purrtastic

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you not just make sure YouTube gets none of your money by using a front end that strips out all ads and sponsored segments? My kids watch YouTube but they’ve never seen an ad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The generation that grew up with ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga etc knows how to use computers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Terraria. Every time I fire up the deck to buy a new game, a few days later I am back to Terraria.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Still on Reddit? Use a comment and post wiper now, before you get banned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I just tried this out after wiping all my comments, let’s see if I get a ban

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My case in point. Instead of farming out translation jobs for 12 languages in WPML to people, we now auto translate all content via AI. That’s jobs lost. Complicated legal docs is an edge case in the content world.

Cursor is agent mode with Claude 3.7 absolutely writes well enough after indexing our codebase to mean less junior devs. I’m sorry that doesn’t fit into your narrative.

That’s not to say the world isn’t full of AI slop, and there aren’t huge issues around LLMs, But there are some solid use cases for this technology in replacing meat bags.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Translators and junior level devs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Consciousness is infinite. The meatbag is temporary.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (4 children)

MTV should play music videos (gasp)

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (17 children)

It’s nowhere near as bad here in NZ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait until the price of eggs and gas goes up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

My elderly ragdoll needed grooming too.

 
 
 

Key: "Donald Trump is driving very much an America First and a more isolationist kind of view. Actually, it's quite different, it's a very different foreign policy than we've ever seen. So that probably doesn't help New Zealanders much. But on balance, I think he's probably better for the economy.“

 
 

"Is this one motorway really worth one-tenth of our entire country's spending on schools, hospitals, houses and public transport infrastructure?"

 

"More people are going to have to rely on cars and trucks to get around because we don't have a pipeline of alternatives like rapid transit, inter-city passenger rail, public transport and safe walking and cycling in our communities”

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