gravitas_deficiency
@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Peak technology 1 day ago:
😵💫
- Comment on Happy [ REDACTED ]! 3 days ago:
Where are the beans 😠
- Comment on [FTFY] 4 days ago:
Everything about that fucking family and this regime is tacky
- Comment on We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward 5 days ago:
I’m a little bit surprised that the Tolkien estate never sued them for that. I suppose the terms were never copyrighted…? But at the same time, appropriating a character or concept name from a copyrighted work and using it as a company name does seem like something a good lawyer could work with… but idk, I’m not an attorney.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 5 days ago:
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 6 days ago:
You could have just not said anything and left the matter ambiguous, I guess you simply had to announce to everyone that you’re an asshole.
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 6 days ago:
No, it’s a figment of your imagination
- Comment on RFK approved 1 week ago:
You joke, but I would 100% believe you if you told me he held a press conference where he extolled the virtues of beef tallow based lube. That meat mech is being driven by a necrotic worm.
- Comment on meee 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lasagna 1 week ago:
Truly, something we should all aspire to
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 1 week ago:
I mean, if I was a policymaker in the EU:
- do our absolute goddamn best to SIGNIFICANTLY strengthen ties with India, Japan, SK, and other major friendly-ish players in APAC. Ultimate goal: mutual defense pacts + strategic defense partnerships
- have Very Serious Strategic Talks with SK; tell them to stop taking orders, or at least gouge the fuck out of, US companies, in exchange for becoming a core partner in the build out of the EU military expansion (see: Poland; ctrl+c, ctrl+v across Europe)
- nut up and seriously support Ukraine - potentially just completely taking over strategic air defense from, let’s say, 100km from the front lines, freeing up the UAF to focus on offensive efforts
- have Very Serious Strategic Talks with Taiwan; in concert with points one and three (which seriously increase credibility), do their best to become their defense guarantor, as the carrot; threaten to 100% cut them off from ASML if they dig in their heels, as the stick. Note: ASML are the only guys who make the EUV litho machines that are required for bleeding edge chips.
- get EU countries to start seriously building out advanced chip fabs to compete with TSMC as an emergency industrial program
That’s a strategy that I think would help age EU and its strategic partners in Asia effectively become a meaningful superpower.
- Comment on Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 1 week ago:
conform
consume
obey
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 1 week ago:
I, for one, will be charging absolutely murderous contracting rates to un-fuck the codebases of companies that were idiotic enough to force their engineers to vibe-code everything, and I’m gonna do it with a smile on my face :)
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 week ago:
It’s working because a of people are pretty stupid.
- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 1 week ago:
Rectum? Damn near killed him!
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
Tbh, 20% is markedly better than the default ~37% “shitgoblin vote” you see in the US, amongst other places
- Comment on I prefer my relationships, para. 1 week ago:
Huh.
- Comment on Upstate NY creativity. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure which part is actually providing the structural integrity here - the fence gate, the slackened ratchet straps, the rust, or the snow.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 1 week ago:
Because they’re grown adults weighing 75-150kg depending on the sport and position, with strength and conditioning to match, and you don’t want to shatter your knee just so you can make a single play in a single game, but end your career (remember that bit about how much they’re paid, and how much the team paid for them?)
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 1 week ago:
It’s even funnier, because copilot is absolute garbage in comparison to a lot of other models. And this is coming from someone who strongly dislikes LLMs in general. There’s bad, and there’s copilot.
As far as I can tell, it’s primary competency is getting C-suite types to sign off on one form of AI integration or another - be it product integration, or “everyday AI” workspace initiatives. Our execs bought into it, and have this huge push to train everyone up on it. And the more technical staff have universally panned it, to the extent that some people gave Claude a test drive, and made a successful internal push to get it approved as a second model/system were allowed to work with. I still don’t like agentic editing much at all, but it at least kinda works when compared to copilot.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 1 week ago:
The funny/horrible part is that his solution will probably make the problem even worse
- Comment on Being in love is like... 1 week ago:
What’s the lucky shark lady’s name?
- Comment on deepen your fruit relations 1 week ago:
AI slop
- Comment on With Obamacare premium hikes, more people opting for no coverage or cheaper plans 1 week ago:
And this right here, folks, is why those quisling fucks who folded and ended the shutdown need to burn. They hurt the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country for a political quid pro quo, and there is precisely zero fucking chance that the quid will actually yield a quo, because the fascists (very obviously) do not operate in good faith.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 2 weeks ago:
MTBF is absolutely not six years if you’re running your H100 nodes at peak load and heat soaking the shit out of them. ML workloads are particularly hard on GPU RAM in particular, and sustained heat load on that particular component type on the board is known to degrade performance and integrity.
As to Meta’s (or MS, or OpenAI, or what have you) doc on MTBF: I don’t really trust them on that, because they’re a big player in the “AI” bubble, so of course they’d want to give the impression that the hardware they’re using in their data centers still have a bunch of useful life left. That’s a direct impact to their balance sheet. If they can misrepresent extremely expensive components that they have a shitload of as still being worth a lot, instead of being essentially being salvage/parts only, I would absolutely expect them to do that. Especially in the regulatory environment in which we now exist.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the deprecation/obsolescence/lifetime cycles of GPUs is WAY more rapid than anyone in the “AI” circlejerk bubble is willing to admit. Aside from the generational upgrades that you tend to see in GPUs, which make older models far less valuable in terms of investment, server hardware simply cannot function at peak load indefinitely - and running GPUs at peak load constantly MASSIVELY shortens the MTBF.
TL;DR: the way GPUs are used in ML applications mean that they tend to cook themselves WAY quicker than the GPU you have in your gaming machine or console - as in, they often have a couple of years lifetime, max, and that failure rate is a bell curve.
- Comment on Fox News: for news about foxes 2 weeks ago:
HO-tee HO-tee HO-tee-HO!
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- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely do not believe the situation to be recoverable - rewriting the constitution in this day and age, with the insanely partisan politics and fascistic idiocy on full display, juxtaposed with a corporatist, neoliberal “opposition party” that conducts zero meaningful opposition is frankly a non-starter.
And even if it was possible: I don’t want a constitution sponsored by Comcast and Exxon Mobil and Amazon and Meta and X and Palantir and so on. Which, I’m sure, is probably in the plan somewhere.
