atomicbocks @ atomicbocks @sh.itjust.works

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You have to remember that when Clippy was introduced with Office 97 in Nov. 1996 a lot of people were coming to a PC from a DOS era or older machine, typewriter, or nothing at all. Anthropomorphic assistants were all the rage to teach people how to use a GUI for the first time. Admittedly Microsoft took things too far. But for a lot of people who didn’t know the wizards were there the assistants were genuinely helpful.

I have seen people downvoted to oblivion for bringing up things like this in threads about Chinese EVs.

You are clearly only reading the parts you want to read. Have fun.

I posted it because you claimed none of that happened before 2020.

Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.

You seem to misunderstand the ire;

AI in its current state has existed for over a decade. Watson used ML algorithms to beat Jeopardy by answering natural language questions in 2011. But techbros have gotten ahold of it and decided that copyright rules don’t apply to them and now the cat is out of the bag?!? From the outside it looks like bootlicking for the same bullshit that told us we would be using blockchain to process mortgages in 10 years… 10 years ago. AI isn’t just here to stay it’s been here for 70 years.

The text that became Project 2025 has been published every four years or so since the Regan administration.

That’s step two.

Start with Plex and learn from there.

You may be right about the copyrights in the individual unit, but I was talking about the underlying car OS in response to the commenter who said “most car systems run android”. QNX is a real-time operating system which is required for something like a car. Another for instance would be Microsoft Auto which Ford used before switching to QNX.

In general a modern car will have dozens or hundreds of computers running their own software and communicating in a sort of API fashion usually through something like CAN bus. Most of these systems can’t afford to wait on something to boot when you start your car.

In very general terms we are talking about the main difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.

I was under the impression that a large portion of cars still ran QNX.

Yeah, this kinda looks cute while the dog is sitting, but all I can imagine when the dog walks away is poor puppy getting flung side to side on its back.

IDK. Something tells me we aren’t done hearing about his ties to Epstein or him sleeping around as CEO.

Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

Given that I have worked with people who got confused when the start button stopped having the word “Start” on it I am going to disagree with you.

I can totally see somebody putting in a ticket because “it kept adding letters to the end of the file name when they saved”.

The weird thing is that it worked too well. Like Y2K, it was fixed so it became a nothing burger. Now everyone thinks it was an overreaction and don’t want to keep fixing things.

I remember people talking about not curing covid as fast because then people wouldn’t take the next pandemic as seriously.

They have drone carrier drones now.

I agree but I feel that you are missing the importance in being educated on how to learn. Having access to all of human knowledge means nothing if you don’t know what to do with it.

The large majority of the people I am referring to in my previous comment seem to be allergic to learning or at least convinced that the learning part of their life is finished.

Speaking as a Millennial who has worked at several colleges;

GenZ didn’t fuck themselves, they were fucked by GenX and older Millennials… AKA their parents and, to a certain extent, educators. Who, for some reason, decided to not pass on a single fucking skill they were taught as kids.

Seriously I have been around people just 10 years or so younger than I am who cannot make change, read cursive or analog clocks, or even use a mouse.

Honestly I am still convinced that it was a handout, though not directly, to the auto industry because Obama had campaigned on saving Detroit but the bailouts weren’t enough to keep GM and Chrysler afloat. (Ford, in a business move that I wish was more common but also because they were dying before the recession, leveraged the blue oval logo as collateral on a loan.)