peopleproblems
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woah holy shit a bio?
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 5 weeks ago:
I imagine the children with these things are emotionally disregulated in some way shape or form. A small group of children sometimes don’t learn to self soothe when they are very young, others in ASD struggle with it for a lifetime. Some with ADHD have a very difficult time when their medicine wears off and their emotions kick back in to overdrive.
For all those groups I mentioned, the whole concept of this thing was almost brilliant. Something that they can go to knowing it will be able to help them guide through emotions while mom and dad are doing something necessary like cooking or fixing something outside, or in the bathroom.
If you haven’t had to deal with a child that has emotional regulation problems, then it is hard to explain the difficulty that the failure of this device will make. It is true that they will adapt it, they always do, that’s how things work. The problem is that the emotional disregulation leads to broken things at home, aggressive behaviors with peers, getting kicked out of preschool and day care, etc.
It truly is a nightmare scenario. The parents have to prepare for all of these things and a new way to help their child through the limited existing means.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
AAAARROOOOOOO!
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 5 weeks ago:
Man those parents. Oof.
I do not wanna be in their shoes.
Telling your kid that needed an emotional support robot friend that the robot friend is going to take a nap for a long time and might not wake back up? Ooo boy.
Dealing with a kid in a divorce is hard enough. This seems like a terrifying nightmare.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 1 month ago:
I added an edit to clarify my reflection.
It’s one of the reasons I couldn’t go into the defense industry. Not just working on weapons that are deadly to enemy combatants and innocents; but making profit off of doing so.
If there becomes a point in my career where it’s clear that my work doesn’t make things better, then I know I’ve made a mistake.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 1 month ago:
It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.
I’m glad someone said it because this thought popped in my head yesterday. Been thinking about the consequences of my system, and really if it brings benefit to the users, but also who it affects indirectly.
So far, I’m ok with it. There is part of it that adds some safety for the business, the users, and people affected indirectly. But it still has a profit motive and that’s the uncomfortable part.
- Comment on Funny how uniting this is somehow 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure NBC, and ABC news, as well as several articles, have mentioned the similarity to the book title. Plus, deny, defend, depose has a VERY different statement.
“Deny claims, defend legally, remove from power.” The insurance companies deny the claims, know they can avoid court because the insured can’t possibly afford lawyers when they get buried under medical debt, and the last one has multiple purposes. Remove the power of medical professionals in their care expertise, remove the power of the patient’s voice, and remove the insurance companies and executives from having this power.
However, I acknowledge that the media shills for the owner class, and I see where the suspension that they would change the words to fit that agenda is very possible. Unfortunately, without seeing the bullets, we have no way to verify what the actual words are. The only way we get that is from NYPD’s evidence storage which would need a criminal case.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 2 months ago:
Ok that third one, come the fuck on.
Like don’t even pretend. You could never ride nearly the number of Pokemon you can compared to Pals in Palworld.
That’s basically patenting riding a fucking horse
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
- Comment on Dummy Thicc 2 months ago:
I guess I don’t need vision anyway
- Comment on Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle 2 months ago:
A solar powered car that topped at 70mph would be ideal,
But goddamn, could you imagine just having one that topped at 30 MPh in a city? Infinite travel!
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 months ago:
Oh yeah. Windows XP Professional 64 bit. Each “upgrade” used the same license and never really got screwy until 10. Won’t go to 11.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 months ago:
Office 365. I hate it, but I don’t need a windows PC to use it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 months ago:
Wait. They want me to pay for something I already paid for?
Well guess my $2.5k new windowless machine is looking better everyday.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 months ago:
… Because it all becomes Crab?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry I’m late guys Image
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
I’m not going to get a mac anytime soon, but at least it would stop my cat from powering down everything spontaneously
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
Look, I got enough for two hours with one whore, or enough for 10 minutes with a dozen different whores.
I actually don’t know where I was going with that, but something a long the lines of so many different distros and only so much time in a day.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 months ago:
Oh this one got me. Goddamn lol this is a good one
- Comment on The grand prize 2 months ago:
Hmmm.
So the real game show is getting value out of the prize.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Yup.
I don’t know why. The people marketing it have absolutely no understanding of what they’re selling.
Best part is that I get paid if it works as they expect it to and I get paid if I have to decommission or replace it. I’m not the one developing the AI that they’re wasting money on, they just demanded I use it.
That’s true software engineering folks. Decoupling doesn’t just make it easier to program and reuse, it saves your job when you need to retire something later too.
- Comment on How you dune? 2 months ago:
No kidding.
He decides “eh, maybe a jihad with 66 billion people killed is fine” but becoming an almost immortal space worm hybrid crosses the line.
- Comment on SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source. 2 months ago:
Weird. My employer is stupid strict about open source. I suspect it’s because we contribute a bit.
Open source is usually preferred from a security and time to evaluate and implement standpoint, but it all needs to go through review to ensure we meet every licence agreement. This process can be annoying for some things and closed commercial products are used instead, who will happily sign business agreements in exchange for cash.
Because this was such a barrier to open source adoption, they actually implemented a process of cataloging approved open source software allowing projects to get the correct licenses arranged quickly.
Tech firms have no reason to abuse open source licensing, unless getting sued is cheaper than the software, which I suspect is largely not true, it’s just also expensive for the developer. Maybe we need some sort of union-like organization for open source developers with special commercial licensing that they can contribute union-like fees to for suing these shits.
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 2 months ago:
Oh I haven’t seen this before and it sound amazing.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 2 months ago:
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
The oversimplification was intended - you also caught my meaning of it being able to synthesize new rules.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 2 months ago:
LLM’s are not the only type of AI out there. ChatGPT appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Whose to say the next AI system wont do that as well?
I’m not sure what I’m misquoting. A large language model is not AI, a large language model is a non-human readable function used by a generative AI algorithm.
Simply put, ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 2 months ago:
Debugging and being able to interpret documentation when it exists.
But good lord, the amount of programmers I work with that never use an IDE debugger is unreal. I get that you don’t have to, but Jesus Christ, if yout not getting an expected result, it’s way fucking faster to step through the code and see where the data changes then to slap logging into every line and attempt to read the output.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 2 months ago:
Proper design will save an epic shit ton of money when it inevitably needs to be changed or fixed.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 2 months ago:
doing that involves a ton of googling and reading awful documentation
Yes. That is programming.
To most of us, the syntax is the easy part to remember, and our IDEs take care of most of it. Being able to bang our heads through the documentation and experiment with libraries is pretty much what our jobs are.
AI coding is basically a shortcut to some of the stuff we have to repeat with slight changes in our software. It’s also useful for setting up more complex code that we know we’ll have to tweak.
Expecting it to produce something with the desired results is a recipe for disaster. It’s basically a cheaper outsourcing method that can’t actually compile and run it’s code before giving it to you.
