Woah woah woah, lot’s not compare fabulous knee high rainbow socks with the malware MS is putting in their OS. That’s not fair to rainbows or socks.

That clears it up. Apples and oranges.

I’ve got a flight booked for a snowboarding trip next February into Denver. If I go to pick my seat right now, it’s $47.99 for the aisle or window and $36.99 for a middle seat in the preferred section. In economy it’s $19.99 and $17.99 respectively.

You’re right on the first part but wrong on the last. If you pick your seat, where you pick in a row affects the price. Perhaps as a frequent flyer you have perks that others of us don’t have.

You’re verifiably wrong. If you pick your seat, exit rows, aisles, and windows cost more. You seem to be the only person that hasn’t seen that. So either you’re flying on a different United from everyone else, or you’re wrong.

A company like openAI who’s only product is the AI is already hemoragging over 100 million a year. They will never have an option to just switch to robots, and if they did, it wouldn’t recoup 100 million dollars a year. Further, AI is not a good product right now. Some places can maybe replace a couple of people without taking a hit to product quality, but it i don’t see it ever coming close to replacing full workforces.

The reason is a bubble now is because it’s so expensive that these companies that have gone all in, like Microsoft have to start recouping their investment, and places are not adopting en masse because as mentioned before, the product sucks. If they don’t get the adoption they can’t possibly afford to keep doing it, and when they stop supporting it, those companies that did go all in will be fucked.

Every AI solution I’ve ever used is a product that’s half ready for public release. Bad and expensive is not a recipe for success, and it’s going to pop.

It’s because it’s profitable, that’s why they do it. As long as they don’t Elon Musk, most people either don’t know who these people are or don’t care. And if they do go full EM, then most people still don’t care and it’s still profitable.

When an opinion is just a fallacy, it’s not an opinion, it’s ignorance or a lie.

A small animal not being visible to a human or robotic driver is absolutely a viable excuse. It’s sad that the cat died, but it’s first an foremost the fault of the owners for letting their cat out.

I don’t like the tech bro world and I’m not a fan of driverless vehicles, but this didn’t happen because it was driverless and the outcome would be the same if their were a person behind the wheel.

You can definitely argue against cars being on the road in general, but I was on a bike ride with a buddy the other day, and he hit a squirrel that ran between us and then under his bike. Sometimes bad things happen especially when dealing with animals, and blaming a computer blindly is dumb AF.

I have been balls deep in some copilot studio stuff over the past week. It is legitimately one of the worst applications I’ve use in my life. In a business environment, there is no security unless you pay for premium licenses for every user that touches a managed environment. That’s $30 per user per month for basic security. If you have one agent that 1000 employees may use, that’s baseline $30k per month. If you don’t have a managed environment, the anybody in your organization with a copilot license (not copilot studio) can login to the default environment, create agents, and share them indiscriminately. There is no middle ground.

Fuck everything about Microsoft. I really hope that AI kills them.

Proof of Concept.

I keep parroting this, but in the next couple of years, I think there will be a couple of giants that fall. I work in ServiceNow and they, like many others, have gone all in on AI. Their problem is that they were slower than some, their solution is half baked at best, and it’s prohibitively expensive. Nobody is paying 10s of thousands+ extra for the licensing to be able to run agents, and less are paying the extra licensing required for the users to be able to use that agent.

I’ve now been pulled into copilot studio, and yet again it’s another product rushed to market that isn’t ready for the big stage. Dog shit documentation and training material, and terrible environment design.

All of these big players have invested so much money in adding AI, nobody wants it, and now they’re all hemoragging money.

I’ve got two friends that are right in the edge of trying. One has a spare thin client that he wants to PoC with and was asking for distros and how to install. The other was thinking of jumping in the deep end with Arch, and I’ve warned him, but the wiki is solid, he’s not dumb, and Arch install is better than it ever has been.

I’m not sure where the thought that it’s clunky comes from, but the advantage to me is that I like the Android OS way more the the Apple OS. I don’t care about integration across devices because I don’t have more than one android device. Anytime I switch phones I login and everything loads in from my latest back up and it just works. I can connect to my computer with KDE connect or plug in with USB C if needed.

I’m not claiming it’s a better functioning product, I’m just saying the Android UX > Apple UX. The pixel has the advantage of flashing something like grapheneOS which no iPhones can do. Even with locking down side loading apps, there is still more freedom on Android devices than there are on iOS.

Also, I don’t like the feel of iPhones. I’m sure it’s something I would get used to, but it’s not my first choice.

A little, but that’s not a factor in this opinion. I think iOS is awful to use.

Imo, the Android experience is far better than iOS. I have no love for either Google or Apple, but I would rather use a slower older Android phone over any iPhone.

I prefer lowercase with hyphens, but I’m transitioning into a team that does everything camelCase, which is the second best case, but I still strongly dislike it.

So you hold down the first letter of each sentence longer so that it capitalizes rather than hold shift? That feels like it would completely mess with my flow when typing. Shift just happens naturally for me and I don’t register I’m pushing it.

I’m not thrilled that it came to the point that someone had to get shot to make the world a better place. I would have preferred it if Kirk changed his tune or just disappeared into the nothing. Instead, he continued to spread hateful rhetoric that has directly lead to others getting hurt or having their freedoms taken away. The world was immediately a better place the moment that bullet hit. I have empathy for those close to and that loved Kirk and are mourning his loss, but that’s met with the cautious optimism I have that those two kids have a chance at a better future.

Not you specifically, but this is pretty much the exact thing that I’ve seen non Americans calling for for months. Calls for why are Americans aren’t doing something about our Trump problem. Now when someone pulls the trigger and a domino falls, people around the world are clutching their pearls.

I’m not calling for violent action, but I’m also not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. When life gives you fascists, you make fertilizer.

If you could go back in time or have someone else do it and kill young adult Hitler, would you do it or condone that action?

I forgot the Sidewalk is a thing. While that tech does kind of do what OP was saying, Sidewalk is limited to only Amazon Sidewalk compatible devices, like the echo line and ring. Just at a quick glance, there are no smart TVs that can connect to that network.

That said, it is an opt out service, which it awful. No smart TVs will connect, but I’d recommend disabling for anyone that uses Amazon devices.