They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.

If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-certified dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.

This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

• Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
• In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to end up with two unanswered things.
• Two line breaks
• In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

Also, this works surprisingly well with people other than executives.

Wow. Aren’t we Mexicans inventive?

Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.

You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine. The territory is bigger, which means more resources, and instead of giving them aid USA can buy raw material cheap because they need money.

At least that’s the strategy I’d expect from your current administration, since everything is laser-focused on very short term profit.

Ligma balls ha ha ha (gets fired)

Seriously, Ligma’s one of the most unfortunate names for a professional product since Cockroach Database or Coq.

I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.

The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.

Guess they will start teaching vtubing in high school then.

Newsflash: felines stink, the bigger they are the more they do. A big furry wouldn’t have a problem with body odor even in the scale of RMS’s.

TBH Apple is closed mainly because it makes them boatloads of money, not because of security. It could still be open and responsible.

Don’t blame him, they had that bias because we’re friends, and I would be perfect if not for my excessive modesty.

TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.

Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.

There are telltale signs of AI generation in images, much in the same way image editors leave fingerprints of its use. As image generation improves, its detection will too.

It’s not much different than the arms race of spam or malware, for example, tools like wasitai.com have a pretty good detection rate right now.

I don’t know how to handle either one without actually getting equipment to handle them.

I understood hardware equipment too. What kind of equipment did you mean?

To be fair, they want more regulation n others, not on them. Specially if they’re doing shady things.

Unregulated capitalism. That’s why people in dominant market positions want less regulation.

This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.

Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.

Sponges, IIRC don’t have organs, hence no anuses. Can their excretions be called poop?