smackjack

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I don’t think Google can be beat when it comes to searching local businesses, but otherwise you might as well go straight to Wikipedia.

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It doesn’t help that the AI answer it gives takes up like half the screen and takes 30 seconds to load. LLMs are great for asking complex questions, but that’s not what I want to use a search engine for.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

smackjack,

Only a matter of time before the economy collapses because all these companies replace their workers with AI, only to find that no one can buy their services because everyone is out of a job.

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I can totally see it happening because these companies are so dead set on cutting costs that they’re not seeing the bigger picture.

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Reminds me of the poor newscaster who was murdered and set on fire.

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They could have had the best helicopter in the world. They still shouldn’t have been flying it in those weather conditions.

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Problem is is that is that too many people insist on doing things the Windows way and they get frustrated because of it. For example, instead of going to the software center, they choose to download their programs from a website, even though that’s not how you’re supposed to do it most of the time. They’ll also spend hours trying to get Windows only programs to run, when there are alternatives available that work just as well.

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A tar file is similar to a ZIP file. The easiest way to uncompress them is by using your file manager and right clicking.

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Let’s use Tor Browser as an example since that’s one of the programs that typically gets installed with a tarball. Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the tarball, you’ll want to navigate to the extracted files. You can do this in the terminal using CD commands, but I think it’s easier and a little more intuitive to just use your file manager and navigate to the folder that way. Once you’re in the correct folder, you’ll want to right click on an empty space and select “open and terminal.” Now you’ll have a terminal open and it will already be in the correct directory. From here you’ll want to run the “start-tor-browser.desktop” script. To do this, simply type ./start-tor-browser.desktop and you’ll be able to follow along from there.

Running programs from a Tar image typically involves running a script. You just have to change the name of the script to match whatever they have in the directory. Auto complete is your friend here. You don’t have to actually type the entire name of the script, you only need to type the first few letters and then hit tab.

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I’ve seen a bunch of ads on Facebook where it’s a deepfake of either Elon or Mr Beast. Just goes to show that Meta doesn’t give a fuck and will let anything through if you pay them.

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Followed by “You were conceived at 12:01”

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Shortly after Columbine, my school banned backpacks and if you brought a lunch box to school, they would want to search it.

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If someone is running towards your wife with a knife, are you going to wait for him to stab her before you shoot him?

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Following in porn’s footsteps I see. Can’t pause a video without getting an ad shoved in front of your face.

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That’s Europa. The thinking is that Europa may have life in its oceans beneath the ice that feed off of geothermal vents and therefore don’t require any sunlight.

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People who drink alcohol are more likely to vote than people who use other drugs.

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Could it be that we were the only species that figured out how to communicate via radio?

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

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If dairy restrictions are a disability, then me being left handed is also a disability.

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Think of AI like computers and spreadsheet software in the early 80s. I bet a lot of accountants were pretty freaked out about what this new technology was going to mean for their jobs.

Did technology replace those accountants? No, but companies probably didn’t need as many accountants as they did before. AI will likely reduce the number of programmers that a company needs, but it won’t eliminate them

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Your living space being a disgusting mess, but you’re able to ignore it by immersing yourself in your games.

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Ask an LLM to explain a joke. It often won’t understand why a joke is funny, but that won’t stop it from trying to give you an explanation.

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The sounds your computer would make if it was connecting to dialup Internet, or the sound you would hear if someone was using said dialup and you picked up the phone.

PC speakers and how they differed from regular speakers, or the fact that you needed a sound card if you wanted sound that wasn’t just beeps.

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The idea is that if it gets lost outside somewhere, then the paper will degrade to the point that it’s no longer readable. You can always get another card if you lose yours.

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This is why I think that temporary SSNs should be a thing . It would be a number that links to your real SSN and would be used to verify your identity, but would stop working after a day or two. That way if a company has a data breach, any SSNs that get stolen would no longer work.

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