Insane stuff.

Hopefully, those are the sorts of companies that should fail or get sued, so they learn their lesson. Not holding my breath though.

Companies have been doing insane shit for the sake of saving a buck or getting to market fast for decades, it’s nothing new. AI may or may not just make it worse.

In my experience, AI is an amplifier.

Good engineers will produce more good code, because they ask the right questions, know what good looks like and check the output.

Bad engineers will produce reams more bad code. The mistakes they make will be amplified. They will give wrong and incomplete instructions, won’t see what the problems are with the result and will ship it anyway.

This amplification also means people will spend a larger proportion of time reviewing than coding, which I think is less interesting.

All of this is stuff that can, to some extent, be addressed with policy. You help and instruct juniors, encourage people to better understand and own their code, or at worst reprimand them if they don’t.

You can adjust expectations of product managers and explain to them that more is not better, as it always has been. Faster development can often come with bugs and tech debt and this is more of the same.

All I’ve said above is puts aside the ethical arguments of using or not using AI of course. That’s a separate can of worms entirely.

Funny… but please don’t do this.

I’m sorry, but it’s not my job to clean up a billionaire’s rotting platform.

X and Facebook profit from petty conflict, spread misinformation for clicks and their leaders are horrible people. Those platforms can die for all I care. The less people are on there the better.

If people want to talk to me, they can and do contact me directly.

I think I’ll pass. Left Facebook over 5 years ago and I haven’t used it in 10.

Another minor point of contention: Lamborghini’s are at best 4-5 times faster than a shitbox car. A single-billionaire earns 20 000 times more than the average person. The scales are all out of wack.

A closer comparison would be the difference between a private jet and a person walking. Even that would only be a 200x difference. A snail and private jet is much closer to that 20 000x difference.

It’s so absurd a difference in scale that the comparison is hard for people to imagine.

A world where the difference between the average person and the richest people is only as large as a shitbox and a Lamborghini’s speed would be actually be a pretty palatable society to live in.

Presumably this is satire, as these are clearly not equivalent statements.

We don’t share limited horsepower, but we do share limited wealth, and it can be redistributed.

This anaology also implies there is an essentialism to people’s financial situations. That rich and poor people are inherently different. In reality rich people have been allowed to be rich by current societal structures.

Looks like I have over-analyzed the meme. If you are a troll, you’ve got me.

It’s pretty complex for someone who knows no Arabic but I learnt a few things about Arabic script. Very cool!

Which episode is this? I’ve only gotten to Season 3 so I’ve not seen this scene yet (assuming it’s real)

I mean, there’s nothing stopping you, but it’s a bad idea. You can also call your website aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com. Good luck trying to type that out as an end user.

Still, I like that going to the website mentioned by the article, http://a-------------------------------------------------------------a.com/ , gives you a page trying to sell it to you in the most ironic way.

I’m guessing it’s not intentionally silly.

I think Labour were left wing before, but they were compromised by right-wingers and now they are about as right wing as our right wing mainstream party, the conservatives.

Pro-Israel, arresting activists, cutting welfare and disability benefits. I like to call them Forced Labour.

Google actually already has a system to automatically detect and filter incoming nude pictures. It allows apps to blur then and you can then opt to view them. It’s a separate application and uses locally running machine learning.

I can’t remember the name of it and if it’s just on Pixels, nor what applications it works with. Might just be for their own messaging apps or it might be more deeply integrated. If anyone is curious I’ll try to look it up after work.

The point is they already have something similar to this they could maybe leverage.

24 MHz Arm Cortex M0+ processor. The chip also carried 24KB of flash storage and 3KB of static RAM.

… a 10y old phone can barely load Google, and this is about 100x slower.

Wild that you can serve anything with that hardware. Granted, static websites are basically just sending files over the wire.

I’ve just discovered another use for grain synthesis:

Adding grain using to DVD movies with badly compressed grain.

I just bought Breakfast at Tiffany’s on DVD and despite it being a 60s movie that should have had clean grain, it has very little and what is there looks bad because of mediocre DVD compression. You end up with some minor but distracting compression artifacts and static grain. By adding a little grain synthesis, you end up with an appearance that strangely seems more authentic and hides compression artifacts.

Here are the results. I’ve added clips wit 0-36 strength grain synthesis strength, and I personally think 24 looks pretty good.

That’s reasonable. I know a lot of people don’t like it. In my case it’s as much about loosing quality when trying to denoise as it is a case of preserving the visual style.

For whatever reason my local library only stocks books. I tried donating some movies and they said they don’t take them. Weird.

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. Would you like to elaborate?

Speaking of, I spotted this on the Steam Store today.