What this person said... I keep telling my dad over and over that I can literally send him an email and say I am anyone and it will show up in his email box. I feel like the urge to make everything "user friendly" has put us in this situation. The mail headers are so hidden now, it's almost a chore to find them in most email programs, which is unfortunate.
No kidding. Don't forget the part they aren't saying out loud, where they harvest all of your behaviour in car and then sell it to advertisers or other companies. Squirming around in your seat too much, prepare for a targeted ad for Preparation H.
I don't want an in-car assistant. "Bensaid also said he’s a big believer in the ability of AI-powered voice controls to handle complex requests. For instance, he said if a driver says “I’m hungry” the in-car assistant should be able to quickly direct them to a nearby restaurant that they might prefer. " It's like these people saw Wall-E and took it as an example of a desired future.
I am not taking sides with this comment, but you could literally swap names of everything you just posted with (the opposite candidate) and there is someone saying this exact same thing somewhere on the internet. They are most likely sitting there posting about where all the Harris people went and how they moved to a saner platform to avoid toxic people.... Everyone needs to remember that there is someone out there with a polar opposite viewpoint as you and it's just as strong as yours. The internet and social media has made it much easier for everyone to wall themselves off into groups containing people with only their viewpoint. And now all of that has been fed to LLMs. This is going to be an interesting future we are walking into.
Can we just end toll roads! Two years ago the legislature argued against capping rate hikes on property tax with the argument that it would unfairly benefit the rich (like they really give a shit). That sounds exactly like what a toll road does. Why doesn't that same argument apply to our roadways?
I just want to say to everyone that posted how amazed I am by your work!! Absolutely fantastic, and I am jealous of every single one of you.
I bet they would be willing to do it right while you are in the middle of something important if you paid them an extra $30 on top of that.
This breaks my onion loving heart. These are dark times.
This person is an idiot and can only think of one possibility. They are ignoring the fact that fucking around on the job can have implications like increasing skills. I made the mistake of replying to this person with an anecdote of mine which I am sure will be deconstructed by them like they were there. Point is, boss allowed us to goof off with pet programming projects and that resulted in me experimenting with code I wouldn't have had the chance to otherwise and making a breakthrough, which I then realized how to implement for the benefit of said company. So I wasn't fucking around to make money, but the fucking around gave me the knowledge and skills to them apply that indirectly. But hey this person is determined to infect the thread with their single minded theory that doesn't make a shit to the actual conversation.
It's not as strict as you are trying to make it out to be. My favorite job ever was a small company. The owner was fine with us programmers just working on pet projects on company time. I was goofing around at some point and ended up writing us some code that ended up being kind of a workshop for some code that us programmers would have to sit and work on. It allowed non-programmers to set up the same conditions and handled the 'code' part internally. It was all because I was just goofing around with program ideas and eventually got to that point where I had my eureka moment. I didn't set out to waste company time and money, but the end result paid off in droves, which is exactly how it sounds like the deck came to be. Another programmers goofy side project turned into an accounting package that we ended up tying into our actual product. If our boss/owner had been looking at it the way you are describing, none of that would have come to fruition, but look at all the money he would have saved not letting us programmers do what we did. /s
Maybe they can come up with some technology that would someday take the position of CEO. Think of the savings...
Spinal Meningitis by Ween.
On a lighter note, I loves me some Señor Coconut.
Yup. I probably shouldn't ramble as much, but my point was that I am sure all of the "opposite viewpoint than you" people are off in their walled garden asking the same questions. Where that is located, well, you have got me. I wasn't questioning the legitimacy of his question.