ChairmanMeow
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- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
There’s a handful of people out there cracking Denuvo games.
- Comment on Debatable 1 week ago:
No, his lip looks larger in the right but it’s actually his gums showing behind.
This image appears to he real.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 week ago:
Hmm, seems I replied to the wrong root comment.
Regardless, the overall point still stands. These tools are great for assistance, but relying on them completely can cause problems. Even these tumor-spotting ML tools aren’t perfect, and they too miss things. Combined with a doctor’s skill this is fine, but if one begins replacing the other the net benefit will be lower.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 week ago:
I was responding to a thread by RgoueBananas who is clearly talking about LLMs as he drew a parallel with IT.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 week ago:
It’s true that if a tool is objectively better, then it makes little sense to not use it.
But LLMs aren’t that good yet. There’s a reason senior developers are complaining about vibecoding juniors; their code quality is often just bad. And when pressed, they often can’t justify why their code is a certain way.
As long as experienced developers are able to do proper code review, the quality control is maintained. But a vibecoding developer isn’t good at reviewing. And code review is an absolutely essential skill to have.
I see this at my company too. There’s a handful of junior devs that have managed to be fairly productive with LLMs. And to the LLMs credit, the code is better than it was without it. But when I do code review on their stuff and ask them to explain something, I often get a nonsensical, AI-generated response. And that is a problem. These devs also don’t do a lot of code review, if any, and when they do they often have very minor comments or none at all. Some just don’t do any reviews, stating they’re not confident approving code (which is honest, but also problematic of course).
I don’t mind a junior dev, or any dev for that matter, using an LLM as an assistant. I do mind an LLM masquerading as a developer, using a junior dev as a meat puppet, if you get what I mean.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 1 week ago:
If you’re doing it once, then that’s fine. But if you have to do it loads of times, and things keep getting more complex, you’ll find that you won’t be able to correctly use the tools anymore and spot its mistakes.
AI raises your skill level a bit, but also stumps your growth if used irresponsibly. And that growth may be necessary later on, especially if you’re a junior in the field still.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 week ago:
MTC data has different numbers: reports.mysidewalk.com/3374a0ca74
Regardless, adding a lane won’t work. The bottleneck is the 101, so you just get extra lanes to stand still in. And the toll gate as well.
The lane was already there btw, but it was an emergency pullover lane. It didn’t cost a lot of carbon to turn it into a bike lane.
- Comment on Uncovering the Deceptive Logic That Exposes Jordan Peterson - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
Working under the assumption that something is likely true is not the same as having faith that it is.
- Comment on Uncovering the Deceptive Logic That Exposes Jordan Peterson - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
That refers to duty or people, a scientific theory is neither of those.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
Machine learning doesn’t necessarily require a centralized cluster. Usually running those kinds of models is pretty cheap, it’s not an LLM basically. They usually do better than human moderators as well, able to pick up on very minute ‘tells’ these cheats have.
I understand your point about edge cases, but that’s not something the average player cares about much. E-sports is a pretty niche part of any game, especially the higher ranks. You just want to filter out the hackers shooting everyone each game that truly ruin the enjoyment. Someone cheating to rank gold instead of silver or whatever isn’t ruining game experiences; they’re usually detectable too, but if you get a false negative on that it’s not the end of the world. A smurf account of a very highly ranked player probably has a bigger impact on players’ enjoyment.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t Microsoft stop this in a recent-ish update? I remember trying it on a machine without TPM and it just didn’t work.
Bazzite worked fine though (after some headaches setting it up).
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
These tricks may make it indistinguishable to a human moderator, but machine learning is actually really good at detecting that. But most companies don’t have the expertise, resources or training data to build a proper model for it.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
This does assume that these are independent variables, which may not necessarily be the case.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That’s true, those happened when Israel was funding and using Hamas to deliberately destabilize the more secular PLO, and followed decades of Israeli occupation.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
But then Hamas got into power with a plurality of the vote and have been constantly attacking Israel ever since.
Hamas has always been extreme in rhetoric, but the violence afaik began when Israel, the US and the PA attempted to coup them out of power.
There have been a few times in this war there has been ceasefires with hostages exchanged for prisoners. Hamas eventually stops releasing hostages and the conflict resumes.
So far every ceasefire was broken by Israel, because they were unwilling to enter the next phase of negotiations which was a precondition to the release of more hostages.
It doesn’t seem like Hamas wants sovereignty, they could have had that if they wanted it.
Like how Israel respects the sovereignty of the PA in the West Bank? Yeah right.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
At this point the hostages are Hamas’ only bargaining chip left. At the same time, Israel has very publicly stated that their primary war goal is not the release of the hostages but the total extermination of Hamas. So even if Hamas released the hostages, by Israel’s own admission, the war would not end (it may even intensify as there’d be no hostages to avoid bad PR for).
Also, nobody thinks Hamas are saints. But the people of Gaza should not have to face extermination by explosions, gunshots or starvation because of their crimes.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 weeks ago:
The historical pronunciation of this letter is irrelevant because it’s a modern word with a modern pronunciation.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 weeks ago:
The k-sound is used when the chi is prefixed in front of certain vowels. The ch-sound is the truly correct pronunciation here, there’s no history involved for that.
Knuth, the guy who coined it, also says the ch-sound is the correct one, though he also says the k-sound is also acceptable. As long as you do not use the ks-sound at least :)
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 weeks ago:
It’s also wrong, it’s supposed to be a ch-sound as in Bach.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually a ch-sound, as in Bach. But Knuth also thinks the k-pronunciation is fine.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 4 weeks ago:
Does he actually have a diagnosis or are you making that up or assuming things?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 5 weeks ago:
Normally speed checks take into account that the car’s speedometer and the speed camera are off by a bit, always in favour of the driver. So whilst the violation might be 38 in 30, the actual speed was likely a little bit higher (eg 40-45).
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 5 weeks ago:
Chargebacks are incredibly expensive, yes.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
According to Krafton’s statement the remaining employees are getting their bonus though.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago:
I made it up.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 month ago:
“Turns out all we needed to travel forwards in time is to burn homophobes!”
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 month ago:
That’s not specific to having a constitution. Judges in the Netherlands for example also cannot do a judicial review to determine the constitutionality of any passed laws. And that’s with a written constitution. There’s also no supreme court. The closest thing is the Raad van State (the “state council”), which evaluates all laws on proportionality, constitutionality, and executability, and then advises the government what to do with a law. It’s convention that that advice is followed, but it’s not required.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 month ago:
There’s still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn’t have written constitution doesn’t mean there’s no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 month ago:
Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 2 months ago:
Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere
So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).