My argument was one of stochasticism. A broken clock is right twice a day, but a machine that says to 100% of FB users “you aren’t happy” will be right more often than not.

Does that really need AI? The world is dystopian af, can’t it just declaratively assert “you are sad” and be right just about as often as some expensive inference operation?

Honestly at this point you could just republish the original. The Grievances are back in fashion it seems.

I can’t wait for an updated knowledge cutoff to find the updated first 31 digits!

Dude, my computer operating is literally the least of my worries.

I’ll probably die like everyone else, and if it’s not immediate, will shortly follow as a post-apocalyptic world is certainly not one I want to be alive in.

And some tools are worse than others.

Some require retentioning belts, readjusting the bed level, or other maintainance items before you can get a perfect print again.

My Prusa was tucked in between the cushions of my couch for a cross country move, left in storage for one year, and moved again before I just blew the first off and smashed out a perfect print from an SD card. That’s a solid enough performance I don’t think I’d consider any other brand.

That took an expert?

If you don’t train juniors you don’t get seniors to fix shit or to build you more AI.

Oh God, that’s so fucking stupid.

Search engines are optimized to maximize profits for the owner of the search engines above being wholly accurate, succinct, or reflexive of the actual search query. This has the result of promoting results that are similar enough in most cases, but may not consistently be what your looking for–especially true when looking for historic relevancy.

I’m a developer who loves to tinker. This leads me to having weird technical errors at times (like black screens on new hardware with fresh windows installs on any version of a GPU driver). No amount of searching yielded anything relevant or actionable to resolve that issue. Plenty of posts trying to sell me the exact GPU I had purchased though.

I like small time musical artists. I’ll occasionally search one to pull up their discography only to find … the artist I’ve been listening to for years apparently doesn’t exist. Plenty of results for streaming apps though.

I’ll occasionally search lyrics verbatim only to find completely unrelated media as the only results.

Searching for product numbers and error messages often yields 0 results.

Google doesn’t even honor quotation marks to indicate exact matches anymore.

I’m glad you continue to have a good experience with search engines, but the experience I’ve had is one of severe degradation and intentional enshitification over the last 10-15 years or so.

You must not have niche hobbies or errors.

Some folks maybe aren’t prepared to do that themselves, but the more you use AI, the more confident you’ll become in leveraging those tools

Unfortunately it’s not the confidence in using AI that’s lacking. It’s the confidence in the output.

I trust that they will aid in extrajudicial surveillance and autonomous killings.

I hope they’re able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.

An infotainment screen can be separate from the thing that handles driving without a need to replace everything with physical buttons. It’s just a matter of having 2 computers (and thus extra cost) that are not connected. The driving computer can handle things like ECS, ABS, acceleration, braking, locking, unlocking, headlights, turn signals, and of course managing the motor components all while being disconnected from the Internet. The cabin computer can handle everything else and appear to the user the same as it does today. You can even connect the cabin computer to the Internet without risk of dying if you want the ability to remotely heat or cool the cabin or want an auto emergency response call in cases of a crash.

You don’t need an individual control for all the things that happen in a car, you just need intelligent, security aware decisions to be made when deciding what is critical for driving or safety and what is just there for comfort.

Parts of Iot are great, but not the whole “smart home sending multiple video and microphone feeds to Amazon/Google/Facebook” thing.

The ability to set up remote sensors on critical infrastructure to give early alerts is a benefit.

It is not a necessary design element of a car to have a single touchscreen to control the car. It is a willful bad choice.

It is entirely possibly to have a car who’s main driving components are air gapped from the windows, ac, radio, locks, etc. It just isn’t done for a lot of modern cars.

Oh yeah, definitely. The wiring needs for an industrial space or event venue are different than a domicile, but I don’t think anyone’s buying audiophile snake oil for those. They really seem to market that kinda crap to the fool and their money crowd.

I fucking love audio and have an extensive collection of equipment. The last thing in the chain before your ears (so headphones and speakers) will absolutely make a difference and the thing that provides power to that can make a difference. But the cables? The fucking cables?! Absolutely no impact once you’re above like $10. Turns out, electrons are electrons and they behave like electrons. Shockingly that doesn’t change in copper, gold plated copper, pure silver, or mud. Doubly so for the non analog part of the chain. Hell I’ve even seen “audiophile grade” ethernet cables.

The other part of the equation is if the differences made by the things that do make a difference actually matter to the listener. They do to me, but my dad is more than happy to just use the speakers on his Dell monitors.