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- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 5 hours ago:
cannot in good conscience
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- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 day ago:
Went to Burger King, they spit on my onion rings
See, if they had AI back in Eminem’s day, this never would’ve happened.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 2 days ago:
Context engineering is one way to shift that balance. When you provide a model with structured examples, domain patterns, and relevant context at inference time, you give it information that can help override generic heuristics with task-specific reasoning.
So the chat bots getting it right consistently probably have it in their system prompt temporarily until they can be retrained with it incorporated into the training data. 😆
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 2 days ago:
My kid got it wrong at first, saying walking is better for exercise, then got it right after being asked again.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 got it right the first time.
My self-hosted Qwen 8B got it wrong consistently until I asked it how it thinks a car wash works, what is the purpose of the trip, and can that purpose be fulfilled from a distance. I was considering using it for self-hosted AI coding, but now I’m having second thoughts. I’m imagining it’ll go about like that if I ask it to fix a bug.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 days ago:
What sucks is being legally obligated to shovel or else be open to lawsuits if anyone slips and gets hurt. Also, if you wait and let snow melt a bit, you’ll have a sheet of hard, frozen snow that is much more difficult to remove. That, combined with other responsibilities and places to be means you’re stressed and busting your ass to hurry and get everything shoveled.
- Comment on How to reach different services via name instead of ip? 3 days ago:
I have a TP-Link router with OpenWRT and use it to make local DNS entries for my services, like jellyfin.lan and forgejo.lan. I’m also running k3s, which comes with Traefik as a built-in reverse proxy.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 5 days ago:
Wow, that’s really patronizing.
- Comment on AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins. 5 days ago:
I wonder if the bios are written in the style of the less educated, non-native speaker. Ring described, because I can imagine that would have an effect.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 5 days ago:
I live in the US where teachers are paid a pittance. Shows our values as a society. They’re educating the next generations, but that doesn’t make number go up right this second, so they are compensated accordingly.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 5 days ago:
AFAIK, only adults can sign up for internet access, so a minor watching porn on the internet is the same as said minor watching their parents’ adult DVDs or drinking alcohol their parents purchased. It’s already illegal for adults to give minors access to these things, so what’s next? Alcohol bottles that only open and DVDs / Bluerays that only play if you can provide an ID and prove your age every time?
- Comment on Travelling on a flying carpet must be terrifying 6 days ago:
People think the future has arrived because we have aircraft that marketing departments are calling “flying cars”. However, when we have “magic carpets” that float around with mechanisms not based on aerodynamics or lift, that’s when the future will have arrived.
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 6 days ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was buying it at Kroger, but got tired of meat being expired the first day I got it home, long before the expiration date. Now I buy from a rancher down the road. Re-reading my comment, it may have been unclear that I’m buying local to get better quality than I can get from big corporations.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn’t really exist to be put into GPUs that haven’t been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven’t been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn’t actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
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- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 1 week ago:
Hard work does not create wealth. The only thing that creates wealth is wealth, and we have it, and you don’t.
This quote from Horrible Bosses 2 always stood out to me.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve had a number of occasions where I purchased meat and it was spoiled before the expiration date. At this point, I’m sick of putting my trust in big corporations and am trying to buy more foods produced locally.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 week ago:
Breaking news: a for-profit corporation did something shitty to make number go up. In other news, it was recently discovered that ticks feed on their hosts’ blood with no concern for the well-being of their hosts.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 week ago:
Maybe Claude Code learned this from its creators: I’ve noticed that when it says “the real issue is…”, that means it has no clue and is about barf out a bunch of slop that I’m going to have to revert.
- Comment on Red and Blue States Alike Want To Limit AI in Insurance. Trump Wants To Limit the States. 1 week ago:
Insurance has long been based on statistical modeling, so advanced ML models and elaborate data pipelines are a natural evolution. I assume “AI” in this context refers to LLMs, though, which deals with the probability of a sequence of text occurring as opposed to the probability of the event being insured occurring, so how does that make sense?
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing 1 week ago:
He could probably get at least 128GB of DDR5 for one of them.
- Comment on European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools 1 week ago:
Imagine writing things as important as laws with AI.
If it’s anything like AI-generated software, it would be full of loopholes.
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 1 week ago:
With a coding agent, it’s wrong a lot and the code is usually terrible, but it can get working code with proper tests to create a feedback loop.
How does that go with legal work? Well, turns out that was mostly made-up bullshit and the judge gave a jail sentence for contempt of court, but once I get out, I’ll generate some more slop that will hopefully go over better next time.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
Why would anyone want €100 billion in economic growth from open source investments when you can give the CIA all your data and gain access to innovative new ways to generate AI slop?
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe next time they’re thinking of spending $8M on a Super Bowl ad, they can save themselves some money and pay me half that amount. I’m perfectly happy to tell everyone how Ring cameras are a privacy nightmare and recommend Reolink instead.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 2 weeks ago:
Well, Amazon is really turning over a new leaf and becoming an ethical company now. Guess we can blindly give them our full trust and ignore all of the egregious past behavior.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
2026 is going to suck for hardware, but 2027 might be better if this nonsense blows over. For one thing, AMD’s RDNA 5 was announced for 2027, which is supposed to be more comparable to Nvidia for compute workloads, including real RTX cores. AMDs recent SoCs have been pretty impressive, so I’m looking forward to AMD SoCs that are competitive with Nvidia discrete GPUs beyond just rasterization, except without artificially constrained VRAM and lower power requirements.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
I have multiple Reolink cameras and highly recommend them.
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 2 weeks ago:
Also motorcycles and bicycles.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
I have a Reolink doorbell camera and other Reolink cameras. They record to a SD card in the camera and the app connects to the cameras via your LAN. Setting it up basically involves scanning the camera QR code with the app and then mounting the camera, so easier than Ring.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what would prevent the average person from buying Ring cameras unless it became commonplace for Ring cameras to be vandalized while other cameras were left alone.
