Hence the post! Everyone will still understand your intent and take the appropriate action.

If someone says, “Turn the AC up.” you know they want it colder but you actually turn it down.

Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)

The bullshit lemmy tells me I see on Windows, I do not see. I have never once had a Windows issue that has come up on here.

I don’t hate AI nearly so much as I hate what’s going to happen to the American economy, and then the rest of the world. Have a look at the Buffett Index.

That’s all driven by AI speculation. We haven’t seen numbers like that in history, not before the Great Depression, dotcom bust, 2008, never.

American here, kids are 11 and 13. I have no memory of paying anything for our doctors, testing, delivery, anything at all. I had health insurance for myself, and my wife was unemployed for at least one of those births.

Posts like this really fuck with my head. We were living in a trailer on one income and somehow it was all free? Had to have been, I’d remember the budget hit back then. We didn’t get any sort of welfare, not even food stamps. But we must have?

Also, their infant to toddler years were basically free. Clothes, toys, furniture, whatever, all $0. My ex might spend $10 on FB Marketplace and score a monster garbage sack of basically new clothes. Only real expense I remember was diapers. No getting away from that!

There are dozens of FB groups, even in this little metro, giving baby stuff away. You buy it, use it a few months or a year, pass it on. Want a car seat? There is at least one at someone’s curb here in the hood, right now tonight.

My wife breast fed our first, couldn’t go as long for second born. First go round she bagged and donated milk. Second go round, we got that milk back. We did spend a little on formula, but much was donated.

Just don’t understand why people act like babies are so expensive.

You might like this Morakniv. I got it to cut rope on the water and in case of emergency. It would zip through a seat belt. Cheap, weighs nothing.

You and I are 1-in-50 purchasers, if that. Nobody gives a shit if AI is in the game.

Go grab a random dude on the street,

“Hey! Just one question? If you’re considering buying a video game, is the fact they used AI in making it a deal breaker?”

Nobody cares. I’m with ya. Don’t fucking buy it, I won’t. But enough other people will that it won’t make a difference.

You can tell most everything you need to know about a company by looking at the CEO. That’s because they’re the leader, they set the tone, contrary to lemmy beliefs. Happy or unhappy employees? Look to the CEO. Solid earnings, year after year after year? CEO. I ask at every interview, “What’s the CEO like?” BUT…

A) Ultimately, CEOs do what the fucking board of directors wants, or they get fired, hence, the golden parachute. Would you take a monster job knowing that you could be forced to fuck your industry reputation and not hedge that bet? Nah. Force me to do something stupid yet needful? I want paid when you fire me on purpose for doing what you said.

B) I think you are in an echo chamber around here. Most CEOs are great folks, you only hear about the major fuck ups at the major companies. Also, the decisions the big dogs make that lemmy tells you are unpopular, really aren’t unpopular in the wider world. EA Games still exists after all.

everyone will have to 'fess up to using it eventually as AI will become "involved in nearly all future production.

True enough! No reason not to say it up front, right?

Look y’all, not 1-in-20 people give a flying fuck about AI like we do on here.

Most people won’t run an ad blocker.

Incels. Interlinked.

Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.

If the natives are outgunned and technologically outclassed, how are they to prevail without help from “the inside”? Otherwise it’s just a depressing plot about the natives getting overrun.

the natives are incapable of helping themselves

I’m having trouble thinking of a time when the natives were able to help themselves against colonizers. OTOH, guerilla warfare has worked pretty damned well in the last century.

Ah! But you’re not accounting for radio, then television and now the internet. Mass communication is squashing languages and dialects and accents flat, while at the same time working for archival purposes.

Spoken, live languages? Very damned few. Archived languages? We might do pretty well.

In my lifetime I’ve seen accents disappearing in America. Doing tech support in the early 90s, I played a game of guessing what state a person was from. Did quite well! I could almost always match their accent. (Midwestern was my kryptonite, very generic.)

We’re seeing regional accents and dialects disappearing very quickly due to the internet, and formerly, TV in general.

For example; I haven’t heard a deep Cajun accent in ages, unless I look for it on YouTube, and even then it’s mostly intelligible. I talked to people 25-30 years ago I could not comprehend, and I’m good at languages!

Another example; Go watch Steel Magnolias from 1989. (Great movie BTW!) That deep, propuh, Mississippi female accent is all but gone except for the oldest, and those women only use it amongst each other.

In any case, English seems to rule the internet, a modern lingua franca, don’t see that changing any time soon.

Investors and fund managers know damned well they’re holding a swelling water balloon. As with the AI bubble, they’re trying to ride the tiger and bail at the last minute. Problem with riding a tiger is you can’t really get off without getting chewed up, hence the saying.

Look to the insurance companies to figure risk, it’s what they do. It’s like global warming, if it’s not real, why are insurance companies pulling back?

No way. People like me purchase a steady supply of standardized machines at a fair cost. Bigger companies than I’ve worked for want a lease agreement. We pay $X for Y units, you come in and swap them in 3, 4, or 5 years, rinse and repeat. We also need robust tech support, both from the manufacturer and wide user base. No way I’d suggest management purchase Frameworks.

Framework is awesome for individuals as you can upgrade! No one in their right mind wants to hassle with upgrading a fleet of hundreds, thousands, or 10’s of thousands of machine. You talking about pets when business requires cattle.

https://www.hava.io/blog/cattle-vs-pets-devops-explained

Great question! And BTW, thousands upon thousands of those “old” cattle are available on eBay from sellers who make a living moving off-lease machines. I’d never buy new. LOL, I bought servers that way from savemyserver! Boss came by while I was setting up a new server. “Is that new?!” “Nope.”

Funny enough, job before last I was buying all Dell. Next job, all X1 Carbons and the occasional Mac for the devs.