Hacker News: Torifyme12

New comment by Torifyme12 in "OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:32:27 +0000

Yudkowsky

Man how the fuck does that guy keep popping up in the most random places starting fights?

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:34:05 +0000

I mean, look at GRSec, if they can get away with it, anyone can.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:55:35 +0000

I mean... what tech do people interact with most? Consumer fucking tech.

Someone said it better below

"You know why people hate the tech industry? Because they've wedged themselves into everything, and made it suck more, in pursuit of glorious advertising profits."

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:52:22 +0000

Right, but "It happened before us" isn't a valid defense if we keep enabling it. JFC.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:23:16 +0000

We've enabled authoritarian beliefs, fostered genocide, damaged the social fabric and that's just Facebook.

We've actively made the world worse.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment"

Torifyme12 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:22:14 +0000

I mean, it's not like the last 10 years (2013+) have been a string of unwavering wins for the tech industry as a whole.

Facebook alone will damn us all.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

Torifyme12 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:18:39 +0000

Sounds like a shit EDR that's constantly scanning every file

New comment by Torifyme12 in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

Torifyme12 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:18:08 +0000

Your infosec department doesn't know how to stage patches then and should be ashamed.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "The Story of Mel (1983)"

Torifyme12 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:16:34 +0000

The developer time is saved by not writing multiple apps, fuck the end user, who cares about their time?

Seriously, I have to really think about when was the last time there wasn't some degree of unnecessary friction in an application. It really feels like being an end user of modern tech is like being in an abusive relationship.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones"

Torifyme12 — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:28:50 +0000

Scott McCloud of Zot fame was an early adopter of the web, I attended a talk from him where he was talking about how frustrated he was that the 3 panel format had persisted to the web, when there were so many ways to use space creatively.

He later adapted that talk for his "understanding comics" Ted talk. Worth a watch if you love the medium

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling"

Torifyme12 — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:10:55 +0000

And Cook mocked the US because we didn't have the right tooling to make screws for his Mac pro, he went all over the news and kept spewing how bad our industrial sector was.

One of the tooling engineers that had previously worked with Apple before they were offshored said, "Well, we couldn't wait around for him to come back to us, we have to eat too so we switched to making different things. He's welcome to invest in our production and we'll make whatever he wants"

Cook loves helping out China, not sure why. /s

New comment by Torifyme12 in "New in Calibre 6.0"

Torifyme12 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:30:42 +0000

You go write your scripts, maintain them, etc since you feel that's a superior option

We'll keep using Calibre

New comment by Torifyme12 in "New in Calibre 6.0"

Torifyme12 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:29:41 +0000

Oh come on, that was one incident and he did fix the main issue. For a dude who does this in his spare time, he deserves a lot of credit.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "MasterCard suspends all services in Russia"

Torifyme12 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:53:00 +0000

If Russia cuts the undersea cables that's going to be even worse for them.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam"

Torifyme12 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:44:28 +0000

For all that the Linux community tried, and god did we try, we didn't make real gaming on Linux progress until Valve started throwing developers are the projects. You can easily attribute real gaming (I love free civ as much as the next person, but it's not the same) coming to Linux Desktops.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world"

Torifyme12 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:34:46 +0000

USB C is a case study in "There's no way that can be according to spec" and being disappointed every single time

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Imagine if a lemon law penalized schools for rotten educations"

Torifyme12 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 01:22:41 +0000

Poor instruction comes in many forms. To give you an example, my brother was hated by a 3rd grade teacher. She would be just a bit harsher with him. Objectively she wasn't teaching him that 1+1 = 5 or something like that, but she was definitely destroying his motivation for school.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Finnish diplomats have been targets of cyber espionage by Pegasus spyware"

Torifyme12 — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:05:58 +0000

NSO is really working to make sure they have no advocates left aren't they.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "US Special Operations Command picks Anduril to lead counter-drone in $1B deal"

Torifyme12 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:55:07 +0000

Yeah, that's just what we need, Tech company's approach to defense.

"Hey the missile doesn't work in v1, but we still shipped it"

"Sorry, we just didn't see enough users of this product, so we remotely bricked it."

"We didn't QA this properly and now people are dead."

Move fast and break things is supposed to apply to the missile, not the process to write the guidance system.

New comment by Torifyme12 in "Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant"

Torifyme12 — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:52:34 +0000

Also for managing to be so dependent on Russian gas it torpedoes a lot of measures to contain them