kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 22 hours ago:
In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried
Should be, but it’s such a deeply ingrained part of their national self image that it’ll take a few generations of consistent effort to make it fade away.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 22 hours ago:
Why does any one country need to dominate trade?
A much better outcome would be that more countries have a larger number of trading partners rather than one behemoth monopolizing all trade.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 4 days ago:
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 week ago:
Between that and windows 11 forcing people to choose between buying new hardware (at currently inflated RAM prices) , remain on win10 without updates ot switching to a different OS, it really could mean the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” has finally arrived.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 week ago:
Unknown could be anything.
Thats not a bad thing.
I’m a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.
Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 week ago:
Teledildonics has been a promising technology for several years.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Because they can’t see past the profit generating potential of selling your data.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 3 weeks ago:
Bribes from a wealthy family?
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
the machine is 99% boomers to begin with.
These people don’t look like boomers to me.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.
And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
It’s ruining far more than reddit.
- Comment on Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 3 weeks ago:
Newfoundland and Labrador is the province involved.
Had to read far too deep into the poorly written article to find that important bit of context.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 3 weeks ago:
Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.
That’s the correct way to wind down a cloud based subscription app.
Not that I’m in favor of the entire business model of cloud based subscription apps, but at least Marques is ending this one the right way.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
Of course not. Most people are motivated to doing the right thing simplybecauseitbis the right thing to do.
But some people seem to need the threat of personal consequences to keep them from being selfish assholes. And it often appears that those are the same type of people who manage to get themselves into decision making positions in the business world.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
Fear of punishment.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t claim I had a hundred of them going at any give time.
And, regardless, I also don’t keep them open forever. I just close the one I’m finished with, check out the next one, then repeat until I’m through with them.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 4 weeks ago:
The punishment (or the threat of punishment) is supposed to be part of either motivation to not drive into pedestrians.
If the decision makers behind the fully automatic vehicles don’t fear that punishment, the concern is that they’ll make choices that are motivated more by profits and efficiencies and less by safe driving and preventing harms.
And given the abuses of profit seeking executives we have seen in the past, it is a valid concern.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Why not just close them and open them back up later?
Because that’s extra steps for no actual improvement.
I close the tabs that I’m done with and add new ones when I want to not forget to look at something a bit later.
That doesn’t need the “permanence” of a bookmark. (And, obviously I know editing bookmarks is a thing, but that is also extra steps for something I’ll only want once in about 15 min from now)
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how (or if) grokopedia defines “woke”?
Most of the people who complain about “the woke” arent able to define it.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
Op’s post was a long and winding road. It’s hard to know what to react to.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
When tying your shoelaces what images or dialogue you have in your head?
Uhhh none.
Is that a thing that happens for some people?
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase for me as Irish.
It’s just a trendy phrase for what has always been called worke to rule.
Do precisely what your job description requires and not a single bit more.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 5 weeks ago:
This is your brain on MAGA
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 weeks ago:
The next year before the Midterms is going to be a wild circus.
The criminal attacks on the entire democratic process will be at a new peak.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 5 weeks ago:
Of you’re going for chaos based investing, just buy a goldfish
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 month ago:
these “smart” appliances are all addressing things radically important for households
Are they, though?
Most of these “smart” functions are at best a slight convenience. And a lot of the “smart” functions in most of them don’t really add anything useful to the user experience.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 months ago:
If we’re talking about them setting up the skeleton of a project, then templates have already been around for decades at this point.
That’s what LLMs are good at - taking old work (without consent) and regurgitating it while pretending it’s new and unique.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
My penguins doesn’t listen to what Microsoft wants.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
I know that if AI knows about this stuff it must have been produced by a human.
For now. Maybe.
It won’t be long before these LLMs will start ingesting the output from other LLMs, biases, hallucinations and all.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
Increasing numbers do.
But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.
