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- Comment on Nothing but a discount. 23 hours ago:
With specific stocks, sometimes there is never a recovery.
Even if you buy index fund, the time you need to hold may be quite long. If you bought SP500 at the wrong time in 1999, you would have had to hold until about 2013 to see consistent gains.
Just saying buy the dip based solely on the fact that “what goes down must come up” is not a very sound approach by itself.
- Comment on Me watching down detector today 2 days ago:
My laptop sleeps fine after latest update… Of fedora
- Comment on Jensen_IRL 4 days ago:
To be fair, most of that was before this revelation. It is at least clear that the so-called “neocloud” part of the bubble was in trouble, which dragged Nvidia since a lot of their money is tied up in those neoclouda. Then after elections included a lot of anti datacenter measures, that doesn’t bode well either. This scandal is just another thing for the pile of bad news.
- Comment on Why is it so rare for doctors to believe in dissociation? 1 week ago:
I do think that’s broadly an issue, and unfortunate when a condition catches “cool” factor and suddenly a bunch of people want to be that. Feel like the trend started with" Asperger’s" in the 90s when a certain group of people liked the concept of “Autistic, but not bad, it just means an asshole who is smart”. Over time we now have ASD, ADHD, and DID as conditions that are actively desired among certain subcultures. Which really can muddy the waters when it comes to mental health diagnosis.
- Comment on Bye, Mike! 1 week ago:
And he is not going to run he says
- Comment on Why is it so rare for doctors to believe in dissociation? 1 week ago:
I suspect there’s some skepticism recently because a sort of Internet subculture developed around it being “cool” and some folks are adopting it as an affectation, and further prizing a diagnosis as real cred. So some people are shopping mental health professionals in pursuit of a diagnosis for that subculture.
- Comment on Rage bait ravings 1 week ago:
And A lot of people seem to be sincerely liking that mess, which is… disconcerting…
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 2 weeks ago:
Applies to a lot of fields.
I have been in scenarios where business leaders doing their thing are frustrated by a competitor that has better product and better customer treatment (pricing, support, no superfluous subscriptions…)
Rather than adopt some of those business principles, they instead think that the competitors people are just betterexcept their leadership, that if they were in charge of the competitor company it would do way better, with good product and the better business practices like fucking up support, charging moore upfront, cutting employees, and hooking customers with subscriptions.
With many public companies, they have succeeded in convincing investors they are right and investors put them in charge.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My partner experiences plenty of sex drive with one.
But the first period after she got it lasted weeks.
Then periods became very light. Which was the main draw, to reduce period pain in her case.
- Comment on basically every device when it joins a network: 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, ipv6 was designed to fix this. Everything is multicast and, in theory, a switch could snoop MLD and create a nice map so that “where is the router?” Would send only to routers, and “whose got this up address?” Would send to a small group, usually with only the correct target in it.
However, it’s almost always just blasted out to everyone, and every network I’ve seen that has the mld snooping actually trying to do something just breaks ipv6 in various ways.
- Comment on Tim Sweeney Is Still Crying About Steam AI Disclosures 2 weeks ago:
I’ll say that on youtube, the implementation has been problematic.
There’s a channel where the creator has used a speech synthesis for long before the modern crop of AI text to speech. He still uses the same old speech synthesis, not even one of the newer models, but flagged as ‘AI’.
Conversely, blatant slop appears with zero indication. With no option to report as AI slop.
But the point is that if someone used an LLM to do some code completion, technically AI but I don’t think anyone would consider something like ‘multiply all members of this array by this other array’ to be ‘slop’ when turned into what an LLM would turn it into. There’s some point where it’s lost the plot entirely, but it is going to be relatively unlikely that folks ever give up the ‘still micromanaging, but letting an LLM bake in the very specific syntax needed’ level of AI.
On the other hand, we have people turning a total lack of idea into big, time-consuming content that requires a minute to figure out how hollow it is. It’s a continuation of what I’ll retroactively call ‘asset-slop’ where people just tossed in a bunch of existing assets, but harder to tell at a glance. Saw an ad recently for Perplexity, saying you can just ask Perplexity to make video slop and post to youtube with zero effort and make $10k/month, brazen in the worst of the worst of the AI users.
All that said, Sweeney is pretty firmly in the ‘let the slop flow’ end of the AI spectrum, so screw him.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 weeks ago:
So much better game experience, but nowhere near the cash cow of people blowing money on cosmetics in live service games and pay to win. Even super low effort mobile games will frequently milk out way more cash.
Basically the good money is with low quality content, so good quality has to come out of enthusiasm for gaming, not from board rooms.
- Comment on The miracle happened 4 weeks ago:
So it’s easy, which path did you like, giving anyone with access to a prop wheelchair however much they are trying to get out of you, or denying aid to anyone that ever managed to get up out of a wheelchair, however briefly?
- Comment on In the deep freeze 4 weeks ago:
I’ve so far defied conventional wisdom by just saying flat out when I don’t want to deal with off-hours ‘fun’ time. Which has pretty much been every time. During work hours? Sure no problem. No I’m not going to a team dinner or evening movie.
Most egregious one was a couple decades back when the team was arranging a nice holiday dinner. This was early in my career so I hadn’t yet developed the comfort to reject, but the event was “pay your own way” and the restauraunt was a $120 a person, and that is not an inflation adjusted figure. I had barely enough to make rent at the time so there’s no way I was going to piss away $120 just to eat with coworkers that I get to see every day anyway. I was so nervous declining, but it got a bit easier when they acted offended I wouldn’t do it and said $120 wasn’t really a lot of money.
- Comment on The miracle happened 4 weeks ago:
It’s a tricky line to walk.
On the one hand, you are absolutely right that ability to hobble over a few feet from your chair does not mean the chair is obviously not needed.
On the other, wheelchairs are a very popular prop for grifting folks.
It’s pretty damn near impossible to make an informed judgement on such a matter in an instant, and lots of people do exploit that.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, random stuff happens and normal people don’t assume something like a pregnant mistress.
One time someone left a few roses under my windshield at work on valentine’s day. I assume someone mistook my car for someone else’s, not that I had some secret admirer who wanted to do a pointlessly anonymous gesture.
One time someone let out the air from one of my tires overnight in my driveway, for no apparent reason and it caused me mild annoyance.
Anyway, fake internet story for fake internet points.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
This may be the reality, but in theory the answer is for people to say “fuck working for these asshats if we are stuck at the mercy of caprcious users tipping”.
I would argue there is no ethical way to use them.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are scenarios that it can ‘one shot’, either very straightforward variations of common themes or a use case that is comprehensively instrumented in a way to “know” if it is correct or not automatically, and having the solution iterate against that criteria evaluation until all criteria pass (though in the latter case, I have seen it change the criteria deciding the criteria was a mistake instead of fixing a problem).
If you spend enough tokens, let it rebuild and test on its own, and let it churn and churn, then I’m not too surprised it could make this launch and be superficially intact. The real pain starts when trying to close the gaps the project has in this sort of scenario.
I will say that GenAI makes golang a lot less tedious. Lot’s of obvious but required boilerplate to force the developer to abide by consistent structure. Though I still prefer reading python code since I don’t have to peruse a ton of boilerplate there.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
At least my experience is that a vibe coded app gets to ‘early alpha’ then stays there. If AI is augmenting a developer who is otherwise competent and they don’t let it get ahead of their own understanding, it can work out though not as ‘miraculously fast’ as this. If AI can oneshot an application then it can also work out. If a project vibes itself in a week or two to ‘looks like what it should be but isn’t good enough’, then thus far every one I see is doomed to sit there, because the AI can’t finish it and if you let the GenAI produce that much code, it’s generally not serviceable even for very capable developers.
I spent a lot of time last week basically peeling back an overly vibed attempt at an application by a colleague. It was too flaky and incomplete and deleting large sections of it was frankly more practical than trying to rework it. It had gotten to the point where every attempt to try to have GenAI fix it one way would just break something else. That project was, essentially a fairly small command line utility, I fear to think what something the level of a Photoshop knockoff would be like.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Read a review by someone, this vibed up solution isn’t going to win anyone over either because it evidently sucks. It may imitate the UI more closely for what works, but not much works adequately.
- Comment on They all look like this 5 weeks ago:
I prefer a vaguely stoney look, but again not trying to look too much like specific stone. Further I favor larger tiles over plank form factor.
Or some sort of design untethered from imitating some other material, though I admit I don’t know of any examples of that off hand.
Just something about very specific wood looking with a plastic feel, especially the ones that have a bit of ridges along the grain that actual wood wouldn’t have.
But absolutely agree that a decent thick vinyl plank or tile is a great material.
- Comment on They all look like this 5 weeks ago:
Oh I am fine with the vinyl, I would just prefer some non wood appearance for it . Also would favor tile over plank.
- Comment on They all look like this 5 weeks ago:
I am eager for faux wood vinyl planks to go out.
I don’t mind vinyl, but just find the attempt to imitate wood makes it feel obviously like cheaping out.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Frankly, I feel like the media hasn’t really engaged him in tech for the last couple of decades since he stepped back. So he hasn’t been pushed for takes on tech.
There is zero reason to expect Gates to have particular credibility on this front, he hasn’t been part of “the game” in a long time. Even then his perspective was a bit indirect.
If back in his heydey ou had asked Gates about the core technologies of the Web infrastructure, he would have confidently assumed Windows NT, IIS, MSSQL, and . net would be the foundation of everything. Not because of deep technical understanding and vision, but because his guys were doing it and surely his guys were the best guys.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, so far when someone shows me a concrete example of this amazingly complicated thing that GenAI helped then realize, I think “really… that’s it?”
It’s a decent reminder that a lot of people have more modest needs and a lot of the enthusiasm can come from that, and maybe that’s more understandable.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Problem is that Gates isn’t really “in the loop” and doesn’t have especially valuable insight.
His position in tech was always a bit removed from the core technologist work, and now his exposure is a telephone game with people that are as distant from the tech as he was.
It is really going around with no shortage of commentators spewing out guesswork, but Gates is given more credibility by virtue of his role 30 years ago.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
Generally I’ve found that:
If the facts are painfully obvious from a simple web search, then GenAI has a decent chance of getting it right. This can be useful if you can’t recall any “key” words well and the GenAI can craft several searches and get there.
However, if it does mess up the facts, the result looks superficially the same as “correct”. So while it can give accurate data, you always have to double check. This can still be useful, as finding the right search terms can be a decent help.
In coding, sometimes in some situations, you can have requirements that are absolutely testable, and thus you can have the models retry and retry until it works. This isn’t always feasible. Even when it seems feasible, you may screw up the criteria, or the GenAI when enough freedom disables a probablematic test rather than solve it, and it likely will generate code that’s not really fit to modify. There are a lot of situations where this is useful, but it is infuriating that non technical people and even some low skill technical people assume this is always the case.
Then when you get away from facts mattering, it gets “better”. Example, someone jokingly asked for one to “make gta6”. After a while it came back with a GTA 1 clone. Lots of people were impressed, because whatever it did could be considered a success even as it obviously didn’t match the expectation. The operators also like to GenAI some webcomic, where it is a fiction. They almost always didn’t have any interesting thought going in so they tend to be crap, but “correctness” didn’t matter.
Of course, also making fakes. Supreme case where looking correct matters but being factually correct does not matter at all. GenAI above all else “seems” correct.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 5 weeks ago:
He repeats the “better than humans at coding” which is super situational. Executives got so used to “code is code” mentality they can’t seem to understand that just because they can prompt up straightforward apps and other folks have done stunts like “make a knock off of this compiler” does not mean it’s just better than people.
Also very bizarre to say they have perfect memory, they are pretty spotty at that.
On the matter of support, it will generally always such because it’s rigged for the company in all matters where helping the customer would go against the company’s interests. Has been a long time. Why pay warranty when you can make it so painful they will give up?
- Comment on Slash. 1 month ago:
Maybe I just don’t get it, but I just don’t see there being anything vaguely inspiring of that sort of chemistry between the caracters of that specific show. Other duos in other shows, ok, but Sherlock just seemed so far from that dynamic.
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 1 month ago:
nyc.gov/…/mamdani-administration-advances-plan-to…
Following a competitive request for proposals process, the city selected GFP Real Estate to develop the site.
Note it said only 1,000 affordable residences, but 4,000 overall. A real estate company is happy to cover the cost and cede 1,000 units to affordable terms in exchange for 3,000 residences at market rate.