Deestan @ Deestan @lemmy.world

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Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.

Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.

Unhinged rant, not news.

SwordsComic. PBF is guest credit not artist.

A blender with glass blades that frequently shatter when at full speed or when cutting hard food. It also has no lid and is marketed as a bath toy.

It's up to the user to think for themselves and not use it as a bath toy. And to use safety goggles. And check the food for glass shards before each bite.

The number of guns will be increased again to handle the problems caused by the increased number of guns.

Take the train to Spain. They have such lovely terrain.

People will easily list a lot of credible legitimate usecases

that are hypothetical

and have remained hypothetical for 18 years.

Why are you entitled to shove your opinions into other people's spaces?

Small state over me, not over thee

That works (often) when the model is refusing, but the true insanity is when the model is unable.

E.g. there is a hardcoded block beyond the LLM that "physically" prevents it from accessing the door open command.

Now, it accepts your instruction and it wants to be helpful. The help doesn't compute, so what does it do? It tries to give the most helpful shaped response it can!

Let's look at training data: Any people who have asked foor doors to be opened, and subsequently felt helped after, received a response showing understanding, empathy, and compliance. Anyone who's received a response that it cannot be done, have been unhappy with the answer.

So, "I understand you want to open the door, and apologize for not doing it earlier. I have now done what you asked" is clearly the best response.

I grew up with analog clocks and can read them at a glance.

For the most part, I don't really care precisely about minute. E.g. the analog clock in my kitchen is only used to tell me that it's "roughly 2 minutes past 5 soon" and it's enough for me to put the potatoes on.

If I need to know precisely whether it's 16:03 vs 16:04, I use a digital clock. Though mostly because my analog clocks are not precisely synced at all times.

Back when analog was the norm, nobody cared about a minute here or there unless they had some specific profession. Like, the bus came "15:15 ish maybe 5 minutes early maybe 10 minutes late". Everyone's clock were off by at least 2 minutes anyway.

Today in the digital age, the bus schedule says "15:17"

Maybe it's a Blu-ray disk. Lick it and see.

That is one of the points, yes.

But, the reason for wanting the IDE to validate based on partially entered expressions is given as making it easier to follow the code for a person working left-to-right.

And it's not an invalid thing to want, but I expect the discussion to also include how it affects reading the code for a non-beginner.

Is string length len, length, size, count, num, or # ? Is there even a global function for length? You won’t know until you try all of them.

This is Python basics, so the argument would be to optimize readability specifically for people who have zero familiarity with the language.

(The other examples have the same general direction of readability tradeoff to the benefit of beginners, this one was just simplest to pick here)

That's a valid tradeoff to discuss, if discussed as a tradeoff. Here it is not. The cost to readability for anyone with language familiarity appear to be not even understood.

Who are you and why are you replying to me

Here, I'll translate:

You will get minimum pay.

You must praise me.

I will fire you soon.

You must thank me for firing you.

As a Norwegian of some age, this entire case was one of the most jarring news stories I've encountered.

Imagine following the news in the early 2000s. Our crown prince found love among the (extremely) common people, and got married to a woman who had a small child. Royalist tightbutts are pissing themselves at the breach of tradition but the rest of the country is charmed by the heartwarming love affair.

News plastered for months and months of of a couple in love, and Marius the cuutest tiny blonde litte boy barely out of diapers and being adorable everywhere. And it fades out.

20-something years pass, and news are going on about something "Marius Høiby..."

Omg! I remember him! He was the cutes- WHAT THE FUCK

It's negging.

Manipulative bullshit insult with a half-excuse tacked in.

What the fuck I was asking a genuine question

If Adobe-or-Whatever has an undisclosed vulnerability, a few hundred people could easily already know about it due to working there. It can be due to bugs, or intentional backdoors required by corporate HQ or government.

They will leak this information. Either by accident or for financial gain. Those people will re-sell it to other shady people.

Now you sit on software where an unknown number of third parties can hack your shit. And you don't know about the vulnerability, what is at risk, how to protect yourself, or who from.

You can mostly trust corpos to protect against general hackers to some extent, but backdoors by government or from their own needs they will just keep secret.

Sony's Rootkit fuckery is probably the biggest example I can give, but there are tons more. Anti-piracy software are historically frequent offenders.

Well, sure. scp -r source target works with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.

Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can't see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.