gravitas_deficiency
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- Comment on Europe is tech 'museum' and China ahead on AI, Ericsson CEO says 4 days ago:
Uh… if you use mobile data more than a little bit, 5G is WAY faster.
- Comment on HW News - "Microslop" Censored, NVIDIA Unlaunches Drivers Again, RAM & SSD Prices Ruin Game Archive 5 days ago:
AMD
- Comment on HW News - "Microslop" Censored, NVIDIA Unlaunches Drivers Again, RAM & SSD Prices Ruin Game Archive 5 days ago:
Honestly, between this vibe-coded driver hilarity and the maturation of Linux gaming support, I think I picked a great moment to shift over to team red for graphics.
- Comment on Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage 6 days ago:
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 1 week ago:
Lmfao we’ve gone from the entropy wall to stochastically-generated passphrases. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 1 month ago:
Glad I ditched them a few months ago :P
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 1 month ago:
lol no
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 month ago:
It’s two things:
- a machine that has NN-optimized segments on the CPU, or a discrete NPU
- microslop’s idiotic marketing and branding around trying to get everyone to use Copilot
- Comment on Do Large Language Models Know What They Are Capable Of? 2 months ago:
No they do not. They are not algorithmically capable of novel thought or insight.
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 2 months ago:
No, it’s a figment of your imagination
- Comment on Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 2 months ago:
I mean, if I was a policymaker in the EU:
- do our absolute goddamn best to SIGNIFICANTLY strengthen ties with India, Japan, SK, and other major friendly-ish players in APAC. Ultimate goal: mutual defense pacts + strategic defense partnerships
- have Very Serious Strategic Talks with SK; tell them to stop taking orders, or at least gouge the fuck out of, US companies, in exchange for becoming a core partner in the build out of the EU military expansion (see: Poland; ctrl+c, ctrl+v across Europe)
- nut up and seriously support Ukraine - potentially just completely taking over strategic air defense from, let’s say, 100km from the front lines, freeing up the UAF to focus on offensive efforts
- have Very Serious Strategic Talks with Taiwan; in concert with points one and three (which seriously increase credibility), do their best to become their defense guarantor, as the carrot; threaten to 100% cut them off from ASML if they dig in their heels, as the stick. Note: ASML are the only guys who make the EUV litho machines that are required for bleeding edge chips.
- get EU countries to start seriously building out advanced chip fabs to compete with TSMC as an emergency industrial program
That’s a strategy that I think would help age EU and its strategic partners in Asia effectively become a meaningful superpower.
- Comment on Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice 2 months ago:
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 months ago:
conform
consume
obey
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 months ago:
I, for one, will be charging absolutely murderous contracting rates to un-fuck the codebases of companies that were idiotic enough to force their engineers to vibe-code everything, and I’m gonna do it with a smile on my face :)
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 2 months ago:
It’s even funnier, because copilot is absolute garbage in comparison to a lot of other models. And this is coming from someone who strongly dislikes LLMs in general. There’s bad, and there’s copilot.
As far as I can tell, it’s primary competency is getting C-suite types to sign off on one form of AI integration or another - be it product integration, or “everyday AI” workspace initiatives. Our execs bought into it, and have this huge push to train everyone up on it. And the more technical staff have universally panned it, to the extent that some people gave Claude a test drive, and made a successful internal push to get it approved as a second model/system were allowed to work with. I still don’t like agentic editing much at all, but it at least kinda works when compared to copilot.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 2 months ago:
The funny/horrible part is that his solution will probably make the problem even worse
- Comment on AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms 2 months ago:
Vibe coding as a practice needs to be burned at the stake. It’s actively terrible, in a lot of ways - some subtle, some obvious.
ML can and does do some incredible things. LLMs are not in that category.
Also, vid/imagegen needs to die in a fire, because holy fuck is it caustic to society at an insanely broad level.
- Comment on YouTubers Are Making AI Slop for Babies 2 months ago:
Is PragerU in on that action? Because they horrify me, and it’s also exactly what I’d expect them to do.
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 2 months ago:
Causation*
but yes
- Comment on Maximum-severity vulnerability threatens 6% of all websites 2 months ago:
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 3 months ago:
CEOs? Being held accountable?
That’s a great joke.
- Comment on Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher rules against antisemitism 3 months ago:
raising hopes
AIPAC’s hopes? I’m confused.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 3 months ago:
That is… so bad, in so many subtle ways.
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 3 months ago:
Lmfao Elon is so embarrassingly, cringingely thirsty. It’s insane.
- Comment on 'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC 3 months ago:
Yeah, WSB was wild in its heyday. The loss porn was crazy.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 3 months ago:
Fair point - throw it on the tech debt pile, we’ll get to it
at some pointnever - Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 3 months ago:
They will care a lot more when all the new engineers they try to hire end up falling prey to the LLM ouroboros
- Comment on [Opinion] Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world 4 months ago:
Holy fuck. Going from chief architect of the 486, to Intel CTO, to eventually Intel’s CEO, to running Intel into the ground, to… Jesus-y LLMs. What a rollercoaster.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 4 months ago:
lol holy shit Nadella is such a fucking tool
- Comment on Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work – and what Russia’s claimed test means for global strategic stability 4 months ago:
Haha yeah I remember reading about when the US thought about doing this in the Cold War (it was called Project Pluto) and decided to not because it would irradiate the absolute fuck out of anything it flew over
