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- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 day ago:
Kora fighting Aang? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Completely tone-deaf.
- Comment on Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show 3 days ago:
Amazon Leadership Principles: www.aboutamazon.com/…/leadership-principles
- Customer Obsession: Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 6 days ago:
Bullshit filters.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 6 days ago:
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 6 days ago:
Someone I know just got a job offer and pasted that offer letter and his current job’s offer letter into ChatGPT to compare.
That cow may well have left the barn.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 1 week ago:
the raw audio data is run through digital signal processing using a Wiener Filter, where you can start to hear some information.
Oy, no tittering in the back.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 week ago:
The unbridled enthusiasm is the same.
In the dotcom era, I had friends working at e-commerce startups selling items you could easily find at a store. They even had to buy from the same wholesale suppliers, and try to undersell retail, even though they had additional shipping cost (offset a little by not having to pay local sales tax). So they ate the losses because VCs told them they had to show the only metric was positive customer growth (not profit). All business ideas were “add e-commerce to X.”
In the 2008 crash, even though it was triggered by real-estate debt, a lot of the same tech dynamics were at play, except “add mobile to X.”
A lot of present day AI companies are following the same path. “Add AI to X.”
What’s different this time is that there’s a lot more hardware involved, in the form of GPU and data center expansion. After dotcom, we were left over with a lot of fiber, telco, and home internet expansion which was still usable. This time, it’s not clear what the data centers will be good for if AI crashes out. Maybe crypto-mining.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 1 week ago:
Drinking water vs. animal/human effluent/carcass water?
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 2 weeks ago:
Penny Trike
- Comment on The Infinite Money Glitch - How the AI bubble may stay alive longer than normal 2 weeks ago:
In scriptwriting, they always tell people to ‘Up the Stakes!’
When Crypto and NFTs went bust, everyone jumped on the AI bandwagon and upped the stakes. All you need is the next big, existential thing that ups the stakes even more.
- Climate
- Energy
- Food
- Disease
- War
- Worldwide annihilation
Come on! You gotta pump up the stakes.
- Comment on oui oui 2 weeks ago:
Picnic-ready, self-contained baguette. Comes with a way to cut it. The other end (off camera) contains foil-wrapped cheese wedges.
Pain vraiment complet.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 2 weeks ago:
A lot here. I have two suggestions:
- Create, then
- Share
Channel everything you want to do and is rattling around your brain into creation. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Nothing is. Get feedback from people you trust, then push them out without caring if anyone looks at it or reacts.
And keep learning. Especially things outside your comfort zone.
Eventually you’ll figure it out.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides 2 weeks ago:
The FT has used AI tools to identify these mentions of the technology in SEC 10-k filings and earnings transcripts, then to categorise each mention. The results were then checked and analysed to help draw a nuanced picture about what companies were saying to different audiences about the technology.
So… using AI to find out who is using AI and warn of underuse of AI.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I bet both could lay down a sick bar 3 weeks ago:
Waiting for the banging supergroup featuring 50-pesos, 50-yuan, and 50-dinar.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
Hard D. No, wait…
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had my share of botched tech demos, so I can empathize. Steve Jobs, during an early iPhone demo legitimately blamed the Moscone Center wifi (I was there).
But this was just bad demo planning at every level. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop laughing.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 3 weeks ago:
Coming soon: “The Chimp Diet book.”
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft and Google both prototyped it. FWIW, they didn’t take it to production once the data was collected.
IIRC, cooling worked fine if placed in the right place with circulation, but maintenance and part replacement was a major issue.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 4 weeks ago:
Ctrl-Z guy would like a redo.
- Comment on Same, I don't get this sport at all ha ha! 4 weeks ago:
The oil on the outside is there so they can legitimately stick their hands down the opponent’s pants and check their oil levels.
- Comment on Name this minivan 5 weeks ago:
Organ Donor.
- Comment on Good news. :) 5 weeks ago:
Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 1 month ago:
- Comment on Llama 1 month ago:
Two people with decent sewing skills.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 1 month ago:
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 1 month ago:
If you have control of the server or platform serving the content, could look into “robots.txt” and “tarpits.” There are a few, but one example is Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
If you just own the domain and it’s hosted elsewhere, you could set it up to go through CloudFlare DNS. They have a one-button scrape-stopper: blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-…
- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 1 month ago:
I pay for Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I was paying for Google Gemini as well, but it was returning too many errors so I canceled it. I also pay for Google office, Microsoft office, and Adobe subscriptions. They inject their own AI into their services, but I end up ignoring them or turning them off.
Mostly use it for coding in Cursor, but occasionally for research into the state of AI and to make MCP extensions. It’s been worth the investment so far, given how much more of the mundane coding tasks get done by supervising it. I also had it update a Wordpress theme because I had no interest in learning the innards.
I never let them loose in ‘agentic’ mode, as they inevitably destroy all the work. I can run decent-sized models locally through lmstudio and Cline, but they’re much slower than just using Cursor and a cloud model.
Outside coding, the only usable one I’ve found is Adobe Firefly, accessed inside Photoshop (to remove material) and Illustrator (to generate simple SVGs and icons from prompts).
Every single other one, when I’ve put it to a non-coding use has been a pile of slop. If all LLMs go away tomorrow, the only one I’ll miss is the Adobe SVG creator.
