p03locke
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- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 4 days ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 1 week ago:
What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Going private could have been a net positive. But, not from venture capitalists, and certainly not from the Saudis.
Also, taking on this much debt as part of the buyout is just asking to be gutted and carved out, complete with record-breaking layoffs.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.
- Comment on Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on "Vibes" 1 week ago:
To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.
I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.
The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.
But, that’s not how this works.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If you play on PC, use mods. Trust me… just use the damn mods. Life’s too short to be banging your head against the wall over and over again.
Returnal can be fun, worth playing, and has a great story to piece together. But it has some of the most git-gud toxic bullshit design choices I’ve ever seen from developers. Find a level of mod usage that gives you enough difficulty that you’re comfortable with.
Also, as an FPS player, I do not understand how anybody could play this game on controller. I ditched that shit about 30 minutes into it and immediately raised my skill level threefold with the mouse.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, item bloat is very real. Binding of Isaac had too much of it, but at least Edmund started buffing bad items a bit more with the DLCs and patches.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 1 week ago:
Remember that most Christians have been such their entire lives. This programming is deep, and more strongly cemented than their critical thinking skills.
The same applies for Republicans. They have been Republicans all of their lives, watching Fox News since they day they were born.
Also, that kind of programming, religions, outright cults, Fox News, they all focus on discarding critical thinking skills as much as possible. Nowadays, they are targeting empathy, too.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 2 weeks ago:
The left is already playing into their hand by having the wrong fucking argument. The whole media blitz around Charlie Kirk and whether the left did it or not is irrelevant and spreads the wrong message. Yet, there’s countless counterarguments around if the left did it or not, and whether political violence is wrong, and how we should feel about Kirk getting assassinated, blah, blah, blah. It’s the right-wing media machine steering the narrative, which is something they are very good at!
Meanwhile, a bunch of leftist Gen Zers violently overthrew a government in Nepal. Political violence. Got results.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. So, why the fuck are we stuck in this slowly boiling pot, instead of spending time watering that tree? The fact that none of the last 31 political attacks was from the left is a determent, not something to be proud of.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a skill issue.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
Most popular system RAM is 16GB, and VRAM is 8GB.
Wow! Powerful specs!
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
As a big fan of elite games: I am really glad star citizen “exists” to contrast Elite Dangerous and has led to some truly amazing games in the genre.
Elite Dangerous has its faults, but goddamn, did it pull something epic and historical with a ten-years-in-the-making final event.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
Right. Never pre-order games. Ever.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 3 weeks ago:
They may have been the first, but the sheer amount of failed disaster projects on Kickstarter, Paetron, wherever is staggering.
Some of them end up being “successful” failures, just stringing their patrons along on hopes and dreams and donations until the well dries up. Star Citizen is definitely the most successful venture of its sort, but only because it’s the highest profile with a bunch of known talent in the mix.
- Comment on YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me. 1 month ago:
This is an example of what I feel is a watering down of this YSK forum. Knowledge like this is so esoteric as to be useless to a vast majority of the people here. JetBrains develops programming tools, and this post should go into a programming forum.
I’ve found that as long as you put YSK in front of the title, you can post any damn thing you want here. There’s barely any moderation against the type of posts that are brought here. It’s just a place to put a post in a high-volume forum, so that it gets at least triple-digit upvotes.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
No, you didn’t. You were literally arguing for a binary choice.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Shit like this was possible before AI. Companies have been deceiving other people since civilization.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Doesn’t really matter. Fraud is still fraud.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
Sounds like a great way to make people aware to not play this game.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 1 month ago:
There’s a reason you don’t do both.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
I don’t think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
- Comment on Replace PBS with indoctrination 1 month ago:
So, are we posting fake infographics now?
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 1 month ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help that anybody can create an echo chamber of enablers to talk about it, as if it was normal.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 months ago:
I’m so disappointed we came so close to having a Cuno RPG, only to have that ripped away.
