BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [META] Is it ok to ask for advice here? 6 days ago:
That question is fine here in my opinion.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 1 week ago:
He’s not forcing you into a subscription model, he wants you to either allow ads or go to a subscription model.
You don’t need to pay 8 Euro a month, you just need to allow the ads.
It’s not broken to prevent ad blockers, we all got used to a system that wasn’t sustainable, and now we’re seeing what is actually required for sites and apps to survive.
- 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? 2 weeks ago:
“For essay writing task”
I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.
- 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? 2 weeks ago:
My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 2 weeks ago:
Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 2 weeks ago:
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 2 weeks ago:
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”
- Comment on Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America 5 weeks ago:
… What?
Did you forget your /s tag
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Blame the democrats
- Comment on What does it mean if I’m the first person my former friend turns to? 5 weeks ago:
It means you should move on
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 month ago:
Bouncy balls are already reasonably efficient. If you want them to be more dangerous, you just get ones that weigh more.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
the difference between unqualified and exceptionally unqualified means very little, neither of them can accomplish their basic tasks.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
This is exactly how most developers are being asked to use it, it’s literally how most of the IDE integrations work.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
The vast majority of people are unqualified individuals.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
If the AI is writing ALL the code for an entire application it would be a problem, but as an assistant to a programmer, if it spits out a single line or even a small function, you can read it over very quickly to validate it before moving on to the next component.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
Our ERP system that is used for Vacation entry doesn’t have that, it wants start date, end date, hours, and vacation type code. We have a small number of employees who work on stat holidays, so defaulting to all users needing that wouldn’t even work.
The LLM fix is cheap as shit compared to buying an entirely new system. It costs less than half a cent per submission. The power use for a single query is nothing, and this request isn’t some crazy agentic thing that’s using a million tokens or anything, more like 500-1000 tokens combined input and output.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
Normally I’d agree, and we used some of that in the original form (like maximum hours, checking for negative submissions, etc.) but requests don’t always follow simple logic and more complex logic just led to failures every time a user did something other than take a standard full day off.
Some employees work 7 hours, while others are 7.5, some have flex days and hours that change that, sometimes requests are only for part days, sometimes they may use multiple leave types to cover one off period.
I spent a few hours writing and testing the prompt against previous submissions to fine tune it.
So far it’s detected every submission error in the two weeks it’s been running, with only one false positive.
- Comment on Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? 1 month ago:
I just implemented an LLM in a vacation request process precisely because the employees are stupid as fuck.
We were getting like 10% of requests coming in with the wrong number of hours requested because people can’t fucking count properly, or understand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays. This is despite the form having a calculator and also showing in bright red any stat holidays inside the dates of the request.
Now the LLM checks if the dates, hours, and note from the employee add up to something reasonable. If not it goes to a human to review. We just had a human reviewing every single request before this, because it was causing so many issues, an hour or two each week.
- Comment on Should you look for a relationship if it feels like a compromise? 1 month ago:
Compromise doesn’t necessarily mean “less”
If you ask your boss for a 20% raise, and they give you a 10% raise and you stay there, you have compromised on what you wanted but you still got more than you had before.
Relationships are similar, you may not get everything you specifically want, but if you’re getting more than you have alone it may be a good idea to look for one. That could relate to all sorts of aspects of a relationship, from sharing chores and saving money on expenses to having someone available more easily/frequently to enjoy shared activities with.
Not all relationships are going to be worth it, in fact most will not until you find a “compatible” person where the alignment of your needs and willingness to do things for them end up, and their needs and willingness to do things for you end up with a net benefit to both people.
Two people that hate doing dishes and cooking could work, if you both make enough money to eat out every meal, but if you don’t those two people likely aren’t compatible. However, if you like cooking, and they don’t mind cleaning, that can be a reasonable compromise that benefits both people.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded! 1 month ago:
Longevity has been a bit of a strange argument to me, I already re-use my old laptops. My two previous devices are in active use by my kids. My devices usually get 10+ total years each.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded! 1 month ago:
Fuck me that price… I know it’s a great company, but the framework-premium is like $1000-1500 on that hardware
AMD 370 w/ the 5070, 2TB drive and 64GB of ram is like $5000 CDN
You can get a similar specs from Lenovo or Asus for under $3500
I’d still like to get one, but… I can’t justify that. It’s literally $1000 for just the Nvidia 5070 graphics module, and it’s still only 8gb of VRAM. That’s more expensive than a desktop 5070($800ish) with 12GB of VRAM and you can get a desktop 5070ti for only $1100 which has 16gb of VRAM.
I really like framework, but I can’t put that much money extra towards one or it’s literally going to be coming out of my food budget.
I’m due for an upgrade to my 3060 laptop, but… I just can’t do it.
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree with you that LLMs don’t reason. I disagree that all Humans can or do reason.
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 2 months ago:
I’ve met far too many people I wouldn’t trust to give me a reasoned response.
Some people simply lack that capacity entirely, some just don’t care enough to spend the effort on it, while others are trying to deceive me intentionally.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
The HVAC system no, the home itself, yes.
Depending on how old your home is of course, newer homes tend to have lower exchange rates.
Also datacenters don’t have windows, or even doors constantly letting people in and out of cooled areas and outside.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
The simply answer is that your A/C dumps heat outside using big metal fins, it’s not terribly great, but it works well at that scale.
Dissipating it into the air for the amount of heat some data centers need to get rid of doesn’t cut it, so they use evaporative coolers.
The phase change of evaporating water from liquid to gas uses approximately 7x more heat energy than taking room temperature water and getting it up the boiling point itself.
Essentially they stick their large metal fins from the AC into a large pool of water and boil it off. This gets rid of the energy with a much smaller and cheaper system, but uses up water.
- Comment on So, Linus Torvalds is a jerk 2 months ago:
That video was literally posted 10 years ago, it’s been known for a long time that he’s a jerk.
Doesn’t change anything, we let really smart or really rich or really famous people get away with that shit anyways.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 2 months ago:
Yea, we can probably keep a head alive by itself for a short period, I suspect as you pointed out that the “immediate risk of dying from a complication” means if we attempted it the first person wouldn’t even last weeks or months.
The ethics of doing so on the other hand are stupidly complicated, which deters almost all effort in the development of this kind of system. You couldn’t ethically do it to anything smarter than a pig without huge problems, and you may even have trouble with that.
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen any hint of this coming out from some random billionaire funding a bunch of doctors to work on it behind the scenes. I’m sure there are doctors who for the right price would be willing to move to some country with less-stringent regulations and attempt some tests on chimps.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s only if you look under 25 here…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Had the same problem, now I’ve got a touch of grey hair at my temples and it has helped immensely.
I got carded for alchohol up into my late 30s.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 3 months ago:
I really hate this headline.
They aren’t wrong 70% of the time, the study found that they only successfully complete multi-step business tasks 30-35% of the time.