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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Real and True 12 hours ago:
Kinda like SQL but in polar coordinates
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 1 day ago:
My name registration with porkbun is cheap enough that I don’t remember exactly. Had no issues with them.
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 1 day ago:
thermodynamics as an elective
This is the engineering equivalent of people who recreationally run marathons
- Comment on Heat transfer be like 1 day ago:
When I was taking the class in college a friend called it “Thermogoddamnics” and that has always stuck with me
- Comment on One day, Red Bull will be sued by someone who got high and thought Red Bull would literally give them wings 4 days ago:
Internet Falsehood; I’m unsurprised at the lack of source.
I’ll counter your baseless claim with a contradicting one that’s at least easier to verify.
- The Lawsuit (True): In 2014, Red Bull settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. for ~$13 million. The lawsuit claimed the company’s marketing was deceptive because the drink doesn’t actually provide the physical or mental “boost” promised by the “Gives You Wings” slogan beyond what a cup of coffee would provide.
- The Slogan Change (False): Red Bull did not change the spelling because of the lawsuit. In fact, Red Bull had been using the stylized “wiiings” in various marketing campaigns and its logo long before the 2014 settlement.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 4 days ago:
Is your app as efficient as what an experienced developer would create?
One of the earliest uses we had for LLMs was literally just asking it to optimize several large codebases. Lots of pointless changes suggested; several huge performance wins we had overlooked.
And all done – implemented, tested, and human-reviewed – in about a person-week, compared to at least half a dozen person-months to go through all that by hand.
I mean, sometimes the LLMs generate slow algos. But less often than human coders.
If you released the source code, would it have security vulnerabilities?
You’re not gonna believe this, but another of the first things we did was ask the LLMs to review the codebase for security issues (and review any new PRs)
OFC the code also gets reviewed for security vulns like it always has, by old-school automation (eg valgrind, fortify, yadda), human review, and red-teaming exercises. I don’t think I’ve seen enough data yet to say whether it’s got more/worse security issues than human-generated code (which, need I remind you, is often highly insecure)
These are just a couple of the more hidden issues that fly under the radar when shipping LLM-generated code. Ummm… those would be issues if you didn’t use good orchestration, didn’t have good tools and docs for the LLMs to use, didn’t have follow good software engineering practices to begin with…
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 4 days ago:
already quite useful
Quite possibly solving the majority of human diseases is rather more than “quite useful”
2024 Nobel Prize lecture 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX1aYUckvnY
2025 lecture: Deep Protein Space. If this doesn’t blow your fucking mind… you haven’t heard of DNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enkgH6Vrxk
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 4 days ago:
There’s no such thing as “agents”
Up until ~6 months ago I would have agreed with you, and elaborated that “Agents are just LLMs in a loop with a text file scratchpad”
That’s… still true in a way, but honestly so many people have put so much cleverness into managing that process, that I have to say, yes, Cline or Codex with GPT or Claude Code behind them are absolutely “agentic”.
I can point them to a problem report and our company documentation and… an ever-increasing percentage of the time, I wind up with a problem description, a patch that fixes it, unit, coverage, and stress tests, and (if relevant) updated docs.
- Comment on "GOOD AI DON'T THINK! (They get even.)" would be a great name for a horror movie... 4 days ago:
Stanislaw Lem (author of Solaris ) wrote a wonderful short story based almost exactly on this premise (AIs that must not think, but are trying to get even)
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 4 days ago:
This reminds me so much of the late-80s when everyone was installing PCs in their offices and everyone was asking if this is actually better than a typewriter and Rolex, because people spend all day “futzing” on the computer.
5 years later we had networking, emerging interoperability standards, office productivity suites. 10 years later there was basically no company left that didn’t have PCs and much better productivity.
I see the same thing playing out here. A year ago we had Copilot and it sucked, I didn’t see the utility. But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc. These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
You see this pattern over & over with AI capability on a given task: It’s pathetic at 5%, then it merely sucks at 40%, then it takes a lot of futzing to fix up at 70%, then suddenly it’s at 95% and does as well as most professionals.
Downvote me to hell, this is my honest assessment.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 week ago:
“The Internet in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
“Computing in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
“Electricity in healthcare and science has been a boon, but other than that fuck it”
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 weeks ago:
infosec is full of jews
lol if he thinks the jews have infiltrated wait till he finds out how deep the gay atheist conspiracy goes
- Comment on Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75% 2 weeks ago:
… but leaving its scamminess levels unchanged
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 weeks ago:
Pi hole is required internet safety
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 3 weeks ago:
Really slid into the Trumper
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 3 weeks ago:
Ah… a story as old as Liberation Day…
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 weeks ago:
I have a computer capable of outputting video like 5 different ways: over the internet, near-field EM, HDMI, yadda
I just want a fucking standards compatible dumb screen
- Comment on are there subtitles for porn? 3 weeks ago:
Honest truth I watch xhamster because of the subtitles
Turn them on and leave them on
Watch non-English pr0n
The mistakes & mistranslations are chef’s kiss
- Comment on Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order 4 weeks ago:
Different designs, different strengths, different threat models
- Comment on Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order 4 weeks ago:
All we need are a few .onion mirrors
TBH if there are no .onion mirrors, it’s not a serious anti-censorship project
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Soulseek afict requires dedicated clients. The Subsonic standard is supported by more & more mobile/PC apps, I wish it was supported
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 5 weeks ago:
TBH I plan to migrate off Funkwhale to something more featureful and yea it was a bit of complex set up. Props to the devs tho, it’s open source, stable, and does what it says on the tin
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Spotify is why I set up a Funkwhale server
- Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? 5 weeks ago:
Another proud PieFedizen here. I support my server !
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
+1 LibreWolf enjoyer here
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 5 weeks ago:
I feel bad for households without a nerd to set up the family pihole
Like families where nobody cooks
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 5 weeks ago:
Could be hardware
- Comment on Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks 1 month ago:
Especially when it’s the shady near-scam quasi-religious cult known as Brave
https://hackread.com/brave-browser-tor-leaked-onion-queries-isps/
https://twashingtonledger.com/brave-browser-privacy-scandal-goes-right-to-the-heart-of-brave/
https://www.lifewire.com/brave-browser-falls-short-of-its-promises-of-privacy-5206799
https://eathealthy365.com/brave-browser-s-controversies-downsides-explained/ - Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 1 month ago:
And they wonder why darknet forums like Dread exist
- Comment on Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push 1 month ago:
Plot twist: Vizio monitors become the new WRTG
