BrianTheeBiscuiteer
@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI-backed medical debt company claims payment plans can help US healthcare costs 2 days ago:
And as a result of our ass backwards system it’s not uncommon for me to see 2-3 bills for ONE visit. Of course, each bill has its own payment system too.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 3 days ago:
That counts as your break. 🤨
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 5 days ago:
Running Linux would block this feature too.
Just reason sayin.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 week ago:
The main clencher that got me running a blocker were the few sites whose payload was 90% ad related and as long as the page was open it kept feeding me more ads until a gigabyte of RAM and 5% of my CPU were dedicated to something I wasn’t even looking at.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 week ago:
Once the data enters my network it’s my fucking data and I can do with it what I please.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 week ago:
Round 37 of Dead Horse vs. Baseball Bat.
- Comment on China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla 1 week ago:
They’re the Oceangate of cars but are way better at covering up the deaths
- Comment on China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla 1 week ago:
Auto collision lawyers were excited I’m sure.
- Comment on Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover 1 week ago:
I’m just dumbfounded they’d ask AI to write the menu without having tasted any of the food.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud 2 weeks ago:
After the recent Nazi outbursts from Grok I’d be amazed if it wasn’t banned in Germany.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
The tool I use can rewrite code given basic commands. Other times I might say, “Write a comment above each line” or “Propose better names for these variables” and it does a decent job.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
My boss insists I use it and I insist on telling him when it can’t do the simplest things.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Just the other day I wasted 3 min trying to get AI to sort 8 lines alphabetically.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
Not specifically but I think the guidance is applicable to most incisions of the heart. I think the fact that it’s a muscular and constantly moving organ makes it differently than something like an epidermal stitch.
And my post isn’t to say “all mistakes are good” but that invariablity can lead to stagnation. AI doesn’t do things the same way every single time but it also doesn’t aim to “experiment” as a way to grow or to self-reflect on its own efficacy (which could lead to model collapse). That’s almost at the level of sentience.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
Eliminating room for error, not to say AI is flawless but that is the goal in most cases, is a good way to never learn anything new. I don’t completely dislike this idea but I’m sure it will be driven towards cutting costs, not saving lives.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
My son surgeon told me about the evolution of one particular cardiac procedure. Most of the “good” doctors where laying many stitches in a tight fashion while the “lazy” doctors laid down fewer stitches a bit looser. Turns out that the patients of the “lazy” doctors had a better recovery rate so now that’s the standard procedure.
Sometimes divergent behaviors can actually lead to better behavior. An AI surgeon that is “lazy” probably wouldn’t exist and engineers would probably stamp out that behavior before it even got to the OR.
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 2 weeks ago:
Direct Link to settings: myactivity.google.com/product/gemini
Their dumb redirect link didn’t work for me, probably because of adblock.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 3 weeks ago:
Fair point but nuclear will probably always have the disadvantage of initial cost and time to market. It’s a huge risk for investors and public officials.
- Comment on Creating similar service to AlternativeTo 3 weeks ago:
As I’ve found out recently, finding true alternatives can be difficult. Take bread for instance. I just discovered Bimbo Bakeries own at least 26 brands. So when you’re on the bread aisle you probably have a moderate to high chance of buying one of their products.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 4 weeks ago:
With everything he does the issue is the implementation. Deport criminal aliens? I’m all for it, but most of the deportees have no criminal record or they accuse them of crimes as if it’s the same thing as a conviction.
Part of Trump’s grand plan is to make federal elections span only a single day. So maybe you check your status the day before and everything is fine, but the day of voting a glitch in the system says it can’t verify your citizenship. That’s it! No votes for you this year!
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 4 weeks ago:
We’re so ass backwards my go-to thought was the censored version.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 4 weeks ago:
“You’re firing me for using AI to read and respond to your email?”
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 4 weeks ago:
Same at my company. The frustrating part is they want us to use coding assistance, which is fine, but I really don’t code that much. I spend most of my time talking to other teams and vendors, reading docs, filing tickets, and trying to assign tasks to Jr devs. For AI to help me with that I need to either type all of my thoughts into the LLM which isn’t efficient at all or I need it to integrate with systems I’m not allowed to integrate with because there are SLOs that need to be maintained (i.e. can’t hammer the API and make others experience worse).
So it’s pretty much the same as it’s always been. Instead of making a gallon of lemonade out of one lemon I need to use this “new lemonade machine” to start a multinational lemonade business.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 4 weeks ago:
But there’s no such legislation or required identification for my kids to see graphic violence and gore. We’re a pretty bass ackwards society.
- Comment on WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages 4 weeks ago:
Me: Sup
AI Summary: What is going on my friend?
- Comment on The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back 4 weeks ago:
Maybe we should start posting violence-sandwich videos. Decapitation followed by Union advocacy followed by disembowelment?
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 5 weeks ago:
Most of this money was also “allocated” but not really spent. So at least to Bidens credit money wasn’t thrown away, it just sat there not doing what it was supposed to do.
- Comment on The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More 1 month ago:
What’s the point of that? Don’t soldiers work alongside civilian contractors all the time?
- Comment on The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More 1 month ago:
The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.
There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.
This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 1 month ago:
Too many people forget that specialized, purpose-driven software is often if more effective and efficient. LLMs and other AI are nice when you don’t have a properly defined spec or a flexible algorithm but you pay, literally, for the convenience.