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- Comment on Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago 4 days ago:
this thought pushed us to buy this year. Some instantly started mocking us for buying while rates are 6% - but nothing I can see on the horizon is going to halve rates in the near future.
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 1 week ago:
weird it didn’t play Hendrix - Little Wing.
Still a great song and v chill
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
I think they were a victim of the pandemi
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
there used to be a coffee shop in London that had a huge glass display case of penile sounding rods
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 week ago:
it’s actually already a sales term in ABM - you have the decision maker, blocker, influencer, end user/stakeholder etc
the term has been around longer than the internet
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 week ago:
why do people care for Shrek? Or Walter White? Or Antigone?
The concept of caring for fictional narratives is ages old.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 week ago:
you can also DM me. Lead gen manager for a $5MM software company, 11 years experience digital marketing.
- Comment on The wall kisser has struck again 1 week ago:
1 2 3 o clock 4 o clock rock
- Comment on People are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet. 2 weeks ago:
To whom it may concern, you should be aware that at this current point in history, certain people are attempting to correct each and every grammatical mistake that has been made in communications they find that have been posted to the world wide web.
- Comment on Winning the Gold Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Yoshi 2 weeks ago:
I played games before there were consoles. I am fucking dust, man.
- Comment on Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" 2 weeks ago:
“Marketing” is just the publically exposed arm of a go to market strategy. It will never die as long as money exchanges hands for goods and services.
The methods and language change, and sometimes some of the methods of delivery, but regardless of how a market operates - it will always have a function that bridges the product and consumer, provided there’s a plurality of both.
A W-shaped, multi touch funnel to nuture MQLs into a RFP is just more sophisticated version of yelling “Fresshhhh Fishhhh” really loud as the boat comes in.
- Comment on Lasagna and Chicken 3 weeks ago:
there are a lot of studies in humor. There’s things like commedia dell’Arte, or Ecole Gaulier, The Seven Causes of Laughter, there’s hundreds of books on improv, joke writing, sitcom writing, stand up.
I’ve made a few comments around Lemmy diving into some of the theory behind it, but people get kinda tetchy when you get technical about it.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
with the addition that most languages - especially romance languages - have irregular verbs and constructions.
e.g. in french you say “I have 30 years” to say you are 30 years old. in English you say “I am 30” to say you are 30 years old. It makes no sense to say you are the number 30 or you have 30 years. But no one really thinks about it.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
navigated around, to mean avoid, definition 2 here: www.merriam-webster.com/…/circumnavigate
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀 always has been
- Comment on Gluetun: The Little VPN Client That Could 3 weeks ago:
it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).
Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.
Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
that is precisely what SERP and sales prospecting marketing is. Except paid SERP placement and plaintext email displayed in a browser or email client rather than a text editor.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
yeah but we all, unfortunately, need jobs, and jobs are at companies, and companies make money from sales, sales happen on a market, and you need marketing so people know it exists.
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
you laugh until your STEM-only software engineer tries to write marketing copy, he circumnavigated the marketing department and sent the ads at a conference straight to the contact without getting it approved.
I can’t post the text as it’ll dox me but here’s an approximation, about running, but instead imagine it’s a software product
#NO RUNNING
or exercise
^just ^running ^ability ^improvement
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 3 weeks ago:
2nd
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 3 weeks ago:
“non zero” isnt exactly convincing, to me. there is also a non-zero chance God exists.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 3 weeks ago:
I dont think AI sentience as danger is going to be an issue in our lifetimes - we’re 123 years in January since the first well known story featuring this trope (Karel Čapek’s Rossumovi Univerzáiní Robotī)
We are a long way off from being able to copy virtual perception, action and unified agency of even basic organisms right now.
Therefore all claims about the “dangers” of AI are only dangers of humans using the tool (akin to the dangers of driving a car vs the dangers of cars attacking their owners without human interaction) and thus are just marketing hyperbole
in my opinion of course
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 3 weeks ago:
“ooh it’s more advanced but don’t worry- it’s not conscious”
is as much a marketing tactic as “how it feels to chew 5 gum” or buzzfeedesque “top 10 celebrity mistakes - number 3 will blow your mind”
it’s a tech product that runs a series of complicated loops against a large series of texts and returns the closest comparison, as it stands it’s never going to be dangerous in and of itself.
- Comment on ‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit 4 weeks ago:
they should start growing their bushes out. Pubelimpics.
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
Just add an S to the BORT license plate.
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 4 weeks ago:
using Dear is more likely to get you sent to spam nowadays, as spam bots use it more than real people
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 4 weeks ago:
ate it
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
The artist you’re referring to is Sara Poyzer - m.imdb.com/name/nm1528342/ - she was replaced in one specific way:
The BBC is making a documentary about someone (as yet unknown), who is dying and has lost the ability to speak. Poyzer was on pencil (like standby, hold the date - but not confirmed).to narrate the dying person’s words. Instead they contracted an AI agency to use AI to mimic the dying persons voice (from when they could still speak).
It would likely be cheaper and easier to hire an impressionist, or Ms Poyzer herself but I assume they are doing it for the “novelty” value, and with the blessing of the terminally ill person.
For that reason I think my point still stands, they have made the work harder and more expensive, and created a negative PR storm - all problems created by AI and not solved by.
You are incorrect that AI voice contracts are common place, as SAG negotiated that use of AI voice tools is to be compensated as if the actor recorded the lines themselves - which most actors do from home nowadays, so again it’s at best the same cost for an inferior product.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
I sincerely doubt AI voice over will out perform human actors in the next 100 years in any metric, including cost or time savings.