mcv
@mcv@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 2 days ago:
Not for you perhaps, but for a lot of people that’s important. There are way too many people who falsely think the Republicans are the Christian party, and that’s unfortunately helped by Christians who separate their faith from politics. It’s vital that more Christians speak out about the hypocrisy and perversion of the “Religious Right”, or uninformed people will continue to be led astray by them.
It’s not good for you either if they continue to vote Republican, so give him this opportunity to set them straight.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 2 days ago:
I think he’s cancelled in May or thereabouts. It’s a very slow cancellation.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 5 days ago:
There should not exist a class of people with such unaccountable power that they can do these things and get away with it.
This isn’t just about Epstein, Trump and all the other child rapists on those files (although they should definitely go to prison); it’s about the system that makes this possible, and puts the worst possible people in a position to do this and get away with it.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 1 week ago:
Let’s van those hit pieces too. In fact, let’s split the internet into one for bots and one without bots.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that’s a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you’ve got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
No, the thing I don’t understand is why they wouldn’t build any pedestrian or cycling infrastructure around stadiums and hotels in the first place.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
If there’s a clear need to cross, they should provide a way to cross. That’s how you prevent people improvising their own way.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
So, why is there no pedestrian bridge?
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 weeks ago:
It depends on which cloud. US cloud services are inherently unsafe. Some other countries have more respect for privacy.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 weeks ago:
It will most certainly stifle innovative ways to leech more profit while the taxpayer is left holding the bag.
Ah, who am I kidding? They’ll find something new. It will just spark more innovation.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 weeks ago:
Space feels cold if you have some fluid to evaporate, like blood or something. But servers will very quickly run out of whatever fluids they have if they tried this. (And so would you in their place.)
The only option to sustainably lose heat in space is radiation, which works, but is slow and limited in capacity, so these server satellites would need massive radiators. It’s not impossible to do. ISS also has massive radiators.
So servers in space is possible. How big you can make an orbital server park, I don’t know. I can imagine that with enough radiators, they start catching each other’s heat, so there might be a limit to have many radiators you can put closely together, but I have no idea what that limit might be.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 weeks ago:
Companies that are too big to fail and need a bail out, should be automatically nationalised.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 2 weeks ago:
For decades there has been tension between European data protection principles and US principles that corporations should be able to monetize your data and the US government should be able to access everything. Our dependence on US tech companies had made our position weak. We should have subsidised European cloud infrastructure a long time ago.
Especially the last few years it’s been terrible how many companies and organisations have surrendered to US Big Tech. Even Dutch banks have abandoned their own excellent contactless payment system to surrender to Apple Pay and Google Wallet.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 weeks ago:
True, but nobody is bound by it. There are other ways to sell on PC, there are no other ways to sell on iPhone. And games bought elsewhere will work just fine on a PC that has Steam installed. Anyone can leave at any time, or buy from anywhere. The only way to do that on iPhone is to switch your entire phone with Android. Apple’s position on the iPhone is far more controlling and monopolistic than Steam’s on PC.
The Steam tax might be too steep as well, but these are not identical situations. It’s far easier to avoid Steam if you don’t want it. I prefer to buy from GOG, and only buy from Steam when it’s cheaper or not available on GOG.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 weeks ago:
But Valve doesn’t have a monopoly on PC games. You can sell your own game, or sell through GOG. On iPhone, Apple has the monopoly and they abuse it.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 weeks ago:
Next they’ll take 30% on every transaction through my banking app.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 1 month ago:
I like Civ 6, but it helps the set it to ‘online’ speed.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
This is the big issue. LLMs are useful to me (to some degree) because I can tell when its answer is probably on the right track, and when it’s bullshit. And still I’ve occasionally wasted time following it in the wrong direction. People with less experience or more trust in LLMs are much more likely to fall into that trap.
LLMs offer benefits and risks. You need to learn how to use it.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
I’m just saying that your comment started out superficially looking like an argument justifying guns in some situations, and then turned out not even being that.
I have no doubt that there are situations that would justify carrying a gun, but “you will need to shoot yourself” is not it.
And of course most people would simply prefer to avoid dangerous situations like that, or prefer the danger to be addressed in a more systemic way, if necessary. But not all danger needs to be made safe. Nature in particular just needs to be left alone sometimes.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
I think it’s indeed fair to say that the vast, vast majority of people have never spent time near Ship Rock at night.
Not that a gun would do much good against them
So even that is not an argument for guns?
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 1 month ago:
Can’t you redirect that email at the DNS level or something? Email for my domain get redirected to different mailboxes, which I can configure at my registrar.
Although personally I’d take this as a perfect opportunity to move away from Google entirely.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 month ago:
This is my main concern. I will believe they can regrow lost teeth, but can they regrow them in the correct shape and location? Teeth can take some weird shapes. We’ve got millions of years of evolution tweaking exactly where and how they grow, and it still goes wrong sometimes. I suspect messing with that process can lead to Cronenbergian results.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 month ago:
Why? More teeth to clean, fill, check and care for.
- Comment on ‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained 1 month ago:
Deals between AI giants and ram manufacturers. That’s what’s creating the shortage and driving up the real prices.
- Comment on ‘All is fair in RAM and war’: RAM price crisis in 2025 explained 1 month ago:
I’m sure those tariffs have some impact in the US, but ram prices are outrageously high outside the US as well. They’re not the real factor here.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
It’s certainly the option I’m rooting for, but it would still be a massive drama and disrupt a lot of lives. Which is why they’ll probably get bailed out with taxpayer money.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
It is great for boilerplate code. It can also explain code for you, or help with an unfamiliar library. It’s even helped me be productive when my brain wasn’t ready to really engage with the code.
But here’s the real danger: because I’ve got AI to do it for me, my brain doesn’t have to engage fully with the code anymore. I don’t really get into the flow where code just flows out of your hands like I used to. It’s becoming a barrier between me and the real magic of coding. And that sucks, because that’s what I love about this work. Instead, I’m becoming the AI’s manager. I never asked for that.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
They might. The amount of money they’re pumping into this is absolutely staggering. I don’t see how they’re going to make all of that money back, unless they manage to replace nearly all employees.
Either way it’s going to be a disaster: mass unemployment or the largest companies in the world collapsing.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
This is the real thing. You can absolutely get good code out of AI, but it requires a lot of hand holding. It helps me speed some tasks, especially boring ones, but I don’t see it ever replacing me. It makes far too many errors, and requires me to point them out, and to point in the direction of the solution.
They are great at churning out massive amounts of code. They’re also great at completely missing the point. And the massive amount of code needs to be checked and reviewed. Personally I’d rather write the code and have the AI review it. That’s a much more pleasant way to work, and that way it actually enhances quality.