[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 48 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 64 points 3 weeks ago

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...

We do need a little more time, though. And money.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 22 points 3 weeks ago

This one really shows Larson's willingness to put the work in to convey a silly joke with only the art details.

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[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have good news!?

...This isn't a particularly gendered problem.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago

It might be possible Ferengi also have higher-than-human-average neuroplasticity and simply adapt easier - this might even aid in the on the job theory.

I think you're on to something.

Various Ferengi having a kind of genius foreign to Federation values is a recurring theme in DS9.

Nog, in particular, gets up to some antics that probably require some brilliance. I recall him hacking or circumventing things even early in the series.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's an acronym: T.W.A.I.N. (edit: a backconym, as was pointed out - I've also heard that the weird upper case name came first, and the weirder acronym was added later.)

"Technology without an interesting name."

And... That's all I remember about it, at the moment.

Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 18 points 4 months ago

The answer is 2.

Cling to known humans who write their own code.

Snake oil salesmen always encourage the public to bet against the experts, with predictable results.

Someday ethically sourced AI can be used responsibly by trustworthy coders.

But the key is choosing to collaborate with trustworthy coders.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I used to always use Minecraft for this. Sure, they can't do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.

I say "used to" because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.

(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that's all one needs to know.)

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 13 points 4 months ago
  • Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?

Yes.

  • Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?

I'm in the same boat. I'll be trying out these answers.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's a couple of them, I think.

I found this one:

https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy

Edit: Better link:

!witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca

Thanks!

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Altair Basic was released in 1978 for hardware that sold around 25,000 units..

I'm sure glad computing remained exactly equally complex since then, with exactly the same number of users, and same minimal diversity of use cases. (This is sarcasm.)

Everything should still take 10 days. Anyone who tells me it takes longer probably believes all that crap about the Internet being more than a passing fad. (Still sarcasm.)

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