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cookiemonsieur commented on Ask HN: Using AI daily but not seeing productivity gains – is it just me?    · Posted by u/grandimam
d00mB0t · 2 months ago
I think of AI as a better version of Google. There's a lot of Hype around AI and productivity, I don't think it will make anyone a 10x programmer.
cookiemonsieur · 2 months ago
Exactly, for me it's just a glorified stack overflow.
cookiemonsieur commented on Ask HN: What newspaper are you paying for these days?    · Posted by u/mynti
incomingpain · 2 months ago
About a year ago I still had a few newspapers that I trusted. Reuters, National Post, CTV, financial times, etc.

Today, each one of those have fell. They each provided examples of bias exceeding my threshold. There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

I trust none of them anymore. Journalism has fallen to their own BS.

cookiemonsieur · 2 months ago
> There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

The timeline seems to be coinciding with a certain event that happened in 2023

cookiemonsieur commented on Ask HN: What newspaper are you paying for these days?    · Posted by u/mynti
faebi · 2 months ago
None. I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable. Too little neutral reporting and way too much subtle opinion making on the current thing.
cookiemonsieur · 2 months ago
> I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable

Except when it comes to current geopolitics that is, now we're talking delusionally right wing bias. wink wink

cookiemonsieur commented on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/DavideNL
Lio · 3 months ago
Don’t be silly.

The UK may not be perfect but no one’s going to complain if you compare the Prime Minister or the King to a cartoon bear.

Or you talk openly about a government fuck up. Or about one part of the country maybe deciding to become independent.

You just can’t shout fire in a crowded cinema and you can’t say “let’s all meet at the local hotel at 3.30 and burn the immigrants to death” during a riot.

I’m ok with that.

cookiemonsieur · 3 months ago
> The UK may not be perfect but no one’s going to complain if you compare the Prime Minister or the King to a cartoon bear.

But if you compare Zionism to another eerily similar 20th century europe ism, a lot of people will, indeed, complain.

cookiemonsieur commented on Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?    · Posted by u/VladVladikoff
Jensson · 3 months ago
> It's still quite the echo chamber.

We have people from every political spectrum here and they don't get banned, how can it be an echo chamber?

We have communists, free market absolutists and so on all arguing in the same comment section. I don't think I have seen any thread with many comments where both (or more) sides weren't represented.

cookiemonsieur · 3 months ago
> We have people from every political spectrum here and they don't get banned, how can it be an echo chamber?

I mean sure, they may not get banned, but start voicing an opinion that it even moderately against the status quo and you get downvoted to oblivion.

cookiemonsieur commented on DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/blumpy22
zeroq · 3 months ago
I'll put my tinfoil hat on and say it plays to the current US vs China "propaganda" tune, that US is winning on all fronts, but the ice thin and have to support local tech behemoths to full extent to secure our position in this world defining struggle.
cookiemonsieur · 3 months ago
It's not US vs China. It increasingly looks like China VS a conglomerate of multi national companies with foreign born billionaire CEOs whose HQs happen to be located in the USA.
cookiemonsieur commented on DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/blumpy22
yard2010 · 3 months ago
Why don't you ask (it about) the kids at timn square, was fashion the reason, why were they there?
cookiemonsieur · 3 months ago
> Why don't you ask (it about) the kids at timn square, was fashion the reason, why were they there?

Western models have been proven to be heavily censored, under the guise of fighting antisemitism for example.

cookiemonsieur commented on How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)   vanityfair.com/hollywood/... · Posted by u/bschne
ivape · 4 months ago
Why did they have to resort to kidnapping though? There's so many people that will do anything for money. I must be missing something about North Korea.
cookiemonsieur · 4 months ago
> I must be missing something about North Korea.

Other than, irrational, comical western propaganda, not much no.

cookiemonsieur commented on Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)   publicdomainreview.org/co... · Posted by u/YoctoYARN
cookiemonsieur · 4 months ago
> He stood on the shoulders of Persian, Greek, Indian, and Chinese precursors, while Renaissance inventors, in turn, stood on his.

This is the first time in my life where a western outlet doesn't try and obfuscate the fact that many of the "discoveries" made by europeans in the the renaissance period have taken inspiration from the close to 800 years of Islamic scientific research (who themselves never failed to credit their predecessors).

Typically, when you study the history of science in the west, it starts at ancient greece (who have no contemporaries) then there's a massive blackout of 800 years and poof ! The "light" is magically turned on.

Fair play to the author for not being biased.

u/cookiemonsieur

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