Oh, I already bought my Lenovo during Black Friday…
On other news, Apple come out with a slew of products. Take that Microslop.
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Now that I’ve decided to get rid of my Mac, the slew if recent Apple news has felt pleasantly inconsequential. I hadn’t realized how much FOMO they used to trigger in me.
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Thank you drkonqi for 90GB of crash logs 
I wonder what would happen if I filled my client’s disks with 90GB of trash logs with no retention/cleanup policy in place
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It looks like the previous models already scored 9/10 on iFixit’s rating system
Perfect summary of my feelings on LLM code:
In order for vibe coding to be acceptable and justifiable, [the engineers] have to consider their own output disposable, highly uncreative, and not worthy of credit.
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Good article. On the forgery part it made me remember the film F for Fake. Do recommend, it’s really good.
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I have finally acted on getting a cloud backup. For now I went for the 10TB plan at 300€ per year. It is not cheap but I am hoping of it being temporary while I cull data, convert JPEGs to JXL, and so on. Lossy compressed DNGs with preserved CFA using JXL would be really good but it’s a pipe dream especially for Fuji.
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I do use AI for work and personal work, but as I may have mentioned somewhere, AI-assisted work takes me more time than unassisted. It has been the new doom scrolling for me. While doom scrolling is passive for the most part, my AI relationship has been an abusive one, with Chat doing everything but what we agreed upon. It is so hard to leave though. 
The sparring helps me solidify my resolve and the end product if I reach the conclusion, but I do not know if it is worth the trouble and waste in the end.
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Alan, few folks I know write so few words but paint so big pictures with them as you…
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Economy of tokens is not AI’s forte; therefore, I am not AI but Alan. 
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Today was a day I knew would come. A day I dreaded. Our CEO wanted to discuss AI usage in our software team.
He even brought an LLM-generated PowerPoint, and had generated a little toy GUI that did something not entirely unlike what our software does (“See, it’s so easy!”). All clichés were satisfied.
Thankfully, I was not alone. The other CEO was present as well, as were the other two heads of software. The conclusion we reached were largely sensible.
But for goodness sake, the delusions these “AI” companies are able to project into leadership people is scary. I’m not too afraid of AI in general. But the mass hysteria they managed to cause is something else.
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Yep. Seen it first hand as well. And I get the idea that opposing this tide will make you look like a luddite/bad guy. Not too hopeful for the future
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Methinks the really scary part maybe isn’t so much the AI but at a cultural / societal level the lemming-like behavior it triggers. No thought of “do we need this”, “what is this”, “does this make sense”… just “it’s new, it’s gonna make my life easier, it’s gotta be great and I know so because I was told”.
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AI gives dopamine hits to certain people. Two years ago, I knew an executive who would light up whenever AI was mentioned. Contracted vendors would literally drop the word AI in every other sentence to extract millions and years of public money for rotten potatoes.
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All I’d say is…
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
(Appologies if anyone’s got there before me, but this is a long thread 
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Is that Google Mind’s (or whatever that subsidiary is called) internal code name for their new model?
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All the AI companies push it as “inevitable”, and “the future of work”. But such huge claims require equally strong evidence. Yet all we see is anecdotal stories of “100x” hyperbole, which mostly seems funded by these very companies.
The only thing that’s truly inevitable here is that they will do their best to convince us of their narrative.
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SQL was gonna put programmers out of work, then it was VB, then CMS, then blueprints/graph node editors, yet, demand had never been higher for programmers, until a few months ago.
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This has been promised many times indeed, yet never materialized:
Quite the opposite in fact. The more accessible the tools, the higher demand grew.
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