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- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 5 hours ago:
The buy-now-pay-later company had previously shredded its marketing contracts in 2023, followed by its customer service team in 2024, which it proudly began replacing with AI agents.
A few months after freezing new hires, Klarna bragged that it saved $10 million on marketing costs by outsourcing tasks like translation, art production, and data analysis to generative AI. It likewise claimed that its automated customer service agents could do the work of “700 full-time agents.”
As Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg, “cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality.”
Also, just want to recognize this gem:
Though executives in every industry, from news media to fast food, seem to think AI is ready for the hot seat — an attitude that’s more grounded in investor relations than an honest assessment of the tech — there are growing signs that robot chickens are coming home to roost.
Robot Chicken clip of Lando Calrissian saying “This deal is getting worse all the time!”
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 1 day ago:
Have you considered accounting/bookkeeping? My wife has done it before and it’s not necessarily the most exciting work but typically pays pretty decent. She says it can be interesting trying to track down what is preventing the books from balancing.
- Comment on Lemmy seems to have an LLM issue 2 days ago:
Maybe the kind of people/organizations who do karma farming on Reddit haven’t figured out that’s meaningless here
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I’ve never played Madden online. That’s very much a couch game to me still. Not that I’ve played it much in years. I picked up my first copy in over a decade a couple years ago when it was on sale at the end of the season.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
I haven’t seen it mentioned and feel like it should count, since it really just had a solo programmer working with a graphic designer and musician, but RollerCoaster Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 took a big chunk of my gaming time.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I did see something a few months ago about a company making large color e-Ink displays for applications like that and outdoor advertising at bus stops and the like
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’m thinking at those prices this is probably intended for corporations that absolutely need a readable display in bright sunlight areas but don’t really care about refresh rate or color depth.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 weeks ago:
Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI service, like Google’s Gemini or Chat GPT. Recall is their service that will screenshot everything you do for
trainingimproving the results. - Comment on You wouldn't steal a font 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: the shapes of the letters in a font can’t be copyrighted, but the file that defines a font can. The name could be trademarked, though, so even if you redrew a font you might have to give it a different name. If it’s not trademarked, though, that’s how you end up with several companies having their own version of the same font.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
Office work is largely paperwork, even if very little is on actual paper nowadays. Much of the work involves creating records or communicating with others to get things done. A salesperson will try to find clients for the product or service. They’ll typically create a record of customers or prospects with their contact information and notes about the negotiation. They’ll create a formal quotation or estimate for the customer and if the customer wants to move forward they’ll create an order confirmation. That document will trigger some other department to fulfill the order, either by providing a service or product to the customer. A work order might be provided to a service technician specifying what work is to be done and where. If a product needs to be delivered a picking slip might be created to tell someone in a warehouse where to get the product and how many to get. Once it’s been picked the product will go to the shipping department to be packed and shipped. An item fulfillment will be created saying what items were packed, how many, and what the tracking number is. Once the order is fulfilled an invoice will be created. If the customer paid in advance the payment will get applied to the invoice automatically or by someone in the accounting department. If the customer is on credit terms they’ll be sent the invoice with instructions on how to pay and when payment is due.
There are so many steps like this. The records help the business plan. They know how many parts and supplies to order. They can track if they’re selling more or less than forecast, if they need to place a rush order for more parts, ask people to work overtime or hire more employees. If something starts costing more they can look to see if they need to raise prices or redesign the product to use a different component, or find an alternate source. At the end of the day, it all comes down to accounting, making sure the company is generating enough income to pay the bills, suppliers, and employees, and hopefully make a profit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And getting a completely new phone and number while you’re at it
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 3 weeks ago:
Can’t watch the video right now; does this one get the frequencies right? Unlike the one in California that Tom Scott featured in a video?
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad to see them doing what they should’ve done all along, but doing what they should’ve been doing also doesn’t merit praise.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 weeks ago:
Where I feel like they have a suitable place is for vacation rentals. Like when I was a kid our family would rent a house at the beach for a week as our summer vacation. The beach we’d go to had several real estate companies that would manage the rentals and published little booklets every year with the listings. The houses were privately owned, though, so as Airbnb and especially VRBO came along this gave the homeowners another option that was perhaps less expensive than the agencies. These are houses in a vacation area, though, generally not taking away housing from locals. This also was traditionally a family that owned one extra house for family getaways and trying to rent it out when they weren’t using it, not investors creating “hotel” chains. Setting up what is effectively a hotel in a residential area and cutting off housing from people who need it should be an obvious problem yet many people don’t recognize it.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 weeks ago:
Ford has 3, the F-150 Lightning and the unfortunately named Mustang Mach-E, and the E-Transit van I think is primarily for commercial customers.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 3 weeks ago:
On the more affordable end around here I see a lot of electric cars from Ford, Chevrolet, Kia, and Hyundai around here, and to a lesser extent Volkswagen. On the high end it’s mostly Mercedes-Benz and BMW, sometimes Porsche. Once in a while I’ll see Rivian but they don’t have a dealership in our state. Even more rarely I’ll see Polestar, which does have a dealership in a city at the other end of the state, and at least one person here has a Lucid Air.
- Comment on There's no such thing as a wrong number any more 3 weeks ago:
Literally today my wife tried calling me while I was at the store, just by clicking the phone button in the text message thread, but the call went to someone completely different, a woman in a noisy environment. The call showed in her log as the correct number so I assume it’s a glitch from the phone company.
- Comment on Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to need to save this link. I saved a Power Mac G5 from an old job that was being disposed, but it’s just been gathering dust in a corner. The reporters said it wasn’t working anymore, or at least wouldn’t run long enough to edit their stories, so it might need some work.
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 4 weeks ago:
I remember my dad installed a switch with a little light in it decades ago. If the switch was off the little light would be on so you could find the switch. I wouldn’t want it everywhere, but certainly helpful in some locations.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it would be easier to just fake being a delivery driver and drop off tainted food and act like somebody else ordered it. The odds of a driver being able to target someone specific with a legit order are very low.
That said, don’t eat random food you didn’t order!
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
Basically everywhere. Not always when pulling in my driveway if no one else is around, but I’ve certainly seen driveways where you might even use it pulling out. I don’t use it pulling out of my driveway. It’s rare that I not use it otherwise, though. Very occasionally I’ll think I’ve put it on but discover while turning that I didn’t have it on. Might be my ADHD causing that.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a sketch about a real incident.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 5 weeks ago:
Actually I’ve done very well with girls who think I’m a dork, in an endearing way
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 5 weeks ago:
Just to clarify, “you” in this case refers to companies and marketers, not consumers. Looks like this news website is for marketers/SEO industry people.
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 5 weeks ago:
It looks fun, but that price is going to be something to make me pause
- Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff. 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if we’ll get a lot more anonymous inside details now about the WPengine debacle?
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return
- Comment on Everybody thinks of Do-Re-Mi, but it's Lonely Goatherd that really slaps. 1 month ago:
It was only a few weeks ago that I learned “do, re, mi,” etc., are the actual names of the notes in other languages, or at least French. My wife found it confusing that English uses letters, and even more that do is the same note as C in English, so they don’t even start with the same note.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 1 month ago:
I liked this read when considering legal ramifications for hosting content. It is U.S. focused so it might not be applicable to someone in another country.
