Carighan's recent activity
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Comment on What AI tools are you actually using? in ~tech
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Comment on PVP in MMORPGs is dead (and here's why) in ~games
Carighan Link ParentHuh. This is surprisingly accurate. And also highlights how little content is actually in a 30 minutes video. 😅Huh. This is surprisingly accurate. And also highlights how little content is actually in a 30 minutes video. 😅
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Comment on You're wrong about Aptera's car. It's ridiculously efficient (and solar powered). in ~transport
Carighan Link ParentYeah but in Europe just recently a study on ~580 influences and youtubers ended, concluding that 96% are funded by corporate entities, 80% do not correctly declare this every time, and ... I...Yeah but in Europe just recently a study on ~580 influences and youtubers ended, concluding that 96% are funded by corporate entities, 80% do not correctly declare this every time, and ... I forgot the exact number, but it was still grotesquely high are explictly trying to obfuscate their sponsorship.
That is to say, if it's on Youtube or Tiktok, it is paid for by a company, by and large. And even if they explicitly stay otherwise, chances are solid it still is. People don't make these high-production videos for fun (or at least, not after a while). It's a business, not a passion.
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Comment on You're wrong about Aptera's car. It's ridiculously efficient (and solar powered). in ~transport
Carighan LinkPerson paid for video about solar electric car likes solar electric car! Shocking news at 11!Person paid for video about solar electric car likes solar electric car!
Shocking news at 11!
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Comment on It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles in ~games
Carighan Link ParentSame. If I need to aim, or accurately click on things quickly, I prefer KB+M. If I need to react quickly with imprecise movements like in reaction, rhythm or action games, a controller fares better.Same.
If I need to aim, or accurately click on things quickly, I prefer KB+M.
If I need to react quickly with imprecise movements like in reaction, rhythm or action games, a controller fares better.
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Comment on It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles in ~games
Carighan Link ParentPlus you could always argue that if the keyboard shortcuts were kept as-is, there's no downside to also adding an optional mouse interface. Of course, there's also no point as no VIM user would...Plus you could always argue that if the keyboard shortcuts were kept as-is, there's no downside to also adding an optional mouse interface. Of course, there's also no point as no VIM user would use a mouse and it incurs maintenance cost, but from a usability perspective it'd still be strictly superior.
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Comment on It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles in ~games
Carighan Link ParentNo they're not. VIM is sadness in character form that mocks text editors and all they are great for. Okay enough VIM rants. 😩 But really, the issue seems more in how the game hints at being...Are vim keybindings "not PC" as well?
No they're not. VIM is sadness in character form that mocks text editors and all they are great for.
Okay enough VIM rants. 😩
But really, the issue seems more in how the game hints at being mouse-interactive, but being exclusively keyboard-interactive. VIM never hides that, in fact it full-on forbids and removes all mouse interaction, so you'd never get the idea that you can click anything. It's very open in what it wants you to do, even if the keyboard interaction that follows is the most arcane and batshit crazy thing anyone on mushrooms has ever come up with.
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Comment on It annoys me that so many PC games feel like they're intended for consoles in ~games
Carighan Link ParentI don't think the issue is having a keyboard shortcut for it, it's the combination of: It being the exclusive interaction. The visuals suggesting it's a mouse interaction. There no being indicator...I don't think the issue is having a keyboard shortcut for it, it's the combination of:
- It being the exclusive interaction.
- The visuals suggesting it's a mouse interaction.
- There no being indicator what the keyboard interaction is, unlike PC games of old.
I can get behind that. Tiny changes can go a long way. Just put a little image of a keyboard key in front of the prompt popping up, and it the E-key. Done. Trivial to undersatand it now. Huge bonus points if you can alternatively click the popup, but eh, that's optional.
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Comment on Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentBut isn't half the argument that it is doing something illegal? That is, undermining the national security?Tiktok isn't doing anything illegal.
But isn't half the argument that it is doing something illegal? That is, undermining the national security?
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Comment on Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentNote: In plenty countries most of those are taxed, and sometimes pretty heavily. Scandinavian countries have a sugar/fat tax IIRC, as an example?Note: In plenty countries most of those are taxed, and sometimes pretty heavily. Scandinavian countries have a sugar/fat tax IIRC, as an example?
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Comment on Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentNothing about the platform supports this, however. That is to say, the same exposure could have developed the same way or even better on ~any other social network. The short-video format in...I've been able to find queer, indigenous and Black fantasy authors in particular this way.
Nothing about the platform supports this, however. That is to say, the same exposure could have developed the same way or even better on ~any other social network. The short-video format in particular has no material advantage to presenting books.
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Comment on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US in ~transport
Carighan Link ParentWhy is that concerning? Whistle blowers in companies that skirt safety regulations and endanger and kill people are usually at risk of suicide, or just general depression and hence lowered life...Honestly, the fact that the article doesn't mention the possibility of murder at all is itself a bit concerning. They say the injury was self-inflicted, but they don't mention what criteria were used to determine that.
Why is that concerning?
Whistle blowers in companies that skirt safety regulations and endanger and kill people are usually at risk of suicide, or just general depression and hence lowered life expectancy anyways.
Why? Because until you left and told everyone, you were part of the machine that got people killed. You might have personally worked on that shit in fact. And you might always hold it in front of yourself that if you had spoken up sooner, maybe, just maybe, people would not have died. Or in turn, you blow the whistle, nothing changes, and people still end up dead, so you end up even more depressed.
I find it highly concerning that your thoughts wander to murder conspiracies immediately instead of stuff like mental health support for people in such situations, or better support for whistleblowers in general. Because this is a not a Boing-murdering-one-ex-engineers-somehow-6-years-too-late specific thing. This is a general problem with people who had to work around or with systems that ended up endangering people due to company profit seeking policies.
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Comment on Can European carmakers stop China’s electric behemoth BYD? in ~transport
Carighan Link ParentPlus, due to the price difference it's not like BYD is taking customers away from the western electric car makers. The ionic 6 is effectively 60k in my country. Yeah good luck with that.Plus, due to the price difference it's not like BYD is taking customers away from the western electric car makers. The ionic 6 is effectively 60k in my country. Yeah good luck with that.
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Comment on Ben Shapiro's book is beyond disturbing - True Allegiance review in ~books
Carighan Link ParentTrue, but not surprising. Because that sentence holds true about Ben Shapiro. So by extension it automatically applies to anything he produces like this book.It's funny to make fun of but scary to see people take it seriously.
True, but not surprising. Because that sentence holds true about Ben Shapiro. So by extension it automatically applies to anything he produces like this book.
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Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentDon't you mean that they're CI, not AI? Or did the terminology change in the past 20 years much? Because that's how I originally learned it, we can - and could, for a long long time - do CI, but...Don't you mean that they're CI, not AI? Or did the terminology change in the past 20 years much? Because that's how I originally learned it, we can - and could, for a long long time - do CI, but we're struggling how to do even approach GI.
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Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentHrm, interesting. Might I ask which assistant and which language that is for? I tried both ChatGPT 3.5, 4 and IntelliJ's AI Assistant for Java. My results were: It's amazing for lookups of...Hrm, interesting. Might I ask which assistant and which language that is for?
I tried both ChatGPT 3.5, 4 and IntelliJ's AI Assistant for Java.
My results were:
- It's amazing for lookups of specific non-negotiable data. In particular ChatGPT can parse and return from javadoc or a manual page far faster than I could possibly find it.
- It's okay - in particular the latter - for menial code work. Quite good in fact. Only... that's doing stuff a single Lombok-annotation would or an Alt+Insert would also perform.
- It's absolutey rubbish for anything beyond that. It cannot add documentation that explains the how+why (only the what+how, which is not the point and in fact worsens code quality across a company over time), it absolutely cannot code, and when it pieces stuff together it only performs steps that perform superficial actions, meaning it can only do stuff that are inherently trivial to implement. See above again. It never once did something that went beyond that, sadly.
I was super disappointed by that use case in particular, especially with IntelliJ's assistant as that's hyper-specific to the Java/Kotlin use case. And yet all it did was convince me thoroughly that if I ever want to ditch Lombok fully, it has me covered.
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Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentYeah, these can be great for improving how we interpret "loose" search queries. But they should not recombine answers beyond links to the existing answers, basically. Or only in very tightly...Yeah, these can be great for improving how we interpret "loose" search queries. But they should not recombine answers beyond links to the existing answers, basically. Or only in very tightly controlled environments.
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Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech
Carighan Link ParentDo they? Remember what the media has successfully rebranded as "AI" is a stochastic parrot system. And just like humans just blabbering something they've picked up (without understanding any of...Do they? Remember what the media has successfully rebranded as "AI" is a stochastic parrot system.
And just like humans just blabbering something they've picked up (without understanding any of it), yeah sure it can fool people. Fake it till you make it is a thing for a reason.
But it's also not in any way revolutionary or even noteworthy. If anything LLMs are inferior at this because they do stochastic recombinations where none are necessary and just quoting a certain input source verbatim would fool the people asking much better as its wording is not as obviously hacked together and they couldn't tell that this is just stealing the words from someone else, anyways.
More importantly, LLMs are, as said above, just recombining things you put in. Think of a "traditional" chatbot, very old generation, that has a long long list of fixed responses to fixed questions. Now merely replace the fixed questions with a matcher that assigns percentages ("This seems to be like 60% about travel advise, 30% about booking and 10% about weather") and takes answers according to the percentages and hacksaws them together based on how existing texts it can access put words together.
It's a chinese room. It has no way to actually know the content of the questions or the replies its giving, it is just matching pieces of output to pieces of input of which it understands neither.How can it have responsibility then, if it does not understand its actions or their context? After all, that's why children have limited liability, as do those not of sound mind at the time of their actions. And LLMs are 100% never of sound mind in this context, and cannot change this. They play a 5000 pieces puzzle with all pieces turned facing down.
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Comment on Welcome to the Party, BizDevOps! an explainer. in ~comp
Carighan Link ParentI'll be honest, the specific wording of many passages (for example the sentences right after the headline about technical background requirements) sound very much like ChatGPT. This feels very...I'll be honest, the specific wording of many passages (for example the sentences right after the headline about technical background requirements) sound very much like ChatGPT. This feels very LLM-written.
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Comment on Most bingeable book series? in ~books
Carighan LinkA few come to mind: The Wayfarer books by Becky Chambers. 4 books of slice-of-life stories in a very evocative scifi setting where a lot of focus and worldbuilding is spent on the physical,...A few come to mind:
- The Wayfarer books by Becky Chambers. 4 books of slice-of-life stories in a very evocative scifi setting where a lot of focus and worldbuilding is spent on the physical, societal and mental differences between all the species interacting with one another and how they make it work (and sometimes not work). Due to the relatively low-stakes plot points, it's far more readable than many scifi books tend to be that always want to play around with epic battles and galaxy changing events.
Here, someone becomes an accountant on a ship that builds hyperspace gates for later travel use. Or gets used to acting human in an android body. Or works on a migrant fleet that longer has to migrate. - The 9 Temeraire books by Naomi Novik. Old timey English wars but dragonriders. But forget all about that, because ultimately it's just a lot of semi-slapstick as dragons give their perspective on the utterly insane (if we're being honest) practices of human society and existence. It's funny, it's very well-written and who can say no to dragons forming a union and demanding a payraise? I know I wouldn't!
- The by now quite lengthy October Daye series from Seanan McGuire. Very lightweight in writing, lots of really cool characters, plot points big but never too dense, it comes together as this really nice lightweight reading for just starting "one more". It's not quite my kind of setting, but I love so many of the characters that I still read every new book.
- The Wayfarer books by Becky Chambers. 4 books of slice-of-life stories in a very evocative scifi setting where a lot of focus and worldbuilding is spent on the physical, societal and mental differences between all the species interacting with one another and how they make it work (and sometimes not work). Due to the relatively low-stakes plot points, it's far more readable than many scifi books tend to be that always want to play around with epic battles and galaxy changing events.
I played around a little bit with Fooocus, a locally installed image generator.
It's neat for some concept stuff, but that's about where the functionality ends.
I tried:
And none of them did anything useful, they were all just toys. Neat toys, but that's it. Plus by now my company ended the trial period(s) and since we cannot guarantee safety of the data collected, everything is disabled.