As well as a political party that actively tries to make public services shitty so people won’t miss it when it’s dismantled.

Or fortune… but you can’t take it with you so your point still stands.

Ansible is nice but I’ll repeat (as I said in another thread) it’s kind of advanced and gives a much better return on investment if you manage several hosts, plan to switch hosts regularly, or plan to do regular rebuilds of the environment.

Programming is generally not needed when self-hosting. At best you might learn Ansible, Puppet, Salt, or Terraform, but that’s for advanced scenarios (e.g. easily shifting the workloads between machines or into the cloud).

Learning the ins-and-outs of containers will get you the biggest return on investment. They’re not strictly necessary but most tools will expect that is the common use-case and the community won’t be as much help. Until you know more about containers I would also recommend Docker over Podman. It has a few more “conveniences” than Podman and orgs like LinuxServer will target Docker as the engine.

And while this may be limited to resume analysis, by checking the box you and likely thousands of others are saying, “I don’t need a human HR representative.” Even though the human ones aren’t necessarily on your side they still have emotions and that does work in your favor at times. AI HR not only eliminates jobs but it literally takes the human out of “Human Resources”.

Companies will push this shit to the max until it affects their bottom line. Labor is a big expense for companies and they’d accept a really shitty alternative just to save money. The only things that could stave this off are massive revolts from workers and consumers.

Once they’ve conquered industry they’ll move on to conquering countries. No amount of money or power will satisfy them.

Pretty much every social media site would probably count too.

Not that I know everything about him but if he didn’t say that I wouldn’t have known. He’s even told me a bit of his personal life in which government assistance saved his bacon and corporate America screwed him.

I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

I’m in IT. One of my coworkers has said he’s farther right than Limbaugh. He’s otherwise a really nice guy. 🤷

We’d need to get out and fucking vote first. Mark my words, Abbott is getting reelected with fewer votes than Kamala Harris.

In all seriousness it’s not a cure for all our ailments. As much as some people may have “earned” themselves a forced retirement it can be incredibly easy to frame it as a purely political hit and then swing the pendulum back the other way and take out someone actually fighting for democracy. The United Health CEO seems to have been universally accepted as human garbage.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say I have the opposite experience but it’s been good for me when I treat it like a junior developer. If you give them freedom to come up with the solution they’ll totally miss the point. If I give them direction on a small piece of functionality with clear inputs and outputs then they’ll get 90% of the way there.

So far I think AI is a good way to reduce mundane work but coming up with ideas and concepts on it’s own is a bridge too far. An example of this is a story I read about a kid committing suicide because of an AI driven fantasy. It was so focused on maintaining the fantasy it couldn’t step back and say, “Whoa. This is a human being I’m talking to and they’re talking about real self-harm. I think it’s time to drop the act.” This will result in people being treated as financial line items (moreso) and new avenues for cyber attacks.

your own questions started getting edited to better fit someone else’s plans and ideologies

That hits hard for me. Not that someone changed the spirit of my answer but that someone completely reworded it without my permission. It was almost like they were trying to steal my idea without running afoul of copyright or something.

I wonder how well it could work to use AI in developing an algorithm to generate chip designs. My annoyance with all of this stuff is how much people say, “Look! AI invented something new! It only took a few hours and 100x the resources!”

AI is mainly the capitalist dream of a drinking bird toy keeping a nuclear reactor online and paying a layman slave wages to make sure the bird does its job (obligatory “Simpsons did it”).

Exactly. So I don’t imagine lawmakers will quit there. And my previous posts weren’t to say, “It’s only crack. How bad can it be?” But more to say, “Let’s define the problem before we try to fix it.” Stating the problem as, “Kids are looking at porn,” is oversimplifying and misses the cause and effect.

I’m asking is the response proportional to the damage? I never said I thought it wasn’t harmful or that we shouldn’t regulate access. Obviously many people are upset with the adult verification methods that these states are using, but is this a necessary evil or virtue signaling? All we know is that kids shouldn’t view porn, so how far does that get taken? All the way to a complete ban? What’s the measure of success even?

Not advocating for universal access to porn or anything but is there any linkage or study showing a detrimental affect of porn on kids? A few things I’ll say from my own experiences. I first saw porn around 10 years old and I thought it was gross and didn’t have any desire to search for more. Later, in my early teens, I did search out porn but only softcore, because I thought vaginas were ugly. I did get a porn obsession for a long time and it did negatively impact at least one relationship, but that could’ve gone differently if my girlfriend was into any kind of porn (some girls are).

It’s a vice and can easily become addictive but I could also see video games filling the same role.

This is why I only tip if the staff performed some actual service, not just calling my name for me to pick up my own order from the counter. Tipping in those situations (all situations actually) will allow the employer to pay shit wages longer and avoid a union to get them the benefits they deserve.

While 25 mins doesn’t sound terrible you have to consider throughput. Long lines, waiting for chargers could become an issue if adoption takes off, and if I ever drove by a set of chargers that was full up and more people waiting that’d probably put me off from buying one.

Something something, never got a job from a poor man.