My life partner and I both considered it critical that our beliefs were strongly compatible.

We’ve been together for decades.

Our beliefs have changed substantially, and certainly not identically.

We’re still together. There’s so many more important things.

But try not to get the Stainless Steel Connect. The App in the App Store is outdated and you can’t connect it to your WIFI anymore to stop the intermittent beep it makes.

I don’t need more time wasting sites, so I do limit myself to Lemmy. Yes.

That’s the point of the saying. The law can be crafted to treat everyone equally, while only benefitting the king.

Edit: It’s why the billionaire media is so angry at the concept of “equity” and “wokeness”. Both terms help us beggars discuss our situation, and both might threaten the king’s throne, if we realize how simply the laws could be adjusted for what we want from them, rather than for what the king wants.

Yes. If they did allow it, who would hire their nephew, then?

My time to shine.

I mean, Movie - Tommy 1975 (Pinball Wizard)

Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?

Great question. I agree with other responses - it happens, and there’s motive to hush it up, so we tend not to hear about it.

It’s also just really hard to tell the difference after the fact between “Dave sabotaged us” and “no one knows how to do what Dave did”.

But I’ll add - there’s currently little need motive sabotage AI implementations. Current generation AI is largely unable to deliver on what is promised, in a business sense. It does cool but useless things, like quickly generating low maturity code, and writing a summary any seven year old could have wtitten.

Current generation AI adds very little business value, while creating substantial risks. Nevermind that no one knows how Dave worked, now no one knows how our AI works, and it’s so eager to please everyone that it lies at critical moments.

Companies playing around with current generation AI to boost next quarter’s stocks will hit plenty of “find out” soon enough, with nothing beyond the natural consequences of ignoring their own engineers advice.

All that to say - if we see what looks like sabotage, it may well just be the natural consequences of stupidity.

A classic!

Good idea. That makes me wonder if voice over IRC is a thing. I feel like there might only be four people who know how to use it, but I bet I would enjoy hanging out with those four people.

Edit: Poe’s law applies, apparently: https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc

That would be a perfect cover story if he’s like a super spy, or something.

And that’s critical, because it’s one of the longest tutorials in game history (because it’s so slow).

I’ve ganged up on Newt every time, after my first playthrough. Poor kid.

That’s the one! We can also bully him with snowballs in the opening scene, if we want to.

This.

He should be panicked, but I think instead he’s doing a lot of coke.

That would explain so much.

You should buy my book on the topic…

It happens a lot.

I often choose my HVAC, plumber, electrician and lawn care teams in the same manner.

I call all of them. None answer. Few have voicemail set up. I leave voicemail with full contact info. I submit all of their web forms. Maybe one of them answer the phone, or calls back, or replies to the web form. I usually go with that one, if I haven’t already fixed it using YouTube, by then.

during regular working hours.

And generally after a couple cups of coffee, and before 4, and not during lunch, and not on Fridays.

Science club!

The transition to an AI-focused business world is proving to be far more challenging than initially anticipated.

No shit, Sherlock.

Plus the halucination risk.