Coding Fiend

@justinAB_SF of course, the reason productions have left LA is that it's too expensive But the mayor can make it a lot less expensive by making it super easy to get a permit where you just do it on the Internet and you pay some very small fee

I’m sorry if you live in LA and you think the primary driver of tv and movie productions leaving the city has to do with public safety and homelessness you’re a fucking idiot. Nithya was right to mock Spencer for his bs rhetoric

@Love2Code The enthusiasm and unwarranted confidence that low parameter models carry for their bogus answers, put them into the negative utility zone

Trying out Qwen 3.5 0.8B to see what it's capable of. Has anyone found viable uses for tiny LLMs with ~1B parameters or less?

@hasen_95dx @clashreport the japanese have yet to apologize for their atrocities in China in the 1940's Japan and Usa patched things up pretty well, considering the animosity that existed during World War II Each generation can start afresh

@clashreport Are the animosities between Japan and China legit or are they all sawn by western powers? I don't understand why Japan and China cannot be allies, politically and militarily even. They are already intertwined culturally and economically.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi: Japan's defense policy and defense buildups are not based on the idea of identifying any specific country or region as a threat or having a military confrontation with it. That said, China continues to increase its defense spending at a high level and is rapidly expanding its military capabilities across a wide range of areas without sufficient transparency. China's external approach and military activities are matters of serious concern for Japan and the international community. Japan believes it is essential to have persistent candid dialogue and communication without turning our eyes away from concrete and difficult issues precisely because challenges exist. Japan's door is always open.

@patrickbetdavid money raised for a presidential library is probably a good measure of how corrupt an administration was clearly obama admin passed out massive favors to various people and companies

Strange numbers. Here's how much Pres. Biden's presidential library has raised compared to previous 6 Presidents: Biden: ONLY $4m (goal was $200m to $300m) Obama: $1.5B to $1.6B George W. Bush: $500m + Clinton: $165m George H.W. Bush: $43m Reagan: $57-$60m Carter: $26m (In 1981) How does the most popular president of all with 81m+ votes in 2024 only get $4m from his supporter to build his library? Makes you wonder.

@KandorianCandor i am very familiar with pre Marvel DC comics as i read them when they were 12 cents at the drug store spinner rack can't relate to an angst ridden depressive alcoholic Supergirl engaged in bar fights on asteroids but hopefully she won't be too trashed

@CodingFiend Now you're shifting gears and moving goalposts. You make a claim about a film you haven't seen and its director when when you don't even know who that director is. I highly doubt you are all that familiar with the character's actual comics source material, either.

supergirl is portrayed by a dissipated crude director as a dissipated crude character this is a giant mistake the lovely helen slater was closer to the original comic version not honoring source material is highly risky Gunn has a very limited range as a director

if the dinosaurs could vote, 100% would vote for the Vera Rubin / Simonyi asteroid tracking project, which is the beginning of a planetary defense preventative measure if you can see the big rocks with enough advance notice as a small bump is all it takes to deflect them

@KandorianCandor @CultureCrave DC was always a goody two shoes obnoxiously wholesome comic company, they didn't get it to quality level (outside of Batman) until Marvel kicked their ass DC as a movie studio is not in good hands

@KandorianCandor @CultureCrave these modern comics are depraved

New look at Milly Alcock as #Supergirl

@KandorianCandor he picked the staff, he is running DC and has full control Gunn was great for Guardians, but his taste is what matters and he won't rescue DC

@CodingFiend You know nothing about the film you're discussing. James Gunn isn't the director of Supergirl, nor did he write the screenplay. That would be Craig Gillespie and Ana Nogueira, respectively.

@hasen_95dx Nintendo is firing on all cylinders, one victory after the next, yet their stock is way down market only rewards hype and absurd projections what company on earth has good growth, no debt, tons of cash, and per employee rev above 1 million? irrational stock market

Switch 2 is kind of magical in a way similar to how Mac is magical. It works out of the box. There is a high quality bar. You do not feel the kind of frustration you might feel with other systems. The device is small and portable. Though I don't have a PS5 to compare against, but I'm imagening the Steam Dock. I am sure valve spent a lot of effort making the experience good, but is it going to be as perfectly seamless as the case is with the Switch? I don't know. Again I haven't tried it, but the mere fact that it's a Linux machine and you are trying to run Windows games on it tells me you are likely to hit rough corners here and there all the time.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @hasen_95dx I find these types of puzzles to be very annoying and not a good indicator of intelligence Math pattern sequences are quite arbitrary, and I don't like questions that have multiple valid answers It punishes people who find other patterns prefer single correct answer questions

This is why IQ tests don't work too well on really smart people. Because sorta smart people tend to give the expected answer. And really smart people tend to point out that the question is wrong, and start arguing with the test, or trying to correct it, thereby making the test impossible to grade and annoying everyone. The expected answer to this is 72. Because 2*2*2 = 8 and 5*5*2 = 50, so 6*6*2 = 72. But the (really) correct answer is "I don't know." Because what you have is two points on a 3 dimensional graph (x,y) -> z. z = 2*x*y is one surface that can be drawn through these two points. And I suspect it's the simplest formula for a surface that can be so drawn, although I haven't bothered to check. But an infinite number of contiguous surfaces can be drawn in three dimensions that encompass these points (2,2,8) and (5,5,50). Each of these surfaces can be described by its own formula. Some of them will also touch (6,6,72). But others of them will touch (6,6, {something else entirely}) instead. This might sound really, really pedantic. But it's not. Everyone knows that the expected answer is the simple one, but that's only on a test... a fake artificial made up problem. When we start trying to do this in the real world, which, after all is what this "IQ" thing is actually for, then using the same kind of "IQ test thinking" can get you in trouble. "My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10." -@pronounced_kyle Fitting the simplest-formula curve, as opposed to the correct curve, makes our predictions of real-world stuff dead wrong. So this kind of test question promotes a dangerous habit of thought. But, Devon, I hear some of you ask, doesn't the principle of Occam's Razor demand that we fit the simplest curve? No. No, it does not. It does not require that we select the simplest possible answer, given what we have currently seen. It requires that we prefer hypotheses that make fewer assumption to those that make more. These are two different things entirely. If I see one black sheep, the simplest hypothesis is that all sheep are black. The hypothesis requiring the fewest assumptions is that at least one sheep is black on at least one side. You will note which of these is correct. All of this is, of course, irrelevant to questions on IQ test. But questions on an IQ test only matter as much as they are relevant to the actual universe... Where ideas like this are very relevant indeed.

@simonmaechling a New Zealand Database administrator leaked their health records, anonymized, they threw the Database administrator in jail and he's on trial for a very long sentence, even though no personal identifiable data was compromised Health officials conceal the data, suppress analysis

@simonmaechling Science did stop advancing They don't follow scientific principles They've never done a double blind placebo study of vaccines for safety So how would anyone know except statistically about vaccines and autism? They made it into a religion and refuse to do the experiments

1990s scientists: We cloned sheep. We landed robots on Mars. Scientists today: For the thousandth time: The Earth is round. Vaccines don’t cause autism. The joke isn’t that science stopped advancing. It’s that society started believing propaganda bots on X.

@ronrule College is a lot about socialization, and many people build networks of friends that are instrumental in their startup and business relationships later AI is going to destroy jobs so much faster than anyone realizes, and the number of millionaires is gonna go down

I’m going to say something controversial… A college education is no longer worth the time or cost. AI is going to make more millionaires in the next five years than we’ve ever had in human history. The only question is whether or not you’re going to be one of them. If you’re about to finish high school, your time would honestly be better spent taking free Claude courses on Skilljar than spending one second inside the walls of a University. It’s one thing if you plan on becoming a Doctor or going into another regulated/gatekept field, but outside of that, the only thing you’re going to get out of college is a lot of debt and an employee discount at Starbucks. I’m saying this because I see a pattern forming. It reminds me of the tech boom of the late 90’s, but for everything. Back then, tech certifications like A+, MCSE, Cisco CCNA, and other vendor certifications held WAY more value than a Computer Science degree. The tech was changing so rapidly that by the time the guys who went for a CS degree got out, they were four years behind. Meanwhile those of us who went the certification route, or just KNEW the tech, had already scooped up all the good jobs and formed defined career paths. This is going to happen again, but for ALL sectors. The guy who can build AI automation flows will have endless opportunities. Employers will be hiring fewer and fewer people with degrees, and more AI experts to REPLACE the people with degrees they already have. It won’t be because of greed or profits. It will be for survival. AI is an equalizer. It levels the playing field between an established business with thousands of employees and a startup competitor with 1-10. Companies with massive overhead and personnel are going to be competing against new companies with NONE of their costs. This has happened before. Many of you witnessed it first hand. Retailers that had been solid for 50+ years and didn’t embrace ecommerce fast enough didn’t survive. They lost too much market share to online sellers who had none of their operational overhead. AI brings that to every industry. Their choice will be to embrace AI and survive, or die. In order to survive, they’re going to be hiring AI and automation experts. Lots of them. You need to be one of those guys. Because nobody is going to give a shit about your degree. And the best part is if you become one of those guys, and STILL can’t find a job, you’ll have the expertise needed to become the competitor they fear. There is literally no risk or downside to learning this. It’s all upside. There is MASSIVE risk to betting on college.

@Kekius_Sage The age of the universe is a very soft number I have seen it increase a few times in my lifetime each new larger telescope will push that age up and up eventually they'll think it's 1000 billion years And eventually, they'll realize it's infinite

We can see 46 billion light years in every direction. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Light has not had enough time to travel that far. Something out there is moving away from us faster than light itself, and physics says that’s allowed. I still don’t fully understand why.

@bendee983 leak code is like judging a writer based on their ability to do crossword puzzles there are plenty of people who are great writers who can solve a crossword Leetcode is a giant waste of time

I've seen LeetCode experts who are trash engineers. I've seen great engineers who haven't solved a single LeetCode problem in their lives. LeetCode is like AI benchmarks. They are directionally correct but not a definitive indicator of skill.

@schteppe thankfully, nobody is building this because the world does not need anything that supports C++ C++ is an abomination and should never be used or imitated

- fast like C - memory safe like Rust - fast compilation like Go - 1st class C++ support like Swift Who’s building this?

@Justin_Poore The Luce is a very competent electric car I often hate Ives' interfaces, but in this particular case he stayed tactile and left in enough buttons to be satisfying And the buttons are fantastic in terms of their feel Unfortunately, aerodynamics makes all the cars look the same

As someone who got to drive and see the Ferrari LUCE up close, controversial opinion... we need more companies to take a risk like this We should want big swings from industry leaders and encourage them to innovate New video with the LUCE + Jony Ive: youtu.be/K-o0r2zSgCE?si…