That is such a weird fucking thing to say on every level.

These people really do just assume that everyone is as awful a human being as they themselves are.

The Top Gear Reliant Robin launch reached 3000ft / 900m, although they were unable to stick the landing.

I do so hope that Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone’s CEO and cofounder, fucks right off.

most devs… Kinda suck at their job

Also they like to make memes about how it’s the rest of the world that’s doing best practices, software testing, teaching, and interviewing all wrong

yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long

The protests were baked into the Project 2025 plan from its inception. They’ve changed nothing.

I’m increasingly convinced that while AI in general had a big leap forward a few years ago, since then there’s some mass hysteria type effect where everyone seems convinced that it’s been getting steadily better at the same rate - when I’ve not been able to see any of that.

I keep reading all these benchmarks that are supposedly destroyed every three months, but they never seem to turn into any noticeable improvements when I use the damn things. It’s now at the stage where if someone tries to tell me otherwise I just assume they’re either a bot themselves, or falling for some kind of hysteria/confirmation bias type effect.

So, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if autopilot literally was getting worse as they try forcing more data into it and getting nothing but overfit. It was already as good as it was going to be based on its fundamentals, which is to say, not good enough.

Making sure your advisors only tell you what you want to hear has always gone well for past dictatorships.

Yeah, it was never not going to happen. Shareholders demand unending year-on-year growth at all costs, forever, until everything is shit.

The problem when it comes to the current situation in the US, is that these protests already came baked in to the Project 2025 plan from the start.

They’re not going to change their minds on anything as a result of the protests because they already knew there’d be mass protests before Trump signed a single order.

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I live in a slightly less developed country where as far as 90% of the population are concerned, Facebook is the internet.

I hate it with a passion, but if I don’t have a login then there’s no way for me to find details of pretty much any business or event in the city.

I did a ‘download all your data’ on Facebook a while back and there wasn’t anything about my tracked browser history. Does this mean they’ve also violated the “users should be able to see the data you have on them” article of the GDPR as well?

I’m guessing they’re trying to hide behind weasel shit about the ids being anonymized or something as though it wasn’t trivially easy for them to deanonymize…

The fact that there’s no buckets means that you can’t then usefully draw any further conclusions about the ratio of buckets to things. In your first two examples we can take the results and use them to work out further things like how much might the buckets weigh, what happens if we add more buckets or more things, etc.

In the divide by zero answer, we know nothing about the buckets, and the number of things becomes meaningless. But worse of all is that it’s easy to hide this from the unwary, which is why you occasionally see “proofs” online that 1=2, which rely on hiding divide-by-zero operations behind some sneaky algebra.

When we say we “can’t” divide by zero, we mean ok you can divide by zero, but you’ll get a useless answer that leaves you at a mathematical dead end. Infinity isn’t reversible, or even strictly equal to itself.

working as designed

I’m amazed at how after 50 years, over 100,000 top-tier software engineers, and $3,500,000,000,000, Microsoft are still so bad at making operating systems.

It’s almost as if Capitalist rhetoric about innovation is bullshit.

In the case of Air Canada, the thing the chatbot promised was actually pretty reasonable on its own terms, which is both why the customer believed it and why the judge said they had to honour it. I don’t think it would have gone the same way if the bot offered to sell them a Boeing 777 for $10.

Yeah, I always found it weird how chatbots were basically a less efficient and less reliable way to access data that’s already on the website but all the companies were racing to get one. People kept telling me that I’m in the minority in being able to find information on a webpage, but I suspect the sort of people who are too dumb to do that aren’t going to have much better luck dealing with the quirks and eccentricies of a chatbot either.

You in turn are overestimating how much effort is required for an established bot farm to add a platform to their system.

I used to see that shit decades ago in the phpBB days, you’d get accounts signing up to a board with 20 active users to post climate change denialist articles, even though the website itself had nothing to do with climate change. (Looking back on it now, the oil lobby was probably the first big user of internet forum astroturfing, but somehow nothing ever came of it…)

I’ve got a pet theory that a hypothetical alien species’ music would be more recognizably similar to humans’ than their biology would.