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New comment by erfgh in "How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?"

erfgh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:52:33 +0000

If there are very few humans that can do this is because the market for such a task is very small and thus there is little incentive to learn how to do it or produce tools that can do it.

New comment by erfgh in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

erfgh — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:51:53 +0000

You better don't look into how banks created your savings by creating loans that were used to invest into companies and thus pay salaries.

New comment by erfgh in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

erfgh — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:30:36 +0000

Deciding not to have a child also impacts your future. You might change your mind in the future and be unable to have a child or have other health problems that make raising a child difficult. You might reach old(er) age and be alone. Regrets are a thing.

New comment by erfgh in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

erfgh — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:41:35 +0000

The problem is that AI writing uses a pretty distinctive style and when you read a whole newspaper that was written or edited by AI it is very monotonous. Also, I can't really trust it because I know that the author probably phoned in his fact-checking.

New comment by erfgh in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

erfgh — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:28:16 +0000

There's nothing you can really walk back from. Time flows one-way.

New comment by erfgh in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

erfgh — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:40:09 +0000

AI has killed reading-anything-written-after-AI for me. Due to this effect it is probably the worst invention in human history or pre-history.

New comment by erfgh in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

erfgh — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:06:07 +0000

What's wrong with making billions? Will this hurt the game somehow?

New comment by erfgh in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

erfgh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:03:57 +0000

> I think most people think of it as a free vacation.

It's not free if the company is paying for it.

New comment by erfgh in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

erfgh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:47:38 +0000

The whole article is AI slop.

New comment by erfgh in "Why current LLM costs are not sustainable"

erfgh — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:32:16 +0000

They are subsidized by the huge losses incurred by the AI companies.

New comment by erfgh in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

erfgh — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:11:23 +0000

For those that don't know, DDG already has an AI mode: duck.ai

New comment by erfgh in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

erfgh — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:59:27 +0000

The whole article feels like AI slop.

New comment by erfgh in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

erfgh — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:42:55 +0000

Where does this certainty that LLMs will get more intelligent stem from?

New comment by erfgh in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

erfgh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:43 +0000

Even if AI does automate some jobs (or even most of them) then people doing them will just do something else. It's not like the world has a limited demand of computer code.

New comment by erfgh in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

erfgh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:13:30 +0000

If the complexity of your mathematical problems was down to arithmetic then your problems were not at all complex.

New comment by erfgh in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

erfgh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:21:08 +0000

This is like asking "why having a car does not make you run faster".

New comment by erfgh in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

erfgh — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, AI have an enormous impact on the students. A slight school defunding (if it really exists, which I doubt) cannot compare.

New comment by erfgh in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

erfgh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I hate bombing as much as the next guy but areas close to military structures, especially to ones that have already been bombed during the last 24 hours, should have been evacuated.

New comment by erfgh in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

erfgh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:47:25 +0000

Countries that send their oil through the strait of Hormuz will build alternative routes. But for such routes to be ready a few years will be needed. Once alternative routes are in place, and since Iran will likely not have a nuclear weapon by then, full obliteration of Iran will ensue.

New comment by erfgh in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

erfgh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:36:14 +0000

There are books with written solutions.