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- Comment on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming 2 days ago:
Can vibecode a winamp-clone in like 5 hours & the resulting app would never try to monetize me. Of course I don’t have to because Foobar -or rather Fooyin on Linux- is better than Winamp ever were…
- Comment on Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t put it past Apple that newer Iphones wouldn’t be compatible with PS & Xbox controllers anymore.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 1 week ago:
“We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”
I would love to watch that actually …
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 2 weeks ago:
Youtube has served me weird out of place political comment before, I don’t know. Like in an idea world they would have recommendations tab, that’s separate from the chronological feed from my subscriptions.
- Comment on ‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? 2 weeks ago:
I think It’s incredibly hard to predict where this going and at what rate. Public sentiment is largely biased based on AI hate…
Even if we never reach ASI or even AGI -depending on the definition- “dumb” agents given too much power could do an untold amount of damage. For example I can totally imagine that some degree of Ai control could act as a trigger for the Kessler effect.
- Comment on Memory Prices Indefinitely High: SK Hynix Says Shortage Continues Through 2030 - PC Perspective 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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” 3 weeks 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 4 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 5 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 1 month 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 2 months 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. 3 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. 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
I expected something awful, but this is beyond my already low expectations.
- Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars 4 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 5 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 5 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 8 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" 8 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.