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- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 3 days ago:
No we’re not.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 5 days ago:
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Way back when, MSFT would set up developer meetups and give everyone who showed up a free Windows phone for development. I still have a couple in a box somewhere. People would take them, but nobody wanted to make apps. Everybody was busy enough with iOS and Android.
MSFT even tried to pay companies to port their popular apps to Windows. A few took the money and did the port, but nobody wanted to support it.
Samsung was also trying to get people to write apps for their watches. Same issue. It’s really hard to break in if you’re entering an already crowded market.
- Comment on Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs 6 days ago:
MPs: You wanna bet?
- Comment on I ain't risking shit 1 week ago:
I was in an Apple Store for a Genius Bar appointment when these two guys with hoodies and COVID masks walked in and started pulling phones off the displays and stuffing them into backpacks.
It took less than a minute and then they ran off. The security guard just stood to the side and recorded a video. Once they were gone, everyone just went back to what they were doing, like nothing had happened.
Afterward, I asked the Genius Bar guy if that happened often. He said the two guys hadn’t gotten much because they hadn’t refilled the display from a guy coming in and stealing all the phones literally the day before!
The phones were tracked and the cops eventually caught the two dudes as well as the other solo guy.
- Comment on Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter? 2 weeks ago:
Advantages of running things locally:
- Saving on electricity, bandwidth, and processing
- Able to customize for individuals or families
- Enhanced privacy
- Option for future federated/mesh applications
- Keeps running when network/cloud goes down (Hello, AWS!)
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 2 weeks ago:
Subscription service. This is why you get an MBA.
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 2 weeks ago:
In San Francisco, self-driving cars had a small, usability issue. Let’s hope these don’t.
- Comment on Stocks IRL 3 weeks ago:
Only if you’re doing it right.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Bullshit filters.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the Ticketmaster fee.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Drinking water vs. animal/human effluent/carcass water?
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 5 weeks ago:
Penny Trike
- Comment on The Infinite Money Glitch - How the AI bubble may stay alive longer than normal 5 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I bet both could lay down a sick bar 1 month ago:
Waiting for the banging supergroup featuring 50-pesos, 50-yuan, and 50-dinar.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
Hard D. No, wait…
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds 1 month ago:
Coming soon: “The Chimp Diet book.”
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 month 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.
