Merit should always consider strictly value.

You can probably find the article but years ago a father found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target started sending him coupons for baby stuff. The reason Target did that is because they figured out that if you bought certain things that were not related to a baby it meant that you were pregnant. It was relatively simple machine learning that made that possible.

That's illegal no matter what tool you use, though, and it's not the tool that makes it illegal unless it was designed to do illegal things intentionally, or if you keep using it when you know it does illegal things. Adding AI isn't the legal problem. It's just a slightly new gimmick to the same old game, pretending you didn't know what you were doing.

Screenless is stupid. Screens are cheap now. By all means make it audio centric but if I just have to get out my phone to get any info that isn't convenient to get via audio, then I might as well just use my phone for the audio stuff too.

Facebook isn't a nice company but no company is a nice company.

I don't want to necessarily defend them but Facebook does have legitimate uses. I'm a introverted nerd so I don't have a lot of use for it but I have a couple of friends you are what you would call an extroverted nerd.

I can't think of any existence more frustrating and depressing than being an extroverted nerd. You're someone who wants to be around people and you aren't comfortable if you're alone but you're kind of weird and off-putting. Not for any fault of your own it's just you know you have something wrong with you as far as people are concerned. Maybe you're ugly maybe you're short and fat maybe you're on the spectrum and have zero tact so you blurt out incredibly uncomfortable and inappropriate things pretty much non-stop.

For those kind of nerds they can find like-minded nerds on Facebook and congregate and hang out.

And for regular people they can find people into their hobby. One of my more normal buddies finds his fishing buddies that way.

This is plausible deniability. Basically they want to fire people with disabilities or people who are starting to age because they can replace them with somebody younger who will work harder for less money.

It doesn't matter what experience the people getting fired have it's just a mathematical formula. We are all just cogs anymore except for a tiny handful of extremely specialized workers. If you have to ask if you're one of them you're not you'd be making it at least half a million a year and you wouldn't be wasting your time reading my dumb comments.

This is about creating a algorithm that fires people illegally and then claiming the algorithm is just a fair algorithm. This way Facebook can keep this shit tied up in court for years and we're down most of the people who would sue if not all of them.

If you have ever seen fight club it's the same kind of calculations that were done at the beginning of that film. Including the cost of the lawsuits.

I don't think people have realized just how much big data has tilted employment in favor of the employees. Or if they have realized it they've just pushed it out of their heads and pretended it didn't happen because it's too scary to think about.

I mean my head is full of all these disasters that are coming that nobody is doing anything about and nobody is going to do anything about. It's not necessarily worth knowing about it really. It would be one thing if anyone could do anything about it but when 60% of the country reads at the level of a 12-year-old I think we are pretty well fucked...

MCA was mind boggling. IBM is exactly not known for being cheap, and yet that's exactly what they did with MCA autoconfiguration by using floppies instead of ROM. Meanwhile they used a very expensive card edge connector when there was really no good reason to do so. It's truly insane.

People would believe in the hardware if they put it out, because IBM is not really known for exaggerating specs. But they don't seem to be able to.

I don't want even a new Samsung phone with its crappy nonstandard apps, let alone an old one which also has old Android.

Mega corporation advocates for regulatory capture, this is my surprised face

Interesting question - what would AI generated IT be like?

Yeah but you're a greybeard Slashdotter, hardly a representation of a normal person ;-)

Also clearly a lie, we've heard that GenZ doesn't spit out kids, so grand parents can't possibly exist before their midlife crisis.

I doubt it was RAM prices. Oppo the parent company still makes phones and OnePlus will still be available in some of the world's biggest markets.

The brand just had virtually zero market presence.

Sure, but putting storage online is cheaper both initially and ongoing than putting a bunch of GPGPU online, and in both power consumption and dollars. It can take up just as much space but use an order of magnitude less electricity, therefore be quieter, and have no one care