I find them quite useful, in some circumstances. I once went from very little Haskell knowledge to knowing how to use cabal, talk to a database and build a REST API with the help of an AI (I’ve done analogous things in Java before, but never in Haskell). This is my favourite example and for this kind of introduction I think it’s very good. And maybe half of the time it’s at least able to poke me in the right direction for new problems.

Copilot-like AI which just produces auto-complete is very useful to me, often writing exactly what I want to do for some repetitive tasks. Testing in particular. Just take everything it outputs with great scepticism and it’s pretty useful.

The same goes for cooking, making coffee and a LOT of other things you do at home. It raises the market value because it’s a chore some people want others to do for them.

I do think this is AI, but I don’t think it’s obviously AI. As someone said ChatGPT is probably trained more on formal writing than casual writing, LinkedIn is a place where you want to appear super smart so this is an environment where many will use a more formal style.

It’s more the nothing burger of a comment that gives it away IMO. But then again, the reason people do this I believe is to be visible. If they comment on things it may pop up in their contacts’ feeds, and if it catches the interest of that person it reflects positively on them. If it doesn’t catch the interest of that person, it has still generated visibility for them.

I assure you a great many people take Linux seriously.

Why is Spain such an attractive place for data centers? Seems costly due to high temperatures. But maybe those costs can be offset by the viability of solar power?

Being absolutely sure about everything.

A friend of mine who works with (mobile) connectivity in remote areas said about eutelsat that they’re not really a challenger to starlink. ⅕ the speed, 3-4x ping times, some “issues with routing” whatever that means (looking at a conversation from two months ago). Roughly 10 years behind starlink.

Maybe it’s better for non-mobile connectivity though, such as a cabin in the woods.

No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they’re still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you’re as big as Microsoft.

Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there’s a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that’s a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they’re not fans of American tech anymore.

No no, the Russia collaborators are the actual politicians. This is just an aide.

Didn’t know this guy before but it really doesn’t matter if he was literally Hitler and decides to start using Linux. It’s an operating system not a club, it really makes no difference. Maybe slightly more moderation for people on linux communities on mainstream platforms (e.g. reddit).

‘artists’ (usually rich)

I know think you’re trolling, but…

I prefer the old one, but it’s really not much of a difference. New one looks a bit cheaper, like something you’d see on piracy sites or something.

Also just realised Jellyfin basically has the old YouTube design. Don’t know if YT was first with it, but if so it was pretty influential, think it’s quite common in many players.

I’m not 100% sure about the economics of tariffs, but my interpretation is that the US are shooting themselves in the foot more than us. And if we can project an image of a stable level-headed trading partner and create good trade relations with India, China and countries in Africa and South America that might be more valuable in the long run than our US trade relations.

Basically, if US wants to hamper their own economy, let them. Meanwhile we’ll be Open For Business™ and picking up all the good stuff they left behind.

It’s so weird tbh. It’s a mutual need, they want people I want a job — why don’t I ever get an email thanking me for my time?

While I do think the EU is lacking the balls to do this, there’s also some strategy to consider here. It certainly would be lovely if the EU would be more defensive, but also more damaging to the EU economy (at least in the short run, probably for a long time).

China is being painted as enemy number one, and there’s long-standing beef between the countries. Trump lost or is losing the trade war, and needs to make himself not look weak. Meanwhile China wants to project strength internally. Whatever is happening between closed doors, China has everything to gain from humiliating the US at this point. Trumps incompetence is already evident, they just need to fuel the flames.

With the EU, the situation is wildly different. EU doesn’t really want to project power, they want to project exactly as much power as is necessary not to seem weak but no more. It wants to show that it’s a level-headed free trade partner ready to take the lead in the free world, the fairest and most stable market in the world.

…that’s my take on it anyway. USE! USE! USE! USE! 🇪🇺

So based. Any chance that they’ll win?

If you want. Not having everything on lemmy.world is nice I suppose, but it also doesn’t really change anything.

Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.

What does unofficial recognition mean? Can a country do anything unofficially?

TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.