Hacker News: gumballindie

New comment by gumballindie in "Tesla owner adds 4000 watt solar panel roof to his car after company wouldn't"

gumballindie — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:46:11 +0000

Instead of wasting time on failures such as self driving, Tesla could design car bodies made of solar cells. They may not be super efficient, but would add some extra power.

New comment by gumballindie in "The growing inequality of who gets to work from home"

gumballindie — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:30:23 +0000

Most people that want to work onsite are the people without an inner voice. They need someone to talk to compensate for it.

New comment by gumballindie in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:31:28 +0000

Exactly, and the higher the degree of influence the closer to theft. Ai cultists obsessed with stealing property somehow think that’s ok.

New comment by gumballindie in "Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:37:16 +0000

I would advise against using popular or well known protocols as those are prime targets. I’d use disguised protocols instead.

New comment by gumballindie in "Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:28:04 +0000

> the authentic entity will speak against it and the society will rectify

Society is already speaking against stolen content and fakes produced using it. How are we rectifying this?

New comment by gumballindie in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:45:58 +0000

This. Period.

New comment by gumballindie in "Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:19:11 +0000

Yeah it’s not even spam that concerns me, i can filter those websites out. Literarily searching for one term and getting results for a different term is what bothers me. Shows that there is a fundamental flaw lurking deep in there.

New comment by gumballindie in "Google to invest $1B in UK data centre"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:11:34 +0000

My apologies - it was a knee jerk reaction on my part. I am sorry.

New comment by gumballindie in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:06:48 +0000

This is excellent. We need more tools like this, for text content as well. For software we need GPL 4 with ML restrictions (make your model open source or not at all). Potentially even DRM for text.

New comment by gumballindie in "Google to invest $1B in UK data centre"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:41:25 +0000

Whoa. What’s so bad about “hiring people from there”? Now that east european skills have left it takes two to three locals to get the same job done, if they even figure out how. Have to bring people with expertise from somewhere. Only issue is that Indians are visa bound and underpaid, unlike east europeans that companies competed for and drove wages up - contrary to what the clay of the land thought.

New comment by gumballindie in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:45:53 +0000

I think spending hours calmly in front of a debugger is the reason programmers become angry at people.

Stress builds up and needs to be released somewhere.

What I learned over time is that it’s better to get angry at the debugger and be nice to people. Not a day goes by without cursing that hecking tool that does whatever the heck it wants again, but I smile at my neighbours and try to help whenever I can. I also use HN as a means to let some of my craziest thoughts run wild, so I wouldnt have to torment those around me with them.

Programmers are humans and humans rely on emotion. Got to control the flow and pressure somehow.

New comment by gumballindie in "Google to invest $1B in UK data centre"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:03:19 +0000

I am not the decision maker, unfortunately. The UK is on track to solving the cost of housing, by tanking the economy, but people still won't afford said housing since they won't afford the mortgages. Hope the NL finds a better way to solve its issues.

New comment by gumballindie in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:50:15 +0000

Stealing content is not the type of rule breaking that phreaking was about.

New comment by gumballindie in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:42:23 +0000

HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.

New comment by gumballindie in "Google to invest $1B in UK data centre"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:31:02 +0000

If you look into the job market a lot have moved to the Netherlands. The UK is gradually becoming irrelevant. A 1 bil $ investment is negligible in the grand scheme of things. If you spoke with people in finance then you’ll learn things are bad. Really bad.

New comment by gumballindie in "System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:28:27 +0000

Sounds like a nice place to work at.

> the fans are going 100% always

Can this not be configured via the bios? I imagine there should be a fan curve setting somewhere in there.

New comment by gumballindie in "Ask HN: Can the black border atop the HN mourning header link to who died?"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 02:44:29 +0000

And _that_ will replace software engineers?

New comment by gumballindie in "A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 02:26:43 +0000

Prior to Brexit the go to place for tech in Europe was London, UK. Likely Google would have expanded their offices there, and probably move them where everyone else is. From _the_ place to be London is now the place to avoid. 80% of the brightest people I know have left the UK. What we are left with is with those that need at least two more like them to get a job done.

New comment by gumballindie in "Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:58:35 +0000

And they will convert seats into toilettes. Still no legroom.

New comment by gumballindie in "Will Japan see more marriages with Tokyo's taxpayer-funded AI-driven dating app?"

gumballindie — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 01:57:14 +0000

> population decline is the lack of finances to marry and raise children

Sounds like Japan suffers from the same issues as the western world. Raising kids is extremely difficult when hosing is unaffordable and people are required to sit in offices.