You have an awful lot of faith in the truthfulness of companies that took the work of millions without compensation to create artificial gangs that commit crimes on their behalf.

Did you see the pictures of the AIs in the study?

What's with that lighting? They didn't adjust for the fact that the woman looks slightly more like a serial killer, with a wrinkled skirt pulled up to her ribcage. I haven't seen graphics that bad since Metaverse. The study noticed it, but didn't adjust for it. Relevant quote:

Because the graphics were terrible.

It's irritating when that happens. Ruins the fun. Then I have to go research something different.

Yeah, I'm just not sure "weak to private equity" is a reasonable metric for which companies should be culled.

I don't know Elon Musk managed to kill 9 million children without a gun so...

I don't think this is about creating useful or profitable content this is more about training their AIs and showing them off to investors.

Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is wages. Paying wages.

That said we all laughed at horse armor and they just kept cramming it down people's throats until kids grew up who were used to that crap. And yeah you might not be someone who would buy horse armor but it does fuck up the industry and the quality of your hobby is substantially lower as a result.

It probably will be the same with AI slop. You and I will hate it because we grew up in a world without it but to kids who just get that stuff blasted into their eyeballs it'll be normal and they won't have any defenses against it. It will take over the industry through the kids and we will lose access to the stuff we want.

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Why would you care?

And how does DST help anyway? My kids schools all started at different times. I'm pretty sure they re-used the same busses. The bus would pick up the first group of kids and take them to high school, then come back and pick up the junior high kids, then come back and pick up the middle school kids, then come back and pick up the elementary school school kids. DST was of no use whatsoever in knowing what time any given bus was going to pick up my kid or what time any given school started or ended classes.

And now that my kid has graduated, I don't have any reason to care about what time any school in my district is open, let alone anywhere else in the world. I can't figure out why you care about what time some random school in some random part of the world is open. The vast majority of people in the world at any given time do not have school age children.

My point is that you're deluded.

It's okay it's /. The editor will repost at least five times a year even without clock changes.

They've been doing this bullshit since the '70s and it always works. People hear it and think yeah fuck the manager is right?

I figured out the scam a while ago. The original purpose of management was to keep an eye on unions and prevent employees from unionizing. Seriously Google it.

America doesn't really have unions anymore so we don't really have management anymore. What you have are basically a handful of people to implement policy and then you have a shitload of line workers declared management for a variety of unpleasant reasons ranging from managers being exempt from overtime pay to using the manager title to get a lot more work out of someone for very little additional pay if any...

And every time it's layoff time they can jettison these "managers" and tell everyone they're just flattening the organization and making things more efficient so nobody starts poking around asking if the company is viable and if they should be selling off the stock.

It's also a very effective way to fire old people without getting sued for age discrimination. IBM fucking loves doing that and if you actually look at the history of their layoffs it's almost entirely age discrimination pretending to be efficiency

I am so tired of seeing the same fucking tricks work over and over and over again.

I have exclusive access to the source code capable of finding up to 400 defects in Java code, summary below.

@echo off
if "%~1"=="" (
echo Usage: %~nx0 filename
exit /b 1
)

type "%~1"

The difference is that if you pay people to monkey around with things, you get a non-revocable perpetual license to the result. With license rental, you get a perpetual bill. It's the same rent trap as individuals get stuck in but with less excuses.

Yes, and the reason is that they stupidly painted themselves into a corner and never thought about an exit strategy. Had they been thinking about the possibility that they might one day need to migrate from the beginning, it would be much cheaper to do so now.

That's the thing about painting yourself into a corner, a little better planning at the start can always avoid it with little to no additional effort.

VMware didn't do this in a vacuum. If they raise the prices that much it's because they have solid numbers that clearly indicate that their customers don't have anywhere to go.

I'm not a admin so I don't actually run my own VMs but from talking to other admins there is nobody who has tools for doing the kind of deployments you need to do in a large Enterprise except for VMware. I mean the tools exist but you're going to spend so much money paying people to monkey around with them you might as well just paid VMware.

There is a video from a YouTuber called Linus tech tips. His actual tech tips tend to be pretty shit but he does have one good video where he spent a few weeks trying to get all the people in his business off Adobe software and quickly found that yes he could do it but the man hours and the pay he had to spend doing it exceeded the cost of the licenses.

That's what Big Data gets you. You know exactly how much you can screw everybody over. You leave absolutely nothing on the table. Basically a giant fuck you to Leviticus 19:10.