@carnage4life ride hailing was only cheaper because no wage protection for drivers & no control over quality of service or vehicle. As standards are put in place the costs start matching up.
Never a fan of ride hailing. It was a phase

@carnage4life The cloud was always at least 3x physical hardware.

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@carnage4life I always omit preconditions from examples I use to illustrate a specific point so that if they're reused verbatim they will crash. I expect people to actually read and understand what they're doing. (Obviously the preconditions are spelled out earlier, but later examples only show the code directly relevant to the point being explained.)

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#ExemplarExamples ?

@carnage4life many years ago I was rolling out SendGrid using their .net library. We very quickly ran out of connections because the actual library wasn't doing connection management.

I filed the bug, but they pointed at the official.net example for using the http client. This was the newest HttpClient that was actually a factory for IDisposable objects. And the text explained that you needed to manage the HttpClient as a singleton, but the sample code didn't actually do that. 🤷‍♂️

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So you're saying the CEO/investor class behind these increases won't scale back any of their profit-taking...

@carnage4life If it streams it bleeds(TM).

@carnage4life I thought Disney+ was much older but then I realized I might be thinking of the Disney channel (1983).

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"Felonious Trumpe" is way too good of a name for him.

@carnage4life @JoshuaHolland Sounds like the NY Times!

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Looks to me like the boss or manager went and bought another boat with the discretionary fund again.

@carnage4life And along comes a business administrator and orders you to take the taped clock off. Don't you know the clock underneath goes right twice a day? The taped one only once. Can't have that.

@carnage4life The ceiling clock is very thick so looks as though it is double faced, which I have seen in very large rooms. So this could be a bodge where the original clock works from one viewpoint but requires a hack from another viewpoint.

@carnage4life Asking? I thought it was "telling".

@carnage4life this seems like a bad move for Zoom just from a marketing perspective

@carnage4life “You can run your company successfully with Zoom. We can’t of course. But we’re sure you can.”

@carnage4life People don’t get this. Accuracy of the information is entirely unrelated to the goal of these models, which is simply to sound human.

@carnage4life Asimov in his legendary series that began with I, Robot and ended with the last foundation book, explores this in exhausting detail. An adversary eventually breaks any rules-based system.

Asimov makes the observation only by eliminating the value of personhood and creating a hive-ish mind can you create a rule system.

LLMs are a more sophisticated Positronic brain than a random number generator, but they can still not think beyond their rule limits.

@carnage4life "Autocomplete" is a good way of putting it, based on parroting all things that have ever been said on the internet.

LLMs: the world's most sophisticated autocomplete parrots.

Feeling so much better about my healthcare already.

@carnage4life must be nice to burn cash so easily. Hey, do you know anyone to help get verified on threads?

@carnage4life related
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110770837825451460

Forrester: “While Musk’s vision is to turn “X” into an “everything app,” this takes time, money, and people — three things that the company no longer has.”
H/t @carnage4life

@carnage4life I want to point out. Google Sound Search and Google Lens are amazing. They simply don't have comparable alternatives and are often overlooked.

It also misses Chrome which has seen 10 years of constant innovation and changed the way we use the Internet (it probably wasn't axed as hard as other products because Pichai himself comes from the Chrome team).

@carnage4life ...& of course OpenAI's response to this is to say 'if you persist in fighting discrimination we can't do business in the EU.'

@carnage4life excellent toot sir

@carnage4life absolutely spot on. All the “existential risk” noise from the folks investing billions in it are attempts to put a regulatory moat around what they cannot put a technical moat around

@carnage4life Ah! That would explain it!!

One person I spoke to said their RSUs are so underwater that the best financial outcome would be getting laid off to collect severance and then getting a gig at a smaller company to address the compensation shortfall from stock price collapse from 2021.

@carnage4life there is a difference though. I can see if the code I am about to copy is crap. ChatGPT just cheerfully spew it out without batting an eye.

@carnage4life Can’t imagine an American or European leader doing this: “calls by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for Japanese companies to pay workers more as inflation takes hold in an economy used to years of deflation and stagnant wages, and as Japan prepares for its annual spring round of labour negotiations” https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-trims-annual-profit-outlook-firmer-yen-2023-02-07/?rpc=401

@carnage4life CEOs everywhere doing all they can to muzzle this guy challenge

@carnage4life whelp, guess its time to buy a Switch.

@carnage4life Doesn't work for me, at least currently. It does say "try again later as Mastodon may throttle requests"

@carnage4life Thank you. It's interesting, useful ... but my rule of thumb: if you don't understand it fully and how it might be misused .... and don't need to use it: leave it out.

@carnage4life Sounds like it does for Mastodon what the currated "For You" tab does for #XTwitter. Eek!