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torlok commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480

LZ_Khan · 16 days ago

No. actually no company on earth has solved the voice assistant thing yet

torlok · 16 days ago

Exactly. Looks like everybody's complaining that Siri isn't a better Ask Jeeves, when that's not the design goal. What people expect is an LLM that has full access to the phone. Nobody's even remotely close to shipping that.

torlok commented on AI-Assisted Coding Killed My Joy of Programming meysam.io/blog/ai-assiste... · Posted by u/meysamazad

NewsaHackO · 16 days ago

Yea, I never get these types of "AI killed the joy of insert hobby" arguments. By virtue of it being a hobby, I can make the conscious choice not to use AI for it. Really, there should be very few technological advances that can ever kill something that is truly a hobby (for example, people still knit, do metalworking, glassblowing, etc.). Now, if you want to get paid for working inefficiently compared to others, then yes, that will never happen.

torlok · 16 days ago

Where does it say anything about a hobby? The author is an entrepreneur. They're complaining that they're no longer enjoying a part of their job they used to enjoy, and your contribution is "it's a job, not a hobby, if you don't like it then boo hoo".

torlok commented on AI-Assisted Coding Killed My Joy of Programming meysam.io/blog/ai-assiste... · Posted by u/meysamazad

dsmark · 16 days ago

I’m including everything in that count: scripts, Python-compiled executables, development tooling, and custom software. On some days, I’ll build five or more small tools or scripts just to automate a single process. Working for a small business gives me the flexibility and freedom to explore new technologies and experiment.

torlok · 16 days ago

That doesn't answer any of the concerns raised by the parent comment, only reinforces them.

torlok commented on IT specialist shortage [in Germany] almost gone heise.de/en/news/MINT-Aut... · Posted by u/slow_typist

lnfromx · 18 days ago

The title is a bit misleading because the article says the shortage is about to increase dramatically again in the future, due to a lack of MINT skills in younger generations and an aging population. Also imo there is more than enough to do in this sector in Germany. Might therefore be rather the economic environment than some fundamental reversal.

torlok · 18 days ago

They're talking about child education with regards to "about to increase". "Soon" for a researcher is not "soon" for a worker.

torlok commented on 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them rawstory.com/doge-employe... · Posted by u/ndsipa_pomu

torlok · 24 days ago

It would be great to see some justice for the enormous harm done, same for ICE, but if only the collaborators get punished then it's bittersweet at best.

torlok commented on Three kinds of AI products work seangoedecke.com/ai-produ... · Posted by u/emschwartz

torlok · a month ago

So the only AI products that work is a chat bot you can talk to, or a chat bot that can perform tasks for you. Next thing you'll tell me is that the only businesses that work are ones where you can ask somebody to do something for you in exchange for money.

torlok commented on Being poor vs. being broke blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-1... · Posted by u/speckx

cryptonector · a month ago

> I have family that dedicated most of their life to fighting poverty (with very limited success).

Yes, it's very difficult to defeat poverty. But it has been happening world-wide. Poverty has been going down world-wide for 200 years. It's not so much through the efforts of individuals or even governments, just a network effect of technological advancements and opportunity creation (made possible by those advancements), and perhaps (almost certainly) by credit that makes those advancements go faster.

torlok · a month ago

Sounds like the optimism rhetoric of Steven Pinker. I suggest you read up on the numerous criticisms of his work. Most of the optimism is based on a ridiculously low global poverty line conjured out of thin air, and other nonsense like GDP.

torlok commented on Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon bitwarden.com/blog/how-cr... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

sph · a month ago

This will initially go the same way as the porn ban that's being enacted all over Europe — VPN usage will skyrocket, people will still do whatever they want.

Then they will have to resort to the only other alternative: require a government ID and static IP allocation to access to the internet, for complete surveillance and traceability. You know it's coming.

torlok · a month ago

"All over Europe" meaning UK, France, and Italy.

torlok commented on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado nobelprize.org/prizes/pea... · Posted by u/pykello

s-a-p · 2 months ago

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torlok · 2 months ago

This does look like the second best option, given his current agenda, though.

torlok commented on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/edent

jmkni · 4 months ago

> Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphized chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they’d like – creating a huge potential market for Meta’s digital companions.

I hate everything about this sentence. This is literally the opposite of what people need.

torlok · 4 months ago

Can't wait for the next podcast with Zucc where he gets asked about BJJ by some dimwit instead of this.

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