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by globalnode 29d ago
saw an ad today for some ear pieces that look like audio speakers but theyre actually cameras as well, so it seems manufacturers realise glasses will annoy people but arent giving up.
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by globalnode 1mo ago
make software for yourself, learn maths for enjoyment. times have changed. i guess there will always be software jobs but they wont be the same as in the past. if youre thinking of a way to make money and earn prestige at the same time in t
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by globalnode 1mo ago
taking it upon yourself to self teach is figuring things out for yourself, no need to make it harder than it needs to be.
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by globalnode 1mo ago
if self teaching you need a book that holds your hand and doesnt try to put you through the usual trials of "lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. oh you cant? maybe repeat the subject next term", or major proofs left as
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by globalnode 1mo ago
im constanty being asked to fill out captchas (which i close) and am accused of being a bot by many of the sites i visit, so i guess im doing something right?
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by globalnode 1mo ago
their parents are smarter? lol dayum.
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by globalnode 1mo ago
I actually think ai and llm use benefit a small minority at the expense of the vast majority, and i like the tech but im not impressed with its applications. Agree you can fight whatever fight you like, but those problems you listed with fa
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by globalnode 1mo ago
and thats why you lock down your privacy, so they get nothing other than "generic privacy enthusiast #1000101010101"
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by globalnode 1mo ago
seems a lot of comments below with disdain for "bad" coworkers. every industry has them, but if theyre objectively bad why not get rid of them? surely some periodic review would do that. how did they get hired in the first place?
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by globalnode 1mo ago
whenever i hear someone bad mouthing the germans about ww2 i wonder why living in a pity party becomes part of some peoples identity.. like they thrive on those feelings and have to reach hard to generate more of it.
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by globalnode 1mo ago
why is america and its people anti-china? take a chill pill and worry about yourselves instead of other people :)
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by globalnode 1mo ago
> using ai to help create ads for your business whenever i see this i drives me away, i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand. funniest thing i saw was an ai food ad and someone asked if the ai makes the fo
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by globalnode 1mo ago
in games like wow where the more powerful you get the harder the enemies become, this reduces incentive to get more powerful. its a simple consequence so im not sure why they do it - probably to keep "time played" metric hovering
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by globalnode 1mo ago
so are mobile phones and hammers. gonna address those too? - what about clothing.. food..
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by globalnode 1mo ago
Oh please, these "attacks" are marketing exercises: Look how intelligent and devious our models are, theyre so powerful, fear them!
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by globalnode 1mo ago
defeating fascism should be tackled as a project called "defeating fascism" head on, rather than as "defeating their tools". ai is just such a generic tool that can be used in all sorts of ways to solve problems that are
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by globalnode 2mo ago
and then you have to ask who defines good and bad behaviour and who determines consequences when power is lop sided.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
im pretty sure in private companies people are vying for promotions and trying to out maneuver their colleagues in the eyes of management. just look at ai use, johnny knows how to prompt better than sammy, so johnny looks like a 2x more pro
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by globalnode 2mo ago
at least i got to see the world before it got sloppy
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by globalnode 2mo ago
plz dont wreck a good thing, keep ai well away from linux.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
choosing utility over ethics is a value judgement, thats all.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
Thanks for the perspective, I like the low bar usefulness, without that people can claim anything on their resume I guess. But I really dislike the opinions on peoples usefulness aspect. Much better to start someone off on a 3 or 6 month tr
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by globalnode 2mo ago
I big red flag for what? your social habits? lol - i guess if you have to work in a team then yeah, that would be important. but some jobs you just need to get in the truck and drive or w/e, but recruiters still stuck in the time old h
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by globalnode 2mo ago
I agree with you. I read recently Anthropic had to pay 1.5B in fines for stealing copyrighted works. You know, if us normies get caught stealing, we go to jail and don't get to keep the loot, yet these companies get a slap on the wrist
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by globalnode 2mo ago
at this point im declaring any "rewritten in X" articles as trolling lol.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
ok thanks, so its not as bad as i thought.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
as a new user i asked one question, once, in the wrong forum by mistake... it wasn't pretty. i never went back, although there were some kinder people there trying to salvage the situation :). i just figured it was for people with far
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by globalnode 2mo ago
not a usb programmer, but are you saying i can buy any old usb chip and program it with any vendors ID and spoof windows into giving me admin? if so, gj micrcosoft.
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by globalnode 2mo ago
i wont even dual boot windows on my linux machine, dont trust them not to vacuum up my linux drive data when i boot into windows. also just recently discovered their attempt to hijack the entire pc industry with secure boot, they are consis
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by globalnode 2mo ago
bit of a late reply, but yeah it makes sense if its z scores and not standard deviations

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