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mindbleach

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  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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  • Kilocalories are basically watt-hours. How many images do you think a kilowatt gaming rig can generate in two hours, versus a human being drawing all day long?

  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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  • You can skip a step and run a computer on sunlight.

    If you live in the right place you might already be doing so.

  • Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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  • Right, none of those things were happening until just now.

  • Beep boop

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  • Why every AI video tool feels broke

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  • What they actually want is dead simple: the quality of direct API access without needing a CS degree to set it up.

    ... ComfyUI is right there, guys. It can't be that complicated; it's by Python people.

    We're building the missing middle.

    Ah, a crummy commercial. Back down to zero points you go.

  • Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Official Video)

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  • Why is it titled like a Limewire virus?

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • There's a gradient from legitimate damning criticism of corporate behavior, to vaguely defensible moralizing against the technology itself, to identarian chest-beating as ingroup performance. The latter mindset is most common by far and freely borrows from the other two.

    I've been legitimately surprised when makers on Youtube casually or comedically admit they vibe-coded their latest gizmo. It must invite harassment. Like okay, you built an animatronic mousepad that makes an aimbot out of your actual hand, but there's one drop of AI in there, so it's slop. And if anyone elaborated an ethical justification for using a program that does a thing, that would be 'protesting too much.' As if trying to pre-empt any tired haranguing is just conscience of guilt.

    The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer. The podcast Final v3 rightly mocks Coca-Cola for thinking their text-to-video ad deserves a "behind the scenes" featurette, but when Julian mentions efforts to create models from original licensed input, he immediately scoffs "like that'd be 'ethical.'" My guy, if a solution isn't relevant, the complaint is pretense.

  • You no longer need JavaScript

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  • There was a time where you really needed Javascript and the Javascript you needed did not exist yet so you actually needed Flash.

    If all your site did was display static content or maybe POST to a php back-end, sure, JS was optional. But if you wanted a website to do anything, or look like more than a jumped-up Word document, then JS was your only sane option until maybe 2011. And even then the Javascript you needed was actually jQuery.

  • [Any] Killing the boss before you die wins the fight btw, sweaty

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  • To defeat the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies.

  • Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies

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  • 2000 is outdated; XL was designed for 2040.

  • Bluepoint Games, Sony's famed remaster studio, is being closed as the fallout from PlayStation's disastrous pivot to live service continues

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  • Stop letting cocaine make decisions.

  • Knife grinders (and dogs), France, ~1900

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  • Shit, it beats forcing cashiers to stand.

  • Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies

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  • And yet.

  • Valve wins legal battle against patent troll Rothschild and associated companies

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  • Fuck software patents. You don't have to make anything - it's not a specific mechanism - it's just claiming an idea.

    With real patents, tiny workarounds are treated as completely different. Nintendo's sturdy and reliable d-pads from the Game & Watch through the N64 used a hollow cross pivoting atop a dome. Some years later, Sega put the dome on the cross and had it pivot on a divot.

    That sort of silly bullshit distinction is endemic to mechanical design patents. But I only know one case where it happened in software patents, and it's why image and video codecs are such a clusterfuck. IBM patented arithmetic coding - assigning short codes to frequent values. JPEG and ZIP software had to dance around this for decades, by using Huffman coding, which does the same god damn thing, but slightly worse. When the patent finally expired and ultranerds were free to improve on arithmetic coding, Google tried doing the same bullshit with their improvements, which is part of why JPEG XL went nowhere.

    And that's for hard math! I had to sit and think about describing what arithmetic coding even does, instead of instinctively explaining how to balance binary trees. Namco infamously patented the idea of minigames during load screens. Any minigame! And then they used it, like, once. Warner patented the idea of hyping any NPC that beats you, so you won't be allowed to do that until 2033. Nintendo's trying to patent the parts of Pokemon they copied off Megami Tensei.

    Imagine if Nintendo had patented sidescrollers. How many games would not exist, if they decided to own that concept? No iteration, no competition, just a handful of Marios and the worst Zelda. The very first third-party example would be Braid. A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says going left to right is theft.

  • SSD prices in yet more trouble as two of the biggest hard drive makers have already sold out their 2026 stock

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  • I'm not sure it's that kind of model.

  • Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

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  • No shit.

    They put an ad in the Super Bowl to spin the idea of spying through every camera without your knowledge or permission.

  • USA the nation of pedophiles

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  • I don't think that's an accurate use of the format. They're more like the big flat layer right above that: fairly small, behind almost everything, and completely unnecessary.

  • Conservative MP says Canada is harming its relationship with the US by throwing an "anti-American hissy fit".

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  • Dude. The Idiot threatened to annex you.

  • SSD prices in yet more trouble as two of the biggest hard drive makers have already sold out their 2026 stock

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  • Meanwhile, all evidence points toward AI working better when small models get trained harder. Also, maximum data is losing out to curated data.