ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- 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 days 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 days 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? 6 days ago:
The number system is Indian not Arabic.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
The ISS is only in low orbit.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 1 week 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) 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Tesla plan to build a “tera-plant” to make RAM.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Linear components like power amplifiers are made from the same material as digital circuitry, and they use a lot more of it.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 4 weeks ago:
What, you mean it wasn’t there already ? It’s the only place where it would be actually useful.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 4 weeks ago:
The rot really began with Google and the the goal of “professionalism” in teaching.
Textbooks were thrown out, in favour of “flexible” teaching models, and Google allowed lazy teachers to just set assignments rather than teach lessons (prior to Google, the lack of resources in a normal school made assignments difficult to complete to any sort of acceptable standard).
The continual demand for “professionalism” also drove this trend - “we have to have these vast, long winded assignments because that’s what is done at university”.
AI has rendered this method of pedagogy void, but the teaching profession refuses to abandon their aim for “professionalism”.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 weeks ago:
It switches to storing files on Onedrive without warning.
Then if you disable Onedrive, you lose access to your files (on Onedrive) and the memory space is reused.
It doesn’t actually delete local storage, as the path is just switched.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 5 weeks ago:
When I was in year 5 the kids in the class had been working cutting apricots and they bought tonnes of candy and these whistles they were blowing all the time.
How much did the whistles cost ? one cent.
True story.
- Comment on Coca cola reverse-engineered recipe for "homebrewing" 5 weeks ago:
Once you find out it contains peppermint oil you always notice it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 5 weeks ago:
From the questions people ask and from online accounts.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
The MacIntosh did not have an eject button famously.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 5 weeks ago:
I think the term “The Nethetlands” was coined after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when the northern provinces ,which became Lutheran, separated from the southern provinces which remained Roman Catholic.
The country was usually referred as “Holland” (a northern province) before then.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 5 weeks ago:
America was originally just the name of South America, then the English lazily coined the term “North America”.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 5 weeks ago:
Biden increased sanctions on Venezuela.
During the Venezuelan election, when the US-backed opposition leader said that he wouldn’t give the oilfields back to the US, Biden had their financial support cut off and arrested opposition members living in the US.
The Venezuelan policy is bipartisan.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
It’s not free you know.
Yes, the software doesn’t cost anything but the chipset is supplied by a single manufacturer Qualcomm and costs a bomb.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 1 month ago:
By “non-political” he means pro-MAGA.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 month ago:
Recommended minimum for Win 11 is 4 GB.
The system does not need to use RAM to run multiple programs, it can use secondary memory.