[-] riskable@programming.dev 99 points 6 months ago

I suspect that OpenAI is on a path to spend as much money on data centers and hardware as possible so they can go bankrupt and sell those assets to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

It's a scheme to filter billions and billions of dollars around the "AI everything" hype train directly into Microsoft's coffers.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 109 points 6 months ago

What's so special about same-sex marriages? I say expand it to include all marriages!

Let us not recognize the unions of conservatives. Clearly, any woman in such a relationship is being held in such a position against her will. Or she's mentally addled somehow and is being taken advantage of.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 96 points 8 months ago

The real problem here is that Xitter isn't supposed to be a porn site (even though it's hosted loads of porn since before Musk bought it). They basically deeply integrated a porn generator into their very publicly-accessible "short text posts" website. Anyone can ask it to generate porn inside of any post and it'll happily do so.

It's like showing up at Walmart and seeing everyone naked (and many fucking), all over the store. That's not why you're there (though: Why TF are you still using that shithole of a site‽).

The solution is simple: Everyone everywhere needs to classify Xitter as a porn site. It'll get blocked by businesses and schools and the world will be a better place.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 95 points 10 months ago

Remember: "Left wing nonprofits" are groups that do things like:

  • Free healthcare and food for the poor
  • Free rides for medical treatment, work, etc
  • Free legal services
  • Various forms of poverty relief
  • Environmental protection
  • Immigrant and refugee support
  • Labor rights
  • Criminal justice reform

But what about "right wing nonprofits"?

  • "Faith" initiatives
  • Religious education (only Christianity in the US)
  • Tax policy "research"
  • Second Amendment advocacy / violence enablement for ~~white people~~ everyone.
  • Law enforcement "support"
  • Anti-abortion
  • Anti-vaccination
  • Religious education
  • Government restriction/constriction (aka "limited government")
  • Various forms of groups that collect money but only actually provide "thoughts and prayers"
[-] riskable@programming.dev 102 points 2 years ago

It's probably termites! Their nests tend to grow a mold that causes allergic reactions in lots of people. Exactly the sort of thing that would make you itchy.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 107 points 2 years ago

By "criminals" he means his political enemies.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 95 points 2 years ago

What the insurance companies think of as "unnecessary care". Not what the doctors, nurses, or patients consider necessary.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 109 points 2 years ago

This is just the AI bias showing through: It's all that training.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 96 points 2 years ago

Gelsinger said the market will have less demand for dedicated graphics cards in the future.

No wonder Intel is in such rough shape! Gelsinger is an idiot.

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

The board needs to fire his ass ASAP and replace him with someone who has a grip on reality. Or at least someone who has a some imagination of how the future could be.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 98 points 2 years ago

The correct response is for thousands of people to respond on Xitter with, "And no one is even trying to assassinate Musk 🤔"

[-] riskable@programming.dev 101 points 2 years ago

The tower on the left is home to the Tea Wizard who uses parts of the lower floors for the nation's biscuit reserves. The one on the right is host to a princess that's been waiting for rescue by a prince for a very long time now.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Linux never ran on the Commodore 64 (1984). That was way before Linux was released by Linus Torvalds (1991).

I'd also like to point out that we do all rely on non-proprietary protocols. Examples you used today: TCP and HTTP.

If we didn't have free and open source protocols we'd all still be using Prodigy and AOL. "Smart" devices couldn't talk to each other, and the world of software would be 100-10,000x more expensive and we'd probably have about 1/1,000,000th of what we have available today.

Every little thing we rely on every day from computers to the Internet to cars to planes only works because they're not relying on exclusive, proprietary protocols. Weird shit like HDMI is the exception, not the rule.

History demonstrates that proprietary protocols and connectors like HDMI only stick around as long as they're convenient, easy, and cheap. As soon as they lose one of those properties a competitor will spring up and eventually it will replace the proprietary nonsense. It's only a matter of time. This news about HDMI being rejected is just another shove, moving the world away from that protocol.

There actually is a way for proprietary bullshit to persist even when it's the worst: When it's mandated by government.

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