wccrawford

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's a few things going on. At first blush, I agree with you. The vast majority of that stuff doesn't need to be captured.

But if you don't capture everything, how do you know you got the stuff that will be important or wanted in the future?

Also, historians are going to find that data to be an absolute gold mine. Unfortunately, a lot of it is in the form of video now and takes a ton of storage space.

I think, in the end, most people are not willing to pay the price to archive everything. But some are, and they're doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I don't think they meant "you" you. They meant "you" in the general sense. They're saying that people either love it or hate it, with not very many centrists.

I'm not sure that's true, though. I think, like you, most people are either centrist, or have no opinion at all. The vocal people go all one way or the other, though... Except you for some reason. :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nice! Congrats!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

FTA: YouTube’s global head of health, Dr Garth Graham, said: “As a teen is developing thoughts about who they are and their own standards for themselves, repeated consumption of content featuring idealised standards that starts to shape an unrealistic internal standard could lead some to form negative beliefs about themselves.”

And while I'm sure this is true, this is a minority of people, and they should seek help for their problem. There are far more who benefit from hearing about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how to achieve it.

They should already be hearing that stuff from their parents and teachers, but I have my doubts. And they're much more likely to listen to influencers than authority figures at certain ages.

But the whole thing is even more pointless. They're mostly influenced by seeing these beautiful people constantly on TV, movies, and Youtube, and thinking that they don't measure up to them. Simply stopping some health care videos is going to do nothing for the problem and only prevent videos with the information they need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. Well, I'm a little surprised it's backordered that far then.

For fun, I checked Fi... Oct 23-30 for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It's been possible to order pixel 9s for a couple weeks, hasn't it? When I looked at one after the announcement, it was going to be here on release day. When I looked a few days later, it was going to be a couple more weeks.

I'm not surprised that they're backordered for a while at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm on the free trial of DL. It's still this ugly icon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think that's the point? They're saying that those coders will turn into prompt engineers. They didn't say they wouldn't have a job, just that they wouldn't be "coding".

Which I don't believe for a minute. I could see it eventually, but it's not "2 years" away by any stretch of the imagination.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. I recognize the bias and the need for clicks/eyeballs, and their motivations, and it applies to all of them. I generally expect someone telling me something to not be deceiving me, and I'm so often disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't tried to scaffold whole projects, but otherwise that lines up with my usage of AI copilots so far.

At this point, they're good at helping you interface with the built in commands and maybe some specific APIs, but it won't do your thinking for you. It just removes the need for some specific base-level knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

IIRC, they even have a rewards thing right now where you can get some free stuff for playing their games specifically on mobile, trying to draw more attention to their new store.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This already happens with those comedy talk show hosts. They create rage-bait stories and spin them for good entertainment, and people think it's an accurate look at the situation. I used to kind of enjoy them until one of them hit on a subject I had just researched and knew immediately how they were spinning it. I can't stand them now.

So while this is a concern, it's one that's already being done on a much larger scale with people who feel a lot more trustworthy. I'm not really worried about some kids that are also doing it.

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