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realitista ,

The company's valuation in a public company reflects the price that people pay for shares, so it shows the value of the company on the open market. The employees created this value, so it does indicate how much they each created quite accurately. And you would think that they'd at least get a representative percentage of that at least. I mean if you paint a painting and someone pays $1m for it, you get $1m gross. You make the software and IP that's sold for $100m and you only get $100k a year, that's kinda wack.

realitista ,

The share price literally wouldn't be what it was if people weren't literally buying pieces of the company at that price. So it's very literally saying what the company is worth on the open market. Even with all your obfuscation, that's still the case.

realitista ,

The value of anything is what people are willing to pay for it, full stop.

realitista ,

Honestly I can't argue with that. That's the reality of the situation. But emotionally they still deserve a bigger piece of what they created.

realitista ,

Yes, for politicians the cost is always lower to kick the can into the next administration's term. Unfortunately it becomes more and more expensive for the rest of us.

realitista ,

Windows is unusable without Rufus. So glad I used it.

realitista ,

I think you can just outlaw paying someone to do this, not the lobbying itself, no?

realitista ,

Well yes it's a given that Citizens United would need to be overturned for any of this to happen.

realitista ,

I still miss the visualzers.

realitista ,

That's one of the longest outages I've ever seen from a cloud company.

realitista ,

Tl;dr?

realitista ,

Best answer here. No data harvesting.

realitista ,

36 GBP a month for 10 items of kids clothes? That's 432 GBP a year. I'd think you could easily buy many more than 10 items of clothes for that amount and other than kids under 3 I don't think you'd need to replace them more than annually.

realitista ,

Yeah I could see it for very young babies where you may need to change things every few months. But after 2-3 years old I don't see it making sense.

realitista ,

I had completely forgotten that it was Microsoft that killed Nokia.

realitista ,

If you read the article, it's not a statement with entirely no merit.

The engineers prioritized an algorithm which is far more likely to be useful in real world scenarios where you keep trying to cram a bunch of stuff in the frunk and close it (who hasn't done this?) rather than the edge case of repeatedly testing it with vegetables until you stick your finger in it.

Anyway, I suppose it's back to the drawing board.

realitista ,

Fair point.

realitista ,

I'm using StartAllBack and have found it to be a rather nice experience.

realitista ,

I made all my accounts local only and I haven't noticed these issues. I do still use control panel and the old user manager by default, so maybe that's why?

I also used a special installer which allows for local only accounts out of the box and does some other changes. Maybe that's why I'm having a better experience. This is the guide I followed. Follow the guide for Rufus.

realitista ,

For me I'm happier with my computer since the XP days with these mods. It's fast and responsive and doesn't give me shit. It's been only a couple months since I reinstalled it, so time will tell, but so far so good.

realitista ,

Isn't the presumption here that if she is only interested in his money that she also plans to take advantage of him?

realitista ,

Her intentions were as clear as his in that video as far as I could see.

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    realitista ,

    What exactly is the concern that they will do to us?

    realitista ,

    Doesn't this have more to do with what git pulls are accepted than the status of federation though?

    realitista ,

    I work for the largest contact center tech firm, and I'm sure it won't be this year. There are major issues to be solved. The companies that acted first had cars sold for $1, entirely new offers made up that they had to honor, and their bots made poems full of swear words about how shitty their companies were. I'm not sure how long it will take for gen ai to take over but some major issues need to be solved first and I don't see much progress being made on those.

    realitista ,

    Unless you are an absolute monopoly, there is a point you can cross where your customers just leave.

    realitista ,

    Especially when these whole articles revolve around couple sentences in an earnings call which were basically "it had a bigger effect than we expected, but we're doing okay now." I'm sure as an excuse for lower than expected profits in that period.

    realitista ,

    My issue with generative AI is not that it doesn't have uses, but that it seems to me that the vast majority of those uses are nefarious.

    As far as I can tell, it has the most potential for:

    • Creating sock puppet accounts on social media to sway public opinion

    • Make fake media/ identity theft

    • Plagarize various art mediums and meld them together enough to make attribution difficult

    Other positive use cases like summarization or reformatting seem to pale in comparison to the potential negative effects of the bad use cases. There are many marginal use cases like coding or law where you may save some time but the review required is likely not that much different than the time it would take for a good programmer or lawyer to just write it.

    realitista ,

    Yes this is the fine line you have to walk. I've cut off tik tok, limited many others to 1h a day, but you can't cut them off completely or you cut off their access to their friends.

    realitista ,

    Looks like you have a problem with pulling out in time.

    realitista ,

    You can buy preinstalled hardware like the Home Assistant Green if you aren't up for it. I don't think you can really make it much simpler without just selling the hub itself.

    realitista ,

    Addons are just docker containers at the end of the day so as long as you know how to spin up a docker container, you're not adding much. And as long as you know how to spin up a docker container I don't think you'd have much issue getting the dockerized version working.

    realitista ,

    Yes home assistant green comes preinstalled with everything you need, you can use addons, etc. Just buy it, plug it in and start going. There aren't really "basic" and "advanced" versions of HA. There's just some that have addons and others where you do the addons yourself as docker containers. But all of them have the same HA features.

    realitista OP ,

    Which he did another video about

    realitista OP , (edited )

    It got funded to the tune of $240m. Which was probably about as far as they thought this through.

    realitista OP ,

    The whole thing required a subscription.

    realitista ,

    My 2009 Mac mini had 8gb of RAM. And it wasn't even very expensive to do so when I did it in ~2013. Couple hundred bucks max.

    realitista , (edited )

    11 years ago. May very well have been less. Apples still probably charging more than that to go from 8 to 16 and I had to buy all 8 and replace both DIMMS.

    realitista , (edited )

    I'm only in if it comes with a Clippy skin.

    https://media1.tenor.com/m/gieF0Q0PSogAAAAd/clippy.gif

    realitista ,

    I wanted to make a Plan9 joke, didn't even realize that there were new iterations, cool.

    realitista ,

    Upvoted for boners

    realitista ,

    I've been giving these more and more of a thought lately. I like the idea that you can just leave them on and not worry about taking them out to hear things.

    Only question. Can people near you hear them at all? Like on a plane?

    realitista ,

    So at normal listening volumes no one can hear, but it sounds like normal listening volumes aren't good enough for a plane?

    realitista ,

    Yes though the failure rate of actually trying to read it later when you need it is quite high in my experience.

    realitista , (edited )

    Close. First tape experience was a TRS-80. Later moved on to DATs on various Unix boxes, AIX, Solaris, Linux. I did own an Amiga but it had a 3.5" disk and even a 20mb hdd! During the c64 era I was on Apple II, also floppies.

    realitista ,

    Not to mention you had to type the whole freaking program in line by line from a book where the program was written out over 10 pages, then wait 2 hours for it to load from tape and if you made a single mistake you had to type the whole damn thing in again.

    At least we have some proper old man stories we have to tell our kids about how hard we had it.

    realitista ,

    It's really hard to know how this will play out. The models only have to improve a bit at this point to be reliably better than humans, as which time it probably makes sense to replace humans. It seems they will probably still hallucinate but do it little enough that it's still a net gain to use them. Compute power needed to run them will surely come down.

    I'm as skeptical as the next guy, but I do think they will have uses, especially in examples like radiology which he he uses as a negative case. However I'm pretty sure it will eventually be able to do the initial screening to find the 95% of cases with nothing at a rate similar to existing medical diagnostic testing and then return the other 5% back to a human to review and decide further treatment. Based on my experience with speech language models, I'm pretty sure you'd be able to tweak the models to produce mostly false positives rather than false negatives and then run it through further layers of review afterwards.

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