pearjuice (u/pearjuice)

pearjuice commented on Everything is Ghibli carly.substack.com/p/ever... · Posted by u/ghuntley

freetinker · a year ago

Utter bullshit. Or more politely - wrong take. OpenAI embeds itself further in public consciousness, arguably attracting more users therefore profiting.

Enabling mass-production of Ghibli style without permission or monetary compensation is theft.

pearjuice · a year ago

Theft of what? There was no market for "memes in ghibli style commissioned by the original studio" which would probably cost hundreds if not thousands if hand-drawn. Nobody was going to pay for that. When it became freely available and instantly reproducible, that's the new market.

pearjuice commented on Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock cnbc.com/2025/02/22/warre... · Posted by u/belter

pearjuice · a year ago

Don't want it to sound harsh but he's 94 years old. Could it be he just doesn't want to go out with a loss and is fine with his final score not fluctuating too much? Even if the markets don't correct/crash like his reserves seems to indicate, nobody can blame him for eventually being too early or not losing money opposed to gaining even more.

Because this strategy seems to be in line with what we've been reading ("buffet amassing cash") for the last 5 years at least?

pearjuice commented on Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL databasearchitects.blogsp... · Posted by u/greghn

pearjuice · a year ago

Doing it in pure SQL is really impressive but I think the real tell-tale sign of peak "cracked engineer energy" is the maintained, decade-old blogspot site. Can't exactly put my finger on it, but really gives off "niche mastery". I don't even know the authors but I'm sure in the right circles a few dudes maintaining a blogspot site called "database architects" for a decade probably don't need an introduction.

pearjuice commented on Sora is here openai.com/index/sora-is-... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

pearjuice · a year ago

Though I like the novelty of AI generated content, it kind of sucks dead internet theory is becoming more and more prevalent. YouTube (and all of the web) is already being spammed with AI generated slop and "better" video/text/audio models only make this worse. At some point we will cross the threshold of "real" and "generated" content being posted on the web and there's no stopping that.

pearjuice commented on IMG_0001 walzr.com/IMG_0001/... · Posted by u/walz

pmarreck · a year ago

I never heard of Beme before now, interesting concept, but it looks like it had a fiery beginning (a million uploads in the first week) and then... ?

pearjuice · a year ago

Was a pump & dump by Casey Neistat. Lacked true popularity and network effects as it turned out people don't want to share unedited, raw footage. Social media is about looking good. So Casey just used his YouTube/influencer popularity at the time to pump metrics and then managed to sell it to CNN. No idea what CNN did with the tech or people but not much later they shut it down entirely.

pearjuice commented on Crypto Had Its Chance joanwestenberg.com/blog/c... · Posted by u/8organicbits

pearjuice · 2 years ago

>the lack of regulation in crypto has led to any tangible, groundbreaking innovation?

Is creating a ~$1T (and that's just BTC) asset class which went from obscure mailing lists to ETFs not innovation? Of this asset class, only 21M (divisible) units will ever exist[0] and to this date the original asset (again, BTC) has had no compromising (security) incidents deviating from its original mission (P2P ledger).

This doomsaying "doesn't deserve to survive" just seems mean-spirited without any actual arguments as to why it's not deserved for an asset class to exist which is truly deflationary (as in money supply) and shoving everything under "crypto" hoping for some outright ban because it's not regulated. It being unregulatable is a feature, not a bug.

[0] even with forks, the original whitepaper-protocol as we know it today will probably always be "BTC"

pearjuice commented on Adam Neumann Submits Bid to Buy Back WeWork for More Than $500M wsj.com/articles/adam-neu... · Posted by u/pcl

xenospn · 2 years ago

The man has no shame.

pearjuice · 2 years ago

Huh? This is a peak performance in capitalism. Free market mechanics at its finest. This guy got roughly 2B$ to step down whilst still billing 50M$ annually as a "consultant".

pearjuice commented on Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law amazingcto.com/cookie-ban... · Posted by u/KingOfCoders

pearjuice · 2 years ago

To me, this seems like engagement clickbait targeting PG to promote an infotainment product (CTO coaching/course):

>there is no cookie banner law

There definitely is. The article explicitly states this:

>you need my consent when you want to track me

"tracking" here means storing data:

>store information in a visitor's browser is only allowed if the user is provided with "clear and comprehensive information", in accordance with the Data Protection Directive, about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and has given their consent (wikipedia)

The actual directive also explicitly states this

>consent may be given by any appropriate method enabling a freely given specific and informed indication of the user's wishes, including by ticking a box when visiting an Internet website (32002L0058.17)

pearjuice commented on Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

pearjuice · 2 years ago

So write unit tests automatically, change code later and then regenerate the unit tests? Now the code has a bug but the unit tests pass. I'm already seeing this today with devs using ChatGPT to quickly get the "test boilerplate" over and over.

pearjuice commented on Alexei Navalny has died reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/0xdeafbeef

KingOfCoders · 2 years ago

Assange is in Guantanamo Bay? Since when?

You keep shifting your arguments around.

"Save the Children"

So it's no longer about political prisoners (I assume you think Assange is one), but about children?

"we happily send billions of dollars to a country"

Who is we? You have sent billions of dollars to the US? I haven't.

I thought the article was about Russia, why exactly are we talking about the US prison system now? What is the goal? Making the Russian Gulag look good? Improving the US prison system?

I've campaigned against the US prison system with AI. Did you? If you didn't, it's simply Whataboutism.

Whataboutism has one goal, and one goal alone: Deflect criticism.

"I'm not pro-Russia"

You're words tell a different story.

"morally superior."

Straw man argument.

pearjuice · 2 years ago

They were cherry picked examples such as your "$10 fine" example to demonstrate that how in multiple places in the world people (and even children) are imprisoned under horrible circumstances, spend their entire lives behind bars and some simply die or get murdered within their prison cell before completing their sentences.

I or you don't have to prove any alliance here. I could be burning a Russian flag in front of your eyes and you would probably still find a reason why I cannot have criticism on one side doing exactly the same injustices and (criminal) acts as the regime of the flag I just burned. Let me be clear that Navalny should not have been treated and died the way he did and in a fair justice system people would be held accountable.

That doesn't mean I cannot state an opinion that it is repulsive things like this happen everywhere yet somehow one side doing it is worse than the other and claims the moral high ground. They are both bad.