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Often times, yes. I don't want to always have to have a USB key on me, but I always have access to MFA apps via my phone, watch, or laptop. I have no idea why you're typing the code out instead of copying and pasting.

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What a useless headline. God forbid they just give the actual capacity rather than some abstract, bullshit, flexible measure that means nothing to anyone.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Not really. A 4K movie means nothing to 99% of people. Is it 4GB? 40? 400? How many can my phone hold? Or my computer?

This only makes things more understandable if you use a point of reference that everyone you're talking to is familiar with. The fact that they had to then explain how big a 4K movie is in the article clearly shows that even they know that this doesn't help people. It's just a big flashy number.

Just for context, I'm a writer, I understand the point of using these abstract measures to give a frame of reference. But in this case, just giving the capacity in GB/TB would have been easier to understand. It just wouldn't have been as sensational of a headline.

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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This is objectively stupid. There are tonnes of things you learn in maths that are useful for everyday life even if you don’t do the actual calculations by hand.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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It makes no sense. AI tools will obviously have an impact on the profession development, but suggesting that no one should learn to code is like saying no one should learn to drive because one day cars will drive themselves. It’s utter self-serving nonsense.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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LLM tools can already write basic code and will likely improve a lot, but there are more reasons to learn to code than to actually do coding yourself. Even just to be able to understand and verify the shit the AI tools spit out before pushing it live.

Nvidia knows that the more people who use AI tools, the more their hardware sells. They benefit directly from people not being able to code themselves or relying more on AI tools.

They want their magic line to keep going up. That’s all.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Nvidia makes some of the best hardware for training AI models. Increased investment in AI will inevitably increase demand for Nvidia hardware. It may boost other hardware makers too, but Nvidia is getting the biggest boost by far.

Maybe I’m being dumb or missing something but this feels incredibly obvious to me.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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But you’re still limited to the opinions of people who post on Lemmy, which, as someone who occasionally posts on Lemmy, is not a shining beacon of quality.

Even if I just went by what I get on the first page of a Google search, I’d expect I’d find what I need much faster using Google than I would using Lemmy based purely on the volume of info Google has access to. And that’s not even taking into account things like Google’s ability to search within other sites.

Unless Lemmy has gotten like 100 billions times better in the last week, this isn’t even a fair comparison.

Edit: lol, just realised you’re the same guy from the Nvidia thread.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Realistically, a couple of 10TB drives would have me covered for like a decade at least. If these massive drives bring down the price of much smaller ones, I'm a happy boy.

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Why do you need a gas station in walking distance?

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Weird. When I lived in the states, there were plenty of convenience stores that weren't attached to gas stations, and the people I knew talked about getting things "from the convenience store" even when they were getting it from the gas station, but I guess that could be a state thing or a regional thing, or even just a city-by-city thing. I take your point about the lawn mowers etc potentially needing gas though.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Assuming you have the space etc, sure. It's not like a convenience store is just a gas station that didn't think of selling gas yet.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Yeah, but you can have those without being attached to a gas station. I guess if there wasn't a better option listed it makes sense, but it's like saying you want a shopping mall when what you actually want is a public bathroom — you don't need one to have the other.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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How are running out of gas at home? I’ve never once in 30+ years run out of gas, and the only times I’ve even been close have been when I’m hours away from home.

This is a solution to a problem I’d bet almost no one has ever encountered.

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (www.bloomberg.com)

Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO::Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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I deleted all my posts before closing my accounts back when they were breaking third-party apps, although I'm sure they probably kept a private log of all posts specifically for this purpose.

To be honest, I expect AI companies are scraping Lemmy and other places for training data anyway, but I'd rather Reddit specifically not make any money off my posts.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Writer here, absolutely not having this experience. Generative AI tools are bad at writing, but people generally have a pretty low bar for what they think is good enough.

These things are great if you care about tech demos and not quality of output. If you actually need the end result to be good though, you’re gonna be waiting a while.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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That remains to be seen. We have yet to see one of these things actually get good at anything, so we don’t know how hard that last part is to do. I don’t think we can assume there will be continuous linear progress. Maybe it’ll take one year, maybe it’ll take 10, maybe it’ll just never reach that point.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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I don't mean to be dismissive of your entire train of thought (I can't follow a lot of it, probably because I'm not a dev and not familiar with a lot of the concepts you're talking about) but all the things you've described that I can understand would require these tools to be a fuckload better, on an order we haven't even begun to get close to yet, in order to not be super predictable.

It's all wonderful in theory, but we're not even close to what would be needed to even half-ass this stuff.

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist (www.msn.com)

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist::A make-up artist says she lost her job at a leading brand after an AI recruitment tool that used facial recognition technology marked her down for her body language.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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This shit seems like the perfect basis for a discrimination lawsuit.

Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV (www.businessinsider.com)

Elon Musk warns Tesla workers they'll be sleeping on the production line to build its new mass-market EV::Elon Musk said that building Tesla's next-generation EV, which is set to enter production in 2025, will require Tesla workers to sleep on the manufacturing line.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Maybe it’s time for a grown up CEO.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Web 4 — it’s web 3 but this time the grift is slightly different.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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Web 4, now with Grift 2.

HeavyDogFeet ,
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There are high-schoolers alive today (maybe even in this thread) who were born after Apple stopped charging for updates. Maybe it's time to get some new jokes.

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