JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@midwest.social
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 days ago:
because Microsoft created the new taskbar from the ground up and didn’t use the old code from Windows 10.
Which excuses nothing. You CHOSE to dump and rewrite existing, functional code, before its replacement was fully realized. You intentionally degraded your product, based on the calculation that the portion of users who don’t care would be far greater than the portion who do.
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to last week, Tim.
- Comment on How Lina Khan Is Busy Striving To Maximize Mamdani's Power 5 weeks ago:
Khan, who spearheaded some of the Biden administration’s worst efforts to disrupt free markets with heavy-handed government intervention, repeatedly tested the limits of FTC power, and attempted to do through an executive agency things that should have been left to Congress.
Loooooool. Democrats finally have someone willing to turn just a little bit of the Republicans’ own tactics against them, and they’re already whining about it. If Congress (state or federal) doesn’t like they laws she’s abusing, they can get off their asses and fucking DO something about it. See how well it goes over with New Yorkers when they lower prices for shit, and enforce consumer rights, and Congress tries to pass laws to undo it.
- Comment on Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor 5 months ago:
This appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.
No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.
This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 5 months ago:
Same concept as how Trump gave no written order for the Jan 6 mob to storm the capitol building, therefore he’s totally not responsible for it.