mrgoosmoos

one of the programs that we use everyday at work recently added an AI coding tool. I was going to announce it to the team when I noticed with the usual disclaimers about ensuring you know what the macros are doing, but then just deleted my message.

we're not a team of programmers, and there's only one or two people on my team that I would trust to write code that could potentially cause us days of rework and tons of thousands of dollars lost to the company.

those other people don't need an AI coding tool, because they can't code in the first place, and those aren't the people that I want modifying thousands of files at once when I know that they barely review the work they're doing manually already and I have tools in place to semi-automate that review for them.

that's fine, I'll just stop flying. plenty for me to do that doesn't require it.

okay so I guess I'm not flying Delta

glad I splurged and bought a 4070 when cross shopping with a 3060

glad I bought 16GB more ram on a whim bc I knew I wasn't going to pay for a new mobo any time soon

glad I bought a couple 2TB SSDs when streaming services could not longer provide me an experience worth paying for

glad I don't care to play the newest AAA games or watch shows/movies as soon as they come out

I've got several computers in pieces and two other old af ones now running Linux perfectly fine

the problem is not the hardware. the problem is the inefficient software that requires you to get better hardware.

well duh

so quit

how would you communicate information and questions with screenshots and simple graphics? what's the better way?

word docs are, well, done in Word. enough said.

plain text doesn't have graphics

PowerPoint is a simple slideshow tool to put info into one file without using multiple tools. certainly saves us a ton of time because we can just fire off a power point that took somebody 45 minutes to make (30 of which was finding and documenting the concerns and would have to happen anyways) instead of put a dozen people into a meeting and force an on the spot answer. and then we get written responses, so we don't have to separately document a decision being made.

edit: I guess I should add the context that I'm not in the line of work that the meme is addressing. I'm in an engineering related field, and my meetings and discussions are not businessy things. they're technical

to be fair, the scale of pretty much any global industry is incomprehensible to most people

my experience - list for what you want to get, and just ignore people who annoy you

for items you want to give away for free, mark them as $10 or $20 and then just give them for free when they show up

you forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups

changes everything on that $19M budget!

I haven't used other streaming boxes lately, but I find this hard to believe, mainly because of the shitty AppleTV remote with the godawful touchpad that everybody decided to implement different gestures for and which is notoriously difficult to gesture properly with and only when intended to

otherwise, I do agree that the AppleTV itself is quite polished. I use it for any streaming services that I may have, which is not many lately but was quite a few in the past, Plex, and YouTube primarily. also used to do some Zwift on it before I changed to using an iPad.

besides the absolutely horrible remote that for some reason doesn't have actual buttons for arrows and confirm, the rest of the experience actually is quite good and generally anything that is not is to do with the apps themselves. for example, Sportsnet is just a fucking terrible app no matter what platform you're on.

makes total sense short term. makes little sense long term.

it's not just google

for the past year or so I've been telling people that DDG is so much better as it actually returns the results you're looking for, which Google stopped doing. except in the past few months, the same thing is happening there now too.

I don't know if it's fuckery with the search engines, people gaming SEO, ads, or if it's just the sheer quantity of shit that's on the internet now, but it's at least half of the time now that I go to search something and it's not in the top half dozen results. and sometimes I can't even find it at all, despite knowing that it definitely exists out there.