HakFoo

@HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ain't nothing a dollar anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ten Bits” seems viable, although nobody cares much about the Spanish real anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I put out one of those big plastic storage units with like 30 little drawers recently, figuring although 2 were missing, someone could still use it. I stood it next to the dustbin, on trash day where it would be optimally visible for anyone who wanted to scrounge it.

  The bloody HOA took a picture and sent a nastygram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My objections:

  1. It doesn’t adequately indicate “confidence”. It could return “foo” or “!foo” just as easily, and if that’s one term in a nested structure, you could spend hours chasing it.
  2. So many hallucinations-- inventing methods and fields from nowhere, even in an IDE where they’re tagged and searchable.

  Instead of writing the code now, you end up having to review and debug it, which is more work IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the Xbox Box, and the shipping cintainer full of 'em, the Xbox Box Box

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just subsidize the shit out of the USPS?

  I buy a lot of AliExpress stuff, craft and hobby electronics stuff, and have run into situations where a domestic vendor will have what I want, sometimes even at a competitive price, but their shipping will be $5-10- maybe discounted if I spend $50, 100, or more, while the Chinese option is $2 postage, or even “free postage if I spend $10.”

  If you could mail a 100 gram padded envelope for under $1, it would cloae the gap substantially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect Intel has a broader product range than AMD to justify the headcount, but I’m not sure where the extra resources should go.

  Their networking chipsets were gold-standard in the 100M and Gigabit era, but their 2.5G stuff is spotty to the point Realtek is considered legit.

  They’ve pulled back from flash, SSDs and Optane.

  There must be some other rich product lines that they do and AMD doesn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can also throw things against the wall with no concern for fitness-to=purpose. See “None pizza, left beef”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The super-rich are disappointingly boring.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The examples I gave are probably achievable for 7 to low 8 figures. Perhaps a bit spendy in absolute numbers, but compared to a $100 billion estate, are they really bigger splashes than a mere mortal spending six months’ salary on a fully kitted home workshop, project car, or deluxe home theatre?

  I’d like to think we’re all morons in our own little way. If there isn’t something you fall head-over-heels for and spend your money on in a stupid way, when given the chance, are you really human?

• The super-rich are disappointingly boring.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve got a guy at work whose job title is basically AI Evangelist. This is terrifying in that it’s a financial tech firm handling twelve figures a year of business-- the last place where people will put up with “plausible bullshit” in their products.

  I grudgingly installed the Copilot plugin, but I’m not sure what it can do for me better than a snippet library.

  I asked it to generate a test suite for a function, as a rudimentary exercise, so it was able to identify “yes, there are n return values, so write n test cases” and “You’re going to actually have to CALL the function under test”, but was unable to figure out how to build the object being fed in to trigger any of those cases; to do so would require grokking much of the code base. I didn’t need to burn half a barrel of oil for that.

  I’d be hesitant to trust it with “summarize this obtuse spec document” when half the time said documents are self-contradictory or downright wrong. Again, plausible bullshit isn’t suitable.

  Maybe the problem is that I’m too close to the specific problem. AI tooling might be better for open-ended or free-association “why not try glue on pizza” type discussions, but when you already know “send exactly 4-7-Q-unicorn emoji in this field or the transaction is converted from USD to KPW” having to coax the machine to come to that conclusion 100% of the time is harder than just doing it yourself.

  I can see the marketing and sales people love it, maybe customer service too, click one button and take one coherent “here’s why it’s broken” sentence and turn it into 500 words of flowery says-nothing prose, but I demand better from my machine overlords.

  Tell me when Stable Diffusion figures out that “Carrying battleaxe” doesn’t mean “katana randomly jutting out from forearms”, maybe at that point AI will be good enough for code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MTP is awfully slow on my Nokia G20 at least. OTOH, it has a uSD slot so I could just pop it out and transfer that way.

  $150 phones are better than $1500 ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With American comics, it’s not even the shattered continuity, it’s that availability is a mess because some of the franchises are so ancient and collectible.

  If I want to read through One Piece from the 1997 start, my library probably has/can inter-library loan all 105 volumes, or I can go to mainstream retailers and get any I’m missing without a huge fracas.

  If I want to read Batman from the 1940 start, I’d better hope some of the rarer issues come up at auction in the near future AND that I can mortgage my house to afford them.

  I’m amazed they never put out a DVD-ROM collection that’s “Everything Marvel/DC did prior to, say, 1990, as PDF scans” just so mere mortals have a chance to enjoy the experience of completionism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After wrecking some JIS screws on a vintage reciever, I bought a nice Vessel-brand JIS driver set, and use it for all my crosshead needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Source?

  I’m more willing to forgive not getting Baizhu for the promise of unlimited cheap energy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not there. You might try a forum like Audiokarma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t toss the Technics reciever either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.

  To me, the RasPi served two purposes:

  • if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
  • RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the appeal is that you probably don’t need a huge CPU for a lot of workloads-- just something to run an OS, handle talking to the outside world, and configure the GPU/NPU complexes.

  I could imagine a something like a Quadro card that had a small RISC-V core built in as a freestanding device, no motherboard needed. Even if the CPU ran like a Core 2 Duo, that would be sufficient for purpose, but it will be a lot easier to license an appropriate RISC-V core than an x86 one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Says a lot about society⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No wonder DEC went broke. My VT220 didn’t come with any hunks crawling out of the screen Ringu style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re so awful, why do we need aggressive tarrifs to keep them off of American streets? I don’t think anyone was making people buy them over domestic alternatives…

  (muffled sounds of discord)

  WTF?! Xi Jinping himself busted down my front door, grabbed my debit card, and put down a deposit on a new BYD. And what’s worse, he picked one in that really insipid grey that you can never find in a parking lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So next they’ll use AI-generated infantry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monster Musume. It’s far better than the premise would lead you to believe. Rachnera best girl, incidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.

  Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.

  I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it’s been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Collection Society Wants A Tax On Generative AI, Payable To Collection Societies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s sickening is that in some sense, this could be a way to solve a lot of legal hassles in one fell swoop. They get a predictable rate card, and then there’s a clearly defined legal window for generative-AI products, saving decades of fights in the courts.

  But it won’t ever be that. The rights industry will never be satisfied, and it will just be the foot in the door to ever higher fees and restrictions. This is exactly the same fiasco as blank-media levies: they never fully evolved into a full “you paid once” sanction for free copying, so all it did was become a tax for a specific private beneficiary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The firm carrying the torch for thr 6502/65816 runs out of an office the size of a large house on a largely residential street in a suburb of Phoenix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting on some asbestos knickers, I can see some merit in AI creation as a tool. Even if the machine can crank out pictures by the thousand, there’s still value in curation and selection, and that requires a different set of skills than drawing itself.

  It might expand opportunities for people who avoided trying to express their creative desires visually because they lacked the talent. I can’t draw like (famous mangaka) given a blank page, but I can pick something out of a babbling machine feed that’s 90% what I want and finish it.

  If it delivered on the marketing copy-- participate in stories and a community-- it could be an interesting take on the “play-by-email/forum RP/fanfic/collaborative writing” world, where it’s delivered more as a graphic novel style than text blocks.

  But, definitely, I don’t expect this paeticular turkey to fly. Now, if someone fed an AI AO3 and DeviantArt, it could turbocharge the teenage fangirl industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar one, different seller and possibly submodel, but also a refurb HGST 12T enterprise drive. It sounds like I left a soda on my desk most of the time, subtly popping and ticking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it in a necromanced college laptop… 486DX2 at 40MHz, no L2 cache, but admittedly 20Mb of RAM. It was slower to boot than DOS, but reasonably usable. By 3.0 they included half-decent pack-in software, while Windows still had just Write (not even Wordpad)