Dude it's a cult. That human values, alignment, self improving crap comes directly from the AI alignment and safety cult that OpenAI and Anthropic and others are full of. It's where all the conflicting messaging comes from, all the accusations of Altman saying one thing doing another comes from those folks that are concerned he isn't drinking the right amount of koolaid. They believe AI will become a god, and only they can be trusted to build it.

OpenAI and Anthropic are full of them. Anytime you see some "AI safety researcher" quit all huffing and puffing out the door, it's one of those people causing drama. Anthropic was started by folks from OpenAI that reaaaaaly drank the koolaid, see the inviting religious leaders, the don't hurt the AI feelings stuff, the constant drop of the AI is conscious, etc.

They're fucking nuts, and any accidents that come out of an "AI safety" lab at any of these companies deserves heavy squinting. Making a point by any means and generating scary headlines is their entire goal. And yes, it does seem to conflict with the company's mission. Until you understand these companies are full of people that sincerely think the mission is only they can be trusted in the race to build AI god.

So, anyway, outside of that, I'm not saying standard internet safety stuff isn't warranted. Some auditing and reporting thresholds, know your customer, age regulation, they're worth looking at, just filter out the AI safety nuts because that whole field isn't what it looks like.

What does that actually mean, a kebab shop on every corner (yay), or more abortion restrictions, sin taxes, dry counties, blue laws like can't buy a car on a Sunday, can't buy wine before 10am, can't look at a beer after driving west past the third armadillo cause law and order Jesus says so, posted in every classroom?

You're afraid of there was another religion at the table all your stupid religious laws might have to go, I'm calling it. Big talk from Texas politicians, not a lot of legislating cause it might cut a little close to home huh, fucking hypocrites.

A sandboxed development environment still has access to a git remote to pull and push branches, how else would they work? If you're going to wave hands and say that's different, you literally have no clue how access controls on this scion thing works.

If you actually airgap development systems, what are you even talking about, like mount a read only copy of the code in a container, then scrape the ephemeral storage layer off from the outside as you tear it down? Then the system preserving your hypothetical airgapped development uses source control itself to commit the work. The source control system literally does not matter. For local version control you could use anything, or nothing at all. You could use svn then translate it to git commits, you could use git then translate it to scion.. commits? You could just take the whole working copy it produced and squashed commit into whatever the external source control of the day is. Christ you could use svn locally, offline, then translate it into.. external svn commits. It's not rocket surgery. I could fart out scripts to do all of those in any combination in tens of minutes. How could anyone ever think this is only possible with git, like it's the only possible way to do offline development?/!

The actual problem is how many people have opinions on git, and lack a first principals based understanding of how version control even works.

He has given us his shoe! This is a sign that all who follow him shall do likewise! The shoe is the sign! It's a sandal! Gather the shoes! Follow the gourd!

The only thing git adoption proves is that sketch is timeless.

I'm not sure how every centralized version control system can be described as reinventing svn. Or every distributed version control system is a reinvention of git? You can't imagine ways they can be different or improved? Yikes

Fuck off, racist piece of shit.

That damned weight sensor! With my kids it screws up all the time because one person is scanning and other person is standing there holding the previous thing fumbling with the next bag. I started scanning then setting the item outside the bag on the platform instead of handing it off. Then whoever is bag wrangling can bag it in their own time. I think that works, at least I haven't seen the place item on bagging area message in a while.

I can pretend I'm a robot arm on an assembly line, but it sucks for anyone that doesn't predict the shitty programming I guess, that's fair.

Be real, they're not Amazon burning time on their own hardware funny accounting. So more like $20/month a person, maybe $50 for a developer.

Don't worry about them being short handed. They're being sued for some amount that's potentially around three times their adjusted annual profits because of a failed merger/acquisition a couple years ago. They did some buybacks, but growth has been shit for a while, and on Oct 12th, the same day as this AI layoff announcement, *COINCIDENTALLY*WINK*WINK*WINK*, the filings from that lawsuit were made public. Scheduled to go to trial on the 19th. I arrest my case your honor.

https://assets.bwbx.io/documen...

I used AI to look all this up, so please everyone feel free to burn out your own eyeballs reading a bunch of legal blah blah blah and financial filings. None of these AI layoff stories have anything to do with AI, you just have to look, and use an AI to do it FFS, but also read and ask questions either way. Also I don't want to get sued, so uh sure AI optimized teams can cut through corporate inefficiencies.. just like I use it to cut through the bullshit on Slashdot. AI is good and bad so anything is possible? I'm buying groceries at Krogers tomorrow, they're so awesome, you all should.

You read the screen to see the price of the thing you scanned along with the total. Not rocket science. I mean shit happens too, we've all walked out with some security tag a cashier forgot to disable at one point basically same thing.

That doesn't hold up. If you hand over your carpentry business to a nephew, you'll still always know what a fucked up coffee table looks like. Lots of things are like that, it's easier to grade an essay than write one. Hell it's always easier to read and judge, and get good at it, than it will ever be to write something original, they're separate skills. There might even be a universal information theory rule somewhere in there. Getting rusty happens, but losing the ability to judge the quality of someone else's work, I don't think you have anything to back that up with. Also, getting rusty is OK. Every piece of software in use today replaced something before it, and probably poorly but you're going to use it anyway. If we're talking about tech, memorizing every piece of junk, every trick we use today isn't really "skills". There's a lot of smart hamsters out there running on very dumb wheels. We throw them away for newer ones all the time but nobody ever wants to admit it sucks when they're running on it. Plenty of them deserve to rust.

Oh I'm certain that Dell will sell immensely profitable PCs if they can, but good luck to anyone looking for an affordable PC.

Honestly if you didn't vote against this mess, then that is my answer too, bootstraps, guess you're looking for PS4s at garage sales now. Start thinking DDR4 ram for your next "upgrade". IDK, go get one of those nice recently deported immigrant jobs.

IDK how you honestly expect a company to operate in this economy and serve both ends of that K with luxury goods like gaming systems. It's shrinkflation or poor people editions. Maybe they can cut costs by removing the heat sinks but you can double it as a rice cooker.

Or maybe take aim at what's making the global economy so fucked up in the first place?

Kid, understanding the current economic conditions and being able to do fuckall about it are two entirely different things. Sony knows more about the global economic situation than you ever will because they sell a wide variety of things at every price point, globally. They fucking know dude, sales data from companies like Sony are how you objectively measure exactly how fucked up everything is.

You can't look at this economy, go gee, people are increasingly less able to afford nice things, then magic wand your nice things cheaper. If that were possible you wouldn't HAVE this problem. I mean what are you actually suggesting, shrinkflation the fuck out of consumer electronics? Bust out the old PS4 blueprints and slap PS6 on it so you can afford one? The other side of that K is still spending, OBVIOUSLY. What idiot wouldn't take their money?

I mean something along those lines very well may happen in the long run I just can't believe people are so flippantly asking for it. Like if you can't afford the cost of Oreos, I get begging for thinner cookies, it's still good, probably even better for us that way. What the fuck you think is going to happen to consumer electronics. Like it's Sony or Microsoft's fault for failing to address the increasing socioeconomic class divide by not launching "PS4 New" alongside PS6. Maybe start getting a little more serious about what's causing this fucking economy to be so fucked instead of begging to be served by it, FFS.

Found the idiot that got scammed into changing his battery fluids?

You're going to have to explain because hybrids are everywhere and nobody has that problem. There's nothing you do differently to maintain a Prius vs a Corolla for example. Over ten years it might go from 55mpg to 50 as the battery ages. Where do you get double from.

Why are you sharing all your thoughts on the internet if you have a problem with this.

Why right NOW is anyone going gee... maybe over-sharing every detail of my life with strangers online could be a problem. Some algorithm could scrape them up and use them against me or others.

You just fucking now come to this conclusion. ... seriously?