The sloppiest was the X-Men movie where Magneto has a sensible, empathic plan to end discrimination, and they just had to mention like in one sentence: Well, his machine has a defect though, so it will cause unintended destruction, and we have to stop him.
It was so weird to study in STEM and meet other Star Trek fans in the cantina. Now there is something wrong with Wesley Crusher and I'm supposed to hate him and project that on the child actor, too? And when Jeri Ryan is nice enough to come all the way to a European convention, they yell "strip"? (At least they were disgusted as well about the latter, just reported others doing it.)
The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.
But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.
Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.
This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don't want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.
And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.
In Germany a few years ago, police shot a fleeing non-violent weed dealer in the back of the head, instantly killing him. It was in a residential area, and the bullet flew right past a playing kid, iirc.
It was ruled a good shooting, as it would not be acceptable for the public safety to risk that he might have gotten away.
Perhaps, people who are in "fear" of everything, even as someone flees, should not have access to any kind of weapon, or sharp or long objects, for that matter. They should wear mittens.
An important point is missing, and the headline is misleading: The flagship models are unaffordable.
More energy efficient models with (even) less accurate results are a fraction of wage costs. So they would be very affordable to give an existing worker an extra tool. Just no reason for widespread use as long as the "subsidised" ones are available well under cost.
Whether this extra tool does more harm or more good is a different question; due to the hype of using it everywhere for everything, the former is often true.
I'm sure that, in theory, are careful and considerate use can be helpful. For example, as a coding agent, when I give it a simple task like I would a junior dev, and I'd check everything anyway. Things like adding a field to a form and applying it to UI, middleware, database, automated tests first etc.
I heard that as well. Some say that the "fancy city folks" as which the Grimm brothers were perceived got an already watered down version of the real thing.
Compared to American adaptations such as Cinderella, the written Grimm version is the wild one, though.
lol - I don't use any AI code in projects I'm paid for at all, but I experiment in my free time. One of the few advantages is that I can keep going when I'm completely braindead, like before first coffee or when I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago. So I prompt things like "run those test thingies" when I can't even remember the gradle/maven task that I use 50 times per week.
I had a EUR 99 digital camera back then which could fit about 15 photos at mediocre resolution. 1600x1200 used about 0.5 MB. I would think that many consumer devices took higher resolution photos in the late 2000s already, though.
For 2 years, I had to set up production environments on RHEL, mostly Apache and Keycloak servers. I had a limited, very specific list of sudo permissions, and I had to ask very specifically what I else needed, which was then granted by people who neither knew nor cared what I was working on.
SELinux permission problems were always the fallback reason when nothing else made sense. With my permissions, I could not just straight up check for it. E. g. Apache would not server a folder, cryptic error -> check file permissions -> check general Apache config problems -> assume SELinux permission is missing and request it, supplying the exact command they need to type.
Evidently, it's not enough when many people try to block or ignore ads.
What would stop them would be a sufficiently large minority that really takes note of the ads they see and actively avoids the products. Like, even when it is the best for a given situation, buy the second best instead.
Only that would take away from the people they still do reach.
In theory, even a minority (20%?) could make ads harmful for the advertiser.
That is my exact experience. I was basically just incoherently whining about an issue I had that involved accessing the DB for old legacy windows photo albums and preserving them, and it spit out a fully working program that did all that.
Then again, it often latches onto a way to do something that messes things up and leads nowhere, and I have to be the one to say: "STOP. The goal is to install a scanner on a very common OS, one that is praised for being particularly compatible to this. Now you want me to add 50 lines of custom configuration to a background service and switch it to an unsupported version. We are clearly on the wrong path here."
Hence I do experiment with it at home to see its limits, but my customers get 100 % human generated solutions.
The one point I don't completely understand is the tax debt: Wouldn't a failed business, no matter how ridiculous, be a complete write-off?
Maybe the problem is that he has to tax each fiscal year independently, so a tax debt in 2023 from successful freelance work would not be diminished by a failed "business idea" in 2024.
The sloppiest was the X-Men movie where Magneto has a sensible, empathic plan to end discrimination, and they just had to mention like in one sentence: Well, his machine has a defect though, so it will cause unintended destruction, and we have to stop him.
Well, any story with Magneto as antagonist, tbh.
Good stuff - made a Patreon account and a bounteous € 1 sub for this.
It was so weird to study in STEM and meet other Star Trek fans in the cantina. Now there is something wrong with Wesley Crusher and I'm supposed to hate him and project that on the child actor, too? And when Jeri Ryan is nice enough to come all the way to a European convention, they yell "strip"? (At least they were disgusted as well about the latter, just reported others doing it.)
No thanks, I'll hang out with decent people.
The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.
But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.
Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.
This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don't want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.
And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.
In Germany a few years ago, police shot a fleeing non-violent weed dealer in the back of the head, instantly killing him. It was in a residential area, and the bullet flew right past a playing kid, iirc.
It was ruled a good shooting, as it would not be acceptable for the public safety to risk that he might have gotten away.
Perhaps, people who are in "fear" of everything, even as someone flees, should not have access to any kind of weapon, or sharp or long objects, for that matter. They should wear mittens.
An important point is missing, and the headline is misleading: The flagship models are unaffordable.
More energy efficient models with (even) less accurate results are a fraction of wage costs. So they would be very affordable to give an existing worker an extra tool. Just no reason for widespread use as long as the "subsidised" ones are available well under cost.
Whether this extra tool does more harm or more good is a different question; due to the hype of using it everywhere for everything, the former is often true.
I'm sure that, in theory, are careful and considerate use can be helpful. For example, as a coding agent, when I give it a simple task like I would a junior dev, and I'd check everything anyway. Things like adding a field to a form and applying it to UI, middleware, database, automated tests first etc.
For me, "earn rewards" is really important.
I doomscroll on 3 different platforms, I view xxx-sites, I check the weather, I buy a shower mat.
I should be rewarded!
(What is the reward exactly?)
I heard that as well. Some say that the "fancy city folks" as which the Grimm brothers were perceived got an already watered down version of the real thing.
Compared to American adaptations such as Cinderella, the written Grimm version is the wild one, though.
When you are German and they read you the ORIGINAL Grim tales at bedtime, you know what's up sooner than you'd wish.
Is it true, a common misunderstanding about the story? Or just a joke?
lol - I don't use any AI code in projects I'm paid for at all, but I experiment in my free time. One of the few advantages is that I can keep going when I'm completely braindead, like before first coffee or when I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago. So I prompt things like "run those test thingies" when I can't even remember the gradle/maven task that I use 50 times per week.
So yes, for me, strangely relatable :-)
I had a EUR 99 digital camera back then which could fit about 15 photos at mediocre resolution. 1600x1200 used about 0.5 MB. I would think that many consumer devices took higher resolution photos in the late 2000s already, though.
Don't you think it might have IDE? In any case, I use almost only SSDs internally, HDDs externally for backups.
750 GB. That visible side advertises as "750,000 pictures" or something, but the other side clarifies that it's 750 GB.
For 2 years, I had to set up production environments on RHEL, mostly Apache and Keycloak servers. I had a limited, very specific list of sudo permissions, and I had to ask very specifically what I else needed, which was then granted by people who neither knew nor cared what I was working on.
SELinux permission problems were always the fallback reason when nothing else made sense. With my permissions, I could not just straight up check for it. E. g. Apache would not server a folder, cryptic error -> check file permissions -> check general Apache config problems -> assume SELinux permission is missing and request it, supplying the exact command they need to type.
Evidently, it's not enough when many people try to block or ignore ads.
What would stop them would be a sufficiently large minority that really takes note of the ads they see and actively avoids the products. Like, even when it is the best for a given situation, buy the second best instead.
Only that would take away from the people they still do reach.
In theory, even a minority (20%?) could make ads harmful for the advertiser.
Fantastic, this will collapse sooner than expected. Looking forward to an influx of projects that I get to do from scratch after they hit a wall.
Oh my, it's not just the security and reliability, imagine the performance ...
That is my exact experience. I was basically just incoherently whining about an issue I had that involved accessing the DB for old legacy windows photo albums and preserving them, and it spit out a fully working program that did all that.
Then again, it often latches onto a way to do something that messes things up and leads nowhere, and I have to be the one to say: "STOP. The goal is to install a scanner on a very common OS, one that is praised for being particularly compatible to this. Now you want me to add 50 lines of custom configuration to a background service and switch it to an unsupported version. We are clearly on the wrong path here."
Hence I do experiment with it at home to see its limits, but my customers get 100 % human generated solutions.
The one point I don't completely understand is the tax debt: Wouldn't a failed business, no matter how ridiculous, be a complete write-off?
Maybe the problem is that he has to tax each fiscal year independently, so a tax debt in 2023 from successful freelance work would not be diminished by a failed "business idea" in 2024.