What’s one type of data you regret not backing up earlier?
WHY WOULD YOU DELETE THAT?
What kind of cracksmoker does that? Some of those items (as this person discovered) cannot be found again. Copyright is evil because it means much gets purged, when it should be required to be archived somewhere.
I hate most “smart” people because they are no competition but should be.
I was using em dashes before most of y’all were even born. Get out of here with this “it must be AI” shit.
What commonly regarded good advice from women is actually terrible advice?
If advice from women to other women is counted, it’s this:
“Have sex immediately with guys you don’t really like but do want sex from, but make the ‘good’ guys wait for sex.”
This has the exact opposite effect as the one intended. It’s terrible advice and a horrible practice if you want a quality long-term relationship.
That doesn’t mean you as a woman (or as a man) must jump into bed on the first date, but it does mean you are vastly more likely to alienate and drive away the good guys you want to stick around while the guys you don’t want stalk and harass you. It’s utterly moronic to do this.
And if I (as would many guys) found out that a woman had treated me or thought about me like this I’d dump her immediately, no questions asked.
Never mind passkeys (which are garbage), what kind of doofus authenticates to their phone or anywhere with facial recognition or a fingerprint? A very doofy kind of doofus for sure.
Because I am extremely smart and know what the fuck I am doing, AI has allowed me to undertake and successfully complete projects that in the past I could’ve done but would not have attempted due to time constraints. Now, those projects that would’ve cost me days, weeks or months I can complete sometimes in hours.
Like most tools, AI makes smart people better and smarter and dumb people worse and stupider. It’s hard to avoid that — which is exactly why the left despises AI.
This is something I have been saying for several years now. In my lifetime the “progressives” have switched places with conservatives so that they are now far more likely to be opposed to any change and/or progress than traditional conservatives ever were. It’s been strange to witness, and even odder as it has been so firmly denied while so very clearly occurring.
I do not know quite what to make of it, but it has been sad to see.
I get so tired of hearing, “But…but…but…people can’t do the things you do!”
I don’t care. I just do not care. I’m not magic. I’m not even a genius. Do or do not, etc. But leave me the fuck out of it.
Something that for years was not allowed to be discussed and that is also really foreign from men’s experiences and understanding is the hatred attractive women often have for other attractive women.
As a dude with mostly female friends, I have to admit I still do not comprehend it. There is not a guy in the world who has ever thought (consciously or unconsciously1), Damn, I wish George Clooney weren’t so attractive! That should be stopped! That is just not how male intrasexual competition works, to the extent it even exists post high school.
Like, it’d never occur to a man that because there are more attractive male athletes than they are on TV, that those athletes should not be shown or should be forced to cover up. This is not a thought a man would have in a billion years. But it’s how many women seem to operate by default for some reason. And I think that it’s gotten far worse over the past couple of decades. Like most things, since the 1990s it has metastasized into something dark and dangerous.
It’s disconcerting to think that women would be more ardent supporters of sharia law than most men because they’d see it as disadvantaging their competitors. We should probably do something about that. Not sure what, though.
This is absolute nonsense.
Personal example: I work for a small SaaS company. I do not typically write much about my day job. However, I’ll make an exception for the moment, with specific and identifying details omitted. Anyway, for various reasons two developers recently departed. We will not replace them because Claude can do their jobs as well as they did them or better.
If another dev leaves, we will also not be replacing that person.
In addition, recently, a person from the support team left for greener pastures. Because we now have AI on the front end of our support process and it answers questions pretty well (has been trained on many, many past tickets), it has reduced actually-entered tickets a human has to handle by 30%. Which means that support role went unfilled as it was not needed.
That’s three actual jobs, deleted. Like I said, the company is not that big, so that’s a significant percentage of our workforce. This is happening all over the world now.
So, yeah, what Ben is peddling is a laughable lie.
Unfortunately, this is utter self-serving nonsense. It does not take a fucking $100 million lab to bionegineer a dangerous virus, you asinine idiot mook. The smallpox genome is on the goddamn internet, you utter lying moron1.
What this really is: an attempt to prevent regulation of AI models that might be able to do dangerous things. That’s it. That’s all. Don’t look beyond that because there is not anything beyond that.
Is anyone doing any real got-damn science around here anymore?
Anyone who is “upset” about data center water “usage” is a goddamn clown doofus.
That is all.
Why does it make so many idiot leftists so angry that Ukraine has successfully resisted Russia?
Aren’t they typically fans of the underdog?
I think everything seems like AI and CGI to Gen Z; they do not believe even experiences they have themselves. They live in a full simulation world.