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Comment Re: Who gives a damn? (Score 1) 56

Dude are you a flat earther or something?

Rinsing soap off is a physics problem not chemistry. Taking aerators off your faucets wouldn't help you wash more efficiently either for example, try it. Try doing dishes like that with the sink stopped up, no aerator vs the sprayer. The volume of water doesn't get shit done. Most people figure this out the first time they wash a car with a garden hose. They stick their thumb in the stream to fan out faster moving water.

It's summer, get off here and go wash dad's car kid, stop bitching about shower heads. The second hand embarrassment is getting too much. If you're an adult go outside and play with a garden hose for a few minutes if the assisted care place will let you. I don't know what else to say.

Comment Re: BlueSky is for radicals (Score 1) 73

ZERO effort was spent to verify prior to ban

You made that up. Every social media service has tons of impersonator accounts being created, and you act like they can just pick up a red phone to the VPOTUS or whoever to verify each one. Far, far less damage is done by proactively blocking impersonators of VIPs, and in the rare one-time event they are actually intending to create an account either themselves or through a spokesperson they can have their account confirmed.

Comment Re:Genuine progress ie being made, but... (Score 1) 41

The same thing happened to many other creative disciplines. It used to be we had a journalist that wanted to go write a story because it would sell newspapers that would get him paid. Now we don’t have the journalist because we don’t have the newspaper. AI can copy the story.

The Music industry no longer pays its creators. There are now Youtube videos that seem like a bot created them.

AI is coming for computer programmers.

AI didn't do that, the Internet did. Everything that's wrong with the Internet did that. Every damned day someone on this site will say buying the news is dead because you can get it for free somewhere else. It's free news all the way down.

The music industry... bro, where have you been? Again, welcome to the Internet, free music and streaming and algorithmic recommendations. If you liked this song you'll love this other one that sounds the same from a band you've never heard of that is paid in beans.

Programming? You know what I'm going to say already right. You're on Slashdot, clutching pearls at something _possibly_ infringing on the business of being paid to make software. Work it out yourself. I can't even..

Yah, blame "AI", and don't trust your lying eyes, like the past thirty years of entitled to free shitification never happened. Tell us all about the problems of creatives and IP creators not getting paid ""'because the AIs""" I'm totally listening.

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 181

I'm always baffled by conservative claims of the omnipresence of social messaging in todays media.

A bad movie is a bad movie whether it has social messaging in it or not and we're getting plenty of turds nowadays that have nothing to do with messaging.

It's a feature of being opposed to reality, makes you see opposition in everything. The unfunny kernel of truth to the reality has a liberal bias joke.

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 181

You are right, which is ironically why we don't want to see blatant pandering in our movies, and is related to why Hollywood is failing.

I think it has as much to do with Hollywood failing as the quality of popcorn butter and since I've read TFS, it has nothing to do with why James Gunn thinks it's failing.

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 181

[childless man complains about superhero scene written for little girls]

As an adult, it's your literal job to roll your eyes at least a few times watching a family friendly super hero movie.

I roll my eyes when every Disney character breaks out in song too, but I am mature enough to understand it's for children who like to sing along.

Hakuna matata.. and grow up.

Comment Re: I'm Still Not Seeing It (Score 2) 36

Today, I spent three hours studying the API and finding the relevant calls. I had a fully functional Python script running in 30 minutes and the task completed two hours later.

... THOSE are the parts you're supposed to use AI with ... if the API docs are online 3o will do that much for you.

It's like you just posted on stackoverflow for a fully working solution then gave up because nothing you copy pasted works right. It's about the dumbest possible way to use an information tool.

Treat AI like an information index, just like SO, just like a search engine, it's that kind of tool. It's a very, very good index that sometimes points at exactly what you asked for but you still search, read, integrate, repeat. What you tried and failed to do, vibe coding, is like irresponsibly farming your work out to an intern. Go ahead and try that. You get the results you deserve and it doesn't make the intern useless, you're using them wrong. No, it doesn't replace you, that's not how you use it.

Comment Re: Go and smell grass .. (Score 1) 150

You could just go home real early the next day. Or take a free day off whenever. You can be flexible and still get your time back. Who expects you to work nights and weekend and isn't flexible like that. Nobody can say shit if you show up late after working late the day before, you just have to know where you stand and not be a dick about it.

Comment Re:You pays your $$, you takes your choice (Score 2) 169

The real problem is I don't want to spend the money for a full subscription to every news source I read occasionally.

Apple's subscription news aggregator service, News+ is great for that kind of thing.
I don't know how shared links works though because I've never been on the other end of it without a subscription. I think friends with Apple accounts without the subscription have been able to view them mostly but maybe it depends on who's article it is too.

I think Google News has a subscription too, or will be getting one eventually. Sounds like they use free article limits for now, but at least it gets you through some paywalls a bit.

Comment Re:shocker (Score 1) 169

On most news sites these days it's difficult to claw your way through all the ads to get to the paywall, and on the off chance you make it through that it's literally just the same blurb that every other site has. And the real articles are sandwiched between a stack of "paid content" which are essentially just more ads disguised as articles that if clicked take you to an even more ad infested site. There's a few exceptions of course, but they are increasingly hard to find and the average person doesn't want news they want someone "important" to deliver a daily dose of reinforcement to their belief systems.

These are all clean and nearly what you get in print. People complain about the quality of journalism or a website, but they refuse to pay for it, or just simply choose something of better quality.

www.wsj.com
www.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com

It's like people are going to McDonald's instead of Burger King because their burgers suck... when there's an In-N-Out next door. The fuck is wrong with people, that's not even.. it doesn't make sense. You wrote a whole paragraph on how "most" hamburgers suck and fries are soggy only to admit the truth in the end that quality isn't even a factor. FUCKING OBVIOUSLY, look at what they walked past to get to where they are! People CHOOSE to eat shit and feel angry about it. Go waste your breath complaining about broilers like it matters, I'm eating at In-N-Out fuck you very much.

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