riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on Are people with Williamsburg Syndrome really that nice as they play on tv or movies? Or what is a real example or close thereof? Also what is cocktail party personality? 1 day ago:
For those who don’t know what it is:
- Comment on Who named Earth, Earth? Why that name? How was it come up with? 1 week ago:
It’s a dirty little secret.
- Comment on Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute 1 week ago:
What a douche. When you submit code to a project, you agree that your code will fall under that project’s license. If it’s under an open source license, there’s no “backsies.”
Relevant metaphors:
- Putting the cat back in the bag
- Forcing the genie back into the bottle
- Bitching with lawyers like Larry Ellison
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 2 weeks ago:
Yet another reason why we need to move the world off of its oil dependency.
- Comment on These signs should be everywhere so we can stop wasting our lives on nonsense 3 weeks ago:
Well shit.
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 4 weeks ago:
Most mutations are irrelevant or don’t impact anything until they’re duplicated enough times to matter.
For example, every human has 6 to 24 copies of the genes that let us digest wheat: AMY1 (salivary) AMY2A / AMY2B (pancreatic).
If any one or two of those mutate in the next generation, it won’t be noticeable or make any sort of impactful change.
This is why changes from one species to another take hundreds of thousands of years (many generations). A whole lot of people will need to accumulate the same mutations and survive (or just reproduce) with those changes (when others don’t) for speciation to occur.
About 70,000 years ago, nearly all humans on earth died, leaving behind just a few tens of thousands (maybe up to 200,000) that had just the right combinations of genes to survive. When that happened, humanity lost nearly all of its genetic diversity. It’ll be a long time before we diversify again (if we ever make it that far).
- Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so? 4 weeks ago:
Who decides what genes are best?
People who have the genetics for sickle cell anemia have a greater chance of surviving malaria.
Forget the ethics for a moment: Eugenics is flawed from the very premise that putting all our (genetic) eggs in one basket is somehow a good idea.
- Comment on I don't care if you don't like it. It's functional and I found it for free 4 weeks ago:
This will be featured in a future video: How to turn a minor fender bender into a deadly accident and a prison term.
- Comment on Police Spent £320k on Face ID Tech That Achieved Nothing 5 weeks ago:
WTF! As a US citizen let me just ask: Why can’t we get good deals like this‽
We’ll spend millions to achieve nothing. Billions sometimes!
- Comment on IT Horror 5 weeks ago:
In that rack is the server that keeps the world running.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 5 weeks ago:
What’s interesting is that a candidate could rent, lease, or buy a Lamborghini as part of their campaign. That’s perfectly legal!
The restriction is that they can only use that vehicle for traveling to/from campaign events. Since this is highly impractical and a waste of precious campaign funds, that doesn’t usually happen.
Another interesting fact is that candidates can get reimbursement from their campaign funds for miles traveled in their personal vehicles (when campaigning).
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Using a dollar store’s AI to help with coding homework would be hilarious! Just like rocks on pizza.
You seem to be placing me in the wrong bucket. I use AI professionally, yes, but it also pisses me off pretty regularly. I’m not some “AI Bro” or whatever TF you’re thinking. Just some guy who finds AI mistakes to be funny and I want to reproduce them.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
You check the links/references it gives you.
Gemini does a pretty good job of this because it doesn’t seem to have much built-in knowledge. Instead, it just searches the Internet on your behalf and returns summarized results with links to where it got that specific information.
I use it to search for scientific research all the time and the summaries often aren’t detailed enough so I actually click on those links. I’ve yet to encounter a situation where it fucked that up (invented links that don’t exist) but I have heard about it happening.
So far, the summaries have seemed to be pretty spot-on when it comes to biology papers 🤷
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Uh… I was just curious because sometimes it’s fun to see how the LLMs screw up. e.g. rocks on pizza.
It’s not the lack of evidence presented, it’s the person that asked the question that’s the problem.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Give us an example of some of the prompts you’re using and what LLMs. I’m curious if it’s a use case difference or you’re using the dollar store’s customer service AI to try to help you with your coding homework.
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 1 month ago:
Trump administration ruins yet another chairished tradition.
- Comment on Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars | The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles. 1 month ago:
Because nothing says, “reduced gas prices” like, “increased demand and consumption”!
- Comment on Broken chair armrest easily repaired 1 month ago:
Hey, if the shoe fits…
- Comment on Michelin-starred restaurant fined for serving dessert topped with ants 1 month ago:
The most direct way to antagonize food inspectors.
- Comment on I should call her 2 months ago:
Cesarian kids didn’t get this map.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 2 months ago:
Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, “what if?” question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 2 months ago:
Dancing in the shower without music isn’t nearly as fun 🤷
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 2 months ago:
Well, they used to donate to politicians that wanted to fund schools 🤷
- Comment on Snarkaeopteryx 2 months ago:
“Sarcasm”
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 2 months ago:
I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,
One of these jobs is not like the others!
- Comment on Young people five times more likely to have no friends than a decade ago | IPPR 2 months ago:
expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.
Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.
- Comment on Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything” 2 months ago:
So… Students getting paid for extracurricular activities is wrong because money ruins everything. OK.
By extension, students paying money to attend college is ruining college.
For a logical conclusion: Colleges getting paid for their students extracurricular work (college sports) is also ruining college.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 months ago:
Actually, you’re right: They do kinda look like scallops.
Having said that, I think I’ve figured out what they actually are: Marshmallows 😂
- Comment on The Walmart in my town didn’t clearly don’t care lol 2 months ago:
Something tells me that boom arm is just a tad too short, compared to the fucking telescope of a camera it’s paired with.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 months ago:
Oh please. AI generated images of food are just as realistic as the food in traditional food advertisements.
We’ve all been looking at pictures of painted plastic since forever. Not only that, but photoshopped, painted plastic 😁