Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish

WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

I will never forgive USB for the ridiculous naming

I’m glad I watched some video on this I vaguely recalled, as I may have accidentally thrown a shaver away because it wasn’t charging…

What kind of stupid-ass system of government allows an executive to repeal laws?

I absolutely hated it when I first watched, but it grew on me so much that by the end of the series it was by far my most favourite intro. None of the others come anywhere close.

The most recent ones are an absolute snooze fest only good for skipping

I’d suspect it’s a water safety thing, not wanting to drink stagnant water right next to their “kill”. The cats I’ve had have always preferred drinking running water in the bath

This is but a hypothesis, though

I look forward to the lawsuit (but obviously not the injury/death)

I think it’s insane using it for work. I’ve spoken to people who use it to send emails… I mean by the time you write the prompt, you could just write the email.

The one area, I think, it’s very handy is language and language learning.

It’s in the name LLM.

For anything up to a native speaker, it’s absolutely fantastic at stringing a sentence together.

As long as you’re not trying to actually DO anything other than learning.

:(

Australians: Finally, we’re not on the deadly map!

If this is true, I envy you for being shielded from the abomination of a measurement system USC is 🥲

People in Australia still use feet and inches for height even though they use it practically no where else, and I’m guessing most people could not use it reliably in any other context.

“That guy is 6 feet tall”

Australians: “Oh, okay”

“That’s 50 feet away”

Australians: “What”

Drives me nuts. I will be that annoying person who prompts people to say it in metres or cm. “I’m 180” (said as “one-eighty”) is just as fast, and in a system we actually understand.

Ugh.

This option is reserved for the billionaires

6 toes on the back paw. Including the “thumb” that’s underneath, that’s 7.

I’m pressing X to doubt on this one

Is it? We (all countries) need wayyyyy more storage, and we need it yesterday if we’re going to transition in time to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Using substantial resources on solar panels that just end up getting curtailed, on roofs not angled in an optimal way, is a huge waste

Good thing it ends up in the hands of the Belters (at least in the TV show)

Last I checked you can only thread a conversation one level down from the channel and that’s it (when I last used it like 5 years ago).

To me that’s practically unusable for what it’s supposed to be. Slack even does a better job, in my opinion.

Why does this exist lol

This is me. I’ve always been too lazy to switch (I have some of the worst hardware for it. I’m running my old surface pro into the ground and have hardly any internal storage so hard to dual boot for testing).

But now, well hey, Windows 11 is stupid, windows 10 has been spying since forever.

Linux it is, thanks Microsoft for giving me the push I needed.

You know, later in the year. When I have to.

I’m only human

Sure, but I’m still feeling like complaining that there isn’t a business that’s made affordable pay-to-search a thing. (That I know of)

I’m not taking back that $120 USD/year for search is way more than most people would be willing to pay

Though yeah, I suppose saying their business model isn’t working was hyperbolic, I must admit.