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- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 7 hours ago:
If you don’t know shit you need to eat some real food!
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 7 hours ago:
So why are beliefs so important for ao many people then?
They’re a coping mechanism.
Reality often sucks, so how do you go about your day knowing that so many suffer so many injustices every day? Easy! Just ignore them and pretend like everyone will get what’s coming to them in the afterlife 👍
It’s the perfect system for tyrants: Think I’m a monster who abuses my power and intentionally makes people suffer? Well, if you even try to do anything about it you’re going to hell! Overthrowing an openly evil government is not what Jesus would do!
It’s the same mental gymnastics that people use when they blame minorities for their problems. It’s not me or my beliefs (about the world) that are wrong! It’s those trans furry kids and immigrant invaders who are destroying the very concept of everything I believe in!
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 7 hours ago:
Nietzsche would be proud 🥲
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 days ago:
Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It’s a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.
The problem is that the world thinks of “Xbox” as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won’t be easy.
There’s a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.
Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft’s investments. Not because of them. In fact, I’d argue that if it weren’t for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.
Don’t get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.
It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣
- Comment on What do you call your mom (Or moms what do your kids call you) 5 days ago:
“Ma!”
Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over Fox News with the volume up way too loud.
This is the way.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 5 days ago:
“It’s the work of the devil!”
Maybe they were right all along. 🤔
- Comment on Not POV: your the only boy at the slumber party 5 days ago:
Trust me when I say that if you do this with that many girls in the bed… Urine trouble!
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 week ago:
The AI said that trying to reason with you is a waste of precious tokens.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 1 week ago:
Correction: Education is not OK.
AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.
Except we don’t have very many factories any more. And we don’t have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.
The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They’re going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 2 weeks ago:
To me, this is like saying, “4chan has turned into a cesspool!” Yeah: It was like that from the start. YOU were the ones that assumed it was ever safe!
You’re posting stuff on the public Internet to a website for adults where literally anyone can sign up and comment FFS.
If you want good moderation you need community moderation from people in that community. Not some giant/evil megacorp!
There’s all sorts of tools and platforms that do this properly, easily, and for free. If you don’t like Meta’s websites move off of them already!
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 2 weeks ago:
Mods on Xbox only exist for games where the game itself officially added mod support. I mean, sure it’s great when a game maker does that but usually it’s not as good as community-made mod support because community mods don’t require approval and can’t get censored/removed because the vendor doesn’t like it.
Remember: Microsoft’s vision of mods is what you get with the Bedrock version of Minecraft. Yet the mods available in the Java version are so vastly superior the difference is like night and day.
Console players—that are used to living without mods—don’t understand. Once mods become a regular thing that you expect in popular games going without them feels like going back into the dark ages.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 2 weeks ago:
All the fun of Windows gaming with the locked-down ecosystem of a console (no mods). What could go wrong?
It’s Windows Mobile all over again.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 3 weeks ago:
Interestingly, that’s how it works for construction jobs too!
Things will break and they will be back.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, the world of JavaScript is such a clusterfuck… Can you really blame the LLM for needing constant reminders about the specifics of your project?
When a programming language has five hundred bazillion absolutely terrible ways of accomplishing a given thing—and endless absolutely awful code examples on the Internet to “learn from”—you’re just asking for trouble. Not just from trying to get an LLM to produce what you want but also trying to get humans to do it.
This is why LLMs are so fucking good at writing rust and Python: There’s only so many ways to do a thing and the larger community pretty much always uses the same solutions.
JavaScript? How can it even keep up? You’re using yarn today but in a year you’ll probably like, “fuuuuck this code is garbage… I need to convert this all to <new thing>.”
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
Define, “reasoning”. For decades software developers have been writing code with conditionals. That’s “reasoning.”
LLMs are “reasoning”… They’re just not doing human-like reasoning.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
That just means they’d be great CEOs!
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not convinced that humans don’t reason in a similar fashion. When I’m asked to produce pointless bullshit at work my brain puts in a similar level of reasoning to an LLM.
Think about “normal” programming: An experienced developer (that’s self-trained on dozens of enterprise code bases) doesn’t have to think much at all about 90% of what they’re coding. It’s all bog standard bullshit so they end up copying and pasting from previous work, Stack Overflow, etc because it’s nothing special.
The remaining 10% is “the hard stuff”. They have to read documentation, search the Internet, and then—after all that effort to avoid having to think—they sigh and start actually start thinking in order to program the thing they need.
LLMs go through similar motions behind the scenes! Probably because they were created by software developers but they still fail at that last 90%: The stuff that requires actual thinking.
Eventually someone is going to figure out how to auto-generate LoRAs based on test cases combined with trial and error that then get used by the AI model to improve itself and that is when people are going to be like, “Oh shit! Maybe AGI really is imminent!” But again, they’ll be wrong.
AGI won’t happen until AI models get good at retraining themselves with something better than basic reinforcement learning. In order for that to happen you need the working memory of the model to be nearly as big as the hardware that was used to train it. That, and loads and loads of spare matrix math processors ready to go for handing that retraining.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
The only reason we’re not there yet is memory limitations.
Eventually some company will come out with AI hardware that lets you link up a petabyte of ultra fast memory to chips that contain a million parallel matrix math processors. Then we’ll have an entirely new problem: AI that trains itself incorrectly too quickly.
Just you watch: The next big breakthrough in AI tech will come around 2032-2035 (when the hardware is available) and everyone will be bitching that “chain reasoning” (or whatever the term turns out to be) isn’t as smart as everyone thinks it is.
- Comment on This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 is nigh 3 weeks ago:
I love KDE!
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 3 weeks ago:
This just proves that Google’s AI is a cut above the rest!
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 4 weeks ago:
Just use KDE and you get klipper which is an amazing clipboard manager. It keeps track of everything you’ve copied to your clipboard (raise the history to 999).
Configure it to pop up at the cursor location and whenever you type the keystroke you’ll have access to everything.
I personally prefer that it not paste immediately upon selection but there’s a number of options like that to set it up to your liking.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So… You were lovin’ it and they were having it their way.
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 1 month ago:
Haha, that’s amazing.
Guess I need to go buy “an inflator” 🤣
- Comment on Eventually, old computers and operating systems will likely be referred to as dumb computers or dumb terminals or similar, because they don't have artificial intelligence. 1 month ago:
Well… Don’t leave us hanging!
Did the instructions work? You’d think it would be harder than inflating a tablet-style phone… Because of the hinge.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 1 month ago:
The big difference is that updates in Linux happen in the background and aren’t very intrusive. Your hard drive will be used here and there as it unpacks packages but the difference between say, apt, and Windows update is stark. Windows update slows everything down quite a lot.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
her goal isn’t to get them to stop, it’s to get them to recognize what garbage writing is and how to fix it so it isn’t garbage anymore.
I wish English teachers did this instead of… Whatever TF they’re doing instead.
This is something they should’ve been doing all along. Long before the invention of LLMs or computers.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
Move to Japan 👍
- Comment on What's a good HTPC OS and software? 1 month ago:
I use Kubuntu with KDE Connect. It lets me control everything using my phone 👍
I can play/pause whatever from my lock screen and can use my phone’s keyboard like it’s connected to the computer. It’s fantastic 👍
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 1 month ago:
Nah just own it. You only need to kill this one person to obtain your shapeshifter dreams!
Admit it, “I’d say sorry but I’d still pull the trigger.” 😁
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 1 month ago:
Umm… AI has been used to improve compilers dating all the way back to 2004:
github.com/…/Artificial-Intelligence-in-Compiler-…
Sorry that I had to prove you wrong so overwhelmingly, so quickly 🤷