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People hate AI. This will make them hate it even more. Yet somehow the market has convinced/forced us to use their products even though we might not want to. A recent nationwide poll[1] shows AI has a poorer approval rating than ICE — ICE! — probably due to their overlords being "those" SV types. Everyday AI features are being shoved down our throats. I can't even choose to not install Gemini related apps on my Andro…
I'm people. I like AI
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Am I correctly reading your argument that you are pro cancer for the purposes of demographic balance?
I think his broader point is that life preservation doesn't seem like such a big win if overall quality of life is dropping to the point where people decide to not subject their potential children with the burden of living.
Where has quality of life dropped so much that people want to die slowly at a young age of a horrible and painful disease instead of getting old?
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That cheap stuff from eBay that people talk about all the time seems to be available only in North America, or in the best case Western Europe. ThinkPad T14 which generation?
Sometimes goes the other way. I was recently looking for a specific PC case (Fractal Design Torrent Compact without a window) and it's entirely unavailable in North America. Placed an order with a Polish seller on eBay, received a message that Fedex wouldn't take the package due to size, replied that they could send with any shipping company and that I'm not concerned with shipping speed, after which they cancelled t…
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Sometimes goes the other way. I was recently looking for a specific PC case (Fractal Design Torrent Compact without a window) and it's entirely unavailable in North America. Placed an order with a Polish seller on eBay, received a message that Fedex wouldn't take the package due to size, replied that they could send with any shipping company and that I'm not concerned with shipping speed, after which they cancelled t…
Out of curiosity, what's so special/unique about this case?
(I'm assembling a home server/workstation on a W880 mobo for ECC support - am giving the CPU all the cooling it can reasonably take, but no GPU or non-M.2 drives, so don't need much room in the case for anything other than the mobo and CPU heatsink.)
I ended up ordering one with a window since the solid side version is effectively impossible to acquire in North America.
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> There is something very wrong now with how companies operate in general. Some companies. A lot of companies, maybe. But far from all of them. I've done a lot of consulting work, which means I've done short stints at a lot of different places over the years. Some were absolute stinkers - like you describe. But I've also worked with some wonderful people and on some great, high performance teams. I understand that it…
> Some companies. A lot of companies, maybe. But far from all of them. I honestly think it is most of them. > Some were absolute stinkers - like you describe. But I've also worked with some wonderful people and on some great, high performance teams. I've totally given up on it. People don't value your work. I did a piece for a particular company. It worked perfectly. It was thrown away after a year and half because m…
I would not advise. If you're feeling what you are feeling now, the entire job in QA within the software field is to be essentially "controlled opposition". Unless you bust into Food Safety, Aeronautics, manufacturing, or medical devices/boomed, you will not be anything but someone the CTO is gonna go "fuck it, override" anyway. Over 14+ years experience.
The problem is management. The only solution is to make them responsible for cleaning up the consequences of their own actions, and not allowing them to delegate the task It is the only way. We have made it far to easy for assholes not responsible for doing the work to get positions managing it. We have to fix that if we're ever going to get back on the right track.
>Outside of that many of the position in the UK are working Defence, Intelligence or Law Enforcement. All of those I have ethical reasons why I won't work for them. Outside of that there is Gambling, Pay day loans, and spooky stuff like tracking people via facial recognition.
Ah, someone else feeling the sting of actually having Ethics. I feel your pain. I truly do. Our societies are dying because we forgot capitalism wasn't it's own end, but was supposed to be a means to manage solving societal ills. Once you go finance for finance sake, you end up creating more ills than you solve just because there is profit to be made.
All I can say is keep pushing. The system is on the verge of breakdown, and if the only way to get people paying attention to it is to let it happen... Then that's just what we're going to have to do I guess.
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My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue. My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind of thermal failure, I was able to recover my data by keeping the phone in the freezer while I copied. Known issue. My Samsung Galaxy S21? I figure I've got another year or two in it before it, too, dies. Having beautiful dead phones that hav…
> My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Yikes, that is a long time! How many times did you fix it (screen or battery)?
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But are they "no UB in the code" great? For my use, Opus is absolutely good enough at Rust
You don't need to rely on UB in C code either.
Am I allowed to complain about this or do I have to get my VC's approval first
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iPhone 12 wasn't low end
The same applies at the low end, the grand parent comment even agrees. You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that. I don’t use my current smart phone in any ways that are different to the iMate PDA2K I had twenty years so. https://www.gsmarena.com/i_mate_pda2k-962.php
> You buy a new phone every two years, it comes with a camera, a cpu, a gpu, a host of sensors. Same as phones did two years ago, and ten years before that.