Because the lowest common denominator is much MUCH lower than you think it is.

This means it’s easy to indoctrinate and easy to maintain that for a massive number of people.

Scientific illiteracy is extremely high, and actual “6th grade reading comprehension” is the highest level of literacy for > 50% of a country like the U.S. and ~20% are low literacy or actually illiterate.

This means that half of everyone in the U.S. can read and understand what they read at or below a 6th grade level. This isn’t “reading big words”, it’s “tell us about what you read”, “what is the relationship between x & y” type questions.

This comment for example, up to this point only, would be difficult to understand & comprehend for > 50% of people in the U.S. (it demands an 11th grade reading comprehension). And may be misread, misunderstood, or not understood at all.

People are driven to religions to cults and alt conspiracy theories when they don’t understand how the world works around them. They latch onto extremely simple often misleading or incorrect ideas of how the world works because they can understand it and it “makes sense” within their sphere of ignorance (we all have one, this isn’t meant to be a disparaging term).

This means that the problem is that humans are just not smart enough to escape religion yet. It’s the simplest answer, and it appears to be correct.

Ah, the circle of life

They usually do yes however it’s all about prioritization.

You may have hundreds or thousands or open requests and issues.

With tens of thousands of closed issues that were either not reproducible, not actually problems, or largely indecipherable.

There’s usually a feature roadmap which is where most of the development money and time is spent. If it’s an older business application then certain bugs might easily take weeks to find, fix, test, validate, go through user acceptance, A/B test, and then deploy. But fixing is expensive work, so if the bug isn’t severe it’s usually deprioritized next to higher priority work.

I find it incredibly helpful for breaking into new things.

I want to learn terraform today, no guide/video/docs site can do it as well as having a teacher available at any time for Q&A.

Aside from that, it’s pretty good for general Q&A on documented topics, and great when provided context (ie. A full 200MB export of documentation from a tool or system).

But the moment I try and dig deeper I to something I’m an expert in, it just breaks down.

Our enterprise has all of that automated, who’s searching for names manually in any business of nontrivial size…?

This can, and should, be scripted.

Theres a link below of a “you g girl” on the toilet.

It appears to be a young adult, clothed, using a toilet as a seat. Idk why it’s labeled the way it is, it’s really weird.

However , that somewhat dilutes the notion that that means children on this site.

Easier and more straightforward to get a position and salary promotion by way of hopping jobs than it is to do within the same company.

It’s really sad that this is the state of things but it is how it is.

This take brought to you by Amazon!

Seriously this is such a corporate take, demanding that everyone stop complaining unless they do things that may it may not be possible for them to do. Not everyone works in a unionizeable job, and not everyone can boycott Amazon (Most of their profits are from AWS, which runs the majority of sites and services you use. Stop using them, including lemmy instances hosted on AWS? You start!)

Possible that nation wide labor rights may be eroded away, EVERYONE has a right to complain about that.

Any regulatory agencies that enforce this sort of stuff being defunded, understaffed, or de-toothed in the last 4-8 years?

That’s what this smells like, and we should really be getting ourselves ready for more of this in other industries.

Things like android Google apps not respecting the default browser infuriates me

https://github.com/mozilla/platform-tilt/issues/8

It’s honestly crazy to think about that we used to say the same about 4GB only 5-7 years ago…

And the same about 2GB a measly 10 years ago…

5 years ago I used to think 32GB was great. Now I regularly cap out and start page filing doing my normal day-to-day work on 48GB. It’s crazy now.

Nephew them open for a week or so while using them consistently.

The memory usage will change drastically.

Yeah, and solder it onto the board while you’re at it! Who ever needs to upgrade or perform maintenance anyways?

If I have an AI tailored for me and my sensitivities then it should have no filter whatever filter it has should be defined and trained by me.

Someone else artificially trying to adjust my personality through AI to fit whatever arbitrary norms they believe it should have is cancer.

If the commenter could read they’d be very upset with you right now.

Uh… Ofc they are?

Even after all this I’m about to start a new game using unity. Why?

Because there’s no way I can bring it to market with the ecosystems available in any other major engine given the type of game that it is. I’ve already prototyped for almost a year using various options to narrow it down.

I would be forced to build so much from scratch for the mapping tech that I’d never ship it in say Godot.

Do I want to use unity? Hell no, but am I going to give up on my dream because screw unity? Hell no. I’m not into pyric victories.

Imagine not using FFmpeg or anything that uses FFmpeg 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Honestly couldn’t tell if you were being sarcastic or not because Poes law until I saw your note.

If all the wealth created by these sorts of things didn’t funnel up to the 0.01% then yeah. It could usher in economic changes that help bring about greater prosperity in the same way mechanical automation should have.

Unfortunately it’s just going to be another vector for more wealth to be removed from your average American and transferred to a corporation

Probably because brave is kind of the king of advertising in the space.

They managed to sell tracking activity for monetary gain as a privacy centric product.

They do now. But before this they would prompt users to activate it, but it was the users choice not to.

This is, largely, the norm for nearly every online service.