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New comment by scubadude in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

scubadude — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

It's the eating your own dog food.

The Open AI guy said it's now better than doctors (he said it, not me lol). He's replaced his doctor, right?

New comment by scubadude in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

scubadude — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:22:31 +0000

What about when it just flat out lies to you, how do you sort the right info from the wrong?

> recipes when cooking

I used it for a recipe, gave it a brilliant and detailed prompt, it told me to put 10x a particular spice and it ruined the dish.

> seek medical advice and results interpretation for my family

good luck

> repair electrical equipment

what can go wrong, really

New comment by scubadude in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

scubadude — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:38:14 +0000

Then you're testing how good someone is at exams as much as anything

New comment by scubadude in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

scubadude — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:30:15 +0000

You can sponsor a promotion; sales on a bunch of games - but it's not "Brought to you by the cool refreshing taste of Pepsi" it's like "Berlin Game Developers".

New comment by scubadude in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

scubadude — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:54:01 +0000

GitHub lost me when Microsoft used my shitty code to train shitty AI without my permission.

New comment by scubadude in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

scubadude — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:40:36 +0000

Long time Linux user, but I got lazy into the Windows ecosystem for too many years. My son convinced me to move over and I haven't looked back. I haven't found a game that hasn't run, the worst I have to do is change Proton version. Ubuntu was good, but Nobara is amazing (ndivia 5000 series drivers out of the box).

New comment by scubadude in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

scubadude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:38:02 +0000

Modern street lighting provides a way clearer view of the scene imo than the old sodium lighting. Maybe it's just brighter now.

New comment by scubadude in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

scubadude — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:51:48 +0000

A 29 minute 5K is not trivial

New comment by scubadude in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

scubadude — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:13:34 +0000

> high quality medical advice

I'll replace my doctor with AI immediately after the tech bros do

lol

New comment by scubadude in "Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom"

scubadude — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:30:26 +0000

Don't buy the shit. You don't need a smart doorbell or robot vacuum at a minimum.

New comment by scubadude in "MacBook Neo"

scubadude — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:39:44 +0000

It just means the phone is massively overpowered :)

New comment by scubadude in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

scubadude — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:32:16 +0000

I had wondered about the same for nicotine, being a neurostimulant.

New comment by scubadude in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

scubadude — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:31:26 +0000

> instead of feeling animated, these people feel drowsy, and they say that coffee makes them sleep

Sounds like ADHD to me

New comment by scubadude in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

scubadude — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:39:24 +0000

It's flipped, so you now get a little petrol 4 stroke engine powering the game console in your electric car.

New comment by scubadude in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

scubadude — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:39:02 +0000

>Why is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway?

Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load. Compared to managing a VM, system and application packages, config, backups and then how do you scale that?

I have what is basically a demo running on Vercel free tier, there's no way I'm maintaining a VM for that lol.

If I had a serious site, same. If I had a team, then the equation would be different.

New comment by scubadude in "Feds maintain 3.5 – 3.75% rate"

scubadude — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:15:49 +0000

Why? Not everything is pure mathematics.

New comment by scubadude in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

scubadude — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:16:52 +0000

> I really don’t get the sense of urgency

Mind-boggling amount of investment needing a return or the promise of a return

New comment by scubadude in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

scubadude — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:48:41 +0000

Linux is insanely easy to use these days. So mature. Even for gaming, I haven't encountered a single game that hasn't run, and most of the time I don't even have to think of setting any compatibility stuff like wine version, it just runs like it was native.

New comment by scubadude in "Is Gen X the Greatest Generation?"

scubadude — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:11:15 +0000

Everyone thought boomers were bad. Gen Xers, tech bros: hold my beer

New comment by scubadude in "We're learning more about what Vitamin D does"

scubadude — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:24:17 +0000

We only need a few minutes sun exposure in the Australian sun at a UV Index of 14 for vitamin D. 20 minutes to start burning. Maybe there's a happy medium between a bit of sun exposure and no sun exposure.