Talk to people?

In the theoretical endgame employment is reduced to where there aren’t enough people with money to be customers. There’s a wave of consolidation as businesses with lots of cash buy failing ones, further concentrating wealth. Eventually the impoverished public gets desperate enough to riot and steal what they need, outnumbering law enforcement. The system no longer has the resources to protect itself, and we physically demolish our society. Then there’s a reset back to a time of bartering.

Just goes with the territory

It’s legitimate to question why we would want to replace human artistry with AI. Somebody might have asked the same question about replacing hand tools with power tools. But I wouldn’t be a longtime amateur woodworker if all I had to work with was hand tools - the work would be far too time consuming and the learning curve much too high. Or ask content creators who are able to get their ideas in front of the public without learning HTML, CSS or Javascript, what they think of content creation tools. Was making MySpace etc. available 20 years ago a bad thing because it changed our view of programming?

Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers is a good thing, even if it means we no longer look at the creative process as being reserved for people with natural talent or years of training. TBH you might as well object to Bob Ross teaching people easier ways to paint, or to people who teach breadbaking on YouTube - it turns out bread is dead simple btw, you should try it.

But more to the point, the genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of objection is going to stuff it back in.

I must have been lucky with my Ender 3 - I only leveled it every few weeks or less. Very solid printer, had it 5 years.

I feel you - I ran an Ender 3 for 5 years but now I have an A1 and honestly don’t miss all the endless tinkering. Learned a hell of a lot in the process. No complaints about the Ender, it was a rock solid machine - now it has a new life as a laser engraver, courtesy of the Creality 1.6w laser attachment which works nice.

Doesn’t sound like a denial - I thought so!!!

Why do people who post loaded questions approve of pedophilia and torturing kittens?

Gnome? Fuckin’ A, man, D&D is awesome! I’d rather play 3.5 tho.

Same principle as, “A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client?”

Wow, that’s way more detail than I ever want to remember.

Totally foolish. Either don’t use the code if the license doesn’t allow commercial use, or leave the license notice in place. It’s pretty straightforward.

Futurama too, I would assume - even if only indirectly via the Jetsons.

Not a boring story at all, in fact it’s Awesome! It’s been so long since I touched VMS I would probably be lost now, but I wrote tons of apps and was a sysadmin for a couple years - which I really enjoyed, as 90% of that job was running backups and installing updates, leaving plenty of time to just play around. I missed writing apps, so I made a visual status monitor that let me look at running processes and pause, restart or kill them. My last exposure to VMS was when I worked at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2007 or 8 - a group there still had a VaxCluster running, but I never worked on it. Today there is still OpenVMS, mostly run on emulators by retro computing hobbyists I think.

Maybe it’s just me but my reaction is “Yeah duh.” Social media sites aren’t personal repositories for your thoughts. You’re a contributor. Your posts and comments are contributions, as in fly free little bird, bye-bye. There’s no notion of having a proprietary claim on what you type. And this opinion isn’t about X or any particular platform, it’s how I felt since the days of Fark and 1990s newsgroups. I really don’t know how this is a controversy or a reason to feel affronted or bothered. If you want to own and control your material, start a blog on a service that lets you retain copyright.

“I can fake being smart.”

The elevator tubes on the Jetson’s were probably based on these.

The trick is to divide by 5. The trick of that is double it and divide by 10.

I made a comment about how easy it was to learn VMS was (an 80s/90s OS). How do I print a file? I’ll try PRINT. Okay, that works. How do I make 6 copies? PRINT /COPIES=6. Great! But how do I print to a file? I’ll try PRINT /OUTPUT=filename. Well whaddya know!

I loved that OS like a brother. Sadly it eventually went the way of every proprietary system.

Back in the ancient pre-Internet days I worked for many years with a system called VMS made by Digital Equipment Corp (aka DEC), now long gone. VMS was a dream to use - every command and option was an actual word, and you could abbreviate commands and options any way you wanted, As long as you were unambiguous, it would figure out what you meant. So easy to learn, and felt so natural. Based on that alone I thought VMS would become more popular than Unix, with its cryptic commands, and those single-letter options that are sometimes the first letter of something obvious and other times seem totally random. But internally VMS wasn’t structured as well - for example, piping output from one command to another was possible, but it wasn’t geared for that like Unix is. There was also no free version of VMS, and it only ran on DEC hardware, so not that many people even knew about it. The dawn of Linux for PCs was essentially the nail in the coffin for VMS. But I do miss that CLI.