JanneVee

Because YouTube takes money deliberately from criminals an ad supported version of Netflix would hardly have Get-Rich-Quick schemes advertised which you need to pay to avoid. Make no mistake, I've seen criminal scammer ads on YouTube.

So I should just give up, have a talk about media habits with my parents and if they don't want to change, just hand YouTube the money? You freely admit that it is designed to be this bad and by giving them money actually just rewards their shitty behavior. I gave an example of a video showing how creators on YouTube can select which ads to show. Get-Rich-Quick is a category, YouTube could just take the decision to not carry those ads anymore and enforce violations as harshly as copyright strikes.

So basically I'm supposed to pay protection money? Yeah, I don't give into extortion...

Yeah if it is updated chrome plugin which Google of course delayed update on.

As it turns out there is a whole category in YouTubes ad system for Get-Rich-Quick schemes, as detailed out in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhGJUTW3ag&t=1031s (timestamped at the relevant time).

Just today I saw my elderly father click on a YouTube ad link for a crypto scam copying Swedish televisions web layout he was reading it and I saw it at the corner of my eye. He has adblock installed, he disabled it because of the terms of service popup by YouTube. What is he supposed to do, create a google account and get premium instead? How about having safe ads so he doesn't have to figure out YouTube premium?

I read about this in the Silence on the Wire by Michal Zalewski. And you don't need a fullblown AI, a good statistical model is enough to make a guess on passwords, and if you have a bunch of probabilities to cut down your search space to a more probable set. And the book is from 2005, so I wouldn't say it is new. https://nostarch.com/silence.htm

I even remember reading about how Clifford Stoll recognized the different attackers by "typing rhythm" in Cuckoo's Egg.

I feel old now. I'm fairly sure that we could do this almost as fast with VB or Delphi a couple of decades ago, but a little more deterministic results instead of having the tool inferring it from the label names. We had this and then we shoved everything in the browser and forgot that we could do this without using huge amount of compute of some generative AI model.

Look at me I'm old yelling at clouds!

Sorry but I'm actively trying to help you here. From the other reply

> it's a bit frustrating as it actively causes rifts that make it harder for me to do professional work.

My comments that you are taking that I'm being aggressive is that you have made your professional frustration about your feelings. These issues isn't who else uses the meme, but that the meme spreads a bad idea that makes your professional life harder.

I'm trying to get the point across that not all people come from the same place and don't keep the same connotations and associations with the memes they use. Making them responsible for your associations is in my view fairly aggressive.

If you feel validated by people that think the same thing go ahead, but I think is that the 'meme policing' was unnecessary on a technical response of the content.

> As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author's decision to include the 'go brrr' meme. It's connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it's generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people. There was good content in reading the article, but it turned me off at the beginning as it was rather childish -- in not-a-pleasant way -- and unfunny, and it made the rest of the article hard to read with that taste in my mouth.

I have questions...

Is the author aware of the toxic communities and their use of the meme or is the author a member of these toxic communities? Is it the authors intent to exclude you in anyway when using the meme?

And if there a bunch of "no" answers above: Why is it the authors responsibility to keep track with your associations with this meme?

Six of the nine points is about estimates and I agree. And depending on who you ask estimates is or is not part of Scrum, but that doesn't really matter... you shouldn't be spending too much time of them and if your organization requires detailed estimates they simply don't understand "agile" and they are doing "Agile". The absolutely worst thing that I've experienced was the "story point budget negotiation" ... that is not how any of it works.

> I do not understand the amount of Gen-X people who are upset about Musk.

It is not about Gen-X people. If you pay attention what he has promised and failed to deliver on. He promised to get rid of bots on Twitter and all that he has done is to make the problem worse and saying that he owns the contents of the tweets so AI companies needs to pay for access to create more sophisticated bots.

Well if The Dead Internet isn't true there is potential with the latest progress generative AI it might become true. There is an argument to be made that it has the potential to kill social media as we know it, depending on what the majority of people see a point in engaging with non-human generated content. Seeing how chess players treat cheaters, there is hope!

Yeah it doesn't require that everything is actual bots but people behaving like bots. To amend to that I've found that the bigger forums are full of actual people that are just regurgitating the most common talking points on issues and trying to discuss them deeper or developing them is pointless, because the people doing it are just there to root for their "team" not convincing anyone of their point of view. Discussions might disprove their arguments so it is avoided at all cost, with that all discussions become vapid bullshit which does nothing in the world.

I have questions: The question for me is are they removing their unpaid labor which they found out can't control? What are they replacing it with more unpaid labor vying for power? Those who have two brain cells to rub together think that this going to end well for Reddit?

Yeah this is really impressive, this time around the discontent feels different. There from my point of view there was a decline for a long time for the usefulness of reddit for me. I thought it was only me getting older but now that I see this happening is that it isn't just me.

They have consistently worsened the conditions for quality contribution with their default interfaces. I didn't realize it until now how important it is until now, because of this protest. I've already left and if my little anecdote is anything to go by, other might feel the same and do the same as me.

Nobody left Tumblr? Right now it is up in the air if this is Twitter or Tumblr result if people are going to leave due to this discontent.

That is why I tried to qualify it with "Go talk to any laissez-faire capitalist " without that little bit of qualification you are trying to ignore my argument and say it is all left wing. My point is that there is common ground here and having the people that has written and thought deeply of the problems decided of instead of trying fix it go on try to abolish capitalism instead which is a fools errand leaving us worse off.

One of my biggest gripes with the tech critique of Rushkoff (and Doctorow for that matter) is the insistence of bringing in their leftist politics into it. Go talk to any laissez-faire capitalist of the techs problems as they present them they would agree with them. The biggest problems today of tech is that the big corporations are doing regulatory capture and rent-seeking. Heck even going with the aspect of big corporations using behavior modification techniques for profit would have libertarians going WTF.

And I see comments saying that Casey is doing some strawman thing here and yet here you are with claim "1. No need".

I'm just coming here with personal experience and my own anecdote that memory layout does matter even on modern CPU:s and it isn't niche. And because it was designed with OO mindset there wasn't any quick fix available.

OO encourages objects graphs scattering your data unpredictably in memory and modern CPU:s likes to have it's data in continuous memory area where it can do prefetching and prediction on where your data resides.

The advice is that consider memory layout when doing repetitive operations on your data.

> The usual application where GC is most relevant is connected to 10s of services over some network protocol, and often has to load each business object/entity it operates on into memory to check permissions, sometimes even issue another network call, etc. Loading that entity from a list of pointers is absolutely no bottleneck in such a setting, at all - the way you might speed up the app is doing the work on the database itself, which is already written in some low-level language, efficiently.

No my example isn't a complaint on it using GC language. It is that it is loading and unloading business entities multiple times and doesn't take into account that operations could be done linearly much faster instead of hunting a field in object graph to accumulate in various ways. That is how e.g. numpy works if you make sure that the array you do your operation on is of the same type.

> Your anecdote is just a badly written application, I have plenty examples of very performant ones written in managed languages.

Yes following the ideas of what is considered SOLID principals. The objections isn't managed vs. unmanaged it is going full OO and not giving a shit about how computers work.

Well then further excuses come flying on why he is wrong again, and how performance doesn't matter to them. I have a legacy code base that I until recently worked with that domain specific Business Intelligence product built with SOLID principles. 20% of the processes CPU usage was for the GC, whenever you made a dump of the process it was 99% fragmentation of memory and pointer chasing through object trees every time. The customers complain about performance because they aren't getting their data in a timely manner and not getting the savings they were promised with the product. It is not a game but it does math on a bunch of data and there is a requirement to do it in a timely manner, which it is failing. Stop coming with excuses that it is niche, if you are doing anything useful to the data then you might want to pick up on Caseys advice.

Well as someone who has had corporate jobs for 20+ years you need to read a little between the lines. She was goaded into the response, you hear it from the question already it is from someone who is fed-up! Because the little bit of information going around is that she received her bonus and then there sits in a call claiming that they aren't meeting targets, if the company is failing to meet targets there is no bonuses even if you are the CEO. It is why she receives the pointed question of "how are we supposed to be motivated if we don't get a bonus?" no one professional asks it like that unless they are after a response. Oh boy did they get a clip.... I'm guessing that she has rationalized her own bonus in the past by saying that she needs it to be motivated.

I quit reddit in a day without the threat of electric shocks. I just deleted my 15+ year old account. I occasionally go manually in and read some comments... not missing it at all. It turned out it was just a bad habit.

So I'll just leave this, it seems that people aren't aware of it: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred

It already happened! The new trilogy and the recent series had this happen to it, the Mandalorian the two first seasons where entertaining but they are back to failing to find an audience.

I find the analysis flawed. In the article "Marvel is failing because they thought that most people were nerds: that mass audiences would actually want to delve deep into their joyless multiverse and slog through all its lore".

Marvel is failing for the simple reason that it has become "content" for an audience that doesn't exist instead of an entertaining movie/series for the masses. And anyone who has tried to point out that the audience doesn't exist is being called all the things that are bad.

Well it isn't happening today. Just spent 20 minutes of my life chasing a GPT hallucination. No doubt that it will be more accurate sometime in the future but right now I'm faster without it.

Well that required you to understand the code. My reply is disbelief off codebases that no one understands in the near term when looking at the current output. People don't trust the output and do what you did, review it and catch the potential bug before going further with it.

The issue take with it is that we are able to trust the output of AI models as we trust the output of optimizing compilers. It isn't even close that we can just fire and forget the prompt like I can code up something and trust that it 99,999% the optimizer produces the desired binary that works as intended.