BassTurd
@BassTurd@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm not okay. 5 hours ago:
Firefly == lightning bug
- Comment on I'm not okay. 11 hours ago:
Used to catch them growing up. There would be thousands of them periodically blinking in the yard and across the field every night. I was pretty and serene.
I saw one just the other night when I let my dogs out before going to bed. It was so surprising that I had to wait a minute and verify I wasn’t just seeing things. It was a real life lightning bug. It was a happy sad moment.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 3 days ago:
That says a lot about how worthless if a human he is.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 6 days ago:
There seems like a very easy solution here that doesn’t require AI.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 6 days ago:
I love text chats with a person, but I feel most of the time that when I start with a text chat with a bot and get transferred to a real agent, they ask all of the same questions, like info gathering name, phone, email, etc. it’s almost as if the real people can’t see the transcript of the conversation I had with the bot.
The thing is, most of those chats that I’ve worked with for years are simple chat bots, not AI, and those are plenty effective for their purpose. They have their preset question tree and that’s it. I may also be a little skewed in my experiences compared to a lot of people, since I’ve worked in IT for over a decade, so often when in reaching out to service, it’s something more advanced where I need a person to actually talk to. Also, anything billing or containing private information. I under no circumstances want that fed into an LLM or accessible to an AI agent so it can be shared accidentally to someone else.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 6 days ago:
I’ll say fuck off without saying fuck off as to not get my shit removed, but bad faith arguments still need to be refuted so that ignorant people don’t only see something like that and believe it’s true. The amount of effort put into that only needs to be enough so that there exists a counter point.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
Their argument indirectly hurts transgender people. It’s akin to when BLM (the movement, not the corrupt organization) was big and to counter it, conservatives parroted All Lives Matter. I’d say using the term transracial is arguably worse, because it’s all bullshit, while technically All Lives Matter is true, but it’s bad faith argument. I personally feel it’s the duty of rational people to fight against that sort of speak.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
Absolutely. If people like the idiot this post is referring to are allowed to spew bullshit without push back, then other idiots will believe it and spread it. These people need to be shamed and publicly corrected for their bullshit stance that can hurt others. I say hurt others, because an idea like this can be used to delegitimize transgender people.
- Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week 1 week ago:
Which part of “chonky boi” or “mach yeet” do you need an average middle schooler to translate for you? Contextually, it’s very clear what is being said for anyone that can read and speaks English.
You think you know what was said, then insulted it saying it was dumbed down for the average middle schooler. What does that say about you?
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
I would bet there are large swaths of people that don’t know there is a nonemergency number to look up.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
My counter is that if the question I ask the chat bot is too complicated to answer, then it should be redirected to a person that can.
Whenever I’m thinking of examples where I interface with these bots, it’s usually because my internet is down or some other service. After the most basic of prompts, I expect actual customer service, not being pawned off in something else.
It really is a deal breaker in many cases for me. If I were to call in somewhere as a prospective customer, and if I were addressed my a computer, I will not do business there. It tells me everything I need to know about how a company views it’s customers.
I do think “AI” as an internal tool for a lot of businesses makes sense in a lot of applications. Perhaps internal first contact for customer service or in code development as something that can work as a powerful linter or something that can generate robust unit testing. I feel it should almost never be customer facing.
I mainly disagree with you out of spite for AI, not because I disagree with the ideal vision that you have on the topic. It hasn’t been super mainstream long enough for me to be burned as many times as I have been, and the marketing makes me want to do bad things.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Whenever I call in to a service because it’s not working, when I get stuck talking to a computer, I’m fucking furious. Every single AI implementation I’ve worked with has been absolute trash. I spam click zero and yell “operator” when it says it didn’t hear me or asks for my problem, and I’ve 100% of the time made it through to a person. People also suck, but they at least understand what I’m saying and aren’t as patronizing.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
You don’t need “ai” to do any of that. That is something we’ve been able to do for a long time. Whether or not call centers or help desks implemented a digital assistant is a different story.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
I hope they all go under. I’ve no sympathy for them and I wish nothing but the worst for them.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
If someone is going to Wikipedia specifically looking for information in a STEM field, then an AI summary isn’t going to help them. Odds are they can also read, because they’re looking up STEM topics.
Also, is Wikipedia not available around the world, or you just think only Americans can’t read? Inflammatory just for the sake of being inflammatory I’m guessing. Shit troll job.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
It’s not important. You said AI isn’t being marketed to be able to do everything. I said yes it is. That’s it.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
You are both completely over estimating the intelligence level of “anyone” and not living in the same AI marketed universe as the rest of us. People are stupid. Really stupid.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
Marketing does not mean functionality. AI is absolutely being sold to the public and enterprises as something that can solve everything. Obviously it can’t, but it’s being sold that way. I would bet the average person would be surprised by this headline solely on what they’ve heard about the capabilities of AI.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
In a small Midwest town, if the police force has more than 3 members, I bet half of them are classified as obese.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 2 weeks ago:
Valid point. Which makes it even dumber that I can’t buy corrective lenses with a prescription a doctor once gave me that arbitrarily expired. It’s not like eye prescriptions tend to change significantly, and if it’s like other drug prescriptions, no need to worry about me growing an addiction to contacts, I’m already there.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 2 weeks ago:
The thing is, if you’re eyes are unsuitable for contacts, you’ll know really quickly. I would think almost anyone that would buy contacts without an active prescription, has already tried contacts. You still have to know the numbers, so at some point there was an active prescription. I’ve never been to an eye doctor that didn’t give free contacts samples, so there’s that option too.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 2 weeks ago:
True for glasses, illegal for contacts. It’s the dumbest shit ever. I don’t need a prescription for band aids, why do I need one for eye correction?
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- Comment on If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database. 2 weeks ago:
I definitely say both depending on the sentence and how it feels coming off the tongue. I also alternate between the and thee. No idea why, but it happens organically.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 weeks ago:
I think when it comes to the code that controls the navigation, control, detonation, etc, or our munitions, that perhaps that should not be publicly reviewable. Not because of hacking concerns, but it does give info to a potential enemy that could render them less effective.
- Comment on How to get to Santa Claus beard status 2 weeks ago:
I have a full, luscious beard. I maybe shaved less than a dozen times before I was 20. At some point, I just let it grow, and would knock everything down with the same length guard, increasingly getting bigger as the slow growing areas caught up.
Keep you neck trimmed to not look like a dirty neck beard. Before I had length, I’d shave everything a finger or two above my Adams apple, down. Find that line, about a finger about the apple, tilt your head to a side, and trim a straight line across the neck, then back the other way. That gives a bit of a natural curve in the neck. You can kind of eyeball that a bit too, but I would say don’t go to high and shave under your chin. If you do that, you get a chin strap and an Amish look that can appear thin.
Find the line for the top of your beard and keep that relatively clean. Something from the edge of your lips, angles up to your sideburns. I keep mine a bit higher, because if you get too low, you get a lot of cheeks and your back to a chin strap. The cheeks are the slowest to grow in, so it takes time.
For my stache, I like a big one, not a pencil thin one. Proportionally, a thin stache and a thick beard looks bad to me, but the trade off is I frequently compete with eating and keeping the handle bars out of my mouth. I’ve learned to cope, but things like a big burger will pull the handle bars in to your mouth.
That’s a lot of words to say, try to keep everything fairly even length, and slowly let the overall length get longer. Since your cheeks are established, you can let the rest grow, and either learn to maintain yourself, or find a good barber that can clean it for you. I do myself most of the time, because most barbers go too thin on my stache or take too much of the sides, and a get a pointy beard.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 2 weeks ago:
Turboprops are no less safe than your typical turbo engine. If that’s your concern, then I would suggest reading up on how they work just to ease your mind a bit. They are loud AF though. If that’s your issue, then ANC work well, but outside of that, a different flight may help.
- Comment on Month-long awareness celebrations 2 weeks ago:
Aw man, we need some of that everywhere.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
I have a pixel 9. I use a case that slim, but larger than the bezel so when I accidentally launch it off of my laptop across the room, it will survive. I can’t do thick cases.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
WTF is this dog shit title? It’s not the title of the article and gives literally no value to the content.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 2 weeks ago:
Ew. I didn’t think of it that way, but your right. Hopefully the seniors are tech smart and not just MS smart.