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catmanjan
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catmanjan
2y ago
Hilarious irony here, given that these qualified and legally hired people built the most morally reprehensible weapon in history
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catmanjan
2y ago
>far more impact and reach. Absurd, AI has had zero impact in the everyday life of most of the population of Earth, in fact the biggest impact has been upon the wallets of speculators
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catmanjan
2y ago
This has nothing to do with technology it is a purely financial and political exercise...
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catmanjan
2y ago
Given every other iteration has basically just been the same thing but bigger, why should we think this?
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catmanjan
2y ago
Ah I admit I haven't looked into it for several years, good to see they added the feature - I might have to grab one
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catmanjan
2y ago
All I want is a voice assistant that I can call "computer" like Star Trek, I don't want to have to say a brand name thankyou!
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catmanjan
2y ago
Until mechanics are willing to replace individual cells in a battery pack there is the looming risk of a very high cost repair...
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catmanjan
3y ago
Is it just me, or is using GPT overkill to deliver these features?
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catmanjan
3y ago
Having used “REST” for 10 years or so I can confidently say I’ve never used REST
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catmanjan
3y ago
Those things are going to the cloud for completely unrelated reasons
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catmanjan
3y ago
Why stop there? Programmers are the ones most familiar with the software, they should be selling it. If they don’t have time they can hire more programmers, HR is easy… also they can automate the salary and procurement systems.
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catmanjan
3y ago
Good luck painting houses and mowing lawns in Coober Pedy haha
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catmanjan
3y ago
Aren’t index funds just based on the profits of exploitative companies?
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catmanjan
3y ago
Is it really possible for an individual to “build wealth” without exploiting the working class
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catmanjan
3y ago
The problem is these platforms double as identity providers so your twitter hacked can give access to other websites - it’s crazy that this was ever a thing
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catmanjan
3y ago
Bad engineering but potentially good business if it’s all billed to the customer…
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catmanjan
3y ago
They meant jobs important to society, bakers would probably be near the top of that list
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catmanjan
4y ago
Exactly! What most people seem to mean by tech is was it founded in the 90s and does their home page use react
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catmanjan
4y ago
We still aren’t fully utilising horizontal farming which is significantly cheaper
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catmanjan
4y ago
What is a tech company? Is ford a tech company? Is Goldman Sacha a tech company?
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catmanjan
4y ago
Not everyone has the privilege of working for free
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catmanjan
4y ago
I’m actually experimenting with building one of those- the problem is the forces involved compared to the irrigator which is basically just suspending water pipes over the ground
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catmanjan
4y ago
I find the familiarity that modern software assumes unnerving. Everything has a time and place, I wouldn’t want a Got It button while filling out an official form.
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catmanjan
4y ago
Yeah maybe it’s a cultural thing because having to justify your value as employee is pretty normal where I work, across all industries
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catmanjan
4y ago
I genuinely wouldn’t care, we already have code review and I know I am a productive worker Quiet quitters are probably shitting themselves
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catmanjan
4y ago
Have you written more than a few pages of code in the past 30 days?
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catmanjan
4y ago
Can someone from Twitter do this and let us know how it goes
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4y ago
In what way is it degrading to show your work?
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catmanjan
4y ago
Imagine if you printed off your code and ended up with only a few pages of paper you’d fee pretty silly and may quit from embarrassment Just a thought nothing to back up this claim
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4y ago
In my experience all usb c chargers are less reliable than barrel connectors, probably because of the microprocessors required for the handshake
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