burnished's comments

On: Does that use a lot of energy?

[burnished]

Yeah you can, though to be fair its referred to as jevons paradox because it is counterintuitive.

[spencerflem → burnished]

I’m not saying it’s inefficient. I’m saying cloud computing uses a lot of power.

On: Does that use a lot of energy?

[burnished]

What about it is whitewashing? This seems like it would be a great resource if you wanted to contextualize the argument you're gesturing at.

On: Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers

[burnished]

They might have forgotten how to share an anecdote and their sister might just be a regular awful driver

On: I'm addicted to being useful

[burnished]

I think you missed the bit where they suggested being curious and offering perspective - it really does work out differently

On: When someone says they hate your product

[burnished]

I've seen pathological users like the sibling is commenting about. I don't want to out any community in particular but some of subreddits surrounding open source games can get pretty yikes.

Not saying you're wrong to find silver linings, just wanted to corrobate that sometimes that is insufficient (as far as I can tell, given impassioned haterness germinating for years).

On: What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project

[burnished]

Ah, the classic hacker spirit of commercializing every interaction?

[venturecruelty → burnished]

No, the real one, not the one people talk about here.

On: OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules

[burnished]

Probably pattern recognition

On: Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15

[burnished]

Just nitpicking your first sentence: prohibition broadly works, just in the US (at least) it breeds negative externalities that don't seem worth it in balance.

On: I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

[burnished]

Tangent but it is funny to me that we focus on tiktok but the news is as bad or worse in terms of super fast tidbits interspersed with ads, tragedy, and local weather

On: The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers

[burnished]

They aren't publishing content, are they?

[2OEH8eoCRo0 → burnished]

It's an information system with access controls.

[superkuh → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

We already have laws against breaking into systems bypassing authorization systems. If they applied they'd be applied here. But they don't. Because in this situation we're talking about public websites and corporations being made you don't run their javascript.

As an aside, I do host a website from my desktop computer at home and you are free to access it! It's public. I intentionally put it on the public internet. I do not use a smart phone or the internet via phone.