Quantumly correct.

I was just on a trip with friends down in Tennessee. I had made a comment to my buddy how dumb lifted trucks with the spacers on their wheels are and how I hate them. He said he likes them, because it tells him exactly who the person is and takes any guess work out. A voluntary scarlet letter if you will.

such bizarre and tone deaf privilege.

Just like this comment.

Yes, asinine.

I get what you’re saying and mostly agree but not quite as strongly as you see it.

For at least the comment I responded to, pirating everything without nuance doesn’t make sense. If no game creators make any money, there won’t be game creators. Companies like EA, Gearbox, Rockstar, etc that have shown shitty business practices to their employees and customers, yea, fuck em. Smaller studios that aren’t wrapped up in controversy and need to sell products to survive aren’t the same.

For the other things you mentioned, like Target and Starbucks, I agree that the messaging needs to be strong and concerted to truly be effective. However, I don’t think those examples are the best because I do think there’s been a strong message and it has been at least semi effective. Starbucks is frequently in the news and target has had a notable drop in business that the CEO has acknowledged. Idk what the long term effects of these boycotts will be, but they’re not nothing. For me, I do it mostly for my own moral obligations rather than as a large protest. I don’t drink Starbucks short of it being the only coffee shop open sometimes in an airport, so that one’s easy. I don’t go to Target for their dei rollback initiative. I can also say that of the mega stores out there that Target is one of the better options compared to say Amazon and Walmart. I’ve mostly just reduced my shopping and found alternatives that work for me.

I do what’s right for me, and if the topic arises, I will share my views with others that may or may not sway their opinions. I don’t stay silent of the issues, but they’re not so significant to me that they prioritize my time away from other matters.

So you want video games to cease to exist?

Even if they could pull it off, the data transmission speed would be sooooo bad relative to what it would take to ingest insane amount of data and then regurgitate it back.

Nah, fuck AI. I will pivot careers. Anyone that claims to be a developer but generates all of their code is just a modern day script kiddie. Idgaf about efficiencies because the ethical implications of AI are far worse than the extra money I can make for a company.

I will never be an AI code reviewer, because that’s all prompting is. Like I said, I’ll pivot careers out of dev work before I do that. Pick up a trade and work until I’m 80 if I have to, but that’s still better than being one of Claude’s bitches.

Outside of the ethics of AI, the idea of sitting in front of a screen and being a “prompt engineer” takes everything I enjoy out of coding. If it was that or death, I’d choose death.

If I’m forced into Claude Code or something similar, I will be looking for a new job. Ideally a different role in my company to keep my benefits and not have to completely start over, but if I have to jump ship, I will. Fortunately, our security and GRC teams have explicitly blocked Claude Code for the time being. I still have the tools built into Visual Studio, but I seldomly use them, and when I do it’s basically as stack overflow, and that only when I can’t find what I’m looking for through web searches first.

We had someone from our Networking team come over the other day and say that he could tell our summer interns were gone because our AI usage dropped by over $1000 / month.

I was at a Poppy concert a couple months back, and the guy in front of me at the front rail literally filmed and took pictures of every moment. During songs I intentionally made sure to be extra rowdy into his back to he couldn’t get anything clean.

I take one, maybe two pictures of each band, then phone away. Just something for me to look back on and reminisce.

Here’s an example of a time where a single letter spelling error affected the outcome even though Google knew it was a typo. Yea, LLMs will give an answer but anecdotally it’s correct less than half the time on any question of substance and at least 10%+ miss rate on simple questions.

He knew enough to know that his 9 year old was posting videos on YouTube and gave him a credit card to buy ads. It’s poor parenting and ignorance is a bullshit argument. You don’t have to master the digital world to know that letting your prepubescent child post content online without strict oversight is bad. Again, he clearly knew this was happening because again, he funded it. Shit parenting.

I know single working parents with multiple kids that are surely worse off than this guy that aren’t this stupid and are better parents just by being attentive to their children’s actions and hobbies.

The first failure was allowing his kid to have a YT channel at all, or at least not one that is heavily monitored and restricted by him or the other parent. The financial fuck up is the consequences of poor parenting.

I should clarify that I wish there was a medical option that want stupid expensive and covered by insurance. Unfortunately, I think that’s just wishful thinking. Really, I hope that better technology focused for different conditions can be developed off of the work of these other smart glasses.

I empathize with your condition, but glasses that record everything and everyone and shares that data with one of the worst companies in the world make it everyone’s problem. I understand how these can be beneficial to you and others in similar situations, but sacrificing everyone else isn’t the right answer.

What I would be okay with is if a medical provider created a similar product that doesn’t record but has the ability to do the positive things that Meta glasses do and have them available only to those that get medical approval. I would even be okay if they recorded to a private, secure and encrypted place that is regulated and the data controlled like HIPPA so it couldn’t be sold or used to train LLMs.

If this is the only solution, then everyone should have to identify they are wearing a recording device. It would single out people with disabilities, it would be everyone that used them.

I don’t have to. Yea, it shares some backend Google services, but the rest of the browser, like the other 90% isn’t Chrome. It’s like comparing Windows and Mac OS and saying that they’re the same because they both connect to the same Internet and that their operating systems. Just like Chrome v Firefox, they are two distinctly different products.

Hardly makes it “Chrome with extra steps”.

Care to elaborate? It’s actually not like chrome at all. The engine is different, it’s not Google, they haven’t blocked manifest v2 plugins… Other than being a web browser, how would you classify it as Chrome?