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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. Though even when Woz was involved, he was overruled by one of the model tech narcissists, Jobs. But at least he was in the room.

  I think we’ve just created an unregulated system that almost perfectly incentivizes and reinforces evil, so eventually evil is what we get.

  Free market capitalism can only serve good with a tight collar and very short leash held by healthy democracy. Maybe it was a bad idea spending 40 years removing and making all leashes and collars for capitalism illegal, and handing the collar and leash to capitalism to put on democracy. But what do I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All good, thanks for the suggestion!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am trying to recall, I think I did look and it was past the time period. I should have tried. It’s +2 years now, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decisions, decisions...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it would be fantastic for a company to offer a translation layer so you can check off the types of stocks you don’t want to support, and it would customize an “index” to your ethical values by starting with a regular index and removing non-compliant companies.

• ⁨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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the article cites that as a control, but it’s not at all surprising since “humanity by survey consensus” is accurate to how LLM weighting trained on random human outputs works.

  It’s impressive up to a point, but you wouldn’t exactly want your answers to complex math operations or other specialized areas to track layperson human survey responses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Management: “No, that doesn’t work, because employees spend so much time doing the actual work that they lack the vision to know what’s good for them. Luckily for them I am not distracted by actual work so I have the vision to save them by making them use AI.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very helpful, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We mostly play Super Mario Party and tried Jamboree as well on Switch. I haven’t really played other ones even though I lived through those prior generations. So maybe I’m just an irredeemable grumpy buzzkill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disabling bonus stars is a good point. For the difficulty, not sure if that would work well: The problem is some of the players are inevitably casuals, so increasing the difficulty just means the very narrow part of the game that isn’t as random - the mini-games - becomes not fun for them. And the Monopoly-style turn-based board play takes sooooo long, you can’t really strategize where to go.

  I really do think a Mario Party game with only mini-games so everyone plays all the time would be incredible. But again, maybe I’m just describing Warioware…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen that, so yeah, I get it. But I’ve also see the game award bonus stars or other random finger-on-the-scale benefits to the player in the lead, which can be even more demoralizing to those that lose. I don’t think it’s Mario Kart rubber band mechanics, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Mario Party...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A related question: What is the least random Mario Party? We often end up playing this when friends come over since I guess I’m the only one who feels like it’s too random for anyone to meaningfully “win.”

  Not to rain on anyone’s parade or anything, I’m glad you all and others have fun with it, I just would like to see if there’s a version that’s more like it’s a game of skill than chance.

  Or maybe I just want WarioWare…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung knows exactly how you'll use Galaxy S26 Ultra's 'Privacy Display' in teaser⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really showing what the display is like. It apparently can adjust viewing angle on a per-pixel level, so for example only apps and notifications you set will have limited viewing angles.

  Here’s a story with a better leaked visual: notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S26-Ultra-displa…

  Frankly I think it’s still a bit gimmicky for privacy (why not just do the full screen, which you can do with a $10 polarized screen protector to all phones already), but it’s legitimately neat tech.