The flip side of the headline: “How society is grappling with older drivers refusing to hang up their keys”

I have always used conversation view in my desktop email client. Not sure why you think this is revolutionary or exclusive to gmail.

Europe is not designed for oversized cars.

Too many drivers are selfish morons and will manage to cram their oversized vehicles into any space without consideration for the safety of anyone outside their own bubble. Doesnt matter if the city was “designed” for it or not.

I was just in Bellagio Italy last week. For some reason, cars are allowed to drive through the medieval city center through extremely narrow roads packed with pedestrians… Which is OK if you’re driving a fiat 500… But this oversized jeep cherokee drive right through town, with barely any space for pedestrians to move aside. I’m not sure if it was a lost tourist or a local resident, but drivers should not be trusted to pilot such a vehicle through crowds with so little margin for error.

Sorry, my comment wasnt really directed at you specifically… Just the fediverse general hate for all things AI

yours was the first that mentioned “art” which triggered me, lol

I think we are actually both on the same page… You have a reasonable view of the whole AI thing. It’s rare on lemmy/mastodon

LLMs and image generating models are completely different things. Outputting an image doesnt require or benefit from reason and logic (other than making the model “understand” the prompt). Drawing a three headed monkey isnt “logical” and doesnt follow “reason” but that’s ok because art isnt about making photorealisitic images.

AI images could totally be useful as a tool in art. “But a computer made it! It’s not art!” It’s the same tired argument we heard about electronic music before.

But the fediverse seems to have such a hate boner for ANYTHING associated with AI (dont get me wrong, there is lots to hate. Mostly with tech-bro grifting…) that people are unable to see that these can be useful complements to human creativity.

Here’s another example… People crying that when an image contains AI generated elements, or maybe a video game contains some AI assets. People fly into a rage and want to dismiss the ENTIRE work and throw it all out. Human art doesnt require 100% human hands to make. Go look at any famous painting by a renaissance master. Did you know a lot of these guys had whole workshops of lackeys filling in background details for them? Are we going to throw out all the raphael and rembrandt paintings because they had assistance from other uncredited people?

Same with AI. Why cant an artist spend MORE time on important details and let AI draw some happy little trees in the background?

Where’s dave chappelle in all of this? Isnt this in his backyard? Isnt he a trump supporter now?

AI is fine if you know what you’re doing and can correct the mistakes it makes (i.e. use it as fancy code completion)

I’m not a developer and i havent touched code for over 10 yrs, but when i heard about my company pushing AI tools on the devs, i thought exactly what you said. It should be a tool for experienced devs who already know what they’re doing…

Lo and behold they did the opposite… They fired all the senior people and pushed AI on the interns and new grads… and then expected AI to suddenly make the jr devs work like the expensive Sr devs they just fired…

Wtf

Yes. Mounted network drives.

I think a lot of the shutdown hang problems went away when i switched to systemd automount

These things are programmed by impatient, wreckless, human, drivers…

I cant believe they allow these things on our roads as a public beta test.

Neutral, non-american here… And i do believe that trump needs to be defeated but…

Why is it when republicans raise millions people say “politics is corrupted by money!!”

But when the dems rake in $300M its framed as a good thing?

Just dont connect it to the internet.

That’s what i do with my OLED screen. It acts as a monitor for my HTPC. I dont use any of the apps on the TV

There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it.

Too many smug people think, “advertising doesnt work on me! Hah! Only weak minded normies fall for it…”

Wrong… Advertising works. And that’s the reason a shit ton of money that goes into it.

You want to know the reason why i run adblockers in my browser AND DNS levels? Because i KNOW advertising works on me… i KNOW i’m not smart enough to outsmart the army of engineers, and copywriters generating this stuff.

Source: i work in advertising lol

I assume moderating the reviews would be a significant challenge for the project.

Are google maps reviews even moderated? I’ve found them to be complete trash for years now

Just bots and influencers giving 5 or 1 star reviews for everything

Service guarantees citizenship!

Would you like to know more?

Whats my next move when my chromecast audio dies? I love that thing

Or mabye the LLM has been trained to make a few benign spelling mistakes in order to seem human.

Having children, at this juncture, with what we know, is profoundly selfish

Not just having children, but raising them to continue the same “driving huge SUV everywhere” costco lifestyle that got us into this mess

Wait what? Republicans said they fuck couches? I’m out of the loop here.

The thing is, these numbers are unfathomable to most people.

If you say, “government gave $30B in subsidies to car companies”, most people will stare at you blankly and shrug…

But people will get really angry if they see a headline like, “man commits $5000 of welfare fraud”, or “goverment spent $100 000 housing 5 refugee families” because those are real numbers to them.

It is fair… Companies paid $X lobbying our gov’t and in return they get to do shit and profit

Fair!