Automobile companies should be held accountable for destroying and lobbying against other modes of transit, so not really the best metaphor. Also destroying the environment is pretty bad.
Also there’s no cosmic law that says tech companies had to make LLMs and put them everywhere. They’re not even consistently useful.
These big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.
That’s a quote from Eco’s essay on ur-fascism, for the unfamiliar
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
Well, the context used to just be there. Now it’s not, and this is worse.
Fines should scale with wealth. Millionaire wants to speed? Okay, pay a $100,000 fine.
These same accounts keep denouncing tickets and speed cameras.
This is common conservative “Outgroups to bind, in-groups to protect” dysfunction. They’re bad people.
Cheaper if you ignore the externalized costs.
And yet the right wing is whining about moon laser climate control instead of this kind of thing.
It’s one of the things that makes me want to slap conservatives. They’ll be like “we want stay at home parents raising kids” but they’ll also be like “we don’t want to pay labor enough to do that”.
Idiots and monsters.
Isn’t that what social security was supposed to be?
Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. I think speed and accuracy of reading is also pretty low (I read like 80 wpm and 80% accuracy somewhere, but i couldn’t immediately find a good source for that).
If you’re on a text forum like this you’re probably well above the average person, and your experiences are not universal.
That said, I don’t have any data on hand about readability so you could be right. I’m sure people have studied it.
I think it’s partly because many people are only semi literate, and breaking the text up helps people read it. A larger block of text is "intimidating’
I’ve worked with a few people who are just incomprehensible. One refuses to write commit messages of any detail. Just “work in progress”. Cast him into the pit.
There was another guy that refused to name his tests. His code was like
describe(''. () => {
it('', () => {
expect(someFunc()).toEqual(0);
}
it('', () => {
expect(someFunc(1)).toEqual(0);
}
it('', () => {
expect(someFunc("").toEqual(1);
}
}
He was like, “Test names are like comments and they turn into lies! So I’m not going to do it.”
I was like, a. what the fuck. b. do you also not name your files? projects? children?
He was working at a very big company last I heard.
edit: If you’re unfamiliar, the convention is to put a human readable description where those empty strings are. This is used in the test output. If one fails, it’ll typically tell include the name in the output.
Google should be broken up and its leadership fined into oblivion for anti competitive behavior
I don’t think anyone credible sincerely thought the cyber truck was going to do well
I’ve read that if you want to kill someone, the best way to do it is to hit them with your car. The authorities will just be like “Oh, well, he was walking and you hit him what a terrible accident. Well, couldn’t be helped.”
Maybe Kraft has a murder fetish. Probably he’s just a scumbag, though.
A couple months ago I ran into a guy collecting signatures for Cuomo by Atlantic center (a major transit hub in Brooklyn). I was just like “why?? Why are you doing this??” But sadly I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to engage with him very long
I eat lunch mostly alone. Dinners maybe about half or 2/3rds with someone. But I’m well older than 18-24 :(
This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.
Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they’re clearly not the same, are they?
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
Companies demanding return to office is such a twist of the knife. It’s a pay cut, making someone spend an hour or two commuting without paying them for it. But the boss doesn’t care
Sometimes people are my old job post AI stuff and I just tell them “stop using the lie machine”