I’m torn on this too now. I’ve got 25 years ahead of me until official retirement age… but I should be able to get there in 10 if I buckle down and grind out my middle-mgmt tech career. (Probably way too optimistic).
Or do I really try to branch out and try something different while I still have the energy….
So sorry to hear that, Mark. She must have been very proud of her family.
It just ran its course through our house. Been a miserable couple of weeks.
@George-K said in Rivian stays on life support:
Anybody actually seen a Rivian on the road? I've seen, I think, three.
The first one was about 3 years ago, about 20 miles south of Milwaukee on I94.
My neighborhood is full of them. Also chock full of Subarus.
Why is Trump on the side of the CCP here? I don’t get it. Even getting donations shouldn’t sway him - it’s so opposed to his brand.
Any explanations?
I heard an interview with Maggie Haberman from the NYT a couple of months ago. No fan of Trump.
She said he’s pretty much the same guy that came down the escalator. Maybe a bit less energy and enthusiasm - but not that different.
I think it’s more that the CCP didn’t reciprocate.
@Jolly said in They knew. They ALWAYS knew:
If they lied about something this big, wonder what other important things they lied about?
If this truly was a weekend at Bernie’s situation…. which doesn’t seem implausible… I don’t see what the bigger lie would be.
This whole Canada thing was a funny zinger against Trudeau at first, now it’s just bizarre.
Oh that’s what makes racism fun for me… they never get it right.
(Not that I’ve had a lot of overtly racist experiences)
I don’t see what blockchain adds. Sure it’s a tamper proof ledger, but are we really worried about falsified olive records? And there’s still data entry happening - so the system can theoretically be falsified anyways.
There’s no good use case I’ve seen outside of digital currency so far.
These guys couldn’t even make it to the inauguration. I like it though - it’s fun. It’s a real policy discussion, just done in WWE style.
Does he mention his pen and phone?
H1Bs get used by both outsourcers and people looking for the best talent. Plenty of H1Bs used by McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and Google. They’re typically not looking for cheap labor.
Then there’s a bunch of H1Bs used by likes Infosys for outsourcing.
Hard to make a blanket characterization.
Made a rib roast with gravy instead of jus.
Real conversational assistants are just around the corner. Google, Alexa and Siri are crappy v1’s
@Aqua-Letifer said in Ben Affleck: “AI can’t make film that is considered art.”:
@xenon said in Ben Affleck: “AI can’t make film that is considered art.”:
Once it gets to that point
It's not going to do that.
Email marketing campaigns in the 90s enjoyed an 80% open rate.
Today, depending on the industry, 20% can be considered astronomical. And nobody's getting 80 anymore. The reason's market saturation.
There are several hundreds of attempts at your attention on the daily, and the ones that win are those that are relevant and stand out.
Generative AI is a predictive aggregator and nothing more. By its very nature, the more you let it make decisions, the more it sucks at standing out. Sure, it can trick us into doing such now due to its novelty, but there's been a pushback in volume-as-strategy, starting about 10 years ago, and it's not going to get any better. AI's not going to do anybody any favors there.
The folks who will win with generative AI will find novel, compelling uses, in much the same way that photographers do right now with their cameras. And let's remember that the only people who agonize over camera specs are (1) the companies peddling the cameras and (2) tech-bro prosumers with more money than sense. It'll be the same with AI.
Another fun thing to ponder: if AI's so revolutionary and wonderful, why is its biggest bragging right the ability to hide the fact that it's being used? Think that's in any way sustainable?
I don’t necessarily disagree. AI has zero creativity. It synthesizes new things from things it’s seen.
My comment was more that it can swamp the landscape with near-zero cost content. The good stuff won’t go away and people will always value it… but it’ll still be awash in a zero cost flood of shit.
It doesn’t have to be art. It just needs to be able to hold attention. Once it gets to that point it’ll overwhelm quality content with sheer volume.
Kinda like what happened to quality journalism.
@George-K said in If Assad falls....:
So this new "boss," supposedly has renounced Al-Queda.
THere's a not-too-small part of me that is skeptical.
Two things can be true. They don’t get along with them as political group, but the venn diagram of their beliefs can be pretty much (completely?) the same.