catastrophicblues
@catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
- Comment on TikTok owner ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project 4 weeks ago:
True, but it’s rarely solely the fault of the intern. Code reviews, work buddies, mentors, and managers are all safety nets to prevent issues in prod. No intern that doesn’t have malicious intent should be able to screw up production.
- Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag 4 months ago:
To be fair: someone somewhere has to make algorithms that we use. I honestly don’t know if Telegram’s encryption is strong or how strong based on their white paper, but I’m interested in an unbiased evaluation.
- Comment on We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop 4 months ago:
I’ll try it (not OP), but I finally got Thunderbird to at least read, if not write, all my calendars (Exchange excluded). It’s surprising that Google seems the most open somehow. Crazy.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
It also seems to have fixed a major memory leak bug for me, though I’ve only used it for a week or so now. Thank god.
- Comment on I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS 8 months ago:
It’s likely transpiring and not compiling, so it’s a lot easier than it seems. Source: made a language that adds features to Python and transpiles to valid Python.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 9 months ago:
What’s wild to me is how Yann LeCun doesn’t seem to see this as an issue at all. Many other leading researchers (Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Frank Hutter, etc.) signed that letter on the threats of AI and LeCun just posts on Twitter and talks about how we’ll just “not build” potentially harmful AI. Really makes me lose trust in anything else he says.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 10 months ago:
They’d have to drop it significantly for most people to buy. If I had a spare $2k I’d upgrade my Mac.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Which plugin do you use?
- Comment on Dark side of Starbucks app: Coffee giant accused of rigging payments to the tune of nearly $900 million over 5 years | Fortune 10 months ago:
Kind of. The app doesn’t in any way tell you that you can use the card balance to pay part of your bill and then use a credit card for the rest; I only found out when a barista told me
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 10 months ago:
Apparently the dumbest one ever
- Comment on Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. 10 months ago:
Yeah the syntax is pretty far from more established languages, which is why I prefer C++ when I use it.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
Huh, I stand corrected. I’ll update my comment.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
100% agree. I personally haven’t got a use case that fits very well with it (maybe someday when I build a Zettelkasten), but I can see why the community loves it so much. Open source and a great library of plugins.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
I’ve never understood why anyone uses Evernote. Just use a folder with Markdown files. Or Obsidian. Or VS Code with plugins. Or EMacs org mode. So many good FOSS options out there (yes, I know VS Code isn’t FOSS but VSCodium is) that don’t lock you in. Hypocritical of me to say as an Apple user, but I hate when companies’ business models are to lock in consumers. Just make a better product that’s worth paying for.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Huh that’s kinda neat. Thanks!
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
Why do people hate Altman? Genuinely OOTL.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
So according to this, the DoT values a life at $12.5M in 2022? I’m curious about their methodology.
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 11 months ago:
Yeah. I use a MacBook for its build quality and being UNIX (cough Windows cough), plus some niceties like iCloud, but the RAM cost is insane.
- Comment on YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix 11 months ago:
Does this include Apple Silicon Macs? That would be a bold move.
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 11 months ago:
Yeah donating is a lot easier to understand when wages are (low) 6 figures instead of 8 or 9.
- Comment on Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications 11 months ago:
A good step, but seems like spilled milk after the previous news.
- Comment on Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? 11 months ago:
Yeah I worked at a place like that, but it made sense because we were also expected to keep PRs small, so a good commit message for several squashed ones was perfectly fine.
- Comment on Protonmail will blocked by new filter 11 months ago:
This is the second time this month some overzealous moron decided to add these because they can be used for burner accounts, as if other services cannot. People like this are why we as a species haven’t advanced more.
- Comment on Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? 11 months ago:
Oh god I feel so called out. I wish I paid more attention to my commit messages but I’m usually too busy fixing the directory structure and refactoring. Sigh.
- Comment on OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’ 11 months ago:
That’s why I use Bard more now. I’ll ask something and it’ll also answer stuff I would’ve asked as follow-up questions. It’s great and I’m excited for their Ultra model.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
It’s always been a mess. This is imo at least a bit better. Crazy that a company of this size does UI so horribly.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
Yes, it finally makes some goddamn sense. It’s still awful, but I find it genuinely easier to find the things I want.
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
I’m pretty excited, honestly. From my limited testing, its answers are typically more elaborate when I ask it to explain a concept to me, and it also has some level of fact checking via Google Search.
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
Here is their technical report. I’m yet to read it, though.
- Comment on ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites 11 months ago:
Same. That said, sometimes it’s a config error. I sent a very annoyed email to a website that didn’t work on Firefox, only for them to tell me that it was a bug and that they fixed it.