TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales 5 days ago:
Who would have thought? Oh wait, pretty much everyone.
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 2 weeks ago:
Humans are born with the supernatural ability to whine endlessly about any topic. Nothing is too perfect to be spared from this.
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 2 weeks ago:
Avenged maybe….
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 2 weeks ago:
The same idea was revived with the original Jolla phone. I wonder if it’s compatible with the Jolla phone 2.
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 2 weeks ago:
Or… hear me out. Get rid of the hinge, make the phone smaller, put the screen on top and keyboard on the bottom half. I think people would love it.
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 2 weeks ago:
The correct way is to open it no more than 7 times. On the seventh time, you’re supposed to leave it open and never close it again.
- Comment on Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds 2 weeks ago:
And yet we keep on building more data centers and deploying more LLMs everywhere. Sounds like this is going to be another one of those climate change situations, where experts warned us about something but people went ahead and did it anyway.
- Comment on ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre 2 weeks ago:
It’s just another expense for them. A cost of doing business, nothing else. Maybe they estimated that a delayed project will cost 100x more, so it’s cheaper to break some laws and finish up a bit earlier.
Truly arrogant and revolting, but it kinda makes sense if you think like a psychopath.
- Comment on Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam 3 weeks ago:
Is it April already? Time flies…
- Comment on I Sent an AI to My Job Interview. So Did the Company. 4 weeks ago:
That went well.
- Comment on IT Horror 5 weeks ago:
No. Is the server that doesn’t forgive or forget. It knows what you did and where you live.
- Comment on People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms 5 weeks ago:
I would be more worried about the intentional bias. The temptation to use that leverage is far too great to be ignored. Only a fool wouldn’t take that opportunity.
- Comment on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else 1 month ago:
Slop grande. That’s a wonderful word. I’ve been on the receiving end of one quite recently, and I think I’ll start using that word from now on.
- Comment on Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why. 1 month ago:
You do have renewable energy. Why not use it?
- Comment on Dating Apps Are Dying 1 month ago:
Nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 months ago:
So you run Lineage or Graphene on it? The default Android has been without security updates for years by this point, as Samsung just loves to create e-waste to increase shareholder value.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 months ago:
The trick is to buy a used phone every year or two. It will be new enough and the previous owner took the biggest depreciation hit on your behalf. Personally, I like to stay two years behind, because it’s cheaper that way.
- Comment on If you feel like you’re drowning in tasks, this one platform is the only reason I’m getting 4 hours of my day back. 2 months ago:
Figures…
- Comment on If you feel like you’re drowning in tasks, this one platform is the only reason I’m getting 4 hours of my day back. 2 months ago:
Sounds like an ad. How much are they paying you for this?
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 months ago:
How about sticking it somewhere between the engine and transmission? When operating it in the winter, your fingers would stay nice and warm.
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 3 months ago:
Are you using a very specific browser? On vanilla thrashware it works just fine.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 3 months ago:
😄 exactly. Totally forgot about sprinkling in a few numbers.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 3 months ago:
It’s like one of those filenames: final_final_draft_new_new_final_final_review_final_new_report.odt
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 3 months ago:
Hopefully you didn’t have to go through all of that just to flip burgers or carry boxes in a warehouse.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 3 months ago:
Yikes! Either that recruitment process is incredibly inefficient, or they’re hiring someone to take over the security of a nuclear weapon factory.
- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 5 months ago:
If they figure out a way to refine the slop code with another agent, there will be hardly any need for programmers in the future. We’ll see how that works out.
In the meanwhile, LLMs are being used for cyberattacks and many companies are deploying lots of vibe code everywhere. What could go right…
- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 5 months ago:
If producing quality code no longer requires skilled programmers, you’re right. As it stands, LLMs produce very raw code that absolutely requires lots of human oversight to qualify as functional.
- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 5 months ago:
Exactly. Vibe coding is horrible in the wrong hands, but a skilled programmer can utilise it to carry out boring tasks.
If you’re still learning to code, you can’t evaluate the quality of the output, which will result in wild goose chases, wasted hours and tangled low quality scribble code. If you can find and fix the mistakes, you can actually make certain tasks go much faster. Also, don’t let an LLM write more than 20-50 lines at a time. Finding mistakes in longer segments gets very tricky.
If you have a plan in your head, you can request short segments like that. If you let the LLM take care of everything, it’s just going to dump 200 lines, and then you’ll need to rewrite most of it by hand. Gradual step by step approach works well, but it requires constant oversight.
- Comment on Meow? 6 months ago:
😸
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 6 months ago:
I agree with most of that, but I think I still need to bring up the benefits of centralised health services. In simple cases, you don’t really need that, but in tricky cases you might. For example, if you need an MRI image before surgery, you just can’t rely on travelling doctors. Those machines are expensive, so you’re only going to have those in large cities where they can be used more frequently.
Surgery also benefits from being a centralised service. You can’t expect a traveling surgeon to carry all the stuff you need for keeping the whole room clean. Besides, the room itself needs special equipment. A simple scalpel and a steady hand aren’t enough to make it work.