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New comment by unfitted2545 in "Waymo in Dallas"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:40:24 +0000

If it was popular, it would remove cars from the road. Would that not decrease congestion for everyone?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:18:59 +0000

If would be interesting to see 5 billion LLM's working together, each with random mutations (temperature ig). Would we essentially be looking at a society through a petri dish? Ofc 5 billion is quite a lot of compute.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:01:14 +0000

Nationalised LLM? As long as the state doesn't decide what information the LLM shares (from an output and privacy perspective).

New comment by unfitted2545 in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:36:15 +0000

Passive measures should always be in place first (and often do enough), with active as the last resort.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Count Binface"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:37:07 +0000

I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:53:02 +0000

Cars aren't friendly to cities

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:09:50 +0000

Yeah, the internet was originally an extension of the real world, and it probably should have stayed that way.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

unfitted2545 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:07:22 +0000

It will be fun running into this scenario where it's run without democratic control, be proprietary and for profit.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:31:46 +0000

I think I've got this from growing up with a narcissist. Thoughts are constructed and seemingly endlessly whittled to try and create a sentence that can avoid getting belittled.

It's hard to talk in groups, because you have to have a sentence mentally critiqued by 3/4 people in turn, so the topic has usually changed before you can say your piece.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:46:23 +0000

How many chief constables aren't white? Cognitive dissonance isn't a fact

New comment by unfitted2545 in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:05:16 +0000

Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism touches on this concept, where there's a constantly shifting opposition to the market that itself becomes engulfed in its own market, to be advertised.

So for example all the productivity/digital detox channels and videos are themselves a consumer demand to be watched on YouTube, on phones. And now we have anti-AI products marking themselves higher for a feature that didn't previously exist. It's like the tree of capital gets split at every turn.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:49:54 +0000

Eggs are IaC.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:39:15 +0000

It's also crazy how slow countries have been to build solar panel roofs on car parks, this should have been done so long ago with the budget that car infrastructure gets.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:19:09 +0000

The reason it's trending right now is because it's a convenient price, simple to use and making people read more because of its size. If it helps people cut down on phone use then it's a good product.

The build quality could be better, but there doesn't exist a similar product with better build quality.

Can you build a DIY version that's significantly cheaper?

Well, this was my thinking for getting one, we shall see when it arrives :P

Edit: Also you can choose to install a nice open source community firmware

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:15:58 +0000

There's also the fact that using digital devices negatively affects our breathing a lot: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-s...

Considering how much we use them now it could change the default state significantly, and maybe we do have to consciously relearn the best way to breath.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:45:03 +0000

Wow. Tell that to the cobalt miners in the DRC.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:58:23 +0000

If we use world models to train AI systems, are we not essentially forcing something to live so it can gather data for us?

Yes, we haven't gone that far with creating consciousness yet, but there is gonna be a lot of money around neural computing devices for consumers in the coming decades, so that will speed up knowing what sense data you need for consciousness.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

unfitted2545 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:30:18 +0000

and gave a gold trophy to the current US president

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Life During Class Wartime"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:40:24 +0000

Being poor in a capitalist country is still slavery - you don't work, you don't eat (as well as have access to accomodation, healthcare, public transport).

New comment by unfitted2545 in "NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:51:47 +0000

OpenWRT One? Not sure about AP's though.