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  • Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

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  • Yes.

    And alternately, nothing interesting at all happens, and the AI just has one of it's frequent hallucinations, and I'm fired.

    There's a special level of sociopathy happening to put today's AI in charge of anyone's livelihood.

  • As someone in stem who has never felt smarter than anyone how do you justify your sucess?

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  • "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."

    Yes. I've been the "smartest" person in the room once or twice, during a crisis. It sucks!

    Edit: And by "smartest" I just mean "only one in that room remotely qualified to plan our response to the current crisis."

    I don't actually believe "smartest" exists.

    There's just who has the experience most needed in the current moment.

    We tend to call that person "smart".

  • As someone in stem who has never felt smarter than anyone how do you justify your sucess?

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  • I reminder my team of this frequently.

    People don't just give money away easily. You've earned that paycheck.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • My oldish Nvidia 4xxx GPU worked immediately and automatically on Linux Mint.

    Your mileage may vary.

    Edit: To be clear, I didn't do any command line, or even change a setting. Mint just automatically detected my Nvidia GPU and got it working during the install while I looked at pretty pictures and new user tips.

    (Disclaimer: Folks here have warned me this may have been some combination of luck and my Nvidia GPU being a few years old.)

    When my Mint install finished, I searched for "Steam" in the Mint software center and clicked "Install".

    A few minutes later I was playing a game from my Steam library without any issues, without any config changes, and without any command line use.

    Edit 2: On Linux, there's a little Penguin icon in the Steam library filters. Click that, and it'll only show your games that Valve is pretty confident will run without any issue.

    It took me a few clicks to realize it did anything, at all. Very few of my games were filtered out. None of my games that were filtered out happened to fit in the first page of search results.

    So at first it looked like penguin filter button did nothing.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • 90-99% of the solutions originally for Ubuntu worked for me in Pop.

    Yes. When I'm running Debian, Mint, or various other Debian variants, the vast majority of "Ubuntu" recipes just work.

    Sometimes on Debian, itself, an Ubuntu recipe doesn't work because some feature hasn't made it into "Debian stable" yet. But usually it's fine if the Ubuntu article is at least a year old.

  • I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice

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  • Want to test if a game runs on Linux? Great, set aside a couple of hours beforehand: first to install steam and set it up, then to figure out Proton, then to troubleshoot the game not even booting up, then to fix any glitches or whatnot, then to get your controller working.

    Alternately, install Linux Mint. Search the software store for Steam. Click Install. Let Steam do it's first run install stuff. Sign into Steam. Click the little Penguin icon to see which games should run fine on Linux. Install some by clicking on them. Enjoy games.

  • Sounds legit

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  • Clearly OP misremembers, since Star Wars (1977) was never seen again, by anyone, after 1978.

  • Surprisingly accurate metaphor, for those who know the show.

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  • Why do anime villains so often have buttholes for faces?

    Edit: Oh. Those are AI logos.

  • Oh no...

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  • Except on Linux Mint, where it asks if I want the usual, and I click "Yes."

  • The US military will reportedly use Elon Musk's Grok AI in its classified systems

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  • I’m curious to see how long the first exploit is gonna take.

    I hope there's even time to set up an informal betting pool. I worry the first breach will be too quick to even makes bets on.

  • This is really serious, something this essetial can't be AI Vulnerable, save OSS

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  • Code reviewing should be filtering out bad code whether it originates from an AI or a human.

    But studies are showing it doesn't work.

    A human makes a mental model of the entire system, does some testing, and submits code that works, passes tests, and fits their unstanding of what is need.

    A present day AI makes an educated guess which existing source code snippets best match the request, does some testing, and submits code that it judges is most likely to pass code review.

    And yes, plenty of human coders fall into the second bracket, as well.

    But AI is very good at writing code that looks right. Code review is a good and necessary tool, but the data tells us code review isn't solving the problem of bugs introduced by AI generated code.

    I don't have an answer, but "just use code review" probably isn't it. In my opinion, "never use AI code assist" also isn't the answer. There's just more to learn about it, and we should proceed with drastically more caution.

  • These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired)

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  • if Pixels can be unlocked and locked back up again - which is part of why Graphene only works on Pixels - why don't more alternative OSs target Pixels?

    I don't know, but my guess is it is just a resource challenge. Since Ubuntu isn't leveraging Android at the lowest level, they probably have to write hardware drivers for every supported phone.

  • Pete Hegseth Tells Anthropic To Fall in Line With DoD Desires, or Else

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  • The strategic advantage they want is plausible deniability when they want to deny that they intentionally targeted a hospital full of children.

  • Pete Hegseth Tells Anthropic To Fall in Line With DoD Desires, or Else

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  • Do we think Hegseth's alcohol habit will factor into the moment a hallucinating AI kills him, or is there a chance he will be sober?

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I heard there was an invisible hand that I should trust.

  • These Are the Best Alternatives to Google’s Android Operating System (Wired)

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  • why is there no initiative to get Linux mobile up to speed?

    There is. It just lacks a corporate sponsor, so it is going slowly.

    Edit: It is also slowed because there is very little fully open source phone hardware, today - and of what there is, very little of it is pocket sized. This means phone OS maintainers have to rely on various hardware vendors cooperating, which is rare.

    Also, the owners of the phone towers also probably don't imagine much benefit of having fully independent devices join the networks they maintain. I don't know how much help is needed from phone tower owner conglomerates, but I imagine we don't see enthusiastic support there, either.

  • 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

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  • And has fewer worthless emails in her inbox.

  • What do you use to communicate with your git repositories?

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  • I prefer pen and paper.

    When that's unavailable, command line is fine.

  • Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns

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  • Might be time to revive "drunk or a child?"

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