initial work that was more systemically designed, and now I can complete projects that would have taken weeks in a few days.
The level of consistency and quality you get by building a proper foundation and doing things right has an insane payoff. And users notice too when they’re using products that work consistently and with low resources.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
Fabricated 4,000 fake user profiles to cover up the deletion
This has got to be a reinforcement learning issue, I had this happen the other day.
I asked Claude to fix some tests, so it fixed the tests by commenting out the failures. I guess that’s a way of fixing them that nobody would ever ask for.
Absolutely moronic. These tools do this regularly. It’s how they pass benchmarks.
Also you can’t ask them why they did something, they have no capacity of introspection, they can’t read their input tokens, they just make up something that sounds plausible for “what were you thinking”.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 days ago:
I’m growing very annoyed with Apple lately. Giving Trump a solid gold brick was bad enough. I knew it would get worse with all those Trump dinners Tim Cook has been attending.
Between Apple Google AWS and Microsoft the amount of control by US tech is terrifying.
This year I’ve started divesting but politically I think I need to accelerate.
I’ve been a user of the Mac for 20 years, this year I moved to a Linux desktop. Now I need to look into Linux phone and laptops soon.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 days ago:
Worth considering that they’re probably watching that thread and discussing internally.
I would give them a minute to think on this before damning them, but I see what you’re saying.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 3 days ago:
Well, now I feel better about using a throwaway email when I made my account.
- Comment on US | White House says furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay amid shutdown 4 days ago:
also people theft.
- Comment on Mina the Hollower has been delayed 5 days ago:
Crunch time sucks, do what’s right for the team so they can do what’s right for the customers.
- Comment on Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible 5 days ago:
Vibe coding works when you need to say connect to some API and can feed the model a bunch of docs.
It’s great for very low skill, low maintenance, low risk code that I can easily and reliably regenerate.
Increasingly coding models are improving at architecture choices, Claude 4.5 vs 4 is way better here. But ultimately it’s inferior to a ginger making those choices.
It’s also a great debugger and reviewer.
I used it this weekend to connect to an API and to build a table of constants by just feeding it docs. That was a huge time saver.
I also used it to try and implement stuff and I gotta say once it hit tricky things it started trying to game it and just say it works.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 week ago:
But the stove says it’s safe!
- Comment on A handy chart 1 week ago:
Maybe once we start trying to settle it, it’ll look at Earth and say “nope”
- Comment on A handy chart 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t the lack of tides result in the ocean getting pretty stagnant, deoxygenating, and most ocean life dying except for microbes and plankton, which would then affect the atmosphere and pretty much kill our current biome?
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 week ago:
Everything is objectionable.
Are we ready to admit that giving 3 companies the ability to decide what everyone can and can’t execute on their devices is a massive international problem? This is probably the greatest threat to every country in the world, and the people of the US.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
That’s a bit slow for a Factorio run, but impressive nonetheless.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
That’s awesome
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 1 week ago:
Restart-always
Then avoid looking at your log files
- Comment on US govt shutdown begins after Congress fails to reach deal 1 week ago:
You guys have the weirdest system of government.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
I use it for writing code to call APIs and is a huge boon.
Yeah, you have to check the results, but it’s way faster than me.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 week ago:
My mistake then
- Comment on OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports 1 week ago:
You have been opted out.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 week ago:
They have their Veo 3 video model
It’s the one that doesn’t have a problem turning black people into monkeys.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 week ago:
Google is leading the charge with their own video AI