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15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

wiseowise wrote: post #169
ChristianJacobs wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

LinkedIn is a fucking asylum populate by the most unhinged “people” and bots. I don’t know a single serious technical person active on LinkedIn.

I short the stock of companies whose leadership is wasting time posting to LinkedIn instead of… y’know… leading their org. The more they post the more I short. Similarly, the less-attached-to-reality the post is the more I short.

I wish I could say I’m making bank off this strategy - but pretty-much all the slopposters (and the most insufferable of the AI boosters) are all working for nonpublic firms, oh well.

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Post by Goofy_Coyote »

arduanika wrote: post #183
ares623 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Babe, wake up. New verb for slop just dropped." It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Quiet! MSFT's damage control team does not want us to embiggen the incident.

What are they going to do? continvoucly morge my tirm?

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Post by worble »

nananana9 wrote: post #196
cjs_ac wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The weakest point in any computer system is the bag of meat operating the thing.

Can we stop calling humans "bags of meat"?

Explanation: It's just that... you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea.

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Post by floating-io »

nicbou wrote: post #190

> Is there even a goal here beyond "generating content"? This is the part that hurts. It's all so pointless, so perfunctory. A web of incentives run amok. Systems too slick to stop moving. Is this what living inside the paperclip maximizer feels like? Words we didn't write, thoughts we didn't have, for engagement, for a media presence, for an audience you can peddle yourself to when your bullshit job gets automated.…

No need to worry, that's what the B Ark is for.

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Post by floating-io »

bob1029 wrote: post #140

This is why we don't use diffusion style models for diagrams or anything containing detailed typography. An LLM driving mermaid with text tokens will produce infinitely more accurate diagrams than something operating in raster space. A lot of the hate being generated seems due to really poor application of the technology. Not evil intent or incapable technology. Bad engineering. Not understanding when to use png vs j…

I think the hate is more about the fact that nobody gave enough of a damn to catch the error before it went public...

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Post by TacticalCoder »

tombert wrote: post #134

Is there a single thing that Microsoft doesn’t half-ass? Even if you wanted to AI generate a graph, how hard is it to go into Paint or something and fix the test? I have been having oodles of headaches dealing with exFAT not being journaled and having to engineer around it. It’s annoying because exFAT is basically the only filesystem used on SD cards since it’s basically the only filesystem that’s compatible with eve…

> Is there a single thing that Microsoft doesn’t half-ass?

Nope.

TFA writes this: "The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy".

But I disagree: it's classic Microsoft.

> I have been having oodles of headaches dealing with exFAT not being journaled and having to engineer around it. It’s annoying because exFAT is basically the only filesystem used on SD cards since it’s basically the only filesystem that’s compatible with everything.

I hear you. exFAT works on Mac, Linux and Windows. I use it too, when forced. Note that bad old vfat also still works everywhere

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Post by g947o »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #215
cwal37 wrote: post #10

LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better" and write text for them to post along with it. Words get mangled, charts no longer make sense, but these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting. It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentiv…

Yeah I've been collecting some of the weirdest ones I've seen floating by. It's really the only thing that has me visiting linkedin. https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/games.jpeg https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/json.png https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/syntax.png (and before anyone tells me to charge my phone, I have one of those construction worker phones with 2 weeks battery. 14% is like good for a co…

Care to explain the last one? The presentation is weird and stupid, but I don't see any obvious (technical) issue other than the missing bracket on the left, unlike the first two

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Post by appointment »

nxobject wrote: post #71
Animats wrote: post #59

This is so out of hand. There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. The image was purchased from Alamy Stock Photo. I recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive; the video had AI-generated images that looked wrong, despite GG-1 pictures being widely available. YouTube is creating fake images as thumbnails fo…

> recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive It wouldn’t happen to be a certain podcast about engineering disasters, now, would it?

Not a patron, so I haven't seen the whole video, but I don't think Rocz would use AI for a video about his beloved Pennsylvania Railroad.

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Post by dsego »

embedding-shape wrote: post #150
choeger wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am working with main/master for years now, and there's one problem you don't have with develop: Whenever you merge something into master, it kind of blocks the next release until its (non-continuous) QA is done. If your changes are somewhat independent, you can cherry-pick them from develop into master in an arbitrary order and call that a release whenever you want to.

> Whenever you merge something into master, it kind of blocks the next release until its (non-continuous) QA is done. That's what tags are for, QA tests the tagged release, then that gets released. Master can continue changing up until the next tag, then QA has another thing to test.

Can I tag a bugfix that goes in after a feature was already merged into main? Basically out of order. Or do I need to tag the bugfix branch, in which case the main branch is no longer the release, so we need to ensure the bugfix ends up in the remote main branch as well as the release. Seems like it could cause further conflicts.

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Post by donkey_brains »

g947o wrote: post #227
marginalia_nu wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I've been collecting some of the weirdest ones I've seen floating by. It's really the only thing that has me visiting linkedin. https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/games.jpeg https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/json.png https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/syntax.png (and before anyone tells me to charge my phone, I have one of those construction worker phones with 2 weeks battery. 14% is like good for a co…

Care to explain the last one? The presentation is weird and stupid, but I don't see any obvious (technical) issue other than the missing bracket on the left, unlike the first two

No “for” loop in the example purportedly showing an iterative approach.

Not mentioning the pain of debugging the streaming solution is also a little disingenuous.

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