wewbull

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 90% certain that none of the resources being “bought” by AI actually have been sold, or created yet.

  Indeed. The prices skyrocketed because vendors realised they couldn’t get replacement supply in the future. What existed today was all they were going to get.

  I’m expecting a glut of supply once those contracts fall through.

  Speaking of the auto industry: Is AI a mirage, like the dreams of a working rotary engine?

  It is, but I think it’s a different type of mirage. The rotary engine does work, but it brings with it significant downsides. Getting the positives without the negatives is the mirage being chased.

  AI appears to do one thing, but actually does another. People see it “creating” new things, but it’s more like it shreds work up and then glues the pieces together making sure it looks consistent. Train it on one work and it can reproduce that work. Train it on two and it will mash the two. Train it on a billion and it will mash the billion. Nothing creative,. No extrapolation. Just interpolation.

  People want the AI promise regardless of the downsides. It just doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨youtube shorts bingo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to play a game

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp straight to the bin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We tried, but we’re running a bit late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for clear labelling on food. I think it’s important. I don’t see the need to stop them using “milk” in any form. As long as it’s part of hyphenate “oat-milk” there shouldn’t be an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ministers warned not to copy Wes Streeting’s release of messages with Peter Mandelson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare government members be open about their communications!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare people think that Labour might listen when the Tories didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge UK ministers to make music lyrics inadmissible in court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Killed shot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit different in the UK.

  1. Betting advertising is regulated. Not as much as it should be, but it’s not a free for all

  2. We’ve had betting on sports (literally?) forever. When I was growing up it bookies were all about horse racing. There’s been a gradual creep into other sports and online, but because it’s been slower legislation has been able to keep up better. We’ve not had the market explosion the US has.

  3. Gambling addiction has long been recognised for what it is. There are some institutional adaptations. For example, my bank account has a voluntary gambling block on it. It would take me two days to switch it off so that I can’t do it in-the-moment. (I have it on so if somebody gets my card details they can’t bet with it).

  That’s not to say there aren’t problems. The online world definitely needs looking at in a lot more depth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer’s director of communications Tim Allan steps down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s only been in the job 5 months. He’s evacuating the blast radius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government on track to lower minimum age for train drivers to 18 in Great Britain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not any harder no, but much higher responsibility. You’ve got a few hundred lives depending on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used COVID as shorthand for “the pandemic, lockdown, restricted NHS care, etc”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what I was trying to convey, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The surge is in 2021. 3 years before Labour was in power.

  I suspect this is probability COVID related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨clean energy and the rich seeing justice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was also 2001. It wasn’t as much of a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try track 4 — “Coffin Fodder”. It sounds horrible but it’s actually quite beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do onions and chips keep washing up on England’s south coast? Here’s the science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IT’S A SEAGULL CONSPIRACY. THEY HAVE A PLAN!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revolution bars set to disappear from the high street after going bust⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the secret. Revolution shot boards were weak arse shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t the only options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought handing them over to Mauritius was the right thing. Using them as a naval base is also messed up but that wasn’t going anywhere.

  So I see this a positive thing, but the optics for Starmer couldn’t be worse. It makes him look like Trumps lapdog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK officials may be barred from US over X ban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no!

  Anyway…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still building it though. Still spending the money. They’re just not making it mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the BBC article:

  The Liberal Democrats said the policy was “doomed to failure” from the start and called for “the billions of pounds earmarked for their mandatory digital ID scheme” to be spent “on the NHS and frontline policing instead”.

  Damn right. We want our money spent on something useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t read the full article, but it says it’ll be optional. That sounds like they’re still wanting to develop it, spend the money, and then say “well now we’ve got it, it would be silly not to use it!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tories would ban under-16s from social media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad fact is, very little government policy appears to be driven by the values of those voted in. It’s just bandwagons and financials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the biggest examples of equality Vs equity there is, and how the Blair government picked the wrong one. A university education was a dividing line in society they said. It was something only available to a select few. Everyone should benefit from a university education.

  Thing is, apart from Oxbridge, the dividing line was never about race, sex or class. It was about academic ability. If you had the grades, you could come from anywhere (Equality). Now, there was a problem with high schools and sixth-form colleges not being as good in certain areas, but that wasn’t a problem with the universities. Many even tried to take such factors into account during admissions. If they’d solved the school education issue instead it would have been a fair system (again, apart from Oxbridge).

  …but Blair felt that everyone should go to university. So they pushed up the intake numbers, converted all the polytechnics into universities (blowing away further education for less academic people) and turned the now unsustainable grant into loans.

  End result: 20 years down the road and the bachelors degree is now largely worthless in hiring circles because everybody has one, and the masters degree is going the same way.

  Qualifications are meant to give prospective employers information about people’s strengths. Now everyone appears the same on paper (Yay… Equity!) and the qualifications have lost their reason to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Just Oracle crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just keeping my buoyancy in check.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Manatees aren’t the only ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're just friends!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.