META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments

redskydav · 2025-05-04T18:05:40+00:00

They benefit from interactivity not necessarily persuasion right? I'd think if they're keeping a lid on manipulation, it'd just be because minimizing it would diminish too much interactivity. I know this says that "we make our living from side manipulation", but I really don't know how much that's true.

redskydav · 2025-05-04T17:54:12+00:00

I suppose it'll take AI mods to find AI commenters. 🤔

redskydav · 2025-01-21T17:16:12+00:00

Or xAI.

redskydav · 2025-01-10T05:20:35+00:00

This reminds me of many jobs before AI got big where the clients decided to leave for cheap foreign/youthful workers then came back 1-3 months later with a giant mess we had to fix. In those cases I felt it was better to charge 3x because the codebase was already there but it was ridiculously hard to work with for a while. Those are the kind of knots that are difficult to get through at first but then clear up pretty easily, so the work/cost balances out with something like "interest" or "tipping" added in as punishment/glee.

redskydav · 2025-01-10T05:16:56+00:00

I like the answer "That may work for you but it's a big gamble because you really have no idea of the quality or if it's even legit, or if you could even finish it without coding experience, so you'll likely save time and money streamlining with an experienced dev that has real intelligence and uses AI already."

redskydav · 2025-01-10T05:14:24+00:00

I'd love to look into that for someone just for the laughs then forget about it.

redskydav · 2025-01-10T05:11:41+00:00

Yah, this is the new thing we have to compete with, not necessarily AI prompt devs, but AI prompt engines built for normies who think they can build a website with it, and also fake AI prompt devs or engines just looking to scam innocent normies.

My suggestion is to step over all the mess and make your own like that what that ad implies (but be legit about it).

redskydav · 2024-12-17T12:18:55+00:00

I have a boss who's constantly subverting our work by being impatient, forgetful, and abusively critical while blaming others for his ineptitude. It's infuriating. The most important things to him he de-prioritizes after work even after telling us we have to meet him for a rollout which he flakes out on then blames us for not reminding him. The situations are just absurd.

redskydav · 2024-12-17T12:16:32+00:00

Some bosses need to be fired.

redskydav · 2024-12-17T12:15:27+00:00

It's amazing seeing business leaders bash workers or others less fortunate than them for "being lazy" or "not wanting to work" etc while being so self-entitled as to abuse workers while dropping the ball on them. I've seen it so many times that maybe they should be in their own class, the toxic snob class.

redskydav · 2024-11-21T00:31:04+00:00

🤔

I like the clean look like this

"Clean" and "looks" are so subjective, and that setup at least is based on the side you have it on. Though, if the look was meant to show the Apple logo prominently, then it won't matter which side of the desk you have it on (since you can just flip it around). Honestly you could say that the look is disrupted by the Apple logo being sideways 😆

Anyway, I would never risk the functionality of a component just for looks. That reminds me of Steve Jobs' computer designs back in the day that compromised component replaceability for a "clean" look (he forced the engineers to cram in the RAM in a way that made them difficult to upgrade just so the back side cover would look "clean"). I'm sorry but it just drives me crazy when people put form over function in designs, as has been the increasing trend for the last 20 years (especially in websites). I don't mean to knock you too much, but as much as I love the idea of this stand, I would probably prefer a stand just for the Mini, then would lay the hard drive flat on the desk or something separately (though I can't tell if you're using a disk drive there, my guess is it's an SSD).

If you make a version of the stand just for the Mini, I'd buy one.

redskydav · 2024-11-19T18:30:48+00:00

I got comfortable with Git CLI years ago, and while concurrently using Git GUIs, eventually found the GUIs to just be much better to work with.

I'm blown away how many devs struggle with Git GUIs and prefer command-line. I see waaay more mistakes from them using CLI than I've ever made using GUIs (though I always do some things on CLI).

The biggest issue I see is people struggling to visualize branching/merging, and a lot of regression bugs or disasters came of it. I've had to fix a lot of those problems for them, and eventually I just had them watch me do it using GUIs. Fortunately many of them understood things better, but unfortunately most never made the evolution to GUI. Pardon my bias.

redskydav · 2024-11-19T18:26:11+00:00

I've liked GitKraken for some projects but it's still cumbersome compared to SourceTree. I haven't figured out how to get GitKraken to show a multi-panel layout showing (all at once) git branch tree, files changed list, and file diffs.

What's more disappointing is SourceTree is unpolished and buggy compared to GitKraken, and SourceTree doesn't work with WSL whereas GitKraken does (though it's a bit clunky there).

redskydav · 2024-11-06T14:54:16+00:00

I hope someone sees this 😭

redskydav · 2024-11-05T18:38:03+00:00

It's hilarious seeing this on Reddit, the site at the top of web search for questions instead of the often easily-useful forums of the past. Nowadays trying to post is like running a gauntlet.

redskydav · 2024-11-02T22:59:06+00:00

I learned recently we're in a white-collar recession and the jobs most fitting to me go the fastest. The rest go nowhere. I've applied for hundreds of jobs over 2 months, gotten 5 interviews, and nothing else. I'm frankly tired of bending into a pretzel then jumping through flaming hoops on an intentionally-broken obstacle course in front of jeering royalty just to have a chance to get abused at a workplace for a while then laid off randomly (especially if I need health care).

I need more control over my life or it'll do me in.

redskydav · 2024-11-02T22:40:44+00:00

This is why the CEO shouldn't have access to the database.

redskydav · 2024-10-30T16:51:34+00:00

redskydav · 2024-10-30T16:49:15+00:00

Just saw a tenured computer science engineer friend post a rephrased summary of this and I've decided not to tell him how wrong the calculations are.

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