towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what "cutting red tape", "smarter regulation" and "taking back control" means.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The financial insensitive to ensure only paying users can access the content offsets the cost of the different infrastructure.

YouTube needs to make money as cheaply as possible. They can't afford the processing to guarantee ad delivery and secure content like that.

If the infrastructure/delivery cost of securing content goes up, streaming services can raise their prices.
YT can't really serve more ads. The platform is already pretty packed with ads

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably the whole "yeh, still capitalism. Still big oil. Still big pharma. Still genocide and world-police".
And you show that Dems are better on all those things. But because Dems don't fully SOLVE 4/4 of them, it doesn't matter who you vote for because you still get fucked.

It's bullshit.
Dems have more social benefit policies and track record of social improvements than reps.
ACA, vet funding/care, insulin etc pricing, student loans. Hopefully things like unions, but idk if I have been caught up in propaganda that Dems don't care about unions.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

GPT and the whole AI bs we have at the moment excels at being convincing. It's even prepared to back up what it says.
The problem is, that all of that is generated. Not necessarily fact.
It will generate API methods, entire libraries, sources, legal cases, and science publications.
And it will be absolutely convincing as it presents and backs up those claims.

For example, GPT gives some API function of some library that magically solves your issue. Maybe you aren't hugely familiar with the library, but you don't trust GPT - so you research this made up API method and find the actual way to do it. Except you have GPT saying this exists and it works the way you want it to. So you research more, dig deeper.
Eventually you end up reading the source code, have a deeper understanding of the API in general and how to actually find useful answers (IE how to search query for it), and end up using the method you found while trying to find the mythical perfect API method.
I mean, I guess that's a win? You learned some documentation, you solved the problem... Who cares?

Maybe I'm just bitter because that was how I first tried any of the new AI things. And I wasted 2-3 hours instead of actually solving the fucking problem by consulting the facts.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Reminds me of the story of the old engineer asked to come in and fix some machine in a factory.

The engineer inspects the machine, marks it with some chalk, then strikes the chalk mark with a hammer.
The machine works again.
The company asks for an itemised invoice after seeing the initial invoice for $10k.
To which they received:

  • hitting chalk mark with hammer: $1.
  • knowing where to place the chalk mark: $9,999

GPT suffers from garbage-in garbage-out just as much as a search engine does.
Knowing how to find search results to fix your specific situation is a skill.
Utilising GPT for such a task is equally a skill. With the added bonus of GPT randomly pulling the perfect API/Library out of its ass

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I presume the investigation is taking official testimonies and gathering actual (and traceable) evidence in order to legally confirm what we all know.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

It's all amendment rights until it's one of the racist fucks that gets murdered.
Then the police get military equipment to deal with the rising crime rates.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

And don't trust

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Middle of the night, you'll probably have a flashlight.
I feel like mothman would come talk to you

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Only time to not take a Wheel of Nope is when there is a good temperance/hermit on offer

[–] towerful@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, I think you need a passport number to be able to even book an international flight.
Not like they will spend $$$$ getting to another country to be denied at the border.

Unless they drive, I guess. I feel like it's "easy" to get into Mexico, and would probably be impossible to get home again.

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