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> work which burns through money repeating things we already know (racism is bad! poor people are sicker!) and accomplishing exactly nothing

Why do we need to study the sun? We already know it goes around the Earth.

Flippant, but the point should be clear. Some of the most taken for granted things can also be the ones least studied... And least understood. Wouldn't you like to know why being poor leads to worse outcomes? Perhaps confounding factors?

Are the new jobs in the room now?

Or perhaps they're somewhere in West Virginia.

I feel like AI fails the XY problem constantly. And it's one thing that I know people hated so much on Stack overflow.

Why not when it's so trivial?

They should clearly buy e-ink price displays! /s

Maple syrup is a big one. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to even fancy breakfast restaurants and had real maple syrup.

Cracker barrel used to, decades ago now. It's all garbage corn syrup now. I'd rather not have syrup at all than that cloying, thick, gross stuff.

Auditing is assumption of blame or responsibility to another party.

They are incentivized to strike the best balance of certifying (who wants to go to a place that never certifies) and validity (rubber stamp mills reflect the blame).

Yes, it is meant to be adversarial, to a point.

I imagine it goes over about as well as trying to get people to be more vegetarian.

Protein has become pretty tightly associated in culture with healthy.

Why would anyone spend time reading something that someone couldn't even spend the time to write themselves?

People have seen others make insane, life changing money at this slot machine and are wanting to take their chances.

There are no fundamentals.

There is very low signal to the noise.

I download an attachment from a colleague. I edit it and save it. I try to send the updated file back via outlook... And it says the file is not available.

This is one of the most basic operations that people do! Why does it not work?

Why would I need to go back in and tell it to keep it locally for when it was local in the first place!?

It's absolutely inane shit like this that drives me up a wall with Microsoft. Do these people use their own products?

OneDrive is awful.

Why are my files I created on my local device not on my device

That is a complete distraction from Meta in particular selling social media hard to kids even knowing that their work explicitly caused mental harm.

This is not a I own stock am I culpable issue, it is a company knowing their product is dangerous and ignoring the issues because it doesn't make them more money.

Same shit as the tobacco industry. People do banally evil shit for money.

Under Biden they at least tried

They claim greed because they always choose the path that makes them more money even if it has clear, evidence-based proof of societal harm.

Ya know, just like the Sacklers and pushing oxycontin.

Speaking over people on a microphone and loudspeaker isn't open debate either

You're not wrong. It's almost a religious fervor. And much like so many religious figures, you get a sort of Rorschach test on how you use/view it.

Is it a tool? Is it going to make humans obsolete?

Doesn't matter because if you don't praise and adore AI the [market|capital] will leave you behind.

It's pervasive as fuck. I go into stores with local artists and can't help but think what of this was made with AI. It draws me more towards physical things that cannot have been tainted.

Thanks for the really detailed response!

Do most clients do a constant throughput or do they do bursts? Because speed does matter a lot if it's burst (send 100MB to fill a buffer, then wait). The faster you fill whatever buffer, the faster you can let another client use the connection.

Correlated, but obviously bad code can really fuck with neighbors. And each client has an incentive to be greedy so users of that client get a better experience. So you fall back again to QOS for what you care about..

The answer that no one likes: make it cost a nominal amount of money.

Enough to make it so bots are expensive to run.

Do you seriously believe that is not happening now? Or that even a libertarian utopia could manage to achieve agreement?

If you're going to get philosophical, go all the way. Why have society at all because it's just people imposing their will on others? Or do you at least agree that there exists a line?

Now count up the .NET runtime dlls too!

Free market depends on relatively equal knowledge. If there is significant knowledge disparity it's no longer free.

Internet initially helped consumers with knowledge. Now that balance has shifted to more and more corporations knowing more.

If we enshrine into law significant privacy expectations, that can restore the knowledge balance.

All the models I have used will frequently jump ahead a ton of steps and not verify any of its assumptions. From generating a ton of code output I didn't ask for, to making a ton of assumptions about what I'm working on without appropriate context.

We are returning to feudalism, with a cyberpunk spin on it.

You will not own anything. You don't even really own your tech now.

The writing is on the wall: you will not be allowed to modify what you own.

I don't get why people are so gung-ho about these companies having a moat.

As a user and a consumer, I don't want them to have a moat. Moat means pseudo-monopoly. That is the exact opposite of what we want.

Only the investors and owners want a moat, to keep others out.

So what they're doing? They're competing. Good.

Where do attempts to steal the election land on the spectrum of

|not ok to kidnap - - - - - - - ok to kidnap|?

Shift enter should always put in a new line. Good luck exiting a block though with it.

It's because enter does different things at different times in the exact same text box.

Write a code snippet/block text. Does [enter] insert a newline, exit the block, or send the message?

What about in a bulleted or numbered list?

And my 2 biggest pet peeves with MS Teams:

1. trying to edit the first letter in a `preformat block`. It's not possible. It will either exit the block or go to the second letter.

2. Consistency with bold/italics. Bold a selection of text. Then backspace once. Are you going to write bold or normal? What does ctrl-B do? Anytime you backspace into a bolded section, it will convert your editing back to bold, and you cannot disable bold.

Judge people by actions not what they say.

You are arguing the opposite, that we should judge by what they say and not what they do?