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i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

No surprises, it's fundamentally built on promises and lies

It's the eating your own dog food.

The Open AI guy said it's now better than doctors (he said it, not me lol). He's replaced his doctor, right?

What about when it just flat out lies to you, how do you sort the right info from the wrong?

recipes when cooking

I used it for a recipe, gave it a brilliant and detailed prompt, it told me to put 10x a particular spice and it ruined the dish.

seek medical advice and results interpretation for my family

good luck

repair electrical equipment

what can go wrong, really

Then you're testing how good someone is at exams as much as anything

You can sponsor a promotion; sales on a bunch of games - but it's not "Brought to you by the cool refreshing taste of Pepsi" it's like "Berlin Game Developers".

GitHub lost me when Microsoft used my shitty code to train shitty AI without my permission.

Long time Linux user, but I got lazy into the Windows ecosystem for too many years. My son convinced me to move over and I haven't looked back. I haven't found a game that hasn't run, the worst I have to do is change Proton version. Ubuntu was good, but Nobara is amazing (ndivia 5000 series drivers out of the box).

Modern street lighting provides a way clearer view of the scene imo than the old sodium lighting. Maybe it's just brighter now.

A 29 minute 5K is not trivial

high quality medical advice

I'll replace my doctor with AI immediately after the tech bros do

lol

Don't buy the shit. You don't need a smart doorbell or robot vacuum at a minimum.

It just means the phone is massively overpowered :)

I had wondered about the same for nicotine, being a neurostimulant.

instead of feeling animated, these people feel drowsy, and they say that coffee makes them sleep

Sounds like ADHD to me

It's flipped, so you now get a little petrol 4 stroke engine powering the game console in your electric car.

Why is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway?

Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load. Compared to managing a VM, system and application packages, config, backups and then how do you scale that?

I have what is basically a demo running on Vercel free tier, there's no way I'm maintaining a VM for that lol.

If I had a serious site, same. If I had a team, then the equation would be different.

Why? Not everything is pure mathematics.

I really don’t get the sense of urgency

Mind-boggling amount of investment needing a return or the promise of a return

Linux is insanely easy to use these days. So mature. Even for gaming, I haven't encountered a single game that hasn't run, and most of the time I don't even have to think of setting any compatibility stuff like wine version, it just runs like it was native.

Everyone thought boomers were bad. Gen Xers, tech bros: hold my beer

We only need a few minutes sun exposure in the Australian sun at a UV Index of 14 for vitamin D. 20 minutes to start burning. Maybe there's a happy medium between a bit of sun exposure and no sun exposure.

100% agree. No direct developer job losses from AI. But if it makes you more efficient, there are indirect job losses. Still borderline as to how much nett efficiency it provides. I needed unit-tests pronto, it saved my bacon in crunch time. But then in scaffolding some code in a system I don't know, it's been nothing but trial and error, mostly error.

Show me a good Unreal Engine game? Supposedly it can be optimised to be decent but so many of these games don't even run properly on top end hardware.

Isn't this pretty much the main reason AI is being pushed so hard?

At a minimum, 30-50% of bogus surveys are bogus but I'm willing to bet it's a lot more.

AI is two things: 1) software and 2) extremely fast-moving/evolving

3) massive scam

Stack Overflow has to be actually dead at this point. There's no reason to go there, or even Google, anymore.

If, like the meme, you just copied from SO without using your brain then yes AI is comparable.

If you appreciate SO for the discussion (peer review) about the answers and contrasting approaches sometimes out of left field, well good luck because AI can't and won't give you that.

There's a study from Stanford showing the dropoff based on road traffic volume. The house I tested is 40 metres from a 30,000 cars/day road (2 lanes in each direction). The study suggests that the pm2.5 drops to the equivalent of the ambient air quality of the surrounding area at 37m away. An air quality sensor showed great AQI and no changes during rush hours.

It is absolutely not supported by the Greens [1].

"The Greens have also called for:

    A ban on the targeting, harvesting and selling of young people's data

    A Digital Duty of Care on tech platforms

    EU-style guardrails to limit the toxicity of algorithms and extreme content

    The ability for users to turn down and opt-out of unwanted content

    The full release of the Online Safety Act review.

    Investment in education for young people and their families to help develop digital literacy and online safety skills, and equip them with the tools and resources they need for positive and responsible online use.

[1] https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-condemn-pass...

[2] https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/blunt-social-media-...

So powerful, an unequivocal argument for vaccination. Being born mid-1970s, I might have got peak lead exposure, but I'm so lucky to have got the measles vaccine (amongst others).