HaraldvonBlauzahn
@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 day ago:
Fuck you
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 5 days ago:
I would agree with that.
Especially, “being 70%” finished does not mean you will get a working product at all. If the fundamentale understanding is not there, you will not getting a working product without fundamental rewrites.
I have seen code from such bullshit developers myself. Vibe-coded device drivers where people do not understand the fundamentals of multi-threading. Why and when you need locks in C++. No clear API descriptions. Messaging architectures that look like a rats nest. Wild mix of synchronous and async code. Insistence that their code is self-documenting and needs neither comments nor doc. And: Agressivity when confronted with all that. Because the bullshit taints any working relationship.
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 35 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Copilot told him: “you are absolutely right!”
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
Yes. One good option now might be PocketBook or so. New devices are popping up, the technology is there.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
I’ve been rocking a Minimal Phone for about 6 or 7 months now, and man am I excited to have options for QWERTY phones again.
It’s like they’re designed solely for scrolling an endless feed of mind-numbing slop.
It is because they are exactly that.
There exist palmtops and handheld computers. I have a Gemini PDA running Sailfish OS Linux and it feels very different - like a small, cat-sized laptop. No problem running ssh or vim or ledger on it, or self-written guile apps, or cross-compiled Rust CLI tools. It is a computer, not a consumption device.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 2 weeks ago:
Linus doesn’t want to add guidelines to not fuel any side of the whole discussion […]
Sounds like “don’t feed the trolls”. And “don’t waste time with discussing spam”.
Apart from that, if GenAI could write good code, it would be acceptable. The thing to do is to scrutinize code for looking plausible while really being bullshit, or subtly wrong.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 2 weeks ago:
30 km is long?!
I commute 14 km on the bike in Munich. (When the weather is not really icy).
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 2 weeks ago:
reset
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, lile that. There are also types (like the Anker generators for mobile homes / boats etc) which can run stand-alone, but the German balkony solar panels just add cheap supply to the domestic power use by plugging it into the household AC system.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 2 weeks ago:
No. It is just wires that transport energy. Old power meters will even run backwards.
For safety, these panel have some electronics that switch them off when it is not plugged in, or during power outages.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 2 weeks ago:
Here in Germany we have balcony solar panels. They are just plugged into a socket - no electrical installation needed - and pay off quickly.
- Comment on Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Wait, what did Satya “Sloperator” Nadella say?
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
Rust has traits and reference counting which map nicely to COM objects.
By the way, the Linux Kernel is OOP. That’s a good choice for things like queues, file systems, and device drivers.
- Comment on There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM 4 weeks ago:
Remember biometric information is like an account name, not like a password. You can change and reset your password, but not your fingerprints.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 4 weeks ago:
“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”
That’s insane. Even a good engineer will frequently need years to fully understand one million lines of code - even if the code is organized very, very well.
To compare, one million lines of program code might have around 200000 important symbols whose meaning and complex connections one has to learn and memorize. That’s far more than the average vocabulary one will learn in five years when learning a foreign language to a high skill level. Doing it in a month would be like learning to read and write fine Japanese or Arab literature in a month when you have never spoken a word in that language before.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 4 weeks ago:
I am. I have 16 GB on my 15 year old eight-core PC, run virtual machines, and need barely half the RAM. My laptop is a Thinkpad T490 and is totally fine. My Linux phone runs fine with 5 GB right now.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 weeks ago:
People will also need to stay back 70 meters.
Huge amounts of carbon dioxide can be far more dangerous. The Lake Nyos disaster has killed over 1700 people.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 weeks ago:
And wave power, which can complement wind and solar power.
Look up [the Pelamis wave power plant[(m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3-SXFtPYe0&pp=ygU1cGVsYW1p…). Bought by E.ON , a fossil company. Then, E.ON killed the project.
Now, the Chinese have copied it and are building it. What a grim joke.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 weeks ago:
They don’t want working energy storage. That’s why there are so many fairy dust projects like nuclear fusion.
And on the other hand, there are well-proven established techniques like heat pumps, OV panels, Lithium batteries, and saisonal heat storage. Which should be built and used at a large scale because they work - but aren’t.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 weeks ago:
even the waste heat from the compression could be used to achieve more compression
No. Waste heat can by definition not be converted to mechanical work.
Otherwise, one could build a perpetuum mobile: Convert heat to mechanical work, use that work to generate heat, convert it to work again, and so on. You’d have a machine that generates energy out of nothing, and that’s not possible because of the law of energy conservation.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 weeks ago:
Compressing gas generates heat, and a significant part of that heat will be lost. Heat dissipation is itreversible, and this lowers efficiency a lot.
BTW the same reason why in industry, pneumatic drives are universally replaced by electric motors: Their efficiency is too low.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 1 month ago:
I would doubt that the average self-updating Windows program has better security.
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 1 month ago:
Related: Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks saw this coming: arstechnica.com/…/why-irobots-founder-wont-go-wit…
I think this is a well-written and important article.
One more aspect: The article lines out that todays control algirithms for robots are not inherently stable and can’t guarantee safety.
I have seen some code that runs in some if such humanoid robots and would like to add the following warning: the control code for robots is typically written by researchers, not safety experts. While there might be some brilliant programmers among them, such code will be, in most of the cases, a hot mess which cannot guarantee any safety. It will certainly not meet requirements which are commonly mandated for things like complex medical devices, automobiles, or other dangerous work equipment - but due to the much larger complexity and dangerous mechanical forces in such robots, the requirements should be higher than in automobiles.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
Well, what the world really needs are laptops with built-in HVAC support!
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 1 month ago:
Would you go near an uncontrollable maniac swinging a ten-pound sledgehammer, or stand two meters below a larger-than life bronce sculpture of Neptun with a harpoon, weighting 150 kilograms, which is not fixed, unstable and could at any moment fall upon you?
No? Then you should not go near such a robot.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 months ago:
Yeah, but is it useful to rob the Mona Lisa?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They survived the K-T extiction event ir K-Pg event which killed perhaps 75% of species in earth 66 milliin years ago.
While we are already causing an extinction event which will probably far worse, by causing temperatures to rise to a level higher than in hundreds of millions of years. And I am not so sure that we survive that in the long run. Humans are incredibly adaptable, that’s right. But our food sources are not, and the great mayority of them (except perhaps algae and mushrooms) are far younger in an evolutionary sense, so it is unlikely they can adapt.
- Comment on The Authoritarian Stack 2 months ago:
Yeah Brexit was a test run. Great Summary by Carole Cadwalladr “The great British Brexit Robbery” (published by the Guardian, de-published following pressure by Google, I guess, but can be found on the net).
I was completely spooked by the fact that these Brexiteers were using language in a Nazi-like way.
- Comment on Big Nuclear’s Big Mistake - Linear No-Threshold 2 months ago:
That is at least very disputable.
Look up “epigenetic effects of ionizing radiation” on scholar.google.com (that is a google service for searching academic papers).
There are also effects for which the current theories have no good explanation. For example, in Germany, several careful studies found that near nuclear plants, there is a larger risk for childs to develop leukemia. Similar results have emerged in other places of the world.