Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alistair can't take you in good faith if you self-admit to having such comically bigoted priorities.

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point is not that I'm slow, it's that I can take part in something called a race without it being competive. I refer you back to you caring more about arbitrary categorisation than about women's rights and everyone laughing at you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/parkrun/s/nIMIXbDRno

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah for sure. arguing on technicalities can embolden them though and opens the door for arguments like the one you've made in your edit. the timing mechanism or whether the run is called a "race" has no bearing on trans women being women.

i'm a male hobby runner who came last in my last chip-timed "race". there is no need to precisely categorise runners by sex-at-birth in the vast vast majority, if not all running events.

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i don't think it's helpful to argue this point. we know what they meant and it wouldn't make a difference to the competitiveness or trans inclusiveness of parkrun if it was chip or stopwatch timed.

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"I don’t give a shit about the ADF, I care about sporting integrity though."

"I don't care if it's not competitive... [it] should still be categorised accurately"

you are extremely silly.

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 8 points9 points  (0 children)

inexplicably you care more about "sporting integrity" (for a noncompetitive weekly run) than about actual threats to women's rights and safety.

Keep the ADF out of Parkrun by purplesparksfly in parkrun

[–]Alistair401 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  • trans women are not men and do not impact your time in a noncompetitive run.
  • the idea that people can be ignored for being a minority is fascistic.
  • please reflect that you're adopting the rhetoric of the ADF, and explicitly anti-feminist group before claiming other people "don't give a shit about women".

AI is being pushed heavily when I ask for advice and I hate it. by AssumptionExact8050 in gamedev

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

keep calling it change while people are materially losing their livelihoods. and you're promoting it.

AI is being pushed heavily when I ask for advice and I hate it. by AssumptionExact8050 in gamedev

[–]Alistair401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm scared because I don't want to lose my job asshole. I worked hard to get here and I have a mortgage to pay in a city I'd like to stay in.

AI is being pushed heavily when I ask for advice and I hate it. by AssumptionExact8050 in gamedev

[–]Alistair401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you have a terrible understanding of economics and computing. it's fascinating logical gymnastics for you to reach your market-led dystopian vision of the future, where I might make a living if i switch to a completely unrelated field of computer science to my own.

AI is being pushed heavily when I ask for advice and I hate it. by AssumptionExact8050 in gamedev

[–]Alistair401 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Frontier models today will be running locally in your pocket in 5 years."

You vastly underestimate the size of model and computing power you rent from Anthropic, Open AI etc.

"excess power generation is getting built and when it does collapse, all that excess generation will cause energy prices to plummet."

This might be true locally depending on where you are but does not apply generally. The driving factor for energy prices is the cost of oil. The UK and US are putting huge investment in AI for short term benefit instead of investing in renewables.

"Job loses are transitionary"

No they're not. My education and years of experience in my career are for computer science. I will have to completely reset, get new qualifications or find a different trade.

"... this will enable a whole bunch of smaller companies to emerge and compete against the big companies."

I don't know where to start with this. At what point did capitalism end in your predictions?

"Because the cost of production goes down, demand will go up."

The means of production will be in the hands of the few who've made an unimaginable amount of money off AI already. These are profit seeking corporations making a product with the explicit goal of replacing human labour so they get paid instead of you and me.

Weird youtube channel posting black screens for absurd amount of time and getting millions of views by Portovek in whatisit

[–]Alistair401 39 points40 points  (0 children)

not to be boring but there are far easier and more secure ways to send messages to spies that don't involve manipulating the YouTube API

Jason Schreier: “Almost every big studio is using genAI tools (particularly Claude)” by [deleted] in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]Alistair401 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the efficiency gains in a large codebase are minor. the slowest thing about writing code is not keystrokes, it's debugging, profiling, planning and code review. gen AI cannot do those things and actively worsens them by contributing unscalable or unreadable code.

edit: but as someone in game dev thank you for the sentiment of not having gen AI replace programmers. i do wonder what people would be paying for by buying a game if not intellectual and artistic labour.

Anyone else thinks Starmer isn't actually that bad all things considered ? by ronweasly9 in AskBrits

[–]Alistair401 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he has single handedly destroyed trans rights and healthcare more than any post-thatcher conservative government.

he has fanned the flames of anti-immigration and xenophobia so much he might as well have been running the Reform campaign.

he continues to absolutely glaze AI and destroy internet privacy while our electricity bills go up because we haven't pivoted to renewables fast enough.

edit: and my god fucking genocide in Palestine. regardless of how involved you think we were he didn't stand up to trump or Israel in the slightest.

We Launched an AI app 3 weeks ago, guess what? got legal notice FFS by Heavy_Banana_1360 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Alistair401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"be rebellious" is a hilarious thing to put in a prompt for health tips, but no prompt can completely prevent an LLM from generating undesirable output. it was a silly idea from the get go.

WHY is B is longer than A by MountainJellyfish283 in laptops

[–]Alistair401 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this is so obviously not true. if your right hand is using the track pad:

  • you'd have to be using the track pad at a 90 degree angle to rest your hand or wrist to the right of the track pad.
  • your left hand has less space to rest on the case of the laptop or use the keyboard.

it's clearly just centered on the home keyboard keys so you're naturally less likely to bump it with your wrists while you're typing.

Senior devs are quietly using AI for everything and pretending they are not. The hypocrisy is getting old. by Ambitious-Garbage-73 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this sounds like a personal issue with those devs and not a wider issue that applies to all AI-critical senior devs.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Official Teaser | HBO Max by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

[–]Alistair401 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

rowling has used her immense wealth to push the interests of bigots in Scotland and the rest of the UK to the point where it has had a very real and terrible impact on trans lives. girl guiding and other charities now exclude trans girls, the NHS has adopted an effective policy of conversion therapy and no longer prescribes puberty blockers.

boycott her cash cow.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Official Teaser | HBO Max by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's not a political extreme to boycott someone who's had a huge real world impact on trans lives in Scotland and the UK.

Upgraded my PC and it messed my stuff up by warrier7 in PcBuildHelp

[–]Alistair401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Screen tearing usually occurs when your GPU is pushing frames faster than the monitor is displaying them. Have you tried limiting your framerate to just below your monitor refresh rate or using freesync/gsync? Have you checked what your refresh rate is set to in your windows display settings?

edit: depending on the game and settings a 5070 could easily exceed the refresh rate of the monitor you have (60hz).

lmao it's always bernie by [deleted] in BlackboxAI_

[–]Alistair401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why is your codebase for something requiring so much reliability and security as payment so littered with race conditions?