kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 1 day ago:
Bribes from a wealthy family?
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Fear of punishment.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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.” 1 week 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. 2 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. 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks ago:
This is your brain on MAGA
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 3 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 3 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
My penguins doesn’t listen to what Microsoft wants.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Increasing numbers do.
But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 2 months ago:
Freecad has gotten much better with the recent updates.
It’s UI is (obviously) different than fusion, but so are other CAD programs.
Sure, it may not be at the stage where it could be used to do 100% of the mechanical and electrical design on a jet helicopter, but how many people need that level of complexity for their projects?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 months ago:
How about having the self-cleaning mode on the oven require you to use the app?
Yes, that was one example we saw when we were appliance shopping.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 months ago:
just because the appliance you bought offers an internet connection, it most likely doesn’t need it for core functionality.
…until it does.
It’s not unprecedented for manufacturers to lock hardware capabilities behind software controlled paywalls.
When I was shopping for stoves, there were a couple of models with “features” that were not available unless you connected to the internet and used their app on your phone.
We chose a model that didn’t have any networking at all.
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 2 months ago:
mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout
A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data eas slow and expensive back then.
If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 months ago:
CCTV cameras as crime prevention. They rarely work, as folks desperate enough to commit regular street crime simply aren’t deterred.
Combine that with the reality that identifying people from surveillance footage can easily be defeated be employing advanced counter technologies such as “generic black/grey hoodie”
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 months ago:
Since there has been people, there have been people trying to steal stuff from other people.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 months ago:
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. /s
