Spot on. A word of advice to people in the tech field: save while the sun shines because another thing you can’t time besides the market is when the money will be flowing your way.
I’m somewhat optimistic about the long term prospects because if new technology isn’t the future then what is?
But seriously, don’t pretend like your high salary will last a lifetime and plan accordingly.
This sounds intuitive but these “dirty jobs” aren’t nearly as available and profitable as people believe. Relatedly, Mike Rowe is an asshole.
I don’t know what else to do, so I’m just going to keep trying and keep pushing myself to be a better dev. Maybe I’ll get there someday.
I mean worker unity and all, but it ain’t being better (if it ever was) that gets you ahead in this field. It’s who you know not what you know or what you’re capable of.
Internally they’re all like, “why can’t we work like a startup?”…partially because of you, Mr. Senior VP of golden parachutes.
A bunch of the younger guys at work were saying how they didn’t want playlists and they didn’t want to listen to an album, they just wanted to hit a button that knew their tastes musically and would give them a mix of familiar likes and new discoveries.
That’s Pandora… Eventually everything like this gets boring if you are interested in music instead of musak.
I get it though. Some people really aren’t that interested in music and just want some background noise. That’s probably even the majority of people, but I’m not sure it’s entirely an age thing.
I’m willing to say that this is probably true for most, but not for all.
If you run your own music streaming server, in some cases it’s better than streaming services.
This isn’t sour grapes either. I had Google music for a couple of years, and I currently have a ninety day trial of Spotify unlimited…these services might be better for most, but if you care about the things I do they’re worse.
I haven’t really even used my Spotify trial because my streaming setup is so much better in a variety of ways.
All that said, I’m an album listener, an older cat, and borderline music obsessive. I’m likely a dying breed. But I find music streaming services much worse.
I honestly think it’s much easier to have a catalog of music than, for instance, TV shows. I listen to the same albums over and over again, but I’m not nearly as keen on rewatching the same shows or watching the same movie more than even once.
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Dude, get a life.
I’m not defending anyone. I don’t care much at all about the electrical code, and if I did I’d just look up the information instead of having a stupid hissy fit in the comments of an article about Amazon being declared a distributor.
You realize that reasoned argument do take steps to come to right?
Why do online “debate me” bros even exist? You’re not Socrates debating philosophy in the heart of modern civilization with other scholars here, you’re a clown looking for random strangers to answer your questions about technical topics when with a few keystrokes and some sense you could do it yourself.
Do yourself a favor and touch grass.
I’m not interested in the question you posed, and I doubt you’re sincerely interested in it either as you’ve spent all of your time worrying about Lemmy replies rather than taking a single step outside of whining to get it answered.
Edit: You’re sitting there with basically all of humanity’s knowledge at your disposal and you’re like, nah, if the randos in this completely unrelated thread don’t address my concerns about electrical code it means that my hunches are correct. This is you —> 🤡
Nobody… and I mean NOBODY has yet to address the actual electrical engineering part of my question. Instead we’ve gone off the political bullshit bandwagon. So I’m just going to take it that I’m correct, and that the original premise is bullshit.
Reads like:
Nobody… and I mean NOBODY (i.e. the fifteen people that have seen my posts on Lemmy) has yet to falsify my claim that I’m the second coming of Jesus. So I’m just going to take it that I’m correct, and you can kiss my holy, demi-god ass.
Puerto Rico is a US territory. The US is by definition not a third world country.
I’m over tech fads and AI produced gibberish is boring and/or ugly just like this special we’re gabbing about here.
You know what would’ve been more interesting than an AI posthumous rip-off George Carlin special? A funny comedian actually writing and performing new material that was up to the real George Carlin’s bar.
Personally, I think the reason chat bots had to be the next thing is that these dweebs had to invent themselves a friend.
I ignored the rest of the wall of text because I don’t respect walls of text. They’re fine when required which is rarely.
Artists are largely not computer experts and artists using AI are buying Microsoft or Adobe or using freebies and pondering paid upgrades. They are also renting rather than buying because everything’s a subscription service now.
A far bigger market for AI is for non-artists and scammers to fill up Amazon’s bookstore and the broader Internet full of more trash than it already was.
Sure so maybe respond to what I actually said and what’s actually happening. Which isn’t all small artists suddenly enjoying a new, free, easy to use tool and is much more like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Adobe making lots of money off of “AI”.
See how ridiculous it is to make that argument?
What argument? A completely different, ridiculous argument? Yeah I agree it is ridiculous to make that other argument that you purposely made with the intention of being ridiculous.
Had big “people calling people edgelords are the real edgelords” type vibes to it, which I’ll file in the circular file right next to its cousin “people calling people racists are the real racists”.
Edit: A couple of posts down the dude almost says that quote verbatim.
Open source AI has leveled the playing field for people that aren’t mega corporations to compete, but has also brought along insecurity and anxiety to creative fields.
I’m sorry but…no.
The people making money off of this are the same people making money off of everything.
The primary beneficiary of all of the AI hype is Microsoft.
Secondary beneficiary is Nvidia. These aren’t tiny companies.
There’s another thing here which is that you seem to believe this was actually made in large part by an AI while simultaneously stating the motivations of humans. So which is it?
If this was truly AI generated, they could release a new one every week, or do something like that perpetual Seinfeld wannabe thing or the endless Biden Trump debate.
There’s a reason it’s more coherent than anything you’d get from ChatGPT. There’s a reason why it’s not “endless Carlin”. There’s a reason why the people that supposedly created it aren’t already in a technical field but are instead in comedy. It’s because it’s a fraud. It’s a mechanical Turk.
Before I watched it, I thought that it was perhaps sections written by AI and then stitched together afterwards.
After watching it, I think very little of it was actually written by AI, anything that “AI” contributed was thoroughly edited, and that most of it was completely written by a mediocre comedy writer.
There is a 0% chance that anyone typed anything like “Have AI George Carlin perform an hour-long special posthumously” into a computer and it spat that audio out.
There is exactly one bit that I think was even conceivably inspired by interactions with a chat bot and it’s the one about replacing the vowels in people’s names (which is coincidentally what a couple of YouTubers take as “proof” that it was AI generated in whole), and even that bit was likely AI-inspired but not at all AI-written.
EDIT: I wanted to add somewhere that I’m happy to find another skeptic. This seems like a modern “mechanical Turk” to me.
A thing that wouldn’t surprise me at all is if this is some sort of elaborate stunt similar to something Andy Kaufman would do.
Went ahead and started running redacted on my old account.
Nothing says we’re just another brick in the wall like writing posts that wind up being used to train a plagiaristic corporate unemployment machine.