SufferingSteve

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[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 0 points 6 days ago

You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.

Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago

Indoctrination is a hell of a thing, might escape it physically, but still being trapped mentally.

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.

Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.

AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.

I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it's a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.

Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people's mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

I'll just ask chatgpt to do the research and vote for me

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah because if everyone is extremely cheap labour everyone will prosper? :)

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

First I'll explain NAT, NAT is the root of all evil. Done

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's interesting how both of these guys who seems to both be firmly in the "don't break shit for the users" camp, and both are very adamant about quality of code in the kernel can't get along, saddens me a bit.

I'm excited about bcachefs, I'm even planning a migration from btrfs, but I need to battle test my offsite backup a bit more before having the guts to walk into bcachefs land.

Might wait for 6.18,6.19 or something and follow any future drama

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 6 points 2 weeks ago

The "if" is working overtime in your statement

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wish I could by a whole ass fish for 4 dollars...

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If both are fascist, similar quality and one is cheaper. The choice is no longer very hard

I would even argue that the Chinese ones are becoming better. It's not like the parts or the assembly quality of American made stuff is better than chinese.

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 3 points 3 weeks ago

But oh so lucrative, and with a catchy phrase...

I see moneybags in this idea, wonder who will first make it a reality...

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And you are self-sufficient, or whatever the word is. But that's the key thing for me, not having to rely on others for my services :)

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nu/post/10897377

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Confession (feddit.nu)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SufferingSteve@feddit.nu to c/rust@lemmy.ml
 

I have been programming in Rust for about 8 years now. I love the language. But I feel I have some confessions I must make.

  1. I don't know if I use tabs or spaces in my final code. I just assume that it all get solved correctly by cargo fmt. I don't even understand that people have been arguing about this for real? I vaguely remember this being important in C and C++, but I am hoping I never go back to those dark days.

  2. I never do linebreaks, not even when adding my semicolons. I hit ":w" and if shit doesn't move around on my screen, I fucked up somewhere.

  3. The only lifetime I ever use is '_, 'a or 'static otherwise I give up

  4. Wtf is the 'de lifetime in serde deserialize??

  5. Rocket is the best web server

  6. I actively chose software written in Rust over other software, even if it's not better, and I argue that it is.

Okay, got that of my chest. Never dared telling anyone this before. Feels scary

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