At first I was confused about the books comment, since most books are just black text on white paper, but then I realized you were probably including comic books and manga in that too (and probably textbooks that include a lot of graphics)
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ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of StaffEnglish41·1 year agoI feel ya man, I don’t work at Amazon but at a fintech startup, and I’ve survived through so many rounds of layoffs, demotions, and “restructurings” that I’m kinda numb to it all and just waiting for my turn too haha
Don’t worry, once the hype fades, we can start calling LLMs “machine learning” again
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%English7·1 year agoWhy would this even impact you if you’re using their index funds? Twitter isn’t even public so it can’t be in any index
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from itEnglish61·1 year agoA frog that is slowly boiled will jump out. However, if it’s dropped in boiling water, it’ll die because it doesn’t have time to jump out before the proteins in its body get destroyed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Relevant because I don’t think slow change is as irreversible as fast change, and might actually be more manageable
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPOEnglish12·1 year agoMaybe they should have spent some of the money they used on this questionable design update on improving their app or working with third party app developers.
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies With Flexible Remote Work Policies Outperform On Revenue GrowthEnglish4·1 year agoDamn… I still prefer that over going into the office at least, since I don’t have to commute
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Intel bets big against ChatGPT's OpenAI, invests heavily in Stability AI, makers of Stable DiffusionEnglish14·1 year agoDidn’t OpenAI start getting massive investments from Microsoft and then became ClosedAI?
Edit: Not that I necessarily think this will happen here. If anything, Stable Diffusion might run much better on ARC cards (or whatever their Neural Processing Unit becomes) and give a viable alternative to Nvidia
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.English8·1 year agoYeah this sounds like a great use for drones- take photos of high up places that is dangerous to climb to
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraudEnglish111·1 year agoI tried buying something using crypto on Coin base back in the day. Signed up, transferred $100 into Eth, had to wait two or three days for Coinbase to do their due diligence or whatever, and then it was down 50% by the time I could use it. (I think China banned crypto or something?) I just pulled out my credit card and bought the item directly, and never touched crypto again
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tipEnglish34·1 year agoI always heard tips started as “To Insure Prompt Service” or something. Which is basically what you’re doing here with Door dash, so we’ve gone back to the root of tips.
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years agoEnglish22·1 year agoThere’s another threads too that my company used to use for internal posts (referenced in the article): https://threads.com/
Interesting that they managed to keep the .com name
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating appsEnglish3·1 year agoWow we’re like the same person… Maybe I should give this lifetime Bumble a try
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New RevenueEnglish2·2 years agoThat reminds me of that one episode of black mirror where he can’t turn away from the ad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance packageEnglish9·2 years agoGaming these days, at least multiplayer or those “games as a service” games, just seems so shitty. With all of the “gacha” aspects of lootboxes, or battle passes where you have to pay to play the game, or just plain predatory psychology manipulation to get you to buy random stuff… Games nowadays feel like you’re basically working a second job, or you can pay money so that you don’t have to work the second job because it’s not fun.
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block usersEnglish6·2 years agoI have never gotten a adblock popup using Firefox and ublock origin while my friend has gotten several on Chrome. I wonder if I’m just lucky that I’m not in the adblock block rollout on YouTube or if Firefox+ublock is working
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•The Meta glassholes have arrivedEnglish2·2 years agoI already look dumb as hell in public, what’s a little bit more dumbness anyways
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about itEnglish1·2 years agoMaybe one day I’ll see something that says the opposite happened, which will truly be news to me
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Finding a Tech Job Is Still a NightmareEnglish7·2 years ago2 pages is fine, most resumes I see is two pages, especially if you have 10+ years of relevant experience to cover
Ugh well hopefully there will come a point when there’s not actually enough people to layoff anymore. Then maybe the game of follow the leader will stop. Or maybe another one starts up where they start over hiring again, who knows