adamauckland (u/adamauckland)

adamauckland commented on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn

dylan604 · 23 days ago

Wouldn't it be more reasonable to just issue the fine to the owner of the car? The owner allowed the person to use their car and accepts that responsibility. If it was stolen, then just say so. Even in the case of fleets, someone is responsible for know who is operating the vehicle and when. The gov't shouldn't care about it any further than holding the owner responsible. If the owner doesn't want to rat out the actual driver, then the owner takes the hit on points/fines/whatever

adamauckland · 23 days ago

Speeding is a criminal offence, lying about who was driving is punishable by prison.

adamauckland commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

big-chungus4 · a month ago

what if you create something that sounds good with suno? Wouldn't you want to share it?

adamauckland · a month ago

"Share" is a big ask. Why should anyone be bothered to listen to something you couldn't even be bothered to write?

adamauckland commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

jamesrcole · a month ago

And if there are aliens? I'm being serious. Why does it have to be human intent?

And I think it is entirely feasible that at some point -- how far away, I don't know -- AI becomes superior to us in its appreciation of life and living.

adamauckland · a month ago

Art is all over the natural world, look at animals which build nests, arrange pebbles, choose shells etc.

adamauckland commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

renewiltord · 2 months ago

Okay so let’s divide the US federal budget by the number of people. So $21k per person. Now what happens to the guy who needs dialysis. It costs $60k. Right now the federal government pays. Now it’s given him a third the cost back. He just dies?

adamauckland · 2 months ago

He gets it on the healthcare like all developed nations.

adamauckland commented on How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012) jherrm.github.io/knobs/... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky

adamauckland · 4 months ago

There's a lot of people complaining "Why use knobs?" and a lot more people giving the reason "Because DAWs use them" without explaining why DAWs use them.

First, it's a visual representation of the value, and it's easier to map "Slightly more to the right" than "an extra 0.7"

More importantly, all DAWs can map physical control surfaces to the on-screen knobs, and control surfaces all use knobs and sliders.

For example https://mackie.com/en/products/mixers/onyx-series/Onyx16.htm...

or https://faderfox.de/pc12.html

adamauckland commented on AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix bloodinthemachine.com/p/a... · Posted by u/NoGravitas

martin-t · 4 months ago

Bad analogy.

In the past, workers complained that automation took away their jobs. The (roughly) same amount of wealth was created but the income went to fewer individuals (the owners).

This was a valid criticism but at least they could move onto other jobs.

AI, if successful, is different. Combined with robotics[0], it makes all jobs obsolete. Regardless if the amount of wealth created will be less, the same, or greater than before, the income will only go towards the owners and everyone else will become a beggar. That is the endgame.

If you believe the endgame is different, please game it out in your head and share what you think. Don't just reject this idea without thinking about it.

[0]: And even without robotics, true AI (AGI) would obliterate such a huge percentage of jobs it would create a shock and massive unemployment.

adamauckland · 4 months ago

Where's all this wealth going to come from if nobody has any jobs?

adamauckland commented on Poisoning the Day ashore.io/journal/crossov... · Posted by u/tollandlebas

dylan604 · a year ago

> You can wake up at noon and still do that.

That's not necessarily true. If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole. I find meetings early in the morning sadistic and way more draining than reading the news, but I'm not the type that gets emotional about the news while I will react negatively in an early meeting at the drop of a pin. It's not about needing coffee nor did I get up on the wrong side of the bed or whatever demeaning quip you want to offer. I'm not up to speed until later in the day, and forcing me to pretend I am is just rude. This is the biggest downside to WFH where everyone can live in whatever timezone so someone's afternoon meeting is my morning rather than just scheduling the meeting where everyone is on the same schedule. It's one of the few things about working in an office I can appreciate. Definitely not to be misread as a vote for RTO.

adamauckland · a year ago

If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.

adamauckland commented on People Are Sick and Tired of All Their Subscriptions wsj.com/articles/people-a... · Posted by u/zeroonetwothree

commandlinefan · a year ago

> pay a fair price based on usage

I think you're the only one who wants that, though. They've tried that again and again and nobody uses it.

Though I can't quite put my finger on why, psychologically, I'm so less willing to fork over $3.99 to Amazon to watch a movie when I was perfectly happy to fork over that same $3.99 to Blockbuster for a physical block of plastic that I had to bring back in the same state they gave it to me.

adamauckland · a year ago

While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of going to the store, browsing the titles, maybe discussing with your friends/family what you want to see, grab some popcorn, there's trailers on the TVs. It feels a lot more special than just scrolling through Netflix

adamauckland commented on How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan... · Posted by u/vijayr02

uwagar · 2 years ago

i cant find the link but maybe in the guardian, a similar scam regarding christmas fair / santa grotto was funny to read.

adamauckland · 2 years ago

Lapland new forest 2008? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396

adamauckland commented on Is something bugging you? antithesis.com/blog/is_so... · Posted by u/wwilson

benrutter · 2 years ago

This is a great pitch, and I don't want to come across as negative, but I feel like a statement like "we found all bugs" can only be true with a very narrow definition of bug.

The most pernicious, hard-to-find bugs that I've come across have all been around the business logic of an application, rather than it hitting into an error state. I'm thinking of the category where you have something like "a database is currently reporting a completed transaction against a customer, but no completed purchase item, how should it be displayed on the customer recent transactions page?". Implementing something where "a thing will appear and not crash" in those cases is one thing, but making sure that it actually makes sense as a choice given all the context of everyone elses choices everywhere else in the stack is a lot harder.

Or to take a database, something along the lines of "our query planner produces a really suboptimal plan in this edge-case".

Neither of those types of problems could ever be automatically detected, because they aren't issues of the programming reaching an error state- the issue is figuring out in the first place what "correct" actually is for you application.

Maybe I'm setting the bar too high for what a "bug" is, but I guess my point is, its one thing to fantasize about having zero bugs, its another to build software in the real world. I probably still settle for 0 run time errors though to be fair. . .

adamauckland · 2 years ago

I consider a "bug" to be "it was supposed to do something and failed".

Issues around business logic are not failures of the system, the system worked to spec, the spec was not comprehensive enough and now we iterate.