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Wow he really thinks a lot of himself doesn’t he?

And since they cut food stamps we should make a reference to that.

We could call it the Hungry Games or something. I don’t know, maybe we can workshop the idea

Really efficient sentencing. Kind of like that scene in Andor.

Guilty, next case.

We’ve had this discussion with them, it doesn’t work, but they don’t want to know, so instead they’re just going to annoy everyone for no reason.

AI ingest huge amounts of data and then vectorise it, to the point at which it’s no longer even a language.

So they literally see no difference between “Mercury is the first planet in the solar system” and “Mercury obedo lobo mukwongo i kin jami ma ki lwongo ni solar system ma ineno man pe ineno”. That’s why AI companies keep going on about multimodality, text and video and images are all the same to an AI, they’re just different ways of representing the same concepts.

So putting a thorn on everything won’t be effective if it is used consistently, as the AI will just treat it as a different language, and vectorise it away into weird AI math language where the thorn no longer exists.

I suspect that if anything is going to become big enough to warrant its own community it would probably be steamOS rather than any of the hardware, after all in a few months the hardware will be out and there won’t be as much to talk about.

But the OS is going to be getting updates I would assume, so there’s always going to be new topics

They sleep under the desk. Everyone knows that

Surely the corruption isn’t unprecedented. It’s the Trump administration, so the corruption is entirely precedented. If they were competent, that would be unprecedented.

No it’s not largely because of Google mocking around with it.

Just install Linux stop trying to make Android desktop a thing. It’s not going to be a thing and no one really wants it to be a thing anyway. Move on.

If I were shareholder I would want answers as to what the actual hell Cook is doing right with Apple. Every decision just seems to be intentionally designed to lose money.

From all the messing around with core products, to the bizarre decisions that led to the updated vision pro, a device no one is interested in, been upgraded to the latest version of the device no one is interested in, now with tungsten. Nevertheless I’m sure the iPhone sock is going to be a rip roaring success.

They could replace him with a goldfish swimming around a tank to make decisions, and it would lead to more coherent outcomes.

I mean, I’ve been running Linux off it on a Pi for years without issue.

My sister’s cat was named by a 5-year-old, so for no apparent reason that I can make out, his name is Zanzibar.

It’s a lot better than the practise of posting basically every news story because it tangentially involves a computer.

After all breathing pure oxygen is incredibly bad for your health.

If only he’d gone the next step and actually looked up how electrolytes work.

This is how conspiracy theorists actually think, they do a single Google search, fail to understand the answer because typically they have the intelligence of a lump of cheese, and form a totally incoherent theory as a result. Once the theory is formed, any evidence to the contrary is disregarded.

Flat earthers primary reason for believing the earth is flat is that otherwise water wouldn’t form puddles and lakes it would always be flowing downhill. This makes perfect sense provided you’ve failed to achieve a 12-year-old’s understanding of gravity. Which of course they have failed to achieve because of the aforementioned intellectual deficiency.

And independents scientists called them out. I haven’t heard anyone trying to claim that fluorine is dangerous.

Literally every drug claims to have side effects and virtually no one ever experiences them because it only affects 0.01% of the population. And then they just have a slightly different alternative and now fine.

You think Russia cares?

It’s not like India has a particularly good economic outlook anyway so I’m not even sure what this guy’s on about.

We have an office in India and I’ve interacted with them a fair bit and in my experience they’re all come off as lunatics. They seem to take great pleasure in been mindless drones and doing everything by the book, which often results in more work than would have happened if they had engage some in common sense.

Here is an example that you can use to see how they just make their own lives harder

So one of the things we have to do occasionally is security incident reports, if anything happens like there is a data breach or even if just a potential data breach on one of our brazilian servers, it has to be thoroughly investigated and a report written up about it, so far, so good. Most of the report is written by us or our office in the US depending on what server was breached and what exactly happened, but some of the fine detail work is done by the office in India. A lot of what they do is correlate data and write reports, which are then packaged into the whole folder and then sent off to upper management, who probably ignore it to be honest.

We have this whole knowledge base article that tells everybody how to do every part of the job, the problem is it’s awful and out of date so no one reads it anymore. One of the managers in the India office went to look up the report procedure and couldn’t find any mention of the India office, because as I said it’s out of date. They know it’s out of date because the last updated date is sometime around 2018 which was before the India office even opened. So because of this they started to refuse to do the correlating of data, but they didn’t say anything to us, they just stopped doing it. So it rolls around to the day before the report is supposed to go up to management, and we realise that they haven’t sent us anything yet. So we have a meeting where they state that they are no longer going to do this because the knowledge article doesn’t mention them. This results in more meetings to try and work out what the problem is and ultimately the knowledge article gets updated to include them. So now they have 24 hours to do a task that normally takes them a week, and if they don’t do it they’ll be the ones that get in trouble.

And I’m wondering now having read this if most of it was in fact just the manager being a dictator and everyone else not feeling like they’re in a position that lets them argue with him. My manager absolutely would listen to her subordinates but maybe he won’t.

What you’re after is a bit of socialism.

We don’t have to kill all the millionaires and billionaires, they are just required to contribute to the world more than they take, as long as they do that they can have their luxury yachts.

The problem is almost none of them actually do contribute anything to the world and most of the ones that do contribute things that the world doesn’t want. Elon Musk contributes a lot of electric cars to the world, which would be a good thing, it’s just a shame they’re all dangerous killing machines.