VibeSurgeon

@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s gotta be grounds for termination if anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Delicacy is maybe not the word I’d use, but it certainly exists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a really dumb way to frame what the OpenAI people actually said on this - they are saying that the people applying to them want to know how many tokens they can use as a tool to accomplish the job they are applying for. There’s a fundamental difference to compensation here to compensation, where tokens as compensation would be how many tokens the people applying for the job would be able to utilize for their own purposes, whatever they may be.

  To illustrate - I would probably be reluctant to work for a company which would not be willing to spend the amount of money that would get me a more or less top of the line computer with which to perform my job. Not because I consider my company-provided development machine as a part of my compensation - it is merely a tool I use for my job.

  The people applying for these jobs are the kinds of people who think that burning an exorbitant amount of tokens will make them quite significantly more productive, so the metaphor of having the best tools available to accomplish the task at hand extends here, in accordance with their belief system.

  There’s then the quote from the VC ghouls, but I don’t think anyone could accuse them of being competent to any significant degree, so their quotes are most appropriately used as toilet paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but that can be said about almost anything.

  Still, I’d be surprised if they went the route of embedding ads into the stream, in part because of measurability/skipability/etc. It’s definitely not out of the question, but I think we’re still ways to go before we get there.

  And even then, tools like yt-dlp would probably be able to apply some heuristics to figure out which segments are foreign to the stream and slice them out that way. Blocking yt-dlp would require DRM, which in turn requires changing the transcoding pipeline in a pretty non-trivial way. I also doubt they would willingly go this route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You actually don’t have to, on account of how adaptive video streaming works. It’s fully possible to serve a few segments of ad content mid-stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my understanding as well, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those will not block YT ads.

  This is correct

  but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

  This is false

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slay the Spire 1 has the option for everyone to use beta art for free if they feel like it, no DLC involved. I bet they might do something similar for this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While all of these things would obviously be great, you still need to do the exercise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fr🤮nch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly depraved. A crime against humanity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me btw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I should clarify that I’m talking from a video engineering perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me btw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wanting to do anything with video for one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So... which one do I choose?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the above

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s Andrew Rousso doing in the image? Seems completely unrelated to the content of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna choose to take that as an insult to all Scandinavians

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NANI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The arch-gooner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems particularly high in levels of snake oil to be honest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I could do executive orders 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume most of them will have no citizenship in a second country for them to be accepted in.

  A pragmatic solution would be to deport them out to sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you’d lose support for devices which can’t handle software DRM playback, old YouTube clients installed on things like TVs which no longer get updated, if you want to support things that only get Widevine L3 support (most devices) you’re not really going to move the needle since Widevine L3 had been broken since like forever, etc.

  The main thing YouTube would gain in practice from such a move would be to get DMCA as a legal tool to crack down on people ripping YouTube videos, but that’d require some very significant resources invested into driving Legal processes against average consumers ripping videos, and the return on investment for that is almost certainly abysmal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage's claim he 'can't be bought' is ridiculed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can quite literally buy him on Cameo, is this a joke or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I NOT do in front of rich people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re sufficiently rich, you don’t even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

  You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Very_Light_Rail

  This has a certain gadgetbahn-smell over it and I remain skeptical.

  Ditching catenaries for batteries make the vehicles heavier, requires them to be out of service for a part of the day to recharge and increases capex per vehicle instead of taking the capex on catenaries.

  The claims of autonomous driving seem dubious - this usually warrants a level of separation that’s rarely afforded to trams. It’s possible, but it for sure requires not cheaping out on the infrastructure.

  Ditching timetables in favour of some kind of demand-driven dispatch reduces the predictability of the network, and also seems unnecessary if the claims of autonomous driving are actually true. Maybe they have to cheap out on the amount of vehicles when making each vehicle more expensive with the batteries.

  Who knows, maybe the numbers work out better than what we can see here, but until then, I remain skeptical. I hope to be proven wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mexico has breakfast tacos at home, they’re called Tacos de Canasta

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to get that checked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  RTOs are most often a “one free layoff"-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.

  This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.

  There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.

  It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing they meant an ID card issued in a EU country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Queue the chubbyemu intro music