Lt_Cdr_Data

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo you are fiscally irresponsible even if you paid the 17 bucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. If it wasn’t for my adblockers, I’d have stopped using youtube long ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 May Require a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which would be valid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He got his money back and a 5dollar gift code. Shit happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. Fixing systemic problems is not up to the individual. I’m paying for music, which i already only due to the convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, absolutely. My family still has spotify and netflix subscriptions, but i already canceled prime before the previous price hike. I’d have already canceled netflix if it was my decision and the only service i still see value in is spotify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. My parents told me not to look straight into the sun, i saw it as a challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah programmers are obviously one of the few who might have a justification for working from home. I don’t really know how progress in that profession is tracked or how you integrate newcomers into the team, but I suppose there may not be a huge disadvantage.

  Also, your points are all personal ones, which I obviously grant. However, seeing this from an employers side of view, it’s a much harder sale.

  The “we’d be more productive trope” is not only not clearly true, but clearly wrong for most professions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be, but the chances of that happening are next to zero and it’s be foolish to assume this is the peak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the largest portion of employees are stuck in job, which they don’t love and for which they won’t give more than the minimum required effort. The minimum required effort becomes less, when there is less supervision.

  Productiveness also obviously decreases, when you have to communicate with your colleges via zoom, instead of just speaking to them over the table. Seems like none of you had to work yet, but there are few jobs in which you need almost no communication and cooperation with coworkers.

  Also most jobs require walking through the building (even if you sit behind a computer most of the day), because pretty much every company has a portion of its business that can’t be digitized. Can’t go down into the storage hall of a carrier firm to fix workers messing up the labeling, when you are working from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This will definitely change though. As LLMs get better and develop new emergent properties, the gap between a human written story and an ai generated one will inevitably diminish.

  Of course you will still need to provide a detailed and concrete input, so that the model can provide you with the most accurate result.

  I feel like many people subscribe to a sort of human superiority complex, that is unjustified and which will quite certainly get stomped in the coming decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time redditors defend work from home: “we’d be sooo productive”

  Every time redditors talk about the work from home in the context of job search: “it’s soo relaxed, no ones constantly looking over your shoulder to check whether you are working. You can easily take gaming breaks”

  Y’all are a walking meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what unit prefixes are for… you can measure your height in cm