MystikIncarnate

They probably never will.

I don't think that's a bad thing. We made it easier, and they're reaping the benefits of our work.

The only issue I see is that when it breaks, nobody will know how to fix it, since we've abstracted all the complexity away from the users, so they don't understand the underlying processes that need to work for the thing to function.

Other than that, it just works.

"your sound card works perfectly"

I think when the hype dies down in a few years, we'll settle into a couple of useful applications for ML/AI, and a lot will be just thrown out.

I have no idea what will be kept and what will be tossed but I'm betting there will be more tossed than kept.

I work in tech.

My dad was a teacher, his subject was computers, at that time "computers" class was heavily programming. Basic stuff.

It seems that kids from gen x, and the millennial generation had the timing to learn the tech before it "just works", so we're used to figuring it out as we go, because there was no way to look it up on the internet, so we had to.

The zoomers and younger generations are largely "it just works" users, where all the basics of getting things to just plug and play was a thing. If it didn't work it was either "incompatible" or broken. So don't try to make it work, or you'll be sued for DMCA related violations.

IMO, there's a sweet spot, somewhere in the late 70's or early 80's to about the early-mid 2000's when people had to know something about tech to operate it. Anyone with the aptitude for tech, who was born during this time is generally working in tech.

People born before that are generally the old school pen and paper types, and anyone younger is generally the plug and play digital era.

If course, everyone is different, so the dates are probably liable to be different depending on the area, and each person may have different motivations, etc.

My generation (early millennials) are generally known for being the "tech" person to friends/family, and ADHD; at least, as far as I can see, from my little bubble of friends who mostly work in/with tech.

TIL.

This is about as close as I've ever seen anything come to what I believe in. I usually tell people I'm an atheist because it's easier than trying to explain what I actually believe.

This is pretty much spot on. Thanks.

I have a hard enough time getting my head around how much money $100B is already. Like, I don't even see numbers above the hundreds of thousands ever (usually on loans, like my mortgage), so the idea that some of these people could buy my house 100,000+ times over, and I will spend years, paying for it once, is hard enough.

Wealth hoarding has gotten way out of hand.

Wait.... It's how much? For online access?

And others are more??

I'm a dedicated PC gamer, so I'm out of the loop on what's happening with consoles, but this seems nuts to me

Upvote for bitwarden. I love that service.

I especially love that you can host it yourself if you want. I don't do that right now, but I did in the past for a work thing. It's great.

I got Yt premium as a side effect of the Google one thing. I don't necessarily need the extra space I got the Google one thing for, but I'll probably keep it because I'm too lazy to clear out my storage and the side perks like Yt premium are probably worth more than I'm spending on one.

I'm Canadian and can't vote in any American election.

I hear more about Trump than I hear about all of our politicians combined.

I just don't understand how people can get so excited all the time about this stuff. Like, being so invested in some rich assholes life that you'll commit treason and break into Congress to wander around aimlessly?

Why are you like this? Make politics boring again.

Oh, I know it's all a show.

I know how badly they're usually contaminated.

Let me lie to myself.