stormeuh

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[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Don't forget the garbage listicle websites which pollute every search for "the best x" where x is something like a vacuum cleaner. Judging by the utter uselessness of search engines these days, there must be A LOT of those sites...

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, collective punishment, i.e. trump gets elected.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn't have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie's filibuster.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

To combat this I think drivers, firmware, etc. should be acknowledged as being in the same category as spare parts, manuals, repair tools, etc. They are equally as vital to being able to repair your device, and therefore should be open sourced at the latest when a manufacturer pulls support. Of course I would prefer them to be open sourced immediately, but with how software IP works currently that seems like a pipe dream, especially for devices with very complex drivers, like GPU's.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah yes, the old "Communism is when no food" non-argument.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And much before that it was rule-based machine learning, which was basically databases and fancy inference algorithms. So I guess "AI" has always meant "the most advanced computer science thing which looks kind of intelligent". It's only now that it looks intelligent enough to fool laypeople into thinking there actually is intelligence there.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But they do it stochastically, so you only have a suspicion watching gives you fewer ads, but aren't 100% sure

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 147 points 2 months ago (7 children)

IMO this should be the case for everything developed using public money, looking at you, pharmaceutical companies...

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Even if it's just playing back videos, it still should compensate for the distortion of the spherical display. That's a "simple" 3d transformation, but with the amount of pixels, coordinating between the GPUs and some redundancy, it doesn't seem like an excessive amount of computing power. The whole thing is still an impressive excess though...

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Who do you think the profit of increasing the price tag goes to? The workers in the factory to help them deal with inflation, or the rich shareholders?

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It is bias laundering though. They hide behind an "objective" algorithm, which was trained on a huge dataset of past ~~biased~~ hiring decisions.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

And they force you to use it if you want autosave, which is essential in a work environment given the stability of MS Office programs (or at least my ability to crash Excel).

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