leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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Then where is it?

There's hardly any application that's more than a gimmick. ChatGPT is an incompetent liar, Sora and all the image/video generators produce mediocre crap the can't reasonably controlled, chat bots keep making up stuff, etc. etc.

This tech is done. Why do you think there's no progress from openai? The tech hit a ceiling. LLMs scaled to their current state very quickly, but each increment used exponentially more compute. There's not enough compute, not enough training data to get better.

I'm pretty sure, you don't understand how models work. It's just magic for you. Just like blockchains, NFTs and VR. None of them changed the world in any meaningful way - just scams.

AI companies very fundamentally don't make money, and have no way to become profitable in the near future. None of their tech has any business model. OpenAI relies 100% on Microsoft essentially donating azure instances.

Sure, AI has its applications, but not hundreds of billions worth of applications.

That's an internet thing.

You often can't easily distinguish irony/sarcasm from stupidity, written language (i.e., no cues like tone), language barriers in general (as a non-native I might not get subtleties or might use them wrong), and the high density of people on the spectrum doesn't exactly help.

Understanding people is hard.

Humans actually ignore certain bad attributes of music if that's what they're used to.

There has been a study a whole back and essentially, if you're old, you are much more tolerant to the typical tape noise and hissing than young people, simply because that's what you grew up with. MP3s and digital compression in general sounds really bad, though. For young people, the opposite is true, they can ignore compression artifacts, but not tape hiss.

You successfully managed to ignore the joke entirely.

Why the hate? Because 99% of what's AI now is actively harming society.

Training and running them consumes enormous amounts of energy, all the IP is within some gigantic monopolistic corporations, these corporations in turn push huge amounts of money into products that are not only bad, but dangerous (MS Recall or X's porn generator AI), other corporations use AI as excuses to fire thousands of people and letting their core products rot away.

Currently, AI has hardly any positive sides, and those positives are very very narrow. Overall it's a net negative.

Stored Procedures have been a thing for literally decades. But they're an absolute pain.

What would really improve the usefulness of databases are autoindexes and generally more "let me handle that for you". I'd argue 90% of business apps essentially need a way to store objects and their relationships, but doing that in an efficient manner is really hard (at least if you've got a few more rows to handle).

Actually, the Pico is also an arm device, just the M0 variant which admittedly barely counts as a computer.

The ranking is perfectly fine, since some of these languages in practice are interchangeable.

You'll find business software in Java, C#, Python (and VBA, but we're not talking about that), and you'll find more system oriented software in C, C++, Rust.

Now, you're right insofar that it's misleading to lump all languages together, C and JS rarely compete, but it's a useful tool to gauge developer/employer pools. If you decide, which language to learn because you want to dip into a new niche, you might not want to learn Steve's obscure cross-paradigm language (SOCL), but e.g. Rust or whatever is popular.

Same is true for businesses. Yes, your software may be written in really good C, but it's probably a good idea to go the Java route for the next project, since it's hard to find 20 new C devs for web apps.

I'm not saying that this specific ranking here is good, its metrics are dubious at best, but the idea isn't inherently stupid.

I never really got the idea of having one hobby and letting that define you.

I'm gardening a bit and I'm not very good at it, if I need some woodworking done and feel like it's a reasonable difficulty, I'll do that myself (badly) etc etc.

I don't want to spend all my free time doing one thing, that's what I do as a job already.

My company tried to jump onto the bandwagon in 2018 or so, but it fizzled out very quickly. Fortunately.

It's the same crap like with blockchain.

People have no idea how sophisticated modern IT systems already are, and if you glue fancy words on solved problems, people will cheer you for being super innovative.

Are there ways to say exactly this kind of happy? I'm pretty sure, happy and gay didn't mean exactly the same. Synonyms rarely are drop in replacement.

But yes, there is a gap now. That might get filled with another word, or people get better at discerning ironic and unironic meaning. Or maybe people stop using it in this way - groovy or rad aren't exactly common today either.

That's how language works.

Many words shifted meaning over time, some gained connotation, some lost it, some turned to something completely different.

Just look at the word "gay", it shifted from "happy" to "haha homosexuals are outwardly happy, so we call them gay semi-ironically" to "homosexual". The homophobic connotation was added, then the original meaning got lost.

You can complain, sure, but just read an old text from the 17th century and try to find a sentence that means exactly the same today as it did back then.

Real professionals eat during meetings.

I have to say, I'm always skeptical of proposals that seem too active.

Agriculture is mostly passive. Of course plants need care, but most of the time, they're doing their thing alone. If you need constant monitoring, maintenance, resource cycling, etc, etc, it'll drive costs up very quickly and will need to be detached from nature quite a bit.

This is, at best, a niche solution for rich countries. It won't feed the masses.

I'm not talking about the incident in Romania, but in Germany.

A shipyard needed some wires over a river deactivated and that caused an overload cascade, because the river was the border between two providers who had different assumptions about the capacity of the power lines connecting them.

Nuclear power was never a significant power source in Germany and most of the reactors were scheduled to be shut down anyway.

These companies will cry about anything. If they have to pay 5% above minimum wage, they'll cry about abject worker's shortage, if they have to pay a minimum wage at all (only introduced in 2015), they'll cry that this will definitely destroy the entire economy, despite the lowest unemployment in decades following the introduction.

You'd be surprised, how fragile critical infrastructure often is. There was an incident in Europe a few years ago, where a single miscalculation in a planned power line shutdown almost caused the entire European grid to split.

A similar thing to the first point happened at my old company.

When it became clear that working from home won't go away, management came up with some new and actually reasonable rules, that basically allowed 100% wfh, if the team was okay with it.

Now, here in Germany east/west differences are still pretty stark. So someone asked "sooo, I'm in the East, get a low wage, but work with a team from the West. If my neighbor would start working for the same team, formally at an office in the West, but 100% from home, he'd get West wages". Management didn't address that at all, so a bunch of people (including myself) just said fuck it, quit and now earn way better wages working from home.

I worked for a company that handled a ton of personal data. Pretty much every person in Germany, including addresses, bank account details, etc.

On my first day there (fresh from university) I was given literally full read access to the entire database. And as I later found out by accident: they did not track any data exfiltration at all. I copied several gigabytes of data without anyone noticing.

Your data is only as secure as the least motivated data broker sees fit. And that's not very fit.