jmcs
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- Comment on Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Some of them were still doing fine, just not triple the profits well.
- Comment on Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee 2 weeks 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 $102M per employee 2 weeks ago:
That is the most… American thing I read in months. Workers complaining about half decent work conditions. As a European, being harder to get hired than to get fired was always a given to me, and I believe that’s a good thing.
- Comment on Anon pirates a game 3 weeks ago:
Loyalism, sure… We all know what’s the only reason to use Bing.
- Comment on [Doug Jones interview] Star Trek Marks a Turning Point for a Secret Sci-Fi Legend 3 weeks ago:
Spoiler
The “Look into my eyes and tell me if you see even the slightest glimmer of doubt” scene alone would ensure that.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point 4 weeks ago:
This episode was directed by Johnathan Frakes, who starred in the ENT episode, “These Are the Voyages…”
And some other minor roles.
- Comment on Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? 1 month ago:
Only if you trust your VPN service more than your mobile Internet provider.
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 1 month ago:
Between the 800 years and the Seven of Nines are two things showing that either Reno has paid a visit to the 24th century or the writers lost the plot.
The 800 years if rounded could line up with Seven of Nine’s Enterprise G.
- Comment on [Long interview] Star Trek Discovery's Wilson Cruz Keeps Making Television History 2 months ago:
That’s right, they all live forever in O’Brien’s pattern buffer.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 2 months ago:
It’s like the joke about the invoice charging 0.10$ 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 2 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 2 months ago:
AI stands for “Absent Indian”.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 2 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
- Comment on Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide 3 months ago:
I agree it’s bad if it’s the first time you’ve watching Star Trek. But it’s a reasonable experience if you are watching it for the second time though.
- Comment on Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service 3 months ago:
That wouldn’t solve the patent trolls issues, only getting out of the United Corporate States would.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 3 months ago:
Any of them would be more accurate than Boomer shooter.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 3 months ago:
We were calling them Doom-clones before FPS became a thing, maybe it’s time to bring it back as a sub category.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 6 months ago:
It depends on how familiar you are with old point and click games. If you aren’t used to them, it can be quite frustrating, but even then I think it would be enjoyable if you use a guide to unblock yourself when you get stuck.
- Comment on Let's remember some Star Trek games 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t call it underappreciated since it was well received in its time, but Star Trek: Judgment Rites was amazing.
I wish there would be more narrative focused Star Trek games like that. Either a Disco Elysium style non-combat focused RPG or a modern adventure game.
- Comment on Having fun with probability models 6 months ago:
Exactly, the average educated estimate of that time was that Eurasia spanned 180º of longitude (which ended being surprisingly closer to the right value) and Columbus thought Asia was much bigger.
- Comment on Former Rockstar animator reckons it's "gonna be a long time" before GTA 6 comes to PC 6 months ago:
Developing for PCs first doesn’t remove the combinatory explosion of components they need to develop and test for.
- Comment on Meta is disconnecting Messenger and Instagram chat later this month 6 months ago:
They could comply with the DMA by opening up Facebook Messenger to everyone (for example by reintroducing XMPP), so no this is not because of the DMA (besides the “look at what you made me do” abuser’s mantra), it’s because Facebook will stop at nothing to trap users in their platforms.
- Comment on Tax time 7 months ago:
Can’t speak for the American IRS, but in my home country they audit some declarations at random, specially the parts they don’t have in their system, like checking if professional deductions are valid or if there’s anything that indicates some foreign income wasn’t declared. Before computers the system was probably more or less trust based for most cases.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 7 months ago:
I’m fully convinced that Frakes directing is the only thing that prevented First Contact and Insurrection from being the dumpster fire that Nemesis was.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 7 months ago:
He directed The City on the Edge of Forever he just couldn’t take credit to preserve the timeline.
- Comment on I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly? 7 months ago:
I was looking for that site when I was writing my comment and I couldn’t find it. Thanks for posting it.
- Comment on I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly? 7 months ago:
The original is often just as bad.
But you know what would load even faster and look decent across most form factors? Plain semantically correct HTML with minimal CSS and no JavaScript. For some reason that solution doesn’t seem to occur to Google’s engineers /s
- Comment on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working 7 months ago:
Can’t read the article behind the paywall, but let me guess: they are trying to solve a public health problem without a public health system and are failing miserably.
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 7 months ago:
Safari on iOS doesn’t support Opus which makes it a non starter for modern video call platforms.