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- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 3 days ago:
It’s not a quirk of LLMs, it’s a quirk of human cognitive biases.
See: Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
- Comment on If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem 3 days ago:
A see a few people here saying “they” when we should be using “we.” Just by using “they” you’re exhibiting the mindset of “they, not me” and “us vs them.” Racism is just one facet of it.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 days ago:
One of the most entitled takes I’ve ever read.
The guy built software and opened sourced it. People started packaging it for their favourite distribution repositories and then users started coming to him for support on problems he didn’t create!
It’s like if you were a farmer selling eggs and some kids bought your eggs and started throwing them at people’s houses and then instead of the cops arresting the kids they come arrest you for selling eggs. It’s bullshit!
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Perry much every single website uses HTTPS these days which means all traffic is encrypted anyway. Instead of a VPN you could use an encrypted proxy that connects over HTTPS. I doubt the UK is just going to completely cut itself off from the rest of the world’s internet (because all it takes is one path out).
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
Because the argument is that guns cause violent crime (specifically mass shootings) and the example of Finland shows that not to be the case. Then if guns don’t cause violent crime what is it?
The most likely explanation to me is that there is a confounder: an unknown which causes both the acquisition of (one or more) guns and the commission of crimes. A hidden criminality element which Finland seems to lack.
The alternative explanation is that the U.S. is a broken society (in one or more ways) and that this leads people to feel the desire to lash out in extremely violent ways. The availability of guns in the US offers them an easy option for inflicting mass casualties but the recent example of Michigan shows that even without a gun there is still the opportunity for mayhem.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
Well yeah that’s sort of the point. The presence of guns alone does not predict gun violence. You need violent people for it to happen.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
I got it from Wikipedia. Households and people are different statistics. People includes children who are unlikely to own a gun.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
Finland has almost as many households (as a %) with guns as the U.S. (38% for Finland vs 42% for the U.S.) yet the U.S. has about 19x the per capita gun homicide rate of Finland.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s the thing. People compare Valve to Apple all the time but it’s not a fair comparison. Apple controls the hardware platform while Valve does not. Many devs publish their games on multiple platforms including their own websites as well as Steam. Gamers are free to buy on any platform yet many choose Steam. If a dev decides not to publish on Steam that’s fine but they’ll have a harder time getting visibility.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 week ago:
They’re just trying to cash out at this point. Much of the early investment, such as from Microsoft, was not in the form of cash but credits to use Microsoft’s computing resources. Can’t retire on Azure credits!
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 1 week ago:
No just the bowel prep!
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
Using technology as a surrogate for community.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 1 week ago:
It’s just nostalgia applied to the internet. Some people call it Eternal September. Everyone prefers what the internet was when they first discovered it and hate what it’s become since then. I remember the internet from 1996 most fondly. Many prefer it from the 80s or earlier 90s. This is no different from other media: music, TV, movies.
Of course this is separate from the real issue which is the consolidation and silo-ification of the modern web.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 1 week ago:
Chinese food with baijiu.
Korean BBQ with soju.
Yakitori with sake.
Pub/bar snacks with beer.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 weeks ago:
Seriously! Just buy a used 3DS and hack it to run every game, emulator, etc. You can actually play DOS games and ScummVM games on it!
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have a doorbell of any kind (the button isn’t even hooked up to anything). My neighbours are jerks but they won’t steal packages or anything like that.
We’re living in a low trust society that used to be a high trust society a few decades ago. I believe all of the problems you see in politics ultimately stem from this. Factionalism is tearing western society apart.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 3 weeks ago:
We’d all be sitting on the back porch, enjoying an ice cold ginger beer at the end of long summer day!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 3 weeks ago:
More people ought to learn about the programming language concept of namespaces. Generalize from that and you realize that every domain of discourse has its own namespace of words that have different meanings from those same words outside the domain.
My favourite is math which has loads of wonderfully generic-sounding terms such as rational, irrational, radical, real, imaginary, complex, group, ring, field, category, set, operator, element, and unit which all have radically different meanings from the everyday senses of those words.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
Canadian here. I spent most of July 1 in bed! Was not feeling patriotic! Did not watch any fireworks.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Lots of people drink bottled water, soda, beer, or other drinks not immediately connected to the water supply. Furthermore, poisons are unlikely to remain undetected long enough to kill the entire population. While a strong dose of a deadly poison like cyanide can kill in minutes it’s likely to be detected quickly due to how rapidly its effects begin to show up.
A slower-acting, accumulating poison like dimethylmercury could potentially kill more people because its effects don’t show up immediately. On the other hand, the delayed effects of the poison would provide the victims a chance to retaliate against the poisoners.
Either way, it’s a very crude and unfocused attack against a population which is unlikely to achieve any political aim besides wanton destruction and outrage.
- Comment on In California, plans to move low-income neighborhoods off of gas advance 5 weeks ago:
Everyone says the transmission lines cause devastating wildfires but that’s the proximate cause. It’s like if we went to a gas station and there was an enormous leak with a giant pool of gasoline filling the parking lot and then we blamed a lady wearing a wool sweater for giving off the spark that starts the whole thing ablaze.
The problem with wildfires in California is twofold: 1) not enough controlled burning (due to underfunding and lack of staff) and 2) too many homes built in the highest risk areas.
I think part of this issue is the California government’s boneheaded fight with insurance companies which seeks to prevent them from appropriately pricing the risk for home insurance. One of the most valuable things insurance companies (as hated as they are) do for society is develop highly sophisticated risk models for wildfire and flood damage. When allowed to, they incorporate these models into the premiums they charge for home insurance in different areas. This would ordinarily make it extremely expensive to insure a home in the highest risk areas, creating a market disincentive to build there, but Californians insist on fighting this (shooting the messenger) through the political system.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 5 weeks ago:
Medieval technology is vastly more complex, broader in scope, etc. compared to the Stone Age stuff on Primitive Technology. It’s actually extremely challenging to go from scratch like he does and then achieve medieval-level ironworking. He can barely make a few little iron pellets which are excessively-hard (too much carbon) and need further processing to become workable. He is a very long way from building a proper medieval smelter capable of producing pig iron or other cast iron products.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 5 weeks ago:
Same with any pair activity. Paddling a canoe is no fun if one person doesn’t like water and wants outta there ASAP!
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
So the entire point of my original comment was to give Indiana Jones a bit of vindication from the thinly veiled slander that he was nothing more than a tomb robber working for the colonialist west. How does your correction that Belloq was scamming the Hovitos, not paying them, make any difference to Jones’s character?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
Scamming them is even worse, no?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
He narrowly escapes with his life after having the idol stolen from him by his rival, Belloq, who works for the Nazis and actually hired that Peruvian tribe to be his little private army. Belloq is the one who orders the Peruvians to attack Jones.
- Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s the thing. They may be more violent but are they able to maintain stable control over the country? Might dissolve into chaos anyway.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 month ago:
Yes, it is a choice. However one of the biggest problems is that so many of the good choices are gone. I’m talking about the positive social institutions and community organizations people used to belong to. The third spaces.
Communities have fragmented. Neighbours hate each other. Both of my neighbours hate our family. One is a childless, alcoholic husband and wife who also hate each other (they used to be nice years ago) who also hate us and give us creepy looks all the time. The other is green lawn-obsessed neighbour who hates us for the pine trees we have growing on our property and refuse to cut down (at our own expense) to suit their tastes.
We’re a society of severely mentally ill, isolated, confused, and angry people. Our villages and communities are all gone. We’re all a bunch of islands unto ourselves.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 month ago:
The manosphere is one symptom of a much larger problem. Look at it in isolation and you’ll miss the big picture. Authoritarianism is on the rise globally. Loneliness is reaching epidemic proportions. Society’s traditional institutions are a distant memory. All we have remaining are loose groups of people shouting at each other as the spectre of war lurks in the background.
- Comment on U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse 1 month ago:
The dirty secret of any home reno tax credit is that the industry gobbles them up with markups. The price ends up being exactly the same as it would be without the tax credit, so it’s a subsidy for uncompetitive installation companies rather than families who want to invest in green energy.