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jedibob5

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  • MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against Biden

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  • In any sane universe, a presidential candidate being forced to back out right before the convention would be a source of absolute glee for the opposing party. It'd be considered a huge loss of momentum and a sign that the party is disunified and collapsing on itself.

    The fact that MAGA is genuinely upset about this really speaks volumes about how resoundingly unpopular Biden is, and what little appeal Trump has to campaign on outside of anti-Biden sentiment.

    This timeline is weird as hell...

  • CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

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  • Is this implying that a publicly-traded corporation whose software is installed on millions of computers around the world has the same level of agency and responsibility as a preschooler?

    I mean, yes, Microsoft bears responsibility for blindly accepting whatever deployment package CrowdStrike gave it and immediately yeeting it out to 100% of customers via Windows Update without any kind of validation or incremental rollout, and should probably be sued for it. That still doesn't negate the complete and catastrophic failures at every step of the development process on the part of CrowdStrike. It takes a lot of people to fuck up this bad.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • Is the 4x10 really worth the extra day off? Tbh I'm not sure it would work very well for me... I find just one 10-hour day to be kinda draining, so doing that 4 times a week every week feels like it might just cancel out any benefits of the extra day off.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • Don't most indemnity clauses have exceptions for gross negligence? Pushing out an update this destructive without it getting caught by any quality control checks sure seems grossly negligent.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • Reading into the updates some more... I'm starting to think this might just destroy CloudStrike as a company altogether. Between the mountain of lawsuits almost certainly incoming and the total destruction of any public trust in the company, I don't see how they survive this. Just absolutely catastrophic on all fronts.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • Huh. I guess this explains why the monitor outside of my flight gate tonight started BSoD looping. And may also explain why my flight was delayed by an additional hour and a half...

  • FTC Blasts Xbox Game Pass Price Increase and New Tiers as 'Product Degradation'

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  • "Product Degradation" has been the modus operandi for nearly every online service for like 10-15 years now, but it's the Gamepass price increase is what got the FTC's attention? Where was the FTC when the movie/TV streaming service market balkanized itself in an arms race to reinvent cable?

    Granted, I doubt the FTC could really do anything meaningful to stop enshittification given that corporations are effectively above the law these days, but it's been blatantly obvious that this was going to be Gamepass' strategy from day one. If this actually surprised anyone at the FTC, they really haven't been paying attention.

  • Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (Update)

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  • Reminds me of when they started doing that thing where they pretended to be helpful by having the GPS voice call out the name of a business on the corner where your turn is - "Turn left after 'business' on the left" - but in reality those businesses were paying to inject their name into your driving directions.

    When it started, I immediately suspected they were possibly paid sponsorships, which was all but confirmed when it told me to turn "after Bank of America, with drive-thru ATM, on the right." Stealth advertising mid-navigation... insane.

  • Tea versus Coffee

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  • Fair enough

  • Tea versus Coffee

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  • Yeah, I guess "black tea" is a bit of a misnomer. It's probably just simpler to share the terminology with coffee though

  • Tea versus Coffee

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  • Coffee is just too bitter for me unless I overload it with way more cream and sugar than is healthy. At that point all the caffeine and sugar makes me way too jittery. On the other hand, I enjoy drinking tea black, so tea it is.

  • That went well

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  • Nice.

  • local warzone

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  • It's honestly incredible that Bing even still exists, much less is still being actively being pushed by M$

  • Different approaches

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  • Almost entirely unrelated, but it's interesting how enduring the "rebel scum" line has been, given that it was first said by some no-name imperial officer in the shield generator room on Endor, who was then promptly knocked into a pit when Han threw a box at him.

    Edit: I looked up the original scene, and it seems I slightly misremembered the order of events, but the core of the point still stands

  • Well... I've never been called that before (T-Mobile email)

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  • Hey, that's [object Object] to you!

  • Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples | CNN Business

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  • I hate that the focus of AI/ML development has become so fixated on generative AI - images, video, sound, text, and whatnot. It's kind of crazy to me that AI can generate output with the degree of accuracy that it does, but honestly, I think that generative AI is, in a sense, barking up the wrong tree in terms of where AI's true strengths lie.

    AI can actually turn out to be really good at certain kinds of problem-solving, particularly when it comes to optimization problems. AI essentially "learns" by extremely rapid and complex trial-and-error, so when presented with a problem with many complex, interdependent variables in which an optimal solution needs to be found, a properly-trained AI model can achieve remarkably effective solutions far quicker than any human could, and could consider avenues of success that humans otherwise would miss. This is particularly applicable to a lot of engineering problems.

    Honestly, I'd be very intrigued to see an AI model trained on average traffic data for a section of a city's street grid, taken by observations from a series of cameras set up to observe various traffic patterns over the course of a few months, taking measurements on average number of cars passing through across various times of day, their average speed, and other such patterns, and then set on the task of optimizing stoplight timings to maximize traffic flow and minimize the amount of time cars spend waiting at red lights. If the model is set up carefully enough (including a data-collection plan that's meticulous enough to properly model average traffic patterns, outlier disincentives to keep cars at little-used cross streets from having to wait 10 minutes for a green light, etc.), I feel that this sort of thing would be the perfect kind of problem for an AI model to solve.

    AI should be used on complex, data-intensive problems that humans can't solve on their own, or at least not without a huge amount of time and effort. Generative AI doesn't actually solve any new problems. Why should we care if an AI can generate an image of an interracial couple or not? There are countless human artists who would happily take a commission to draw an interracial couple (or whatever else your heart desires) for you, without dealing with investing billions of dollars into developing increasingly complex models built on dubiously-sourced (at best) datasets that still don't produce results as good as the real thing. Humans are already good at unscripted creativity, and computers are already good at massive volumes of complex calculations, so why force a square peg into a round hole?

  • I pulled this from a shop.

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  • Good to see they're branching out with their business model. Can't just commit to a single strategy these days. Sometimes it helps to rebase your priorities to avoid creating new issues.

    Ok, bad jokes aside, how did it taste?

  • The world has become Applefied.

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  • I don't think online resources are necessarily a replacement for in-person classroom instruction, and even if they were, it's not a reason to take the option of home ec classes away from those who want it.

    That said, I think it's at least a good thing that so many good internet resources on cooking exist, and it helps mitigate the problem to some degree. Still, it takes time and energy to seek out those resources, learn from them, and put them into practice. Not easy to do for anyone who has been worked far past the point of burnout and are still just scraping by.

  • The world has become Applefied.

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  • '90s-'00s McDonald's primarily appealed to kids, as the colorful characters and Happy Meals were a big part of the draw.

    '10s-'20s McDonalds has pivoted to marketing towards adults, in part because they had come under fire for marketing greasy, oversalted calorie bombs to children as the US obesity epidemic took off. The other reason is that mid-to-low income adults became a much more lucrative demographic after decades of wage stagnation basically created an entire generation that's too tired and overworked to cook for themselves but too poor to go out to eat anywhere else.