ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 2 days ago:
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 days ago:
If it doesn’t generate a token you won’t be able to access the site.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 days ago:
It literally only requires a single bit flag.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 2 days ago:
This will make it more anonymous because verification relies on a token defined in the OS rather than uploading identification.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 days ago:
The whole point of using AI is that its a search tool and that is the verification.
Otherwise there’s no point in using it.
And you can guarantee Conde Nast demands journalists use AI all the time.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 1 week ago:
Will lower memory availability to consumers increase reliance on cloud-based storage and demand for data centers? >
No, because you need more RAM to run a smart terminal than a standalone micro, because there’s no secondary memory available to rely on.
Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it’s planning to buy
OpenAI hasn’t actually paid for any of that, its sold on credit with a 6 year repayment period on hardware that will only last 2-3 years at most. That’s why no memory manufacturers are increasing capacity, as they would if they thought there was any long term increase in demand.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
The devices will be returned to the supplier (they are supplied on credit) and then destroyed.
The manufacturers won’t want to flood the market with discounted hardware.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 week ago:
It has the same “energy density”, but lower density because of its honeycomb structure.
- 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?" 1 week ago:
<“I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”>
The model discards the first sentence as it is unrelated to the others.
Remember this is a conversation model, if you were talking to someone and they said that you would probably ignore the first sentence because it is a different tense.
- 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 1 week ago:
Selling Apples ?
- 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 1 week ago:
<By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools.>
There’s your problem right there, you bought computers which basically have no programs written for them.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 weeks ago:
…except that PC sales will fall off a cliff, so they won’t have a market to sell to. Its not like you need a PC to access the internet anymore.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 weeks ago:
A terminal would require more RAM, not less.
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 3 weeks ago:
If you have are using an Android phone, none at all.
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 3 weeks ago:
AI interviews reduce HR workload
Not if they put forward idiots based on hallucinated questions.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 3 weeks ago:
The number system is Indian not Arabic.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 3 weeks ago:
Pictographic languages go top to bottom or sometimes bottom to top even.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 4 weeks ago:
They use behavioral psychology, a system of rewards, i’s not violent.
Only wild horses are “broken”
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 4 weeks ago:
The ISS is only in low orbit.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
They are tiiny and losing money by the skip full.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 weeks ago:
The expert systems that the console manufacturers supply to developers can already do this sort of thing.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 5 weeks ago:
That’s not that much. YouTube would have you believe they’ve crashed 95%
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 5 weeks ago:
Checker Motors doesn’t rule the world.
Making taxi cars is not profitable.
The corporate model is financially unviable because the capital owners rather than the drivers are taking all the risk.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 5 weeks ago:
What exists is a modified model Y with a radio controller in another location.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 5 weeks ago:
S and X are luxury bespoke high performance models not intended to sell in large numbers. In fact, Tesla doesn’t have the capacity to make them in large numbers.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 5 weeks ago:
Tesla plan to build a “tera-plant” to make RAM.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
The fact that no new ram production capacity is being developed would indicate a lack of future contracts
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 month ago:
You would need more ram to do that. Understand the difference between primary and secondary memory.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
Linear components like power amplifiers are made from the same material as digital circuitry, and they use a lot more of it.