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- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 4 days ago:
That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 5 days ago:
I’m afraid I still don’t quite get it. Do you pay less taxes now? Do members of this church pay more taxes?
It all sounds completely at odds with the concept of freedom of religion.
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 6 days ago:
How does that work? How can you be made to pay? That does not sound legal to me. Can’t you just leave and ignore it?
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 6 days ago:
There’s definitely a difference between faith, and organised religion. I think the worst thing that can happen to any religion is to become an official state religion. At that point it becomes a tool for politics and social control. It unavoidably gets corrupted in some way. People aren’t part of it because they believe, but because they have to.
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 1 week ago:
Then what would you call the people who actually follow the teachings of Christ? What would you call the Christians in other countries? Why would appropriators of a word get to own it?
- Comment on Xmas at the mega church 1 week ago:
Everything is business, everything is entertainment, everything is about money.
There is still real Christianity in the US, but this isn’t it. I recently read about someone asking for help from various churches, mosques and temples, and everybody offered help, except the churches. The churches that did help were predominantly black.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 1 week ago:
I would suggest requiring these datacenters to also invest in sufficient green energy to power them.
- Comment on Typeframe 1 week ago:
Looks a lot like the BBC Micro. Cool design choice.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
They’re systems trained to give plausible answers, not correct ones. Of course correct answers are usually plausible, but so do wrong answers, and on sufficiently complex topics, you need real expertise to tell when they’re wrong.
I’ve been programming a lot with AI lately, and I’d say the error rate for moderately complex code is about 50%. They’re great at simple boilerplate code, and configuration and stuff that almost every project uses, but if you’re trying to do something actually new, they’re nearly useless. You can lose a lot of time going down a wrong path, if you’re not careful.
Never ever trust them. Always verify.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Who cares about the money of people when they have all the money?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
OpenAI’s mounting costs — set to hit $1.4 trillion
Sorry, but WTF!? $1.4 Trillion in costs? How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?
I think there’s only one way they can make this back: if AI gets so good they can really replace most employees.
I don’t think it will happen, but either way it’s going to be an economic disaster. Either the most valuable companies in the world, offering services that the next couple of hundred companies in the world depend on, are suddenly bankrupt. Or suddenly everybody is unemployed.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
I’ve been telling my employer that they should be moving away from the Microsoft cloud for a whole bunch of reasons. Someone said they’re aware of it, so with the speed stuff here is moving, we might actually move to something else in 10 years.
But personally I wouldn’t lose any sleep if the whole bubble collapsed next year.
- Comment on That's interesting 1 week ago:
Is he saying that AI mentally crippled him? Because people have been figuring this out for millennia.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
I remember when they changed the backronym for Emacs from “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping” to Eighty. Megabytes. Or when a Netscape developer was proud to overtake that memory use.
What’s the point of more RAM and faster processors if we just make applications that much less efficient?
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 weeks ago:
A big problem in computer security these days is all-or-nothing security: either you can’t do anything, or you can do everything.
I have no interest in agentic AI, but if I did, I would want it to have very clearly specified permission to certain folders, processes and APIs. So maybe it could wipe the project directory (which would have backup of course), but not a complete harddisk.
And honestly, I want that level of granularity for everything.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
This technology is wasted on smartphones. We need this on laptop screens.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 3 weeks ago:
That joke, about just uploading everything and letting others decide what’s worth saving, is one I first heard decades ago. Might still have been him who first made it.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 3 weeks ago:
Different generations. They didn’t get each other’s cultural references.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 weeks ago:
Pay workers the vare minimum they need to survive, and have them spend all their waking hours working for you. That’s how you get rich, apparently.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Warhammer? This sounds not far from the most horrific mission from a Shadowrun campaign I ran. They were making the new internet out of human brains.
“In science fiction, people have been living with these ideas for quite a long time,” he said.
That doesn’t mean you should do it for real.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 4 weeks ago:
Are your unaware that you are arguing towards a tautology? “It’s not overvalued because this is what it’s valued”. That’s meaningless.
If the assets, profits and projected growth do not justify the current valuation, it’s overvalued. That’s the case for Tesla.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 4 weeks ago:
That doesn’t mean that value is reasonable, though. The stockmarket has a rich history of hysteria and irrationality.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 4 weeks ago:
By that argument nothing is ever overvalued because apparently that’s what the stockmarket says it’s worth. But crashes still happen.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t think it’s any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it’s impossible to ignore, but generally I’m totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 5 weeks ago:
That’s just a “the stockmarket can’t possibly be wrong” argument, but the stockmarket has often been wrong.
Tesla is overvalued. That’s blatantly obvious if you look at the data. There’s no justification for Tesla’s insane market cap other than hype or corruption.
Did you not understand the Corolla/Lamborghini example?
I do, but I wonder if you do. Toyota is far, far more valuable than Lamborghini. Toyota is the largest car manufacturer in the world, and with a market cap of $269B, the second most valuable after Tesla.
Lamborghini is not independent, but owned by Volkswagen, as part of their Audi group, and all of those brands put together have a market cap of $58B.
Your argument is not a justification for Tesla’s high market value; quite the opposite.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 5 weeks ago:
There’s more to a car than speed, and Teslas aren’t Lamborghinis. They were exciting when they were new, but they’ve always had quality issues. Toyota produces more reliable cars. And more cars. There’s no perspective from which Tesla’s valuation makes sense.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 month ago:
Why would this be my first time reading about the stock market? Do you think this is the first bubble?
Yes, hype and bubbles are common on the stock market, that’s not all it is, and that doesn’t make them okay. The dot-com bubble led to a crash. Other bubbles led to crashes. This one will too. How long that will take? That depends on the number of greater fools, or on how long they can keep inflating this with financial trickery.
Teslas are still the gold standard of EVs. They’re not the cheapest, but they’re what everyone wants.
That was years ago. Tesla sales are dropping in many places, while other the other EV sales are growing. Tesla has peaked, there’s no sign of anything that will reverse it. And their sales have never justified their stock value.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 month ago:
Have your wife buy it and gift it to you.
But yes, this sort of price discrimination is weird and deadly for any sort of free market.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 month ago:
However you like. Download it straight from the publisher, buy it on cdrom, buy it on gog, epic or any other platform. There’s no enforced monopoly for PC games, and the only one who could enforce one is Microsoft.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 1 month ago:
But that’s all bubble. Tesla isn’t selling even enough cars to justify its current valuation, and sales are slowing down. The current valuation of Tesla is based entirely on hype, and has been for years. For ever, really, but in the early years it could be justified because it was the fastest growing car company ever, and EVs were new and hot. Now everybody is building EVs, and more than Tesla.