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- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 2 days ago:
I think SK Hynix’s projection is incredibly naive. I’d be surprised if by 2028 the Chinese haven’t captured this market yet, inevitably impacting prices.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 6 days ago:
Gta5 with better graphics is all I’m setting so far.
- Comment on AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” 1 week ago:
Who cares if it gets it right 99% of the time? Who cares if the next model is 99.9%? It’s not 100%! That means it’s a ticking clock until something major fucks up!
This is a really weak argument. Getting right 99.9% of the time is extraordinarily good in many fields, superhuman even. The human brain is also a non-deterministic system. Surgeons make mistakes too, there is no such a thing as a 100% reliable human.
- Comment on AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” 1 week ago:
Imo AI is already super powerful in the flaky oracle role, maybe even in CS, but agents left to their own devices is not it, not by a long shot.
- Comment on LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada 2 weeks ago:
stochastic
Humans are largely too & tbh it’s a rather weak argument these days, but it’s also reinforcing the opposite view, because you are being really stochastic with this comment itself.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’d imagine the opposite. Facebook is just difficult to skip for most of us. As much as I hate it, I need Marketplace and Groups…
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 5 weeks ago:
I think they are very impressive looking iconic cars in a vacuum, like DeLoreans. Everything else is really unfortunate about then, but imo the eyesore part largely comes from the -very justified- cultural baggage as well.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 1 month ago:
Vivancos 3
The imdb rating of 3.9 for a movie that is not porn is quite incredible, I’m almost tempted to watch it.
- Comment on Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support 2 months ago:
It’s probable possible to make circumvention fairly difficult. Though my guess is that since Nvidia’s corporate interests don’t align with this, they will make it simple as rocks.
- Comment on A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined: Thanks, Guild Wars 3. 2 months ago:
I’m unlikely to play the third installment of an mmo. Would rather go back to Wow.
As for GW3, I have very little confidence that the Arena Net of today can create a game worth playing, at least based on what they’ve put out for the past 6 years. For a miracle they would need to hire a brand new writing team and probably the map artists can get the boot too…
- Comment on Samsung's SSD warranty policy scammed me so I'm taking them to court. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure if that applies to Rossman actually.
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t help…
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 3 months ago:
Play Celeste if you haven’t already.
- Comment on Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin 3 months ago:
Not directly related…
Is it ok to strongly hate Cloudflare? I’m really so effin tired of them.
- Comment on Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | Google Cloud Blog 3 months ago:
I expected something awful, but this is beyond my already low expectations.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 3 months ago:
I’m not going to watch this video right now, but I think it’s easy to understand for plug in hybrids. 30km range on the battery is enough for your daily commute & you gain a lot of efficiency by not having to carry 500kg battery around.
- Comment on Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June 4 months ago:
I’d imagine instead of loading the website chrome will give you an at your own risk malicious website warning.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 4 months ago:
It’s not X, it’s Y” is an AI mainstay.
You should have seen my h.school essays…
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 6 months ago:
I don’t don’t think this is useful at all, if it only results in a next button occasionally popping up.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 6 months ago:
What I find really mind blowing is that 2TB hdd prices basically have not changed in two decades.
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 6 months ago:
The free version of Gemini is incomparably better then chatGpt in a great many tasks including coding. I expect it increasingly doesn’t matter what they do in the free tier.
- Comment on More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey 6 months ago:
It’s a logical conclusion of the present situation. No one will pay for grass or asphalt textures, when genai can produce more variety than any human asset artist ever could. In coding it’s a more complicated situation, but for certain tasks it’s almost dumb not to use ai. Even of you don’t use it to actually write code it’s still helpful to a varying degree.
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 7 months ago:
it will kill the project in the cradle
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: OnePlus Is Being Dismantled 7 months ago:
One Plus always has been an oppo sub brand and they have stopped being relevant a long time ago.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 7 months ago:
You all are correct that in the current climate automotive manufacturers would never allow something like this get on the market at large.
However 2-3 decades down the line, when car owners have gotten a reality check about the longevity of current & probably worse near future cars. The market demand could reach a point where people would give a simple repairable electric car a really good go and by simple I mean genuinely as simple as possible for an electric car.
- Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match 7 months ago:
Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.
Apple’s sideloading is somewhere between a ridiculously off the mark compromise they’ve lobbied for and malicious noncompliance.
- Comment on Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS? 7 months ago:
There is no certainty in these things, Nintendo could always do a big fuck you banwave many years later. Though you are probably fine.
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 7 months ago:
Ai makes photoshopping trivially easy, so of course now this is bigger problem than before. This is not going to go away, so society will adapt. Humans can live perfectly fine in the jungle not covering up their unmentionables, so in a few decades this will be a non issue I would guess.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure that you could make a realistic game where all plants & buildings etc use AI generated textures & no one would notice.
Anyway compared to AI assisted game development there are so many worse things in the industry. Like gacha mobile games or denuvo.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 8 months ago:
You can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.