It's fucking diabolical ain't it
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Holy shit you have got to be kidding me.
When they said they are using AI I thought it was like a lot of scientists and engineers use "AI". Like some sort of expert system with a neural network somewhere in the guts. Some math thing that gets labeled as AI to keep the funding going.
But they are actually using Grok. An LLM. A bullshit generation machine.
They are actually going "@grok Where do we bomb the brown people?"
That's fucking batshit insane. They don't actually think that it is an AI right? They don't actually think it can reason or think at all? Or solve problems? Or any of the things that would actually be useful, instead of simply generating the next most probable piece of bullshit in a long line of never ending bullshit.
This world is actually fucking insane. The amount of brain washing going on when it comes to AI is wild.
I didn't learn what "shipping" was, and that it was a common thing, until recently. But my mind and soul already knew back in 1993 exactly what shipping was.
Which is impressive because it still sucks balls. Especially when it misses items, so you need to dig through folders to find the item. Only for the subject to have the exact word you searched for and it somehow didn't show up.
Plus the annoying top results and search results being mixed in the same view. Either just sort by time or by relevance. Don't go mixing them together into a messy results view that's hard to use.
They've calmed down a bit with it now, but there was this phase where they had those small little popups all over the place whenever they changed stuff or added something new. Sometimes even two or three of them you needed to clear just to do the damn job you booted up the infernal program for in the first place. It would drive me insane. Especially when there was something actually worth looking at, but I need to do my job first. But in order to use the tool, you needed to close those popups and once you did they were gone forever. So good job remember what it was and how to find it. Such awful UX design.
Tho Plex recently did a full screen wizard to show off their new "Discussion" feature. A feature I do not want and will never use. But I was still required to go through the slide deck on each of my devices before I could use the app again. UX is really an art and in my experience kind of a lost art for the most part these days.
Ew that AI generated headline made me throw up in my mouth a bit
When you are having a really big yawn and feel the bottom of your mouth tense up. Those are the absolute worst cramps. Especially when you're with someone else who thinks you're choking or having a seizure or something. And you can't tell them it's fine and it's just a cramp, since you can't open your mouth.
US: We've created a drone system that can perfectly navigate your country using your data.
Padme Netherlands: To help defend us right?
US: Stares
Padme Netherlands: You are going to defend us right?
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Oh lord he chonk
Yeah especially because they now have some convoluted method involving different counts of processing, cache etc. But the developer has no easy way of seeing those statistics and thus has no feel for them. And developers already have little control over how much tokens a task takes. Which was fine with the flat rate, just use the service. But now that those things actually matter, the stats should be way easier to see?
So in typical Microsoft fashion not only did they raise prices they somehow made it even more shit. Like the AI already sucked, but does the service itself need to suck as well?
Not being able to control costs and very vague productivity improvement claims makes the ROI impossible to calculate. So even if the AI wasn't shit, it would still be hard to figure out if it's even helping at all.
Second floor basement?!?!?!
Shout out to the Thought Emporium which are also working on getting brain cells to play Doom:
Are we going some sort of animal? Of more of like anime waifu kind of vibe?
That's no longer the way it works in this new economy (at least in the US). About 50% of all consumer spending is done by the top 10% of incomes. Companies have figured out they can either join the race to the bottom, fight with the competition and eak out meager profits. Or they can just make shit expensive as fuck, have record profits and still have enough customers in the rich. By simply doing less for more money, they can earn more even though the total amount of sales and customers has gone down. The decline in sales is easily offset by the higher prices, leading to more revenue and more importantly way more profit.
This is why there are so many people living pay check to pay check, unable to afford needed stuff and on the edge of losing everything. While at the same time the markets are doing better than ever, so many companies are having record profits across the board. And this trend is expected to continue in the near future. The rich are spending while the other 90% are unsure about the future and limit spending. This furthers the divide between rich and poor and makes companies target the rich and forget about the rest.
Maybe some crazy person would take the risk and try to make something for the other 90%. But in doing so they have to work a lot harder and margins would be slim. Costs are up on everything and anything, so making something regular people can actually afford is hard. Let alone do that and make a profit and be able to keep quality at a proper level. The quality would suffer, lots of outsourcing would be involved, meeting any sort of regulations is hard and costly let alone optional targets like the environment and being sustainable.
The only way companies see a future for less rich folk is with subscriptions. Just load everyone up with a shit load of cheap subscriptions. Can't afford a new $1000 appliance? Not a problem, you get it now and pay later. Not mentioning that pay later means pay forever and the total amount paid is way more than $1000. Plus people have a hard time managing finances with a lot of small loans and subscriptions. It's all abstract till they get overwhelmed with debt. Something that happens more and more each day.
Well you say that as a joke, but back in the day this was a real thing. Not exactly downloading, because the internet wasn't really a thing back then, but using software to gain more ram.
I was a big fan of QEMM myself and had it in the original box with all the manuals and such. I already had a pirated version through the sneakernet, but got the original on sale as well. I still have that box somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
At allowed DOS and other TSRs to be loaded into what's known as upper memory. This is the memory in between 640KB and 1MB. This area often wasn't used as it can't be accessed through regular addressing. Tools that need more memory could often address the space above 1MB and was designed for machines with 2 or 4MB (or more). As most games and other software was limited to 640KB it could be a pain in the ass to manage that memory. Often selectively not loading certain drivers at boot to leave enough memory for the more hungry software.
With QEMM this was no longer an issue, shoving a lot of stuff from below 640kb to above, leaving a lot of memory free all the time.
Later some of this was also implemented directly into DOS (I think MSDOS 5 but also other non MS OSes had this). Although I think by that point high memory was often used (the first little bit above 1M). But by that time most machines had more than 2MB of memory and games and other software often used all of the memory, not limited to 640KB. Software developers often used DOS extenders to act as middlemen where the software can access all of the ram without any complexity needed. The extender could just handle it without any issue and the developer could focus on their software instead of mundane things like memory access.
Note the often wrongly attributed 640KB quote of Bill Gates stems from the era. But he never said it and nobody thought that at the time. It wasn't even a real DOS limitation, more of an IBM architecture limitation. And that became the defacto standard which made it harder to fix.
Peak Famke Janssen is peak tho
Listen here you little shit
See also Mohinder, Rashid and Vishal.
Often this is because some part of either the IDE or the build chain failed to clear some part that needed to be cleared. Especially for large projects and on older machines, compiling takes a while. Usually only small changes are made during programming, so to optimize the work flow it tries to only re-compile what absolutely needs to be recompiled. This speeds up the process, allowing for iterative development without waiting a long time.
I remember working with Java on my old Pentium 1 system and it taking easily 45 mins to compile something. That's where the xkcd 303 got its origins. https://xkcd.com/303/
But sometimes this fails in some way, which can lead to very bizarre results. Often causing headscratches figuring out what went wrong, assuming the fault to be in what the developer did. A quick way to check is to simply delete the intermediate compiler result (often the obj or bin dir, or both) and do a whole fresh compile. Sometimes it's enough to simply compile again, often when the error was caused by some race condition in the build process. For example something being flagged as needing cleanup, but the build being done before the cleanup was done. A recompile at that point will probably work as the cleanup has most likely happened.
Sometimes shit's just cursed and there is no explanation, probably angered some coding god somewhere. Perform the proper ritual and you're good to go.
Is it still shipping if they canonically get together?