Seems more judgemental than angry to me.

Well gemini once put some helpful comments in a code sample it produced for me. The comments were in Korean for some reason.

Having separate interfaces for user settings and system settings makes sense for companies that prevent users from changing system settings.

The Start Menu shit… probably just a strategy to get people to use bing.

Or more likely just continue to use Windows 10 when it’s no longer supported.

Microsoft is squeezing everyone with EOL shenanigans. If it becomes commonplace to continue using software when it’s no longer supported, this strategy no longer works.

Shoot 'Em Up.

It’s kinda like John Wick but also kinda like Bugs Bunny.

Almost fell asleep watching that one… then suddenly they’re fighting monkeys with fucking lasers.

The US will soon be the poor country that’s powered by coal and zero regulation.

Also, for extra GTA-doomer content, I still expect them to put online mode’s in-game currency on their own blockchain to prevent exploits, better enabling their bullshit monetization schemes.

Why would they do this? Do you think they’d want people to sell their in-game currency to other people without them being able to take a cut? How would putting it on a block chain prevent exploits?

Can’t have serious discussions about most political topics here without it being just people endlessly spamming “capitalism bad!” or “Israel bad!”

Generally people are just spamming the same talking points, ignoring any facts (like the fact that communism failed). Posting the same antisemitic conspiracy theories I’ve seen on the internet 20 years ago, but with “the Jews” replaced with “Israel”. There’s a lot of hateful people here and they compete with each other to be the most hateful towards the evil capitalist Jews.

I don’t see anyone even attempting to think of ways to improve anything in the world, a lot of people just seem to think expressing hatred on the internet will somehow make things better.

What economic policies could make our lives better? “Kill the capitalists!” How can we make peace in the world? “Kill the Jews!”

That’s the level of political discourse on Lemmy.

by and large these things worked on paper/transparencies I would presume.

You have to presume because you weren’t involved in helping the people who were used to doing everything on paper learn how to turn on a computer. Do you think people in the past were super qualified and just magically knew how to use a computer in the past? Nobody ever needed help loading a file on a floppy disk and printing it to paper so they can present it to their boss?

There have always been clueless bosses and tech people that had to make things work. If you go back further, why do you think they all had secretaries typing things up?

If I’m going to get a $20,000 bonus at the end of the year if I don’t use any AI, I’m not going to use AI.

That’s a big problem with this tech… how do you price it? I think companies would purchase an allotment of tokens that can be used or banked by employees. Problem is they’d always be cutting the token budget.

Where I work I have to have a meeting and justify a $100 license for software. So I don’t know how this will work long term.

Yeah AGI is a mistake. Maybe someday, but what we need know is token efficient LLMs that are designed for for more specific tasks.

There’s a lot of data that it could be helpful for analyzing, but if there’s customer data in there that you can’t share with a third party? Can’t use any of these tools. An appliance in your company’s server room with a bunch of GPUs that’s optimized for data analysis, that’s something I’d be interested in. But with the price of GPUs right now, that’s unlikely to happen.

So the bubble needs to burst before LLMs are truly useful.

To add to that… when we start looking at the price of things, software engineering becomes very important. Sure I may be able to get the LLM to do something instead of doing it myself, but if it’s costing tens of thousands of dollars to save me one hour of work, it’s going to be hard to justify that cost.

We’ll eventually need to become familiar with which problems it’s relatively cheap to use an LLM for and which problems it will be very expensive to use it for. Hmmmm… estimating performance of an algorithm and making decisions about when to use it and not use it… what does that sound like?

I don’t know why you think it’s a generational thing. There has always technical people that filled in the gaps that the more extroverted management types didn’t care about. How do you think things worked when millennials were still in diapers?

What you’re saying indicates you’re one of those people that don’t understand how many gaps other people are filling in for you. You’re talking about splitting PDFs, who do you think designed the PDF format? Or the http protocol that you use to open that google doc?

Honestly the issue I see happening lately is that because iPads (and now AI) made things too easy for the young people they don’t actually know how things work at the low level, not interested in learning it, and often react with “this is too complicated, make it easier for me!”

File changes its form,

Pages slide into their frames,

Slides ready to show.

Better? Conspiracy theories today are dumb as shit. When people had to navigate by the stars, they knew the Earth was round. Now you can show someone a hi-res digital images of the Earth taken from space and they’ll still insist it’s flat.

Sure people believed that carrying bananas on a ship and/or going through the Bermuda triangle was bad luck, but at least there was correlation between these things and ships sinking. They didn’t get the causation right, but there is at least some data there. Now everything is just straight up lies, usually with some kind of racist intent, and most modern conspiracy theories fall apart as soon as you ask “but why would they want to do that?”

Chicken and egg problem there.Have you considered the possibility that the Fed just got better at making projections?

it was Zero Interest Rate Policy

The interest rate has been above 2% for more than four years now. It’s currently at 3.75% so even if it is as you say, it doesn’t explain what’s happening now. I think I’ll just stick with “irrational exuberance” being the explanation.

Yeah the details which helped foreign adversaries. That’s the definition of treason.

If he said “The NSA is spying on everyone” there wouldn’t be a story. The details that aided foreign adversaries made it a story about him being on the run from intelligence agencies and made it an interesting story. You want it to be a story about someone doing the right thing and blowing the whistle, but it didn’t actually reveal anything we didn’t already know in the broad sense, it only revealed secrets that aided foreign adversaries.

Anyone who cared already had a good idea about what the NSA did. Go and read The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book published in 1989 goes into what the NSA does. it was public knowledge in 1989 that the NSA was monitoring all phone calls and all internet traffic back in the days of modems.

Nobody cared back then and the NSA continues to do what it does and nobody cares now. Nobody actually cares about privacy and constantly willingly share pretty much all information about themselves that’s possible to be to be put onto a computer.

Snowden essentially just revealed that the NSA exists to people that were ignorant of it. But while doing so he revealed other state secrets to adversaries.

When the EU makes laws that require companies to disclose they’re tracking you, people are angry at the EU because the cookie popups are annoying. It’s very clear people would rather be tracked without knowledge of it than have even a popup on their screen. All of the information these companies collect is bought and sold regularly.

It’s trivial for the NSA to just buy all of your purchase history and all of your activities online because all of that is tracked by marketing companies and no one gives a shit. Suddenly you’re upset if the government knows what everyone else knows? It’s like putting your personal information on a billboard and getting angry if someone that works for the government happens to drive by and see that billboard.

The only thing of significance that Snowden did was share specific state secrets to adversaries. He currently lives in Russia and says whatever Putin demands that he says. He’s just a Putin stooge now.

People like the narrative of this guy who blew the lid on something nobody knew before, but anyone who cared to know already knew the NSA monitors communications, it’s kinda their whole thing. According to the narrative, the evil governments are after because he revealed the existence of the NSA. The truth is the existence of the NSA wasn’t a secret it’s just the ignorant didn’t know about it. The whole point of the NSA is to monitor communications, and it was widely known the degree to which they did this. The budget of the NSA is something you can see in public records.

Not long after the Snowden story went from the limelight, everyone went back to not caring about the NSA. Nobody actually cares about privacy, they just pretend to be upset about it for a short time before there’s some other story to pretend to be upset about.

Only atheists and fundamentalist Christians take the Bible literally.

We are sentient now (some more than others) but our ancestors were not sentient. There was nothing that was artificial before we were sentient and everything was nature. There was no good and evil, there was just finding food eating the food and surviving another day.

At some point humans became sentient. Aware there is more going on than just eating and pooping. If a monkey kills another monkey it’s just doing what it has to do to survive. If a human kills another human, that’s murder. There is no good and evil without sentience. There was no sin in the Garden of Eden before humans had knowledge. Being sentient means you’re aware of evil, and you have free will. You don’t have to follow God’s will.

Maybe we’d be better off if we remained monkeys living in trees? All of the other lifeforms on the planet would certainly be better off if we had. There’s a pretty good argument that humans becoming sentient wasn’t a good thing to happen to the world.

But it is what it is, we are sentient. Can’t change that. We can’t go back to the Garden of Eden. After you’ve eaten something you shouldn’t have, you can’t undo it. Once you have knowledge, you can’t just unknow things. Ignorance is bliss and knowledge can be a curse.