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- Comment on Coconuts 🥥 1 week ago:
It’s not a matter of where it grips it, it’s a matter of weight ratios.
- Comment on The decline of Intel.. 5 weeks ago:
Admired AMD since the first Athlon, but never made the jump for various reasons–mostly availability. Just bought my first laptop(or any computer) with an AMD chip in it last year, a ryzen7 680m. There is no discrete graphics card and the onboard GPU has comparable performance to a discrete Nvidia 1050gpu. In a 13" laptop. The AMD chip far surpassed Intel’s onboard GPU performance, and Intel laptop was ~30% more from any company. Fuck right off.
Why doesn’t this matter to Intel? Part of why they always held mind space and a near monopoly is their OEM computer maker deals. HP, DELL, etc. it was almost impossible to find an AMD premade desktop, laptops were out of the question.
- Comment on GameStop shares fall 20% after it files to sell additional stock, says first quarter sales dropped 5 weeks ago:
More to the point, if you think about what the mechanisms of power were able to do in the first run to stop equitable practices, they’ve had 3 years to plan for such a recurrence…I’d put my money on large shareholders or board members having taken money on the side or a wink wink agreement to issue shares when price jumps to protext shorts. Either would have the same effect but the timing of the issuance and roaring Kitty’s reemergence is not coincidental.
- Comment on TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads 5 weeks ago:
Google would never have too many products and lose focus.
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- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 month ago:
A gamer cannot sink lower. Build your own if you care!
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 month ago:
It’s not a big 🚛, it’s a series of tubes
- Comment on Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users 1 month ago:
I have only signed through it and got the notice. I didn’t have any info in my profile that would have been visible, assuming DB itself wasn’t breached so seems ok for me personally but just another brick in the wall.
- Comment on CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 1 month ago:
It’s just a relief that competition is so healthy I’m the market, anti-consumer practices like denying a paid service and not fixing it because you know you don’t have a regulator, are just forced out of businesses.
Lost internet from a different ISP for a week in Jan, escalated through every channel possible including local, state, fcc, Cfpb, DOJ consumer division, PUC…in the end the company fixed it exactly when they wanted, which took 5 minutes. Internet is more important than water in 2024, it can’t be optional to provide.
Net neutrality is nice, but we also need service regulation with minimum standards. Presidential election this year will be huge to determine if FCC immediately defended by Trump or allowed to continue pushing back against telecom lobby
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 2 months ago:
Young adults indeed. Let them vote then.
- Comment on Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying 2 months ago:
With the Pro version you can create generative AI film in color. With the Legibull feature you’re allowed to display text on the screen of up to 10 frames in your video.
- Comment on Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce 2 months ago:
Bated
- Comment on I knew it 2 months ago:
- Comment on UK's antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech's grip on GenAI 2 months ago:
Sure, Goldman Sachs just announced they’re reducing new grad hires by 75%
- Comment on UK's antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech's grip on GenAI 2 months ago:
Lol, do they have any thoughts on their finance industry? Almost like a cutthroat, zero-sum, profit ahead of everything isn’t a healthy basis? Pretending it’s new is disingenuous, but maybe they feel they at least have a chance to affect this having given up on other more developed industries?
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 2 months ago:
It’s well established that modern Apple is a marketing company that happens to have many products in the tech field.
- Comment on NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law 2 months ago:
Yeah not talking about flowery language.
HR needs automated text and audio(pretty much the same with transcription) screening/interviewing. It needs to be able to ask industry or role-specific questions, generate follow ups based on responses, and rank the answers accurately or at least better than humans do(which is miserable coin flip). 75% of interviewing could be done away with.
Right now however, the quality would be poor and the risk astronomical. I’m sure we’ll get there in 5-10 years. The risk will still be there to a degree, but just like autonomous cars, at some point it will be statistically proven that the AI is less biased and of course more efficient.
The crap part will be subscribing to updates for your AI. "Oh, you want it to ask questions about that new software? $$$
- Comment on NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law 2 months ago:
Work in HR. Have a very smart boss. Asked me about AI for recruiting, screening and other purposes. Told my boss, wait 5 years, we’ll see the catastrophic lawsuits and early adopters, then after 5 more there will be some plug and play usable solutions.
Anyone eating up Big4 and startups own horseshit deserve what they get. They’ve fully demonstrated they don’t QC, and especially on critical, difficult to parse, contextual or changing info.
- Comment on Dell finding ways to absolutely suck as an employer 3 months ago:
Johnson, where is that quarterly turnover report? We can’t train people fast enough! Why are we wasting so much money on all these HR costs like recruiting and pizza parties? What we need is a real game changer, I’ve got it, we’ll give them access to the Calm app to help with 60 hrs per week.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 3 months ago:
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 3 months ago:
$100 it’s the Chinese in retaliation for TikTok, too logical to ignore.
- Comment on Google Fi increasing the price of Simply Unlimited plans with 3+ lines 3 months ago:
“we’ve had a massive increase in users, we must be priced low vs. the market for the multi person segment and can use our momentum to drive profit!”
“How many users did we gain?”
“3”
“Greenlit.”
- Comment on Capital One is set to acquire Discover, merging 2 of the US' largest credit-card companies 4 months ago:
Discover is a necessary also-ran. Capital One is only interested in predatory lending. I’ve applied for and been denied C1 cards the twice ive applied as I did not “have sufficient revolving credit balances”, e.g. they wouldn’t make money off me.
Hope FCC sues to block.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 4 months ago:
“instead of the $3.50 refund, I’m also authorized to offer you some June 2025 $350 GME calls.”
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 4 months ago:
DOSBOX & SNESEMU 4 life.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 4 months ago:
Two categories of issues at play here:
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Companies will miss good talent when AI doesn’t prioritize the way they would otherwise have wanted, doesn’t understand candidate data, or AI hasn’t been trained how to prioritize on the areas a candidate has. With how quickly job markets can change it’s realistic a piece of software or website could rise in popularity and fall over the period of a few years and it might take that long to update and correctly test the damn AI models to recognize and prioritize. All of this should hurt the company and it’s their fault and limit incentives to use AI or black box AI at least as was said above.
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Accountability - In the US, it’s illegal now if you have an employment practice (hiring, promotions, firing, etc.) that while it can’t be proven directly or evidence doesn’t exist for a specific case to win in court (prima facie) it can be shown on aggregate to have discriminatory outcomes for protected classes(race, sex, ethnicity, religion, etc.). It’s often impossible to find a smoking gun of “we don’t hire Protected Class X”, but if it can be shown that your employment practices lead to a protected class having much worse outcomes in a company or group, something can be shown to have disparate impact which is illegal and must be remedied.
I fully expect many shittily-trained, poorly or not tested “tools” to be sold and implemented by companies who will eventually be sued for disparate impact. There will be a frenzy of related suits between companies and the AI tool companies.
Creative destruction indeed.
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- Comment on ‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded 4 months ago:
There was an article 2-3 months back about a small town in Spain being torn apart by this kind of thing and I braced as I knew it couldn’t be long. What a time to be a kid or parent.
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 4 months ago:
I have no doubt that your link goes to urban dictionary.
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 4 months ago:
Well I for one am shocked to see a megacap do significant layoffs after M&A, talk about breaking with tradition!
- Comment on Job growth is trending up even as some industries experience big layoffs. This is why 4 months ago:
A shorter answer is greed. Public companies leaders don’t get bonuses and will get fired if they miss a profit opportunity so take most new opportunities and hire away. As soon as things don’t pan out, they then will lose their bonus and get fired themselves if they don’t show rich investors they’re cutting back–amd they outsource the consequences.
Something to consider when evaluating job opportunities are layoff history-- it’s pretty easy to find and gives you an idea of the company’s stability and internal judgement and practices. Some companies do layoffs every year, “time to get my q1 bonus” and others plan, execute and consider carefully around their employees.