The first and biggest is that AI tools tend to reinforce whatever you already believe because they are trying to maintain engagement in the same way social media does. So he's not really getting a second opinion from a trusted advisor he's got a crony telling him what he wants to hear.

That's before we talk about AI hallucinations and wildly inaccurate information you can get from them.

The only good reason to use AI to run a country is if you're Donald Trump and that's because it couldn't possibly get worse at that point

But yeah in Trump's economy I'm not going to be doing much in the way of upgrades because he has completely wrecked everything and none of us know if we're going to have jobs in a week no matter where you work because we have a lunatic in charge of the economy.

But I'm sure you're not a Republican and you would never vote for trump. I bet you're not American cuz you're kind never is when you are called out.

Are you going to give me a tds? You know in a few years you'll be able to have me killed for that. I mean sure you're going to be homeless anyway but at least you'll know that I was murdered for having TDS and that will make the cat food you're eating out of a dumpster so much more delicious.

Because one of the big manufacturers said they're going to stop making ddr4 so of course it's shooting up. The industry is moving on to ddr5.

There's nothing unprecedented about this it happens every time during the final transition between ram generations. The price will shoot up for a little while and then it will collapse as people's old ram makes it onto ebay.

I just bought 32 GB of dddr3 for an old i5 board I've got kicking around and I paid $30 for it shipped.

They still had keyboards in TOS.

Presumably there will also still be vintage computing nerds in the future.

Despite how it seems to you, that is both right and correct.

It's correct because that's how it works, and it's right because requiring that articles in a given language be written by someone who speaks that language is a requirement for it to be known whether they are slop.

If you want translations, use a translation tool.

If you want details to be propagated from articles in languages you don't speak into the articles in languages you do speak, then make that happen.

If you don't want to put in the time to account for the barriers in place to prevent slop articles, Wikipedia doesn't want your input. Make your own encyclopedia. You may use Wikipedia articles as your starting point. GLWT!

The problem with having advanced credentials is that if you don't have experience then every potential employer looks at you as a short-term hire.

My kid ran into this where they couldn't go straight into grad school because it was made clear they wouldn't be able to get a job ever if they did.

Every perspective employer will look at your experience and they will agree that you're valuable and capable of doing good work and profitable work for them but they will also fully expect you to hang around just long enough to get a little bit of experience and then leave.

So they invest a bunch of money and you training and getting you up to speed and all that fun stuff and then right as you've got to the point where you're doing profitable work for them you leave for somewhere else, usually a competitor to make more money.

So in just about every field you have to get your undergrad degree, go work for a few years, come back and get your graduate degree and head on out.

At that point they're not expecting you to immediately leave the same way.

There are exceptions to this for hyperin demand employees but that's pretty much just AI programmers.

Basically extremely narrow specialties where companies don't have a choice but to hire whatever they can get.

What sucks is that the stupid ass big beautiful bill just killed all the funding to the programs my kid needed to go to grad school. So right as they were getting ready to start seriously applying for grad school they have the rug pulled out from under them.

If they could have gone directly into grad school that would have been fine but again, that's basically a career ender

We all will shower and piss water and drink piss water.

The clean water will go to the data centers and the processed water will be what us peasants are stuck with.

Initially that processed water will be heavily purified but over time budgets get cut and nobody wants to pay and who's going to pay anyway so before long you're going to start having all sorts of fun things in that water like some of the drugs that get pissed out or bacteria or whatever.

But within the next 10 to 15 years Americans are going to be without clean water and not just a handful of people living out in the sticks that nobody cares about.

But like I always say it's a small price to pay so we can have a panic attack about trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest. If you don't like that moral panic I've got like five or six others you can choose from.

There's plenty of "AI"-related processing which could be delayed and nobody would notice. Training of new models, for example. You get [access to] a new model a couple days later and you won't even notice, because you get it when you get it already. Google is also sufficiently distributed that they can simply move this processing to another location, since both the queries and the results are very small and there will be no appreciable delay associated with doing the processing far away.

August of last year, Hashicorp decided to move its products away from open source licenses to a source-available license with fuzzy parameters on its use in production. Shortly afterwards, the community forked Terraform as OpenTF and then it was endorsed and picked up by the Linux Foundation as OpenTofu. Now the project is ready to declare a stable release that it says is a production-ready “drop-in replacement for Terraform.” OpenTofu isn’t a direct clone of Terraform, however. Kuba Martin, the interim technical lead of OpenTofu, says that the project is working to include client-side state encryption and other features that the community has proposed. Read the post for more details, but it looks like the project has made some strong strides in just a few months. As I wrote last year on The New Stack about the OpenTofu fork, the Linux Foundation made the right call to endorse this fork. Companies and open source projects had adopted Terraform as part of their infrastructure and contributed to its success under the idea that it was open source. The abrupt change to a non-OSI license – and one that’s poorly understood and intentionally vague – set organizations scrambling. Zero day licensing event

And whether you can keep your mouth shut or probably the big deciding factors.

The company doesn't have any really amazing tech they just are being allowed to run roughshod over all human privacy because they are tightly tied in with the American ruling class.

The thing about planatir is there a constant reminder that you have a ruling class. And that ruling class can do whatever they want to you whatever they want.

But hey, how about those trans girls playing field hockey? And what about da woke? If that doesn't work for you I've got violent video games and pornography. Take your pic of whatever moral panic you want to trade your entire economic future for.

Focus group results are subject to two pretty obvious problems. One is that the kind of people who want to do them and have time to do them are not usually the people you actually want input from. Two is that the criteria for selecting focus group members can be selected for the purpose of getting a desired result, you read research that says certain types of people want certain things and then you select people like that to give positive feedback for your shitty ideas.

The question is why you're kissing his O-ring.