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> percentage of good, well planned, consistent and coherent software is going to approach zero

So everything stays exactly the same?

What went viral? To me it just seems like people are pretty divided on the topic which makes sense as it’s an emerging technology. I feel I see as many posts against AI as glazing it.

That’s the problem with keeping a public roadmap - in the end everyone is unhappy and also not really more informed

> Ultra processed food is far, far cheaper than whole foods.

I think this is mostly true in the US and a cultural thing.

In EU and SA for example I can buy “whole” food - just called food here - for a fraction of the price it would cost me to buy a bunch of cheeseburgers or some other junk food every day.

Realistically who is avoiding a vegetable because “it is bad for you”? Never heard of that.

Everyone knows that vegetables are good for you basically always.

Superfoods are just the latest marketing fad

I don’t think there is a simple “fits-all” solution.

In my case there is a monetised proprietary “enterprise” edition of the projects available. Contributions only get accepted if they fit into the commercial roadmap, which is shaped by the (paying) customer needs.

It’s not perfect but the OSS “community” edition is still usable and valuable to many

It’s not worth the time. You will spend uncountable hours of (unpaid) extremely exhausting labour talking to people who only care about solving their personal super specific problems. This is true for 90%+, there are exceptions but they are exceedingly rare

Trust me I tried many many times.

This has nothing to do with Google being evil it’s just one of the realities of maintaining a big open source project.

Trust me it’s not being solved by a CONTRIBUTING.md with guidelines.

90% of contributors won’t read it at all or only some parts of it and ignore the rest.

Most PRs you get solve some super specific individual problem and aren’t relevant for the wider community that uses your OSS.

It’s not their fault really but most contributions are so bad it doesn’t serve to spend any time on reviewing them earnestly.

(Been maintaining several popular projects for the last 7 years)

Having run a small business on one of the big clouds for almost 10 years now building your own data center is insane advice.

>easy

Hell no

You are able to do this stuff with open models for 1-2 years now, i for example have a comfyui pipeline that achieves a similar setup. It’s of course more work and you have to dig into the details more. I also have to adjust the pipeline and tweak it and use different models for each use case. But overall you can definitely achieve that level of control with open models already, it’s just not that user friendly

God that is the one big fear I have xD

Honestly I don’t know. Pretty comfortable where I’m now and we would never even consider using any M$ products ever. I know US culture is more about job-hopping every other year but I’m at the same place for many years now

Personally I wouldn’t even start working for an organisation that uses Microsoft …

Thanks for the offer! I don’t wanna dox myself on this account just yet - and I am slowly building an audience on IG/SC now, basically have admitted defeat of my previous strategy. Also have 2 gigs coming up in the summer _fingers-crossed_

I just was feeling some type of way seeing that comment and wanted to vent thx for listening

The worst thing is that it works.

(As a musician) i never invested in a personal brand or taking part in the social media rat race and figured I concentrate on the art / craft over meaningless performance online.

Well guess who is getting 0 gigs now because “too few followers/visibility” (or maybe my music just sucks who knows …)

I see what you mean.

But is insulting the president evidence of being in a “terrorist organisation” ? I thought free speech was the one principle that is untouchable in the US

Is that actually a realistic example? I’m having trouble following what’s happening in the US

If it’s true for TikTok it will likely be true for all other forms of popular social media (twitter, instagram, etc) too, so a ban wouldn’t have made a big difference probably.

2 people doing QA per dev seems insane even if it’s a lot cheaper. M$ is hardly know for being obsessed with quality, they’d rather have 2 sales per dev (sales is even cheaper, basically pays for itself)

Who are “they”? Of course people organise, that is the whole point of politics. Making it out that George Soros or Bilderberg or some shadow cabal is running the show was a meme already 30 years ago when I went to my first public protest (Not from the us btw)

Many years of taking care in protests against rightwing politics and I haven’t received a single penny; meanwhile everyone else is getting paid, I really fucked up I guess…

I agree and I think it’s a backlash to the 2010’s where many felt there was too much shame/shaming going on in most online spaces.

Fwiw I haven’t noticed either phenomenon much irl but that might just be my bubble.

Like with all things in life shame is best in moderation.

Too little or too much shame can lead to issue.

Problem is no one tells you what too little or too much actually is and there are many different situations where you need to figure it out on your own.

So I think sometimes people just get it wrong but ultimately everyone tries their best. Truly malicious shameless people are extremely rare in my experience.

For the topic at hand I think a lot of these “shameless” contributions come from kids

I think in science fiction it’s one of the most common themes for the talking computer to be utterly horribly wrong, often resulting in complete annihilation of all life on earth.

Unless I have been reading very different science fiction I think it’s definitely not that.

I think it’s more the confidence and seeming plausibility of LLM answers

I only used salesforce once (was “forced” to use it haha) and it was mind boggling how anyone would ever want to use it or even become an expert in using it.

I’d rather track everything in a giant excel tyvm

Hipster used to mean that but meaning changed to being someone who “doesn’t fit in” but only for performative reasons, not really “for real” but just to project an image of how cool they are

Definition of a cartel is a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices - it can be a cartel that basically oppresses farmers and have low consumer prices as result

We do have those markets but they are much more expensive (for exactly that reason that they aren’t subject to the price gauge as the supermarkets are). They are essentially for some (rich) hippies/yuppies only.

I can’t speak for other EU countries but in Germany people will buy the cheapest food almost always. Quality or farmer welfare is a minor concern for the majority.

This is a common meme but wrong. The imported goods are subject to the same restrictions as those produced within EU.

What hurts EU farmers the most is the big supermarket cartel that controls prices and pushes farmers to produce more and more cheaply (and consumers that react extremely sensitive to every price increase, but that’s a more inconvenient truth)

What hurts EU farmers the most are the huge supermarket chains which control prices. The rules&regulations thing is an often cited meme but the price war is much more impactful.

In fact we could produce for example in Germany milk in a sustainable and very environmentally friendly way if it would just cost a couple cents more, like 10 cents or even less. But consumers will basically riot if you raise the prices there so the supermarket chains don’t do it and instead put more pressure on the farmers to produce cheaply.

If you read the MERCOSUR agreement then you’ll see there are a ton of protections included against the thing you are afraid of.