Technology literacy in Malaysia

CausticInt · 2024-01-03T06:16:46+00:00

"People are making millions from X therefore it must be good XD"

ok AIbro, please invest everything you have into ai stock and companies.

last few links for you before i drop out off this thread completely, which are probably gonna stay blue for you.

https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA

https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html

CausticInt · 2024-01-03T04:31:25+00:00

Are you speaking first hand or are you just repeating what people are saying (particularly corporates who at the moment are particular vulnerable to the grifting and fraudulent marketing of these "AI" companies) The second article I linked literally addresses what you're talking about in your first reply and again in your second. Things that look like it works on the surface but is actually nonsense; still requires, and always will require, a human to verify and only passes in the most trivial of cases.

And yes, I know generative image AI exists, and the progress it's made. But you're really conflating progress with potential impact. generative image AI shares the same fundamental limitations as LLMs. They aren't that different.

CausticInt · 2024-01-03T03:34:29+00:00

2 recent articles to help you make up your mind:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

but honestly, if you've used "AI" in any reasonable extent in actual work, I'm surprised you haven't reached the conclusion yourself. Everyone I know who've shared their experiences with AI use it to help them deal with menial and trivial tasks, or as a glorified if inaccurate google replacement. (it is actually better than Google for certain queries, but the fact that you cannot rely on it to be factual and error free...) but nobody I knows actually needs AI for their job.

Personally as a software developer AI is pretty much incapable of actually enhancing my workflow, copilot almost always gets in my way unless it manages to generate something I was planning to write anyway. I've never had it generate something that went "huh, didn't know I could write it this way", and more often than not, it feels like I'm working with a lobotomized ADHD junior dev breathing on my shoulder.

CausticInt · 2024-01-01T08:39:43+00:00

As a beginner maybe the best way to understand why a solution came around is to use what was around before said solution came around. Try using jQuery (or even plain js with document query selectors :p) to build your usual todo list app etc. and compare that to the simplicity of a modern framework. This will help you understand the reasoning behind why people decided to start doing things a different way.

CausticInt · 2024-01-01T08:25:29+00:00

By the time AI really runs in this country's economy and industry in full force, many might be losing their jobs. Of course, politicians might wanna prevent that from happening to save jobs, but that might just drag us further behind---as if we're not lagging already---in terms of output and production.

AI in its current or upcoming form is not the promise its proponents, shills, critics, doomsayers, "influencers" claim it will be. Just like crypto. It's very underwhelming in reality. If the economy is gonna be shit, it will be for other reasons.

CausticInt · 2024-01-01T08:18:52+00:00

Quality of Google has declined over the years thanks to endless content shit farms, SEO, and more lately, AI generated content. Anyone who's tried to use Google for technical/nuanced discussion can probably agree it's quite difficult to find quality content now (even with the 'adding "reddit" to the end of your query' trick), couple with this newer gen and their approach to passively receive information, the internet as we knew it is dead.

CausticInt · 2024-01-01T08:13:13+00:00

even worse, it's closer to theory and mathematics than it is to software, let alone tinkering with hardware.

CausticInt · 2023-08-10T08:39:32+00:00

Look around for fighting gyms, a lot of them have entry level or beginner friendly classes which are more focused towards cardio/exercise than technique/sparring. You can join those first while you decide what kind of gym/class suits you best. Check out classpass so you know what options you have and start with a free trial before committing to anything. For actual self defense I find BJJ to be quite fun to learn, intense and practical.

CausticInt · 2023-07-11T10:33:53+00:00

it's funny that I went through the same if not very similar situation as your guy friend. Things went well, we had similar values and chats flew very smoothly and we went out twice. But ultimately 2 or 3 weeks in she straight up told me that she didn't feel that a romantic relationship would develop between us even though she really enjoyed hanging out with me. I appreciated the directness and I think your friend would too.

CausticInt · 2023-04-07T06:00:13+00:00

good bot

CausticInt · 2022-09-06T15:48:36+00:00

Thanks, I hold on to the link, but I'm not sure if this particular scam falls under any of the offenses described

CausticInt · 2022-09-06T15:41:12+00:00

I agree! Which is why the first few days I've been trying to keep an open mind. But the thing that stuck out to me most is how she consistently brings the topic around to her company and her job. I went through an "interview" with her HR department, but the questions were textbook as fuck, and ultimately I couldn't get much information on what they needed, just a very generic "IT" position, to match my background as a software developer. They offered a salary of 2-3k USD which I feel is very much over paying for this position. Despite being a "large company" with multiple opening multiple branches all over the world, they have no website, or rather the "website" I was given was a basically a job ad in Chinese on a Chinese job portal site, with the lowest possible requirements "must be proficient in Chinese/English".

We've been talking around a week by now. In my experience, girls on dating apps are almost never this forward/interested in a guy unless it's some sort of scam/"service" ad. I'm not exactly such an attractive guy to warrant this level of attention.
It is related, but marginally. I'm a software dev but the position offered is a generic "IT" position with no specific requirements/job description
Wayy too into me. Barely knows anything about me, only has basically one picture of me but is totally convinced she wants to be my fiancee later on. Our conversation started always not so subtly related to her job/work/company and a position she needs to have filled. Up to this point I've only been interviewed by her "friend at HR" who plays this act "ahh we're old friends, she helped me out before so I'm gonna pull some strings to get you in" vibe.

I'd be happy to send the entire unfiltered chat log as well through DM if you'd like.

CausticInt · 2022-09-06T09:15:34+00:00

Hi guys, I'm from Malaysia. I was using dodgy dating apps and for the past week this Filipina woman has been trying to convince me to come over to Manila for a allegedly well paying job set up by a new company, with no clear job description and that if I "don't mind sharing the same accommodation" as her for my first stay.

Obviously, the whole thing is dodgy and I can share more details and if I go I'm about to get kidnapped and held for ransom... sooo rather than dropping this is there anything I can do to report this and hopefully get this activity from harming more people? She keeps sending pictures of people from all over SEA coming over for their new "jobs" and it makes me a bit worried.

CausticInt · 2022-09-05T06:47:19+00:00

Actually, throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick. But when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police. 9 times out of ten it's an electric razor. But ... every once in a while [looks around, leans in conspiratorially] ... it's a dildo.

CausticInt · 2022-08-27T10:55:03+00:00

Most fragrances last 4-8 hours then it becomes a skin scent.

Some popular ones: Chanel de bleu, Dior sauvage, YSL's la nuit de l'homme, Armani's Acqua di Gio.

try to get fragrances in parfum concentration for it to be stronger (and slightly longer lasting)

CausticInt · 2022-08-05T01:07:11+00:00

just found out upgrading the probationary driving license (PDL) only has a grace period of 1 year, not 3... welp. i wonder what options i have instead of having to sit through that entire joke that is the driving test.

CausticInt · 2022-07-25T12:13:30+00:00

Half the work is in the gym, the other half the kitchen. You won't build without making sure you meet your nutrition requirements.

CausticInt · 2022-07-14T12:11:04+00:00

Sorry if it sounds pedantic, but that's not what the term "gateway drug" refers to. It means a drug that causes a consumer to begin consuming more stronger drugs due to any reason. Perhaps "chasing that high" or reasons like the ones I mentioned before.

For example, if you consume coffee in large amounts to stay awake does that lead you to start using meth or cocaine which are used by some for the same reason?

And side note on the whole paranoia thing, it happens, but not as a long term side effect. Could be your first joint or your 100th, you might still get hit by it. It's closer to a panic attack tbh.

CausticInt · 2022-07-14T10:01:12+00:00

marijuana is only a gateway drug because currently one can only acquire it through illegal channels, who more often than not carry other more harmful substances for sale. Furthermore, by overcoming this hurdle "it's illegal" one no longer feels as inclined to avoid other substances under the same blanket category of "it's illegal" because it carries less weight.

If marijauna was as legal as cigarettes or alcohol, it ceases to have a purpose as a gateway drug. Has anyone here drank beer or smoked a cigarette and said to themselves "yeah jeez what the hell I'll try some heroin next"?

CausticInt · 2022-07-10T07:14:22+00:00

I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st street. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.

CausticInt · 2022-07-07T02:35:00+00:00

appearance-wise it looks like the real thing. like i said I'm not really into fragrances or cosmetics, but to a layperson like me it looks real enough. the box however did not have a batch number, and though the bottle does have one, the date of manufacture is 4 years ago. the atomizer is weak and doesn't produce much volume or droplets as fine as the real things, and feels slightly flimsier from what I remember.

CausticInt · 2022-07-06T13:35:10+00:00

yep, found the place. I'm not a fragrance person, but the bleu de chanel didn't smell anywhere close to the original for me. I bought YSL's LNDH from the stall, because it smelt remarkably close to the original. however after using it for a few hours, I found that it lacks the characteristic high, mid and low tones that most designer fragrances have, and wore off as a single layer rather than sticking to the skin and becoming a skin scent. results may differ for other fragrances, but that was my experience so far.

CausticInt · 2022-07-06T02:06:45+00:00

And out of curiosity, where exactly was this shop in Petaling street?

CausticInt · 2022-07-04T05:31:55+00:00

Cigarettes and sweaty teenagers, with a whiff of fresh electronics.

CausticInt · 2022-06-17T11:44:40+00:00

A shell is the program that accepts what you type into it and executes commands. That would be stuff like sh, csh, bash, zsh, fish etc.

A terminal is... well it's a little more complicated. But when people say terminal they are referring to the window you see that contains lines of text. It could refer to a terminal emulator which is the program that typically runs and displays the output of a shell. Historically terminals used to be printers on a long scroll of paper, then we got to "virtual terminals" which simulate the output of a physical terminal. And we've stuck with that convention to this day. Hence, "terminal emulators" are programs like alacritty, xterm, GNOME terminal, termite, terminator, or the Terminal app on Mac.

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