Maybe they’ll manhandle a few rich fucks that happens to be brown and Congress will suddenly care.

My microwave has an option to turn off all the beeps, and it’s a landlord special so I imagine others can do the same. Check your model and see if it has that option.

For mine, I literally need to hold down I think the number 3 for 5 seconds. It’s in no way obvious.

You are not alone. I feel like the world is quickly giving in to LLMs and I’m one of the very rare holdouts. My nephews, my coworkers, my bosses… all of them use a mix of ChatGPT, Gemini, and/or Claude regularly. Hell, even my therapist tells me his wife uses ChatGPT for everything. I remember being worried when kids would immediately answer questions with some obnoxious response akin to “just Google it”. I wondered if abandoning the need to remember anything would impact development. Now they instantly go to a chatbot.

I’ve tried it a few times with difficult problems and always found hallucinations. If I’m looking for something that doesn’t exist, the LLM has always made up a convincing answer. It’s frightening how so many people trust it blindly.

I work in US Public Education and the adoption of AI in this space scares the living fuck out of me. I understand the argument: “Kids are using it, or are going to use it. We need to get out in front of it.” That’s fine. Find a provider that “promises” not to use student data. Protect PII. Great.

But some district admins are enthusiastically using it. I literally mentioned in conversation that I needed to check when something was due for the state and they immediately asked Gemini and assumed the answer was correct. Another one 100% uses it for letters summarizing student performance and freaks out when ChapGPT is down. I can only imagine how horrific it must be in the private sector where the goal is efficiency and profit over everything.

This shit needs to pop, and fast.

Always had to consider the source? Sure.

The problem is that, unlike in those decades before, there are little to no consequences for corruption. Each year has also seen a further abandoning of long term considerations in favor of maximizing profits for the next quarter. We also have things like vulture capitalism, where legal financial situations that don’t really make sense can still be extremely profitable as long as they are comfortable destroying an entire company and all of its workers…and they are. It just feels different these days.

Also, unlike in those decades before, the time it takes to produce content was along the same order of magnitude as time it takes to consume it. Today. A website with an entire “body of work” can be fabricated overnigh… or a legitimate source can have its entire staff of writers fired and replaced overnight with an LLM trained on their body of work, producing content with a convincing likeness, at least on the surface.

I just feel like there are so many bad actors and people acting in bad faith now…and they have to spend very little effort to do it and are unlikely to face consequences if they succeed.

I’ve been either adding an additional tie or two, with one tighter and closer to the end (but it doesn’t always stay) or more often I use a long “Buff” (the dominant brand for the fabric tube “multifunctional neck gater” products) worn like a bandana and don’t bother with a tie. For my riding at least, if the buff is as long as or longer than my hair, I usually don’t end up with the tangles I’d normally get. If I don’t want it flapping in the wind, it is also long enough to tuck the buff’s end into my collar (or just put my jacket on over top of the buff and pull out a little slack) and it stays there even with shoulder-checks.

It might look similar to the high tail thing someone else suggested so maybe my suggestion isn’t too helpful.

Articles like this are what make me hate where we are as a society right now. Are utilities trying to delay them or is the industry that makes these panels paying “news” sources to write articles to help ram the products through and bypass the standard approval process that makes sure they are safe? Maybe a bit of both.

Was this written by a human or an LLM? Is my distrust of everything I read a side effect of the corruption rampant in our system or is it the goal? Maybe a bit of both.

Golden.

Essentially, the employees most excited and inspired by “visionary” corporate jargon may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions for their companies.

“This creates a concerning cycle,” Littrell said. “Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.”

And yet, they did it, very quickly, and will do so again when the market shifts again.

These aren’t typical conditions. There is a world of difference between “Yo, here is a truckload of money. Give me all your RAM for the next two years!” (AI right now) and “We need to align our capacity to the current needs of the market in order to not flood the market with product we can’t sell.” (normal conditions).

Look at the memory market before this AI shitshow. It’s cyclical as the fabs try to match demand without flooding the market. It typically takes several quarters to ramp capacity up and down, causing shortages and then oversaturating the market because they can’t do it fast enough. Returning to that kind of production is also likely to be more difficult than it would otherwise be to adjust while already in it. There are so many unknowns in this wild situation. How much DRAM should they commit to making?

Anyway, I’m not even a business person so what the fuck do I know. I’m getting tired of this conversation. It would be great to be optimistic, but that’s not something I’m capable of right now. Best of luck. I hope it pops and prices plummet.

Please indicate the point at which we no longer agree.

• The price of consumer hardware, like RAM and SSDs, is high right now.

• Supply for consumer hardware is low right now.

• The reason that the price of consumer hardware is high right now is because supply is low.

• The reason this supply is low is because manufacturing capacity that used to be committed to consumer variants of this hardware has been converted to manufacturing datacenter variants of this hardware.

• The reason for the manufacturing shift is that, because of the AI bubble, demand for datacenter hardware is high.

• It takes time and money to convert manufacturing capacity between consumer hardware to datacenter hardware.

• This conversion also includes changing investment, R&D, and employment priorities. Companies like Micron (one of the three major/noteworthy memory suppliers in the world) have cut/gutted their B2C divisions to focus their resources entirely on the more profitable datacenter B2B efforts.

• Datacenter variants of this hardware are substantially different than consumer variants and are not interchangeable.

• Higher prices, slimmer margins, and lower sales have caused some consumer electronics businesses to cut back, focus on narrower market segments, pivot to other markets, or exit the market entirely.

If we agree on all of the above, I’m not sure why you are confused.

If the bubble pops today, it very well may cause demand for datacenter hardware to crater, assuming they don’t get creative and find a way to pivot hard toward other SaaS somehow. Since the parts are not at all compatible with consumer electronics, this would not provide an instant increase in consumer hardware supply nor would it crater consumer hardware demand.

If the crash is bad enough, some of the businesses that pivoted to B2B/datacenter hardware may fail or have to be bailed out by their governments. Even if they all survived, fewer consumer product businesses exist in the market to sell to consumers and they have fewer product lines in development. Companies like Micron, who abandoned their established brands and/or relationships with resellers or partners that would use their parts in consumer products, will need to rebuild those things. Manufacturing would need to be converted, updated to the latest consumer hardware needs, taking more time and money.

It would take quite a while to rebuild consumer hardware supply. Without that supply, demand will not be met and prices will be high.

My apologies! I didn’t realize you were the arbiter of what I do and don’t need. I feel so relieved that I can just ignore all of the demands on my life and just hand over such authority to some opinionated jackass I met on lemmy.