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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity (ludic.mataroa.blog)

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI...

AnxiousOtter ,

Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.

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It absolutely does. If you’re rejecting basic, verifiable scientific facts based on your politics or religion, you’re fucking stupid.

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OP is an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier so, adjust your bullshit meter accordingly.

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Regardless of intention, the US government put its stamp of approval on a lot of misinformation during the pandemic. Whether that was an attempt to deceive or just incompetence, it doesn’t inspire trust at all.

This is just blatant dog-whistling. What misinformation, bruh. Share your crazy conspiracy theories so I can dismiss them out of hand.

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How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

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Yep

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That being said, just yesterday I looked at the man page for gcc because I wasn’t sure how to use a specific option and it was very useful. Gave me exactly the info I needed.

Maybe there is some merit to simply reading the documentation instead of asking to be spoon fed… I’m prepared to be downvoted to oblivion for this opinion.

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You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.

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No, it wouldn’t be. The base circumstance is the same, the software misidentifying a subject. The severity and context will vary from incident to incident, but the root cause is the same - false positives.

There’s no process in place to prevent something like this going very very bad. It’s random chance that this time was just a false positive for theft. Until there’s some legislative obligation (such as legal liability) in place to force the company to create procedures and processes for identifying and reviewing false positives, then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

You don’t wait for someone to die before you start implementing safety nets. Or rather, you shouldn’t.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

AnxiousOtter ,

Let’s be realistic here, google still pays out fat salaries. That would be more than enough incentive for me. I’d take the job and ride the wave until the inevitable lay offs.

That being said, it seems like it’s only downhill from here (arguable a few years ago). Reminds me of IBM at this point.

AnxiousOtter ,

Your comment explains exactly what happens when post-expiration companies like Google try to innovate

Hah well, in my defence I did do the sweaty five guys in a basement startup thing in my 20’s. Nowadays I’m more concerned with paying the mortgage and keeping my newborn alive.

I agree with everything you’re saying. Google hasn’t been the plucky, disruptive underdog in the arena for at least a decade. They’re corporate and bloated. All that matters to Google, and more broadly any incumbent and large corporation, is to inflate the stock price. The products don’t matter, the tech doesn’t matter, all that matters is make stock # go up. The stock is Google’s product.

Unfortunately in the current economic environment, capital is more expensive now and the incumbent heavy weights are doing everything they can to build regulatory moats around their cash cows. I don’t think we’ll see any competing startups with real tech and engineering innovations for some time.

Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)

On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.

AnxiousOtter ,

So moving is an insane idea, but transferring huge portions of land between states is totally rational and reasonable?

AnxiousOtter ,

The “people in power” didn’t suggest that moving is an insane idea, you did.

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He’s not. There were unsubstantiated accusations from a disgruntled former employee that were proved to be false.

Some people just hear what they want though.

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Yep. LTT just lives rent free in Lemmy’s collective consciousness.

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Didn’t mention I’ve been using Linux since before the twin towers fell

Is this supposed to be some kind of flex? Average user age on lemmy is more than old enough for the majority of users to have been using linux pre 9-11.

am a long term open source dev and contributor…

That is a flex, kudos. I’ve been dreaming about contributing to an open source project for a while now.

AnxiousOtter ,

Same. This was very common mom attire when I was growing up.

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I’d argue the oil and gas industry, not auto. Lots of auto industry players like GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota are selling EV’s. There’s a market for them, people want them, there’s money on the table. Why would auto not want that.

AnxiousOtter ,

None of those services offer the same kind of content though. Tiktok offers 30s - a couple of minutes videos (vines, essentially), streams are hours long and are fundamentally different because they’re interactive with chat. YouTube offers the 5min - 30min edited content, with exceptions here and there (1hr+ content).

Your 11 year old nephew doesn’t watch YouTube because he’s 11 and has the attention span of a squirrel. He’s not watching a 30 minute video about the Canadian housing crisis.

AnxiousOtter , (edited )

What are you trying to say with this? You think running automatic, unattended updates with a cronjob is a good idea?

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TIL

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I’m technically an immigrant from europe (came over at 1 year old) and even to me given I grew up here, it feels weird and fake to keep a flag from there.

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As opposed to a random piece of beef, pork, or poultry?

AnxiousOtter , (edited )

Well your original statement indicated that you were most concerned with the randomness of the meat. You even specified freshness was not a criterion. Would you like me to select a piece for you, would that assuage your reservations?

Edit: I guess OP doesn’t know what they want /shrug

AnxiousOtter ,

Listen, you’re not middle-managing hard enough. If AI tools can improve worker productivity by 50%, then you fire 75% of staff and overwork the remaining 25% while threatening to replace them with AI if they don’t suck it up.

If in the future you’re ever in doubt about how to tackle a problem, just think to yourself “what would an idiot with an MBA do?”.

AnxiousOtter ,

His death, under suspicious circumstances, objectively benefits Boeing in an ongoing criminal investigation.

That seems like sufficient justification to conduct an investigation.

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Wishful thinking I’d wager.

AnxiousOtter ,

I mean, thanks for the link but, if you actually try to find it on Amazon for example it doesn’t exist. So that’s not terribly helpful.

AnxiousOtter ,

Good luck getting a job as an EE in north America without a masters degree.

Source: Also a CE, have looked at the EE job market. Bachelor’s won’t cut it.

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If you want to work as an EE, ya probably.

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Why do they starve?

No food, I would imagine.

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British Conservatives.

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So don’t vote democrat and enjoy your Trump presidency /shrug. What do you really expect anyone to say to this sort of attitude?

AnxiousOtter ,

Learn to live a little.

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I’d say pass whatever you’ve got, I’ll take a snort.

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Straight to jail.

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Nah. They just look like big pores. There are a few giveaways here that it’s AI generated, but the pores aren’t one of them.

Source: have big pores. Also, google images.

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By Akamai, ya. I was devastated when I heard.

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Okay sure,

Number 1: Threatening to jail and/or shoot protestors.

That was a fun game, thanks.

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Nonsense, you just need to pull harder on those bootstraps. Pull 'em all the way to the moon.

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Ah I see. It’s the democrats fault that deep republican states take advantage of their citizens. It was the Dems all along!

/s. It’s depressing that people actually think this way.

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There’s no need to coddle shit people with shit opinions.

and will just isolate people further

Good. Maybe the social consequences of being a shit person will slap them in the face one day.

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Objects, obviously.

AnxiousOtter ,

Please explain to me how advertisers exercising their agency in choosing who to advertise with is “communism” or “socialism”.

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Obviously used. I bought a 2 year old Honda civic in 2019 for 18k Canadian. Like OP, I’d be willing to go into the high 20’s, hell I’d even do low 30’s for a sensible EV.

I am not interested in a 60k SUV or a 100k pickup EV. Who the fuck is the target market for those EV Ford pickup trucks?

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Seems perfectly consistent to me. Enforcement when financially beneficial.

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Anti-immigration, vaccine skepticism, defunding critical social services, anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti- not being gigantic assholes to other people just because we’re not all the same.

This is by no means an exhaustive list.

AnxiousOtter , (edited )

Watches with calculator functionality have existed since 1970 so… Nothing millennial or zoomer about it. It’s firmly in boomer territory.

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