Breve

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[–] Breve@pawb.social 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Or they could raise wages to attract more workers... Or they could bring in more foreign workers to fill the labour gap... But no, clearly taking children out of their actual education to be labourers in unskilled jobs is better than either of those options.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I said in my original comment that it can't universally parse and validate every HTML document. If they're older pages that don't do lots of crazy formatting then it's not too hard to use regex as a first pass then take a second pass through the results to weed out the odd stuff.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I guess it depends on your definition of "parse", but let me tell you it's still very painful to deal with things like attributes appearing in any order inside of a tag so I definitely am not advocating to use regex to "read" (or whatever you want to call it) HTML.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 29 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I use regex in SQL to parse HTML stored in a database. It can't universally parse and validate every HTML document, but it can still be used to find specific data like pulling out every link.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago

Oh absolutely, but modern machine learning algorithms will be far more effective and biased. You might think it would lower prices in poorer neighborhoods, but instead it might discover they are a captive market with no nearby grocery stores and poor transit to get to a "cheaper" Wendy's, and instead raise prices to squeeze people who have few alternatives and are already struggling. Welcome to the enshitification of fast food.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I bet their version of dynamic pricing is less "the price of a burger changes from 2pm to 6pm based on demand" and more "we let the AI slowly adjust prices across different regions over days and weeks to learn the point that extracts the maximum profit in each market".

[–] Breve@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago

Yes, it's the court ordered ban that would prevent him from getting a loan, not the judgement of defrauding banks... 🙄

[–] Breve@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

Many of my friends are very left-wing, eat the rich types, yet still have piles of Amazon boxes at their door because they automatically use it to buy everything. Unless it's convenient, change will never happen.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 94 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Everyone: Don't say anything sensitive or personal to an AI because it could end up in training data!

Microsoft: We're making it easier to feed everything you do on your computer to an AI from notepad to your desktop!

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[–] Breve@pawb.social 10 points 9 months ago

I just made the switch and Steam with Proton has been really smooth, they've made a lot of progress to make it easy since the Steam Deck has come out. I don't play any online competitive games that use anti-cheat though.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I know someone who works in emergency services who said that people in those professions are actually afraid of seeking any type of mental health support because if their employers were to find out, they could be put on administrative duties, unpaid leave, or outright fired for being mentally unfit. The problem is systemic.

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