jmcs
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- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
Tides go in, demonic atomic energy comes out, can’t explain that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s available in read-only mode since 21st: blog.archive.org/…/internet-archive-services-upda…
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 3 weeks ago:
Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 5 weeks ago:
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
As IBM said in 1979, computers aren’t accountable, and I would go further and say they should never make any meaningful decision. The algorithm used doesn’t really make a difference. The sooner people understand that they are responsible for what they do with computers (like any other tool) the better.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t they do it while the COBOL people are alive to fix the code?
- Comment on Ok boomer 5 weeks ago:
Do you also demand to have underpaid workers standing all day to bag your groceries?
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 1 month ago:
Isn’t that a major plot point of Matrix?
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Dev Addresses Criticism Over Aloy’s Remastered Look 1 month ago:
Is it just me, or the fabric in the the shirt look better in the old model? At least in that screenshot it looks more like something that was handmade Vs the remake model (look at the end of the sleeves for example)
- Comment on Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon". 1 month ago:
- Comment on Annapurna Interactive has "splintered into two groups, both of which are now working to pick up the pieces" says new report 1 month ago:
A “tiny leadership team” is not a group, it’s a rotting carcass. Executive managers aren’t famous for doing any actual work.
The correct headline is people actually working in Annapurna Interactive packed up their stuff, leaving the parasites behind.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
And it required Hezbollah to have no concept of logistic security. Maybe Hamas is as amateurish as Hezbollah in that regard.
- Comment on Chemistry 1 month ago:
I don’t known why people malign the poor core so much. It killed way less people than it was designed to do.
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Considering the observed behaviour of the self designated militias in the US, the army would only need to say that there’s a gathering of whatever group the militia opposes on main street and then gun down anyone that shows up in tactical gear. Even without the hyperbole, 2A people are too damaged by their desire to be in their personal action movie to be effective in any kind of war.
- Comment on Lionsgate Marketing Consultant Built Movie Trailer Filled With AI Generated Fake Movie Reviews Of Old Films 2 months ago:
Not a native speaker, but if I wanted to boil it down to a word I would use “made a trailer”. I think you are right about the algoritm confusing a movie trailer with a physical trailer.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 2 months ago:
If it reaches the threshold the European Comission is forced to formally answer to it, which requires them do a full review of the subject and this greatly increases the probability of something being done.
- Comment on (Yikes) 4 months ago:
His other work was definitely more bombastic.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI 5 months ago:
In my experience Software Engineers working in ML are, for the most part, also drinking their own Cool Aid, and need pushback from the rest of the company to keep them in check. So management also needs to know which smart people to listen to.
- Comment on Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Studio Closures 5 months ago:
Some of them were still doing fine, just not triple the profits well.
- Comment on Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee 5 months ago:
In Nvidia’s case that’s actually true for long tenured employees - assuming they cash out before the bubble bursts.
- Comment on Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee 5 months ago:
That is the most… American thing I read in months. Workers complaining about half decent work conditions. As a European, being harder to get hired than to get fired was always a given to me, and I believe that’s a good thing.
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 5 months ago:
Loyalism, sure… We all know what’s the only reason to use Bing.
- Comment on [Doug Jones interview] Star Trek Marks a Turning Point for a Secret Sci-Fi Legend 5 months ago:
Spoiler
The “Look into my eyes and tell me if you see even the slightest glimmer of doubt” scene alone would ensure that.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 5 months ago:
This episode was directed by Johnathan Frakes, who starred in the ENT episode, “These Are the Voyages…”
And some other minor roles.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Only if you trust your VPN service more than your mobile Internet provider.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 5 months ago:
Between the 800 years and the Seven of Nines are two things showing that either Reno has paid a visit to the 24th century or the writers lost the plot.
The 800 years if rounded could line up with Seven of Nine’s Enterprise G.
- Comment on [Long interview] Star Trek Discovery's Wilson Cruz Keeps Making Television History 6 months ago:
That’s right, they all live forever in O’Brien’s pattern buffer.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 7 months ago:
It’s like the joke about the invoice charging 0.10$ for a screw and 100$ for knowing which screw to replace.
Coding is easy. Software engineering not so much.
- Comment on 'xz utils' Software Backdoor Uncovered in Years-Long Hacking Plot 7 months ago:
That’s also how the most damaging attacks on proprietary software work. At some point all organizations need to trust their members and co-workers need to trust each other - I can’t think of a way to be more miserable at work than having to second guess everyone around you.
- Comment on Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores 7 months ago:
AI stands for “Absent Indian”.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 7 months ago:
You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.
¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting
