atrielienz

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atrielienz ,

Before smartphones we had snake and Tetris on nom smart phones and we liked it. Before that books and news papers were popular.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

atrielienz ,

On the mach E, my understanding is there's a panel where you hook up a jump box that supplies power to those circuits to allow you to use your key fob to open the door. But there's no bladed key to manually unlock the car. So technically there's a failsafe but it's not ideal. And I agree it ought not be allowed.

atrielienz ,

There's a little panel you can use the uncut key blade to pop out and a power and ground wire in them that's accessible outside the vehicle. Of course that requires you to have a jump box or another car and some leads. I don't know who needs to hear this but stay real close to civilization if you drive one of these. Don't get stranded in no man's land.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

atrielienz ,

I'm inclined to believe, based on this thread, that you and the person you're replying to didn't read the article because the person who wrote it and most of the replies to it are not saying "LLM's are garbage and have no benefits".

The post is specifically calling out companies that have jumped on the "AI LLM" train who are trying to force feed it into every single project and service regardless of whether it will be useful or beneficial or not. And they will not listen to people working in the field who tell them no it will not be beneficial.

The hype is what people are upset about because companies are selling something that is useful in selective cases as something that will be useful to everyone universally for just about everything and they're making products worse.

Just look at Google and their implementation of AI LLM'S in search results. That's a product that isn't useful unless it's accurate. And it was not ready to be a public facing service. In their other products it's promising more but actually breaking or removing features that users have been using for years. That's why people are upset. This isn't even taking into account the theft that went on of people's work to get these LLM'S trained.

This is literally just about companies having more FOMO than sense. This is about them creating and providing to the public broken interactions of products filled with the newest "tech marvel" to increase sales or stock price while detrimentally affecting the common user.

For every case of an LLM being useful there are several where it's not. That's the point.

atrielienz , (edited )

Which makes the point that while AI LLM's can be useful and can be improved, hamfisting them into every product you make as a company because you have FOMO is ill advised and aggravating, especially when you pay people to be subject matter experts in the field and they tell you it's a bad idea. That's what the article said in some very verbose language. Your attention span must be severely lacking because you couldn't read the article and glean that simple point from the words on the page. I read it and it was entertaining and insightful.

You seem like someone who might need paragraphs to be a single sentence.

atrielienz ,

I've actually gone out of my way to avoid it but that has nothing to do with the accuracy of the results (although I would need those results to be accurate), and everything to do with avoiding ads and using the search web function to find very specific and detailed information rather than a summary.

In my short experience with the AI features for search specifically, I have experienced not being able to see the source of that information without having to click through and scroll down or continue a conversation with prompts. I don't want that. It very often slows down my work flow and that's the intention. To keep me on the page making additional queries and looking at more ads.

I have experienced Gemini with my phone though and it's actively worse than google assistant and home assistant in a lot of ways. Features that have allowed me for years to control smart devices and have been broken or unreliable. More so than the results of the Sonos lawsuit.

I want my devices to work. I don't want to have a conversation with a device to turn on lights or find out what the weather is like. Bottom line, the point of my comment was that (obnoxious to you or not), nobody is under attack for using AI products.

atrielienz ,

Did they need a slash s for this? Did they? Because people like you make me believe they needed a slash s. Like. Obviously this was a sarcastic comment because the original comment they responded to was horribly fallible. There are whole industries built on the idea that an industry can be destroyed by liability. It's literally why we have liability insurance. So when someone responds to that comment with an equally fallible statement that is clearly meant to be sarcastic we just ignore that because we feel that their statement is wrong? What even is this.

atrielienz ,

They have a logical point though. On the Ukranian war videos side we know that the news has to blur certain things for public decency or safety etc.

On the 3D printing side we know that while these videos are definitely educational, the point is that such an education can be used in a very horrible way.

IUD might be how their phone's keyboard corrected, or they might have just swapped the acronyms. It's more important that you knew what he meant and I think you're dismissing it out of hand.

When the internet first became popular there was a whole thing about kids having access to the materials to make a bomb with instructions. Took some bookstores down with them. Anarchist cookbook moral panic everywhere.So yeah this has been a thing for a long time.

atrielienz ,

It is if that's how you think about it. But over time the thinking behind that has changed. Because these types of people are.in our military and they think most military members think like them. By proxy that means they'd be on the side of the "militia".

atrielienz , (edited )

A gun is a technological marvel of a thing. Scientifically they are really very interesting. How they work is kind of ingenious, and their history and how they have so drastically changed the course of all history is fascinating.

I don't want to say that these people probably are all in that boat. But being a gun nut who wants to shoot someone isn't the only reason to find something interesting. I feel the same way about fireworks and nuclear bombs. Looking at the work that had to be done by so many people in order to make a nuclear bomb and calculate what it would and could do? That's as cool and intriguing as a space shuttle or an oil rig drill.

3D printing is also really cool in and of itself.

atrielienz ,

I was in the military. I took the oath. What I'm saying is, if you don't think there are MAGAT idiots in the military (a lot of them), please understand they did a threat assessment of military members while Donald Trump was running for President the first time, and decided to make a military wide training specifically to educate us about that oath and remind us who what we took it to defend. So yes. I absolutely do know some people who are all for militia fighting the government who are still military members.

atrielienz ,

The median age for an A&P licensed plane tech is 55. We'll welcome you to the ranks anytime.

atrielienz ,

This comment directly speaks to your lack of understanding of how airline maintenance works. The point though is there are a shortage of maintenance personnel in the industry. People are retiring all the time and nobody is filling those billets once they leave. And airlines don't just have a maintenance crew at every airport because there's not enough, and it wouldn't be cost effective. Be as angry as you want that airlines are running on such terrible margins that they can't have a backup plane. But do understand that this is not the fault of the maintenance personnel.

atrielienz ,

Did it ever occur to you that they don't just have maintenance personnel at every airport? Because what I'm saying is that no airline in the world has maintenance personnel at every airport.

Spirit, Frontier and Allegiant are Airbus only and would require an Airbus tech. Airbus planes are pretty decent on that the A19-A321 planes are pretty much exactly the same in parts and configuration except that some are longer and or wider than others. On the other side of things Southwest has only Boeing planes, mostly 737 and 747.

Pretty much every other airline has a mix of different planes (Boeing, Airbus, and Bombardier, Embraer). To do what you're talking about every airline that flies more than one plane would have to have a technician for each of those plane types on the ground at every airport they fly to. That's 5000 airports, with at least two technicians per airport (assuming they only have one flight in and out of there at a time which is ludicrous). The average number of flights going in and out of any one airport at a time. Daily there are about 45,000 flights per day per FAA statistics not including private flights.

At Delta's hub in Atlanta, there are around 2100-2700 flights per day. Delta says they have about 6,400 AMT's worldwide One singular airport out of 242 airports that Delta flies to. 24 hours a day for most airports. They would be required to keep at least 8 people per airport per average number of flights leaving or arriving per at the same time. Let's say that at their hub they only have 5 planes on the ground at any given time ( a gross miscalculation of how many planes fly into their hub, but the math is cleaner). Delta has 4 different plane manufacturers's planes in their fleet. That's 4 mechanics on an 8 or 12 hour shift multiplied by 5 planes let's say per average turn around time of 30 minutes. You'd need 20 techs
At every single solitary airport Delta flies to. Per shift. Supplied by the airline. It's a logistical nightmare and this number balloons when you realise just how.many departures and arrivals there are and at what intervals at pretty much any major airport. 9,640 AMT's assuming 12 hour shifts. Just for domestic USA flights, not including planes that are down for maintenance outside regular maintenance schedule. When the fleet only emplyes 6,400 AMT's world wide.

I cannot stress this enough, but you're making a lot of assumptions here. And you don't think it's an unrealistic expectation specifically because you have no idea how any of this works.

atrielienz ,

Because you don't understand what an A&P licensed Technician is or what the certification means. It also means you likely didn't understand what you were told about what was causing the delay.

By that I mean they probably initially had someone working on that plane who was new to being a tech. Which tracks because outside of recruiting from the military, a lot of AMT's recruited to the business are fresh out of highschool or college because that's when it's cheapest to hire them, and considering that older technicians are retiring every day. That technician was told there was a specific problem (let's say a fan cowl door won't latch). They open that door up to find that the reason it won't latch is because the latch is broken. To replace the latch they remove some parts, and then find that the reason it's broken is because some safety wire is broken off a bolt somewhere and wedged itself in such a way that it stressed that latch til it broke. Not only do they have to figure out where that safety wire came from, they have to do further teardown and inspection to make sure that there's no other damage. Unless you want to randomly lose an engine at 10k+ feet in the air where you can't pull over to the side of the road. And that's where being a subject matter expert on that particular model platform of plane would be preferred. Because while any AMT could find where that safety wire came from, not any AMT could do it on the Line without delaying a plane.

And that's why I said you were blaming Technicians. Because you were blaming Techs for the delay. Which in actuality was probably caused by something outside their control. Have a nice life dude. Your opinion is trash.

atrielienz ,

Can I ask exactly what you expected them to do? The managers or gate staff or whoever?

I ask because delays when they happen are usually tied to federal regulations about who can fly, what can fly, in what condition, in what weather, etc. So if they found something to be mechanically wrong with your plane and not fixable in a way that is airworthy, generally that plane would be grounded and the airline would then have to scramble to find accommodation.

While I'll grant you that airlines overbook pretty much every plane in the event that people don't show up, and that's a scummy practice, I also fully understand that this decision was definitely not made by some.manager actively at the airport. This was a decision from the executive suite of the company.

I don't have good things to say about flying United, American, or Delta, even. I'm a bit biased about Southwest. But I haven't really had any problems with them. Believe it or not, same with Alaska despite the recent bad press.

I have been delayed many a time. I recognise that it can be devastatingly inconvenient and problematic. It can cost customers significant amounts of money and time.

I'm not saying it's unreasonable to be angry. I'm saying that the airport staff who likely would have related this information to you (pilot, flight attendants, gate staff) also aren't responsible. Further, the person who tasked that AMT or those AMT's to work on the plane you were on is likely doing their best to utilise staff efficiently and effectively to keep planes in the air because that's their job, and that job becomes exponentially harder when planes are grounded.

Your ire seems to be directed towards the airline at large, and it seems like you had an expectation of what would and should happen that I feel is unreasonable given what I know.

You haven't really made it clear what you expected except the things I have spoken to in previous comments in this thread. But even if you didn't mean it that way, what you basically said is that the AMT wasn't qualified (which isn't true) to be working on the model of plane that they were servicing, and that caused a delay. Which is why I said you were blaming the AMT. The fact that the manager of that AMT is also probably an AMT as well is something you seem to have glossed over.

The other thing I want to point out is that the cost of keeping planes on standby in the case of mechanical issues grounding a different plane would be astronomical, and that cost would probably triple or quadruple the cost of your plane ticket. At an airlines hub airport that might be feasible. But airport hangar space is limited and the run on costs of doing so are so cost prohibitive to most customers (not to mention the lack of AMT's available to make it happen), that I just don't understand what you expect a better result to look like.

We're not talking about shade tree mechanics on their garage tearing down an engine here. We're talking about highly trained AMT's who are part of a maintenance apparatus that is heavily heavily regulated by the federal government.

atrielienz ,

When you ask assistant to set a timer it may hang up. Most of the time that works (for me). Gemini can't do that or couldn't do that about a month ago when I was seeing articles about it. There's key functionality of assistant that Gemini is just bad at. Ask it to launch an app for you? It will bring up a search of app launchers. It will not launch Gmail.

atrielienz ,

It's free with my YouTube music sub. I was grandfathered into the cheapest price from the Google play music launch. I like a lot of tech and science videos and I watch YouTube for that. Worth it to me.

atrielienz ,

Which doesn't make sense on Lemmy because it's not algorithm based. But is probably a muscle memory reaction from using Reddit or similar.

atrielienz ,

That's fair. I didn't know all that.

atrielienz ,

The onion articles? Or just all the other random shit they've shoveled into their latest and greatest LLM?

atrielienz ,

This is perhaps the most ironic thing about the whole reddit data scraping thing and Spez selling out the user data of reddit to LLM'S. Like. We spent so much time posting nonsense. And then a bunch of people became mods to course correct subreddits where that nonsense could be potentially fatal. And then they got rid of those mods because they protested. And now it's bots on bots on bots posting nonsense. And they want their LLM'S trained on that nonsense because reasons.

atrielienz ,

Yeah. I was including Reddit shit posts in the "random shit they've shoveled into their latest and greatest LLM". It's nuts to me that they put basically no actual thought into the repercussions of using Reddit as a data set without anything to filter that data.

atrielienz ,

I don't even think hallucinations is the right word for this. It's got a source. It is giving you information from that source. The problem is it's treating the words at that source as completely factual despite the fact that they are not. Hallucinations from what I've read actually is more like when it queries it's data set, can't find an answer, and then generates nonsense in order to provide an answer it doesn't have. Don't think that's the same thing.

atrielienz ,

I understand the gist but I don't mean that it's actively like looking up facts. I mean that it is using bad information to give a result (as in the information it was trained on says 1+1 =5 and so it is giving that result because that's what the training data had as a result. The hallucinations as they are called by the people studying them aren't that. They are when the training data doesn't have an answer for 1+1 so then the LLM can't do math to say that the next likely word is 2. So it doesn't have a result at all but it is programmed to give a result so it gives nonsense.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

atrielienz ,

Duckduckgo suffers a lot of the same problems as google and other search engines. It's just not getting progressively worse as fast as google. It's still been getting worse and worse as time has gone on. I really dislike people who just point to another search engine like it's the end all be all and don't or won't acknowledge that each one has problems and a lot of the problems overlap significantly. None of that fixes the problem or makes any of these companies backtrack on their terrible implementation of anti-user/anti-consumer policies.

atrielienz ,

Angelo ran da into the ground long before this. Not gonna lie, I'm not surprised. Not even disappointed.

atrielienz ,

I do not care.

atrielienz ,

I have a question for you. What is the difference between Google being banned in China and Tik Tok being banned in the US?

How do you store your grounded coffee? ( slrpnk.net )

Hiya, just quickly wondering how people store their coffee? Mine is in a tin box I got second hand, cos I thought it looked nice. Any rules regarding storing grounded coffee? I don't store much at the time, it's just if I grind a little too much and what not. I'm assuming the general thumb rule for this is to store it in a...

atrielienz ,

I have literally a couple of mason jars (the smaller variant ball jars). I have a hand grinder that fits the jars so it works out. Means my husband and I can both have ground coffee fairly fresh and without having to share (his coffee tastes like dirt to me). It works for us. We grind the night before usually.

atrielienz ,

Didn't the model 3 have one that was a miniature car? You'd think they would allow that as an option for the cyber truck.

atrielienz ,

GM made an electric car in 1996 (the EV1). It even has a random cult following to this day. Tesla's original founders sort of re-jumpstarted the electric car with new branding but we've been making electric cars for a long time. Range, cost, and infrastructure is what held us back not competition. Now we have the infrastructure (which I will say is what Tesla has largely given us, and what should be the way forward for their business model). The Nissan Leaf was the best selling electric vehicle of all time when Tesla launched the roadster (that same year). The problem really is that most car companies are bad at marketing electric cars to this day. In 2012 Ford launched an all electric Ford Focus. Just about nobody knew about it.

He did not start the entire thing and I'm sick of hearing people say that. He took a company from other people and ran it into the ground both by hemorrhaging money and with poorer and poorer build quality and I am quite literally sick of his face.

atrielienz ,

Is the game developer involved or is it just Sony doing Sony there are some things that there are some things that don't things?

atrielienz ,

Yeah but it seems like they were not expecting this change just based on their responses on social media, and it looks like Sony didn't even "require it" until just recently. So I just wanted to know.

atrielienz ,

There's an IRS app that will help you to know when you'll receive a tax return if you live in the US. That's useful.

atrielienz , (edited )

I also have an app for tolls in my state, and the VA. I'm just pointing out that not all government apps are terrible and I can certainly understand why some people would want or need to use them.

atrielienz ,

Depends on who you are probably. But a poor person who's only access to the Internet is via smart phone might beg to differ. This also might matter if you do taxes on paper rather than using an online service (paid or free). When you file digitally and supply a bank account you absolutely will receive a tax return pretty expediently unless you get audited. But if you file a paper tax return by snail mail and are expecting a check? Different story. What if they never received your return? What if it was lost in the mail? What if the check gets lost in the mail?

atrielienz ,

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24147936/nintendo-dmca-takedown-yuzu-emulator-copies

It's true. They used Nintendo's own cryptographic keys to make the yuzu switch emulation work.

atrielienz ,

And Nintendo won.

atrielienz ,

Here's the thing. The creators of Yuzu folded which is a win as far as Nintendo is concerned and a loss for everyone else who uses the yuzu emulators. Your semantics about the situation aren't helping. All I did was supply a link to a news story that was already available on Lemmy on literally the technology community. This has already been hashed out.

atrielienz , (edited )

And if Nintendo has its way (which they did this go round) they won't have to. They got what they wanted and they're not having to spend ridiculous amounts of money (that there's basically no way to re-coup) on litigation. They sued a guy who can never pay them back what the court says he owes them. I doubt they want to go through that again. Easier to just for arbitrate the proceedings.

atrielienz , (edited )

This assumes that they aren't hiring the CEO to be the fall guy. Someone who's job is largely (as things stand now) meant to take on the risk that if the company does not increase profits or make shareholders happy, they will blame and fire that person and hire someone else.

Snce a lot of CEOs kind of bet on this they take ridiculous chances (like getting paid in stock options that only mature at a certain point with the knowledge that they need to make stock options valuable so they can cash out(.

Valuable doesn't have to be long term. It just has to last long enough for the person in question to cash out.

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