natecox
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- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 21 hours ago:
So, like, are you just not capable of building an argument not built on strawman hyperbole?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 21 hours ago:
I’ll have to look at this when I get a chance, but my understanding of these products is that a “custom model” isn’t from scratch using only your data, but that they add your data to a core model that has already been trained to behave in certain ways… using data that isn’t yours.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 day ago:
“All genAI bad” is a nuanced take. When you look at genAI from a moral, ethical, or sociopolitical perspective it always demonstrates itself to be a net evil.
The core technology is predicated on theft, the data centers powering it are harmful economically and to surrounding communities, it is gobbled up by companies looking to pay less to profit more, and it’s powered by a bubble ripe for bursting which will wreak havoc on our economy.
GenAI is indefensible as a technology, and the applications it may have for any tangible benefit can probably be accomplished by ML systems not built on the back of the LLM monster. We should all be protesting its use in all things.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 3 days ago:
“Can easily turn off” implies that it ships to you on.
Honestly, asking us to assume that every action comes from a place of good will just makes me doubt them even more. You earn that kind of trust, you don’t ask for it; and if they don’t have it they should be asking hard questions about why.
They are a company that used to be about independent choice but are effectively reliant on Google (a privacy nightmare) to be solvent, and they’re now putting their bets into being “a modern AI browser”. Nothing about that tells me I should just trust them.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 3 days ago:
“Changes course after backlash” != “clarifies”.
- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 6 days ago:
Bullshit.
I am an entirely passive player. I don’t start PvP, I don’t participate in it unless someone starts shooting at me.
Yet I am constantly being shot at. In about 80% of matches I get attacked, typically from people extraction camping. It is enough that I have moved to other games because I can’t make much progress losing everything in most matches.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 6 days ago:
I have considered this, as the only reason anyone would willingly eat celery.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 1 week ago:
3 mostly solved this, it was way more reasonable. 2 was a great game with fantastic voice acting that was really diminished by the character models.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 1 week ago:
It’s frustrating that a small number of really good franchises are locked into the Nintendo bullshit business model.
Xenoblade Chronicles, Zelda, Mario, and a couple of other series running on Steam Deck without the emulation nonsense would make me tremendously happy.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 week ago:
The reasons are many, but the main one is to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year.
From the company that brings you the same fucking game year over year, with paid dlc to get the same maps from old games again.
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 1 week ago:
It’s good that someone finally invented a way to move cars around. Can’t think of any other way you’d get them from point a to point b.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 2 weeks ago:
The military recruits from young people who are some combination of naive or desperate and then brainwashes them with tried and true indoctrination. I don’t think they’re ever going to want for recruits.
- Comment on Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks. 5 weeks ago:
Well, I’m pretty happy that I’ve moved most of my app downloads to a nix config I guess.
Seems like a bigger change than deserves to be buried in the changelog. I wonder what the intent here is.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 month ago:
Converting those roles to debuggers and active devs does a lot for both the business and the workforce.
Hahahahaha… on wait you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
They’re just gonna lay them off.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a group costume 2 months ago:
Holy hell that guy is the spitting image of my high school buddy Glenn (or at least what I think he’d look like a couple of decades later). I did a full double take.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 2 months ago:
Plus it would be justification for that next price increase after this one.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 2 months ago:
Ok, so what’s your next move, Disney? Because now effectively nothing has changed since you “brought him back on the air”.
Pull some shows from your affiliates, damn it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
It’s funny to me that this is even up for discussion. It’s been a truism for as long as I can remember that reading code is much, much more difficult than writing it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 5 months ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 6 months ago:
I love that show but it is kinda designed to be hard to watch. I don’t blame anyone for not being able to commit to it.
- Comment on Yes 6 months ago:
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
- Comment on Yes 6 months ago:
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 7 months ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 9 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 10 months ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 year ago:
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in another post, “Can’t they just make good games and skip the woke lecture?”
I assume we’re all done with pretense and he’ll just go ahead and call it “Bigot games”.
- Comment on Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk 1 year ago:
Remember folks, it’s a crime to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay person, but totally fine to force a company to employ a bigot against their will.