megopie

@megopie@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who needs red flags when you've got a nice shade of high viz⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonsense, just a protective layer of tarnish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta go fast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it… does expand when freezing… so maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s here right now and definitely working and producing productivity and revenue, but also we need to cut costs so we can keep spending money on it. Hmmm? Why not use the revenue it’s generating to pay for it, well, you see, we’re just scailing so fast it’s not enough. Oh, why not fund it with credit? The banks won’t let us put up the nvidia chips as collateral to buy more nvidia chips anymore.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So spraying Windows with the assistant, regardless of how users felt about it, was somehow an accident?

  Probably more that internal politics at the company lead a bunch of project leads to try implementing it. If leadership keeps emphasizing how important AI is, and people who have “done stuff with AI” keep getting promoted, then of course people are going to shove it anywhere they can, and of course the higher ups will approve it. It’s classic group/cult think in a hierarchical system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let this become a “protect the kids” thing. The intentionally addictive and manipulative design of these platforms has been just as harmful to people across a wide spectrum of ages. The solution is not to ban kids from using these platforms, the solution is to hold these platforms accountable for their behavior and put regulations in to ban intentionally manipulative design. Adults are just as much victims of having their brains cooked by this shit, and it’s had larger scale societal consequences that we need to take seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not, ammonia production isn’t exactly a huge portion of natural gas usage, it’ll just have to compete on price with other demands, other things with lower value will get priced out of the market long before nitrogen fertilizer. The price for it will probably go up, already has on futures markets, but not by a huge amount, not even the biggest blip in the past decade. And nitrogen fertilizer is a fairly small portion of overall costs for most agriculture, so it won’t be a significant increase in price.

  The places it might have an impact are on products with really narrow profit margins already, like commodity corn in the US (actually a lot of commodity corn breaks even or even is grown at a slight loss because reasons ) and a lot of that goes in to non-food uses like ethanol(for gas), chemical production, or even for use in construction materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you have E bike companies producing lead bricks that are non-functional without the motor doing 90% of the work. Or with the massive motorcycle seats that make pedaling actually impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anthropic is just trying to cover their ass from liability.

  Ether the user who put the bot in a position to do something illegal is liable, or the person who made the bot that did something illegal is liable. But 90% of the reason hegseth want to use the bots is to avoid liability when doing illegal stuff, and if anthropic is saying “hey it’s not our fault if you break the law using our product, we told you not to use it like that” then they’re basically denying the main use case for hegseth, who really really wants a get out of jail free card for breaking the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any job that can be done by an LLM wasn’t a job that needed to get done In the first place.

  any manager who tries to replace an actually useful job with an LLM is going to get bit in the ass as productivity slows to a crawl. Other people will hav to step in to clean up the mess and basically do the work that should have been done by the person replaced. Most of the jobs being “replaced by AI” are actually just routine layoffs or companies correcting from over hiring.

  I’ve read a story the other day from someone who said they left Amazon due to what a mess it was becoming internally. How increasingly managers were hiring people they didn’t need so their team would be bigger and they would seem more important. This is a well known phenomenon. I suspect a lot of people who did this and created a mess are using the excuse of “embracing AI” to give them selves an off ramp from the mess they created by bloating their departments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything would get slightly heavier. Then a lot of compounds would break and a lot of new compounds would form.

  Also a lot of lightning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relieving oneself over the edge of the ship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah there is a lot of nonsensical compression artifacts, and they’re of wildly varying scales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen and paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, I’m skeptical of the assertions that pen and paper is inherently a better way to take notes and learn.

  But I do agree with the general aversion to a lot of ed tech. So much effort to shove kids faces in front of softwear and hardware that was sold to administrators by marketing teams from big tech companies. So many opportunities for those tech companies to exploit local school districts, ether to extract unreasonable profits, or for access to a mailable locked in user base.

  If a school is going to go all in teaching with computers, they need to be carefully choosing what they use and not just adopting a premade package from some tech company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s oldest known vertebrates had two pairs of eyes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems likely that its external sensing function faded before the development of “hot blood” (endothermy) as it’s vestigial even in very basal reptiles like the tuatara, so likely it was already disappearing as a sensory organ fairly early in quadruped evolution. Snakes, crocodiles and turtles (all exothermic) all lost it completely as an external feature, snakes are particularly notable as they’re in the same branch as tuataras and lizards, many of whole still have it as a vestigial external structure. It also appeared in some extinct branches of therapsids(many appear to have been endothermic) in some form, but is completely absent in mammals, the only surviving branch of therapsids.

  It does function as a sensing organ in many amphibians, suggesting that it became vestigial for sensing some where in the early evolution of amniotes, but stuck around as an external structure across multiple branches but many have since convergently evolved to loose it as an external structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Homes Are Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So many extra moving parts, so many additional points of failure. But for what benefit? So I can turn on various washing machines on remotely… after loading them manually anyways? Why not have a washing machine that doubles as a cabinet so I don’t need to load it and unload it?

  So I can have a lawn watering system that automatically waters when the soil moisture gets too low? To have a lawn mower roomba that automatically deploys when some sensor sees the grass get a bit to long? I’d rather not have a lawn, or at least some sort of native plant lawn that doesn’t need watering and constant mowing.

  I don’t hate clever gadgets, I hate brain dead gadgets, automation of pointless systems. Why automate something that could be avoided entirely with better design. You have perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I to have a modular electric vehicle but, mine already has a massive variety of after market options to modify and upgrade it to me needs with.

  It’s called… my bicycle that I put a motor on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s so amazing, the absolute brain rot it takes to think that a LLM is a better way to operate a vending machine than simple if-then logic. “If the value of money inserted is equal to the price, then dispense the item”.

  Like, why? What is even the point? It doesn’t need to negotiate the price, it doesn’t need have a conversation about your day, the vending machine just needs to dispense something when payed the right amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 [OC3D]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “ Shit, we need more cash to keep the bubble inflated, quick squeeze customers for more revenue! “

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re gradually reducing the amount of vehicles sold while increasing the margin per vehicle. They’re approaching the limit of 1 vehicle sold at infinite margin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That all, and they raised the price when the core demographic has less disposable income than ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cherry Flavour!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a growth medium for culturing cells. It’s a mix of sugars, salts, and amino acids, often with other nutrients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cherry Flavour!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forbidden sports drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not about the companies being profitable, it’s not about making products people want to use or pay for.

  It’s about riding the hype cycle to maximize share price. Because the people making decisions are not payed based on the success of the company, but on the success of the share price and market cap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their current business model is not “not very profitable” it is deeply unprofitable.

  They aren’t just loosing money on free users, they’re loosing money on payed users. Publicly traded for profit companies are legally obligated to provide accurate reports of the nature and source of their revenue. As of this summer (Second quarter), OpenAI was paying roughly twice as much servicing the demand of paying chat GPT users to publicly traded companies, like Microsoft, as OpenAI claimed to make from subscriptions to chat GPT.

  And that’s not even counting the costs to train new models, spending with private companies, or their spending on building data centers with Coreweave or Oracle.

  I highly doubt that adding advertising revenue will close that gap, especially since paying users might cancel their subscriptions if they start getting ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the steam deck might be worth it for the sake of giving her the option to play stuff that’s isn’t on switch.

  Like, sure, maybe she never ends up caring about anything but first party Nintendo originals. But, giving that option opens up a world of possibility.

  I have a little cousin, he’s not exactly the most technical, not the most patient with such things, he calls me a lot for help with stuff. But he’s on a laptop instead of a switch because he wanted to play modded Minecraft, i’ve seen him grow a lot in being willing to understand this stuff because he was given an opportunity and a reason to engage with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave AI assistant Leo adds Trusted Execution Environments⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything to do as living as a person in a larger community, part of which is using technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  puts a bunch of AI features in, turns them on be default without user’s asking for them, mandates employees use it when ever they can.

  “How could this be a bubble? Look at all the demand!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.

  It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.

  These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.

  The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Werwolf the Apocalypse” ass title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Fortnite Friday Grew From A Bit Into An Institution That Could Pull Gavin Newsom [Aftermath]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Newsome keeps trying to reach out to younger voters, but it’s always in such… performative ways. It’s never him listening or signaling he concurs on issues they care about.

  It always feel like an effort to inform them that he exists, become a familiar figure, as if the issue that Democratic candidates have been having was lack of visibility.

  But the issue is a misalignment of values and goals, not that people haven’t seen them get interviewed on a popular platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He put out a video a few weeks back basically endorsing Mamdani.