I don’t think that it’s unreasonable to expect to recoup the millions you spent on R&D for developing a new crop.

Yes, the length of ownership should be much shorter, but until the world governments collapse, technological advancements cost money and resources.

If you remove the ability to recoup R&D costs before addressing the need for private r&d at all, you’re going to stifle innovation.

This isn’t an endorsement for the current system, but these processes will continue to exist until the current system is replaced.

Just because everyone is doing it doesn’t mean it’s not rude. Put your digital crack down for an hour or go to rehab.

That’s one of the things I love about Tool/APC/Lucifer concerts. If you have your phone out, you’ll get kicked the fuck out.

Yeah, no one is going to read your wall of bullshit, so I don’t know why you waste the electrons.

A stock market is a purely capitalist invention. It’s profiting off of a company profiting off of the exploitation of their customers and their employees. It can’t exist in a true socialist economy.

A stock market is the antithesis to a socialist economy.

You can cope as hard as you want, but China mixing their socialism with a smidge of capitalism, and the western world mixing their capitalism with a smidge of socialism is all about screwing the little guy.

Both China and the US are bad guys. It’s entirely possible to criticize both the US and Chinese economic systems without being hypocritical, and you should do better than to fall prey to a fascist regime because it loosely aligns with your beliefs.

Thanks for the break down. I researched both based on your post because my beefy gaming desktop is in our living room so my SO can play BG3 on it on a Windows partition (pre-native Linux), so my proxmox testing has taken a sideline.

Based on what you’ve said and what I’ve researched, I should be able to stream anything my PC can handle to both my deck, and to the Anbernic Win600 I bought my SO.

I really just need to max my ram out to 128gb and maybe throw in my R9 390 as a secondary GPU.

Bro, literally all I said was that the training dataset was the same.

I’m well aware of how generative AI works. I’m an industry professional who attended the very first AI/ML training course by a major cloud provider back in 2023 and was instrumental in changing the way they operated the AI side of the house.

But the parallels are there. Neural networks are designed based on the human brain, and vector driven databases aren’t super dissimilar to how neurons interact. A ton of human memory and processing is based on referential data, like gen AI.

Yes, it might not be able to approximate human intelligence and the actual workings of the brain yet, but it’s on its way.

People tend to forget how computers used to take up entire floors of office buildings and a simple hard drive was the size of an industrial washing machine. Gen AI is in its infancy, and while its current state is highly inefficient and flawed, that’s all the reason for it to improve.

Is current gen AI a solution for anything? Absolutely not. Is it a stepping stone towards true artificial intelligence? Absolutely.

I swear, Lemmy users would have been the people complaining that Excel and Word would be the downfall of society. There are absolutely legitimate complaints about the technology, but to completely dismiss it without looking at the nuances of the situation is assanine.

The truth is that it’s entirely possible for a business to ethically use an LLM. I know this for a fact because I was intimately involved in the implementation of one. The entire thing was trained on our proprietary dataset that had been built over 40 years of industry experience, on our servers which were powered by green energy.

I’d call it fraud myself. But retailers have been doing this shit for forever. But the thing is that people love this shit.

JCPenny almost went under when they stopped deceptive pricing tactics like 20 years ago and just offered a really low price.

Shit, I worked at a major sports and outdoors retailer and we had tags that said “Everyday Low Price.” Items tagged with that would never go on sale because they were loss leaders (just barely above wholesale to get people to buy overpriced accessories).

I had customers with the items in their cart ask me if it was on sale, I told them it was the lowest price they were going to find and even price checked other retailers whose sale price was higher than ours, and they put it back every time.

People are really fucking stupid.

I wouldn’t hold my breath on that. I fully expect the 2A fanatics to willingly hand over their guns when trump picks back up the, “take the guns now and figure out due process later,” stuff from his first term.

Or heavy metal poisoning

He’s one of the few congressmen that’s actually trying to rally people to get involved to fight back against this.

He’s pretty limited on what he can do being basically the only progressive in the government.

I found out about it when it actually caught me putting something in a bag without scanning it, because I was on autopilot and not paying attention to what I was doing.

But, like you, the employee didn’t give a fuck.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.

I see you subscribe to the Amazon sales policy.

There is a method similar to a sheep shank knot that is super useful for very long cables, and you can use the over/under method for making the required loops.

Which is ridiculous because those people paid into the safety net when they had jobs. I was on unemployment for about 7 months and I didn’t feel the least bit guilty because I had been paying into it for 20 years. Well, technically my employers paid it, but they paid it with the results of my labor.

Although I did work a temp job doing physical labor during that, but it was mostly an effort to get a full time position in my career at that employer (it worked). Plus it helped with the depression from sending out hundreds of applications without getting a single interview.

Didn’t they just start shipping grid size salt batteries too?

What made you choose wolf over sunshine?

Not to mention the fact that it takes on average 18 months to hire someone.

I’m honestly surprised Trump hasn’t broken out the “take the guns now and figure out due process later,” stuff yet.