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- Comment on The Great AI Misdirection: "Regulation Can't Keep Up" 1 week ago:
It’s somewhat deeper than that: the ethos of “move fast/break things” came about during the explosion of tech startups in the last decade and a half or so, where being first to market was the pass/fail condition of getting any valuation whatsoever for your startup. It’s an approach that works for some domains (I would argue that those domains tend to be less technically interesting and rigorous, but I digress).
There were some organizations that pointedly too the opposite route, and operated much closer to “build it once and build it right” - to wit, the original iteration of WhatsApp (before it was subsumed and ruined by Meta) was built that way, and that’s specifically one of the reasons why it was so good for so long and gained such a massive userbase.
Anyways: applying “move fast/break things” and all of the idiotic, caustic “engineering leadership” koans that spring from that font of misprioritization and useless metrics is now and will continue to cause the art and serious practice of software engineering to get whittled away bit by bit. The only places where you CAN’T do that these days is in highly regulated contexts (aero/defense; biotech; medical; other similarly regulated fields), but even that is starting to crack.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s an… impressively small sales number.
- Comment on "It is frustrating to see policymakers suddenly claim everything is 'for our safety'" - Stop Killing Games joins pushback against age verification laws 1 week ago:
- Comment on DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says | Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine. 1 week ago:
I anticipate that ICEatzgruppen will just ignore this, like they have ignored countless other rulings.
- Comment on Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here. 1 week ago:
No :D
- Comment on Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums 1 week ago:
“Expert advice”
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You 3 weeks ago:
Suck my Huang, Huang.
- Comment on Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators 5 weeks ago:
I saw some fucking idiot with these on at a show a few months ago and I had to exert a lot of control not to yank them off her face and stomp on them.
Nobody wants to be recorded secretly. Especially not at a show. That’s a gross invasion of privacy - and, in fact, illegal in some jurisdictions (two-party consent laws for recordings).
- Comment on Meta Smart Glasses Can Now Track All the Food You Put Into Your Mouth 1 month ago:
I saw some fuckwit wearing Meta glasses at a show I went to a couple months ago, and I had to calm myself down and control the impulse to rip them off of the girl’s face and snap them in half. Seriously, anyone who buys or uses those fucking things is an abject idiot. Nobody is interested in being constantly surveilled, and that’s what you’re enabling if you use “smart glasses” sold by Meta.
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone 1 month ago:
I’m excited for them to lose money on it
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting support for 1,000 Hz+ monitors soon as part of Insider builds — Microsoft has reportedly increased the refresh rate limit to 5,000 Hz 2 months ago:
line go up
- Comment on Windows 11 is getting support for 1,000 Hz+ monitors soon as part of Insider builds — Microsoft has reportedly increased the refresh rate limit to 5,000 Hz 2 months ago:
What possible benefit does that have? It’s so far beyond the realm of human perception that it feels rather pointless.
- Comment on Europe is tech 'museum' and China ahead on AI, Ericsson CEO says 2 months 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 2 months ago:
AMD
- Comment on HW News - "Microslop" Censored, NVIDIA Unlaunches Drivers Again, RAM & SSD Prices Ruin Game Archive 2 months 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Glad I ditched them a few months ago :P
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 4 months ago:
lol no
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 4 months 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? 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 4 months ago:
conform
consume
obey
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
Is PragerU in on that action? Because they horrify me, and it’s also exactly what I’d expect them to do.
