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[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

While I agree with everything you've said, it's also fair to acknowledge that losing one's job unexpectedly is a disruptive life change that not everyone is adequately prepared for financially or emotionally and we can empathize with them.

Edit, seriously what have I said here that's downvote worthy?

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

And make America pay for it! That'd make me laugh every time I think about it for now and forever after Donald Trump tried to get Mexico to pay for his dumb fucking wall.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 7 points 2 years ago

AFAIK, LLC's weren't really a thing in California in 1976.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 168 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that the only grounds they have are that HP didn't disclose that their All-In-Ones won't let you scan or fax without ink and not, you know, the fact that they do that in the first place? It should be illegal to disable critical functions of a device simply because an unrelated function is temporarily unavailable. There's no technical reason HP is doing this other than, "fuck you, buy more ink."

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

It does not matter how many people are on your instance. The only things that matter are that your instance hasn't been defederated from other instances with communities you'd want to participate in, that it is kept up to date and online, and that your instance owner/operators stay on top of moderation. I've not heard of any problems along these lines with lemm.ee

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I see, well I'll gladly keep my fingerprint sensor over that unnecessary mess.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure if that really fits because I don't recall any other prominent Republicans having issues with handling classified information/documents at the time.

And Hillary definitely did mishandle classified information (whether it was marked as such or not) and sent it on an insecure personal email server instead of via SIPR or Top Secret channels. Trump, it turns out, did much worse during his presidency and was non-cooperative during his investigation. Biden also appears to have mishandled classified documents, but was at least cooperative with his investigation. This shouldn't be a partisan issue, we should be holding all the careless/negligent old boomers we keep electing accountable for mishandling classified information/documents. We should be holding them to at least the same standard we hold service members and government employees/contractors to and not giving them a free pass.

There's nothing that's going to convince me that Democrats' pushing onward with Hillary as a candidate instead of choosing Bernie, while downplaying her perfectly legitimate email scandal along with the DNC's own fuckery helping her cheat during the primary debates, wasn't responsible for her losing the presidency and giving us the nightmare of a Trump presidency instead. The timing of Jim Comey's investigation concluding sucked, but she shouldn't have done what she did and it's entirely her fault.

But yeah, I guess we can still mock GOP whataboutism with the "buttery males" thing if it keeps making us feel better.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 17 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I don't understand how Apple still has such massive foreheads and cutouts on the top of their screen. How do people know at a glance which apps have unread notifications?

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If ChatGPT only costs $700k to run per day and they have a $10b war-chest, assuming there were no other overhead/development costs, OpenAI could run ChatGPT for 39 years. I'm not saying the premise of the article is flawed, but seeing as those are the only 2 relevant data points that they presented in this (honestly poorly written) article, I'm more than a little dubious.

But, as a thought experiment, let's say there's some truth to the claim that they're burning through their stack of money in just one year. If things get too dire, Microsoft will just buy 51% or more of OpenAI (they're going to be at 49% anyway after the $10b deal), take controlling interest, and figure out a way to make it profitable.

What's most likely going to happen is OpenAI is going to continue finding ways to cut costs like caching common query responses for free users (and possibly even entire conversations, assuming they get some common follow-up responses). They'll likely iterate on their infrastructure and cut costs for running new queries. Then they'll charge enough for their APIs to start making a lot of money. Needless to say, I do not see OpenAI going bankrupt next year. I think they're going to be profitable within 5-10 years. Microsoft is not dumb and they will not let OpenAI fail.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 points 2 years ago

Right, but the person who prompted this image exists right now and their job will exist for the foreseeable future, so they need to not suck at their job until they're no longer needed. I personally don't see generative AI gaining the creative ability to define its own prompts in the near future, even if its generative outputs improve to the point where you don't need an experienced prompter to ensure that hands aren't deformed. Prompters are still going to be needed for highly specific prompts.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 29 points 2 years ago (6 children)

For sure, hands are generally getting better, but they are still a persistent problem. Mostly you need a prompter who isn't lazy and is actually looking at the outputs.

[–] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly thighs, legs, and wings for me are on pretty even footing depending on what I'm doing for a meal. At places that do whole chickens and not wings specifically, I generally prefer the order I listed. But wings from places that specialize in wings are really great. Whole breasts are just undeniably over by themselves as my least favorite way to eat chicken (even though I don't dislike them or anything, I just don't prefer them).

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