jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 2 hours ago

Almost everywhere I've applied or know people at is frothing at the mouth for AI. Interestingly, I met a guy last weekend that works for a big video game studio you've heard of, and he was like "everyone here hates AI. Management on down". So that was nice to hear.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 21 points 2 hours ago

. He’s not allowed to say, “It’s not.” Only positive feedback. They need to justify its continued use, so he needs to find benefits to report to the higher-ups.

Those higher-ups should not be in charge.

This feels like the emperor's new clothes, except no one listens to the children pointing out the folly.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 15 hours ago

No. Don't think I was even invited to any.

I'm not close to anyone from high school. I haven't talked to anyone from that era in years. I wasn't my best self back then, and I don't really want to relive it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Other answers are good.

I expect there's a lot of racism, too. A lot of people don't want those people to have nice things, even if it means personally suffering.

If you build a nice train system, you might have to see those people on your day to day. In a car, you're isolated and feel safe.

But mostly I expect it's because of the massive highway system that was built without corresponding passenger rail.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 23 hours ago

I was outside the city a couple weeks ago and saw a lot of maga stuff. Maybe I should get like stickers or business cards for this site to leave places like that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn't even know how to start.

But I'm confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she'd use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think that's actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don't run much more than a web browser, if they don't play games.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem like something private organizations should be allowed to do.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?

A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 32 points 1 day ago (17 children)

It's not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It's inertia.

Most people don't care about things. They just don't. Their brains just don't have the juice.

 

This is the bad place.

It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

I hate this.

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