erwan
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- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 13 hours ago:
Let’s call people who grow up with X the “X gen”.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 13 hours ago:
Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 13 hours ago:
We kinda started already, Mars is inhabited by robots already.
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 13 hours ago:
OK, generative AI isn’t machine learning.
But to get back to what AI is, the definition has been moving forever as AI becomes “just software” when it becomes ubiquitous. People were shocked that machines could calculate, then that they can play chess better than humans, then that they can read handwriting…
The first mistake have been to invent the term to start with, as it implies thinking machine but they’re not.
Or as Dijkstra puts it: “asking whether a machine can think is as dumb as asking if a submarine can swim”.
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
Maybe even this discussion is involving both teenagers and adults
- Comment on “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups 18 hours ago:
It’s weird that backups got deleted immediately. I would imagine they get marked for deletion but really deleted something like a month later to prevent this kind of issue.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 5 days ago:
It started this way tho, people renting a room or a couch in their home. Pretty quickly it became either full units or rooms in a share appartement with other AirBnB guests.
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 5 days ago:
The performances is not inherent to ARM, x86 can definitely catch up to this.
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 6 days ago:
Or simply squish them like they were rubber instead of destroying them.
- Comment on This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
That’s the crux of the problem: they’ll make it so you can’t (as for any other celebrity) but there is a high risk that the safeguards can be circumvented.
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 1 week ago:
It’s little things like that that add up and move a brand reputation one way or the other.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
Sounds just like the Rick and Morty episode “Night Family”.
Went great for them!
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
Pagerank worked first, but SEO adapted since with link farming.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
To be fair when Google solved SEO spam in 1999, thanks to pagerank, it was no small feat. The others were bad not because they abused ads but because they didn’t know how to deal with cheating webmasters.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen cases where it takes some time to the group of people in the elevator to figure out the obstruction. Because it won’t even touch the object, just reopen again and again.
So no, elevators don’t do that, and I assume the parent comment is sarcastic.
- Comment on Am I the only one who things the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1? 2 weeks ago:
There are much better devices to tinker with.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 2 weeks ago:
In IT sometimes you open an old project and wonder who the fuck wrote this shit.
As a contractor you tear down a wall and discover the house wasn’t built as you expected, and wonder who the fuck built it this way.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 2 weeks ago:
Working outside sounds great when you’re working indoor all the time. And at first it will be refreshing.
However after a few years (months?) of working outside, in the cold, the rain, the heat, you’ll envy the office workers and their perfect temperature open space with a nearby coffee corner.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
Some pregnancy test have a small LCD screen
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
Popular distributions are the one you’re thinking about.
Some distributions advertise themselves as “gaming oriented” but you don’t need those, generalist distributions work just as well for gaming.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
Well doom can run on a freaking pregnancy test. At that point if it had any kind of processor and a screen, it can run Doom.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but everyone could see that as soon as they released it.
It doesn’t matter how it’s implemented, it could have been done as an app from day one.
But they made it a device instead because it makes it easy to raise funds and to get journalists to talk about it. As simple as that.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
It’s the natural evolution of SMS. And SMS does what no messaging app does, it lets me send a text message to any mobile number without having to wonder whether the other party has installed the same app as me.
When I make phone calls, it’s between me, the person I’m calling and our carriers. I want it to be the same for text messages.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think Google pays significantly less in other US cities.
Besides, the kind of people who has the right experience to be hired by Google isn’t cheap.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately cost of life in Zurich is much higher than Seattle!
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
You get that working for Google in Bay Area if you’re senior, no matter the language.
Those guys were participating in Python itself, maintaining the Python tooling for the whole company, served as a help desk for everything Python… Yeah I’m pretty sure they had a big salary.
It’s not your little “glue libraries together” Python coding.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 weeks ago:
Cybertruck, and shitting on his customers on Twitter.
Most Tesla buyers are urban left wing people, not rural redneck. Shit on “the libs” and you’re shitting on your customer base.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 2 weeks ago:
More likely running on servers
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 3 weeks ago:
The title is super confusing, it looks like Kubernetes is part of Red Hat
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I know it sucks to have to discard some manufacturers because of their poor Linux support but that’s where we are.
I prefer to pick manufacturers that support Linux than having to go back to Windows.