The thing that’s helped pull people back from AI dependency at work has been to frequently ask “how much time did AI save on the whole thing?”
I mean, ChatGPT is amazing at writing bash scripts. But if you spend 40 minutes iterating over a solution before the clanker gives a usable solution, didn’t AI just cost time?
People refuse to accept they aren’t gaining anything from AI until they repeatedly look at the big picture.
Excuse me, we only drink Fireball in high school parking lots!
It’s not anymore. They moved production to the US this year.
My in laws have a second home in the US and have been faithfully going back and forth pretty regularly to maintain it.
Now we’re finally getting to the point where they’re uncertain about going and talking about selling it.
I think there’s a lot of people coming a bit late to the party. I don’t think we’ve stabilized those numbers yet.
Coquitlam, British Columbia? No they don’t. That has literally never happened. Not even once.
Ah, I see mom’s PC updated and it’s trying to print with the fucking “OneNote XPS” virtual printer again.
Also I see the “OneNote XPS” printer I manually remove every month is back again.
The question as asked: you can do it anywhere. Right here. In worldnews. Lemmyshitpost. Gardening. Whatever.
But I think you’re asking: where can I say whatever I want without consequences?
And that’s harder. Because if you have the right to subject other people to your opinions, that gives them the right to subject you to their opinions.
If you want to avoid being banned, create your own community. If you want to avoid your community being nuked by admins, create your own Lemmy instance. If you want a safe space for yourself, free from criticism about what you say, don’t federate your instance. You will be safe and able to howl into the wind without anyone troubling you.
Lester (the croc) on a molester.
I found code that calculated a single column in an HTML table. It was “last record created on”.
The algorithm was basically:
foreach account group
foreach account in each account group
foreach record in account.records
if record.date > maxdate
max = maxdate
It basically loaded every database record (the basic unit of record in this DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM) to find the newest one.
Customers couldn’t understand why the page took a minute to load.
It was easily replaced with a SQL query to get the max and it dropped down to a few ms.
The code was so hilariously stupid I left it commented out in the code so future developers could understand who built what they are maintaining.
“So what was the problem in the end?”
“Man, I don’t fucking know.”
How do you like the acoustics in that bucket?
And one clown, as the old joke goes.