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- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 day ago:
This reminds me of a movie or a tv show where people were sneaking into a compound and disabled the security cameras with a laser pointer.
- Comment on Hell is short staffed atm 2 days ago:
The torture department has been outsourced and will be delivered via zoom. Please make sure your laptop is plugged in and your camera is working prior to the next millennium.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 2 days ago:
Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 days ago:
Sure, and I recognize that it’s not a great metaphor. But I’m thinking about it from the developer side. Open Source software is not motivated by profits, and profit motivates a lot of developers. Some of the best software projects were actualized by a few committed individuals who were passionate about the purpose. But then you have Microsoft which tries to tie bonuses to lines of code, and ends up with bloated garbage because peoples is peoples.
Open source is good, in the same way free lunches for school children are good. The benefits are innumerable. But it’s not feasible to expect every developer to commit to open source projects when their efforts might not be rewarded.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 days ago:
It’s not a perfect metaphor.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 days ago:
“I only eat food that’s free.”
I fully support open source software, but it’s not feasible under the current economic system to expect everyone to exclusively contribute to open source projects.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 days ago:
Kellogg’s abandoned the promotion with half the camel undiscovered, after a child choked on a metatarsal bone.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 4 days ago:
Literally cannot imagine the word “bunghole” except in his voice.
- Comment on Trump deploys National Guard to tackle Washington crime 4 days ago:
It begins.
- Comment on Reverse Mermaid 🧜♀️🐠 4 days ago:
Because there’s no sea creature that looks like a fish head with human legs. Manatees look like human torsos with fish legs. If you see a manatee from above the water, you’ll understand why a sailor might think they saw a mermaid. All mythological creatures sort of resemble real animals.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 days ago:
Lex would also hurt innocent people to hurt Superman (or benefit himself). Batman only hurts bad people when it is necessary.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 6 days ago:
But then how can you create an artificial divide and pit one generation against another?
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 1 week ago:
All I’m seeing is asterisks
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 1 week ago:
Or, he has some inside information that the Intel CEO is going to resign and wants to pretend he has that kind of power.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 week ago:
Because they think they’re special. They think that AI can reduce the number of programmers, the number of support staff, the number of sales agents, because AI allows fewer people to do more.
But there’s only one CEO. One COO. One CIO. They cannot conceive of a company that operates without them, so they feel no threat at all. If they are replaced, they take their golden parachute and hop back on the executive carousel for another spin.
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 1 week ago:
RAID is carrying a spare tire in your car. Backups are like having an extra car in the garage in case your primary geta totaled.
It’s possible you’ll never need either one, but if you pop a flat, a whole extra car is overkill.
It’s not a perfect metaphor, since most people don’t have a spare car.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
The OG German also says “most beautiful in the whole country.”
Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand,
Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?It was changed to rhyme with the English word for “all” but you could argue that even in English it isn’t a literal inclusion of every person alive.
The original also puts Snow White’s age in the story at seven years old, so maybe we don’t need to be comparing relative aesthetic qualities of women and children at all.
- Comment on Does water necessarily seep in your butthole when fully immersed? 1 week ago:
I had a disagreement once about whether or not “between the cheeks” counts as “inside.” The final verdict was it depends on the context.
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 week ago:
Did anyone else have a teacher that would tell everyone not to power off their computers and then flip off the breaker to the computer lab? Speaking of bad power supplies…
- Comment on Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then. 1 week ago:
It’s actually a funny story.
Emilia Clarke is watching Kit Harrington read the GoT finale script with the cast at the table read. Clarke had already read the whole script to prepare for the role, but Harrington wanted to read it for the first time with the rest of the cast. By chance, they were on the same flight to the table read, and she was bursting because she wanted to discuss the direction that the show was going, but Kit refused to budge.
The result is, because the table read was filmed, we all get to see Kit have an emotional breakdown as he realizes how shitty the final season was going to be, and we simultaneously see Emilia cringe into the floor as she watches Kit fall apart, giving him reassuring nods every time he looks up at her, like “Yes, this is really fucking happening, and it’s every bit as bad as you think it is.”
That, plus seeing Cersei console The Spider because he cannot hide his disappointment at his character’s fate, made these videos a thousand times better than the actual episodes.
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- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 1 week ago:
If not for toe, why toe shaped?
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 1 week ago:
[glancing around my office at all the people using jira] Yeah, sure. That’s the intention.
Seriously, though, I’m an “educated professional” with a liberal arts degree who uses jira every single day. Being an “educated professional” doesn’t mean you have PM skills, or tech troubleshooting skills, or know how to search documentation for your problems. Educated professionals are a cross section of the larger population, and are more or less a representational sample of the whole of humanity. There are proportionally as many people whodon’t know what a Kanban board is, or can’t figure out why they don’t have permission to delete the 350 epics they accidentally created.
AI assistance is like an interactive FAQ. It can do a little more than a static list of questions and answers, but the answers should also be validated by a human with the knowledge and understanding of the underlying systems. AI agents hallucinate and make up answers all the time. LLMs are essentially pattern recognition, and novel problems often break patterns. A human would go “huh, that’s weird.” An AI will classify a platypus as a duck and tell you with confidence how to pluck it.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 1 week ago:
So, I agree with you, and I am the same way. But you and me, we represent like a fifth of support callers. AI could deflect an alarming number of daily support cases. Just finding information in the documentation often requires a deep and thorough understanding of the product, and it’s really difficult in documentation to separate “this is a common problem everyone has” from “this weird thing has never happened before and you need to talk to the dev who coded the fucker.” AI is fairly good at that level of pattern recognition.
The problem is that you still need the people to take the hand off, and deflection doesn’t mean they got the right answer, it just means they left.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
If software is a service, then service can be denied at any time. Host your own infrastructure, and reclaim digital ownership.
That goes for large businesses and individuals.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 2 weeks ago:
Yep, IIRC someone committed suicide because, in part, he would never see real life floating jungle islands.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 2 weeks ago:
How’s that going to stop someone with a VPN?
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 2 weeks ago:
Even if we all were willing to make that trade, how?
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 2 weeks ago:
I mean, good, but also, how?
- Comment on YouTube makes last-ditch attempt to lobby government against inclusion in under-16s social media ban 2 weeks ago:
Sure, or they could link into some AI generated animations of sensory fetishes. YouTube has everything their little hearts could desire, and it’s goal is to keep them engaged. Even the educational content is competing with “educational” content that’s been optimized for maximum engagement with minimum investment. Anything created for kids is only one or two links away from some toy unboxing or pay-to-win video game.