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conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in How Google is killing independent sites like ours

The problem is that "don't let people game you" is extremely difficult.

It's many, many orders of magnitude easier to provide a useful search of sites that tell you the truth about what they are than it is when 99% of sites lie to you.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in How Google is killing independent sites like ours

I've definitely noticed the results suck ass, but this is a nice breakdown.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

You should hate it as a manager. You're filtering out every single quality candidate because only a deranged nut job would even consider such an unhinged request. Submitting a video, in and of itself, proves they are not worth hiring.

You don't need to process every candidate. Just randomly take 5%, or 1%, or .001%, and do a real hiring process. Anything at all is better than requiring a video application.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

That shouldn't work. They should still be unconditionally liable for anything the rep said in all scenarios, with the sole exception being obvious sabotage like "we'll give you a billion dollars to sign up" that the customer knows can't be real.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

There's also that.

But purely on the premise of "you should take the time to record a video merely for the pleasure of maybe having us look at your application", their expectations are way out of whack.

This isn't like when Google put scavenger hunts or puzzles or whatever in ads and gave job offers to people who solved them. The people who got hired by those ads were following through out of curiosity/the fun of solving the problems, and that wasn't the main/only way to get a job. It's just a new absurd demand trying to push the threshold of what's a legitimate ask.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

The scary part is presenting it as a fucking privacy feature with no consequences.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

Your company requiring video submissions for a fucking application is the easiest "this company is batshit insane and there's no possibility working for them could ever be worth it" red flag I've ever seen.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024

That's not abuse.

If the developers choose to support that hardware, they have a reason. In either case, there is no way to use open source software that's abusive, with the exception of stuff like Amazon taking an open source project, modifying it without distribution so they're not obligated to share their changes, and selling the product as a service (at a scale that makes it extremely difficult for the authors to compete). That's against the spirit of open source even if it wasn't foreseen when licenses were written and is hard to legislate.

Using open source software to save money isn't.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

This is like saying putting logs on a fire is "one or two breakthroughs away" from nuclear fusion.

LLMs do not have anything in common with intelligence. They do not resemble intelligence. There is no path from that nonsense to intelligence. It's a dead end, and a bad one.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription

None.

The actual "single core", "multi-core" were basically fine last I was aware, but they went so far into apeshit meltdown about the fact that AMD was offering better value than Intel with Ryzen (which is kind of back and forth since, but AMD is the reason I could get a 16 (real, capable of demanding single core loads too) core for $500 a couple years ago, not too long after Intel was selling 6 cores for more than that.) that it undermined everything else.

Anyways, UB's owner didn't like that AMD had good shit so he kept changing the "gaming/desktop/whatever" grade formulas to tilt the comparisons to Intel using more and more hilarious mechanisms. It started with a reasonable "you don't really benefit from games past 4/6/8 cores" and de-emphasizing super high core counts that hadn't really been an issue before, but it quickly degraded into obviously cheating hard by whatever means necessary to punish AMD, with even worse diatribes in the descriptions to match.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024

Abusing their hard work to buy cheap devices and get their longer OS support for free is not cool.

This is literally a core principle of Open Source. You can charge money if you want, but anyone is fully entitled to distribute your work for free.

It is not and cannot be abuse.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways

"AR" has always been sci-fi. The details you're discussing have never been part of the discussion because it was fiction.

This is far more AR than any of the shitty displays that project on glasses (all of which also are distorting and changing the light from the real world) and don't have meaningful capacity to interact with the real world inputs. Any reasonable definition of AR absolutely is including the Apple Vision. It's the real world, in real time, with all the inputs and processing capability required to interact with it.

All your other complaints have nothing whatsoever to do with your silly definition of AR made for the sole purpose of excluding the most exciting piece of tech in the space ever. Weight and battery capacity are also completely unrelated to any possible valid definition of what AR is.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting

They didn't do a clear coat like everything else ever made lol.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches

The paper [PDF], which includes voices from numerous academic institutions and several from OpenAI, makes the case that regulating the hardware these models rely on may be the best way to prevent its misuse.

Fuck every single one of them.

No, restricting computer hardware is not acceptable behavior.

conciselyverbose , 4 months ago to Technology in Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways

Apple hasn't called it AR.

But it absolutely is AR. If you can see the real world in real time, with additional information on top of it, that's AR. Your requirement that it not be on a screen is completely arbitrary and has no basis behind it whatsoever.