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dthul commented on The Layoff xeiaso.net/blog/2024/the-... · Posted by u/signa11

bruh2 · 2 years ago

You might enjoy this TikTok video of an ex-CloudFlare employee getting laid off by people she has never met, and responds as fiercely as your text. Except she's also trying to extract the actual reason she's being laid off, to no avail – yet still impressive how hard she's pressing those random HRs.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/194v9y8/ae_at...

dthul · 2 years ago

Telling someone they got fired for performance reasons when that's not actually true is outright evil. (Of course we don't know for certain whether that's what happened here, but it sure does look like it)

dthul commented on Power over fiber chaos.social/@f4grx/11169... · Posted by u/rwmj

raphman · 2 years ago

Why not both via the same wavelength?

dthul · 2 years ago

I was thinking that the "power extraction" might attenuate the signal too much, and it would probably lower the power output since you need to modulate the light to transmit data, instead of having it on full brightness all the time. But maybe it would work for certain applications!

dthul commented on Power over fiber chaos.social/@f4grx/11169... · Posted by u/rwmj

dthul · 2 years ago

I wonder if you could send power at one wavelength, and data at another wavelength, over the same fibre.

dthul commented on Krita AI Diffusion github.com/Acly/krita-ai-... · Posted by u/unstuck3958

dotnet00 · 2 years ago

You're free to personally be happy that you can express your creative ideas, but it is a bit absurd to expect people who did put in the effort in practicing to not see you in a negative light as someone who wants the 'benefits' without putting in the hard work of self-improvement.

This is a uniquely AI related issue, as artists of all mediums can relate with each other about their struggles learning and improving their skills and ability to express themselves.

dthul · 2 years ago

That's trying to put words in my mouth. We were talking about creative expression being taken away by AI, and I argued that artists can still retain creative expression, and that these AI tools make it possible for more people to express themselves creatively. I never said that artists should have no reason to feel unhappy about that. That's criticising a position I didn't argue.

dthul commented on Krita AI Diffusion github.com/Acly/krita-ai-... · Posted by u/unstuck3958

vouaobrasil · 2 years ago

I am a luddite and I agree with most luddite sentiments.

Most of this generative AI is NOT about using AI for boring tasks, and have you ever even tried to draw clouds? Not easy. Everyone draws clouds differently, which you would know if you ever tried to draw anything.

Moreover, AI as a societal phenomenon goes way beyond AI drawing clouds.

dthul · 2 years ago

> which you would know if you ever tried to draw anything

I know exactly how hard it is to draw anything because I tried a bunch of times, and failed. I for one am happy that I can now express my creative ideas, which I couldn't do before due to missing talent / practice.

dthul commented on Krita AI Diffusion github.com/Acly/krita-ai-... · Posted by u/unstuck3958

vouaobrasil · 2 years ago

This is absolutely ridiculous and short-sighted. AI is a tool that is and always will make the creation of art less a matter of the expression of the human soul. What techies NEVER understand about art is this: that art is not just the end product for the artist but something they use to express THEMSELVES.

UNLIKE other tools, AI makes creative decisions. No other tool has done this, and moreover, its primary purpose is to take away the reliance on artists. The ultimate aim of BIG TECH is to take away this reliance so that they can be the ultimate source of cheap art, just like cheap slave labour is the ultimate source of cheap and unsustainable clothing for most people.

Therefore, AI will NEVER be a tool to create art like other tools. It is is a tool that will outcompete humans on a massive scale so that even if "normal human art" exists, it will never gain much traction or commercial viability.

To be honest, AI is absolutely sickening and companies like Microsoft and OpenAI make me sick.

dthul · 2 years ago

That sounds like a very Luddite view. Why wouldn't artists be able to use AI selectively to automate "boring" tasks (such as filling the sky of an image with clouds) while still retaining overall artistic control?

dthul commented on Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API home-assistant.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/eamonnsullivan

colinmorelli · 2 years ago

1) Home Assistant is not an officially sanctioned option by the devices and will run into technical issues regardless whether it's cloud hosted or not (as seen by the very post we're all commenting on).

2) Even if the above were not true, at that point you're back to an internet enabled smart home device system, and now we're simply picking which vendor to trust over the other. But in both cases, the option for the vendor to collect telemetry data about your usage of the products exists.

There is really no viable way for the typical consumer to be able to both have a good product experience for something like this, and to prevent a cloud vendor from having access to their data. Unless I'm missing something obvious.

dthul · 2 years ago

I suppose the vendor could sell a home server device, which runs some kind of Tailscale-like technology to make it available from the internet, and the app talks to that locally hosted server.

dthul commented on Out-braking the ABS myth [video] youtube.com/watch?v=sDbWZ... · Posted by u/dsego

rqtwteye · 2 years ago

"In emergency situations I break with full force without hesitation. This has lead to multiple avoided crashes and TBH two back collisions. Once I pushed so hard the break light sensor had to be replaced."

I think full braking should be part of driver training. A lot of people I know are very hesitant to brake full force and I think a lot of accidents happen because people don't really brake all out when needed.

As far as driver training goers, a little training in sliding would also be very helpful so people know what to do when the car has understeering or oversteering.

dthul · 2 years ago

My teacher made me do a full force brake during my training. It was more intense than I had anticipated, and my teacher forgot that he still had his sunglasses on his head, which promptly smashed into the windshield :D

dthul commented on The Binder Linux driver is being rewritten in Rust lore.kernel.org/rust-for-... · Posted by u/qsantos

dig1 · 2 years ago

> C++ cannot give the same guarantees for normal code

Can you give me example of a normal C++ code where compiler and/or language will not guarantee safety? Let's put aside UBs, because they are everything but normal code.

dthul · 2 years ago

Defining "normal" code as "not having UB" is quite disingenuous though, isn't it? Iterating over a vector while adding elements for example looks normal, but isn't generally safe, unless you know to pre-allocate enough memory.

dthul commented on C++23: Removing garbage collection support sandordargo.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/nalgeon

wg0 · 2 years ago

I have this impression that modern C++ is far more complex with a far more large surface area (from the perspective of learning the language) than Rust.

Because I am not expert in both, what folks that came from C++ to Rust or have to work regularly work with both say about that?

dthul · 2 years ago

I work with both, having started with C++ about 17 years ago, and agree that Rust feels like a relatively simple language compared to C++. Rust might feel harder to learn initially because the borrow checker won't let you compile certain programs, but once you are over this initial hump, the rest is quite straightforward.