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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Sundar Pichal, Google Q3 2024 earnings call:
Firstly, if this is literally true theyāre completely fucking cooked.
Secondly, if it isnāt, what version of it is?
If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and goodāol Goodhartās law.
Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?
appparently this is use of code-complete as well
from someone on Mastodon:
thatās quite appealing to me ngl
God knows I like a good DSL, but ācomplexity over drudgeryā just sounds miserable. I also wonder what kind of stuff theyāre coding thatās supposedly trivial enough to be generated by AI.
Here ya go boss, a 80% prototype solution.
/* TODO: support other element types */ unsigned int * maxsumsubarr(unsigned int arr[], size_t len, size_t * sublen) { *sublen = len; return arr; }I half want to jest āPDD strikes againā but honestly it feels like only half the explanation
(promotion driven dev)
Man now Iām thinking about AI written PIPs. God if I got an AI PIP Iād self immolate on company grounds.
oh this is almost definitely real, given that the regular PIP process was already designed to get you to quit
Best case scenario they are using a loose definition of AI to mean any code generated by other code in order to signal to investors that google isnāt the hulking, sluggish monolith that it is and is agile enough to use AI.
Worst case scenario: āhey chatgpt pls write me new search algorithm to print money, thanks, sundarā
I totally believe it. Yāall remember Stadia? That was a cosmic freebie and Google absolutely dropped the ball on it so laughably hard.
which part of it was the freebie? whole service looked dead on arrival to me (for the simple reason of physics)
At least for me in the US, performance was very good. I was able to 100% Sekiro, for example.
The reason I think it was a freebie is:
20222077 came out and tons of people wanted to play it. It ran terribly on consoles and on PCs, but surprisingly well on Stadia at launchIt may have still failed altogether anyway, but the fact that they didnāt seize this opportunity, and instead stuck by their absolutely confusing-as-fuck ālike Netflix but not really; first let me explain how this worksā subscription model, always gets me.
Edit: Cyberpunk 2077 š¤¦š»āāļø
honestly, I think they did try, and ran into the unfortunate reality of physics
to make that product work, you need reliable high throughput (this is helped by codecs), sufficient juggle-able GPU space (this is helped by being a gear-hogging first-in-line monopolist), and lastly the casual little requirement of actually being close enough to your customer base
iirc US cost to coast latency is around 65~70ms (so 2x that is the upper timebound for player interactivity, obvs there itād be less because more local DCs though). just from me to europe is 165msec+, with a far less predictable path throughput. the scale economics to launch a DC for this in ZA (even to serve subsaharan africa all the way up to kenya) just plain doesnāt work, and there are many more places in the world where it doesnāt
itāll be interesting to see if a retrospective as to why it failed leaks out of that biz someday