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Same same, but different.

I can’t be bothered to learn git.

How to become unemployable as an engineer 101.

Well that other guy said it’s only 66megs so, you’re wrong.

/s

Great rebuttal. Really got him with this one.

That ship has long sailed unfortunately. The industry gave up on optimization in favour of praying that hardware advancements can keep up with the bloat.

Technobarbarism

Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.

Libraries offer far more than just books. They often double as community centers and offer lots of free services that could really help lower income demographics. They actually also offer audiobooks a lot of the time.

Besides all that, of all government services that are available, they’re cheap as fuck to operate comparatively speaking. The only reason to target libraries is because it gets the mouth breathers thumping. Nobody burning books (metaphorically and literally) has ever been on the right side of history.

Regardless of intention, the US government put its stamp of approval on a lot of misinformation during the pandemic. Whether that was an attempt to deceive or just incompetence, it doesn’t inspire trust at all.

This is just blatant dog-whistling. What misinformation, bruh. Share your crazy conspiracy theories so I can dismiss them out of hand.

OP is an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier so, adjust your bullshit meter accordingly.

It absolutely does. If you’re rejecting basic, verifiable scientific facts based on your politics or religion, you’re fucking stupid.

The power of phonetic languages.

How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???

am just trying to explain how I cannot comprehend this kind of thinking because it is the literal antithesis of me.

Just grow up with awful parents that verbally, emotionally and physically abuse you any time you do anything new and aren’t immediately excellent at it. You start having panic attacks any time you have to try something new until you just start avoiding new things altogether, just to save yourself the trauma.

Ez.

You just described colonialism.

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That being said, just yesterday I looked at the man page for gcc because I wasn’t sure how to use a specific option and it was very useful. Gave me exactly the info I needed.

Maybe there is some merit to simply reading the documentation instead of asking to be spoon fed… I’m prepared to be downvoted to oblivion for this opinion.

No, it wouldn’t be. The base circumstance is the same, the software misidentifying a subject. The severity and context will vary from incident to incident, but the root cause is the same - false positives.

There’s no process in place to prevent something like this going very very bad. It’s random chance that this time was just a false positive for theft. Until there’s some legislative obligation (such as legal liability) in place to force the company to create procedures and processes for identifying and reviewing false positives, then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

You don’t wait for someone to die before you start implementing safety nets. Or rather, you shouldn’t.

You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.