The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I never lifted a finger to click a mouse and find out more about this. Oh well, looks like I missed my chance.
RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye
Mark Zuckerberg spent years trying to make the Metaverse happen, but now it has been replaced by AI and is headed to the tech industry idea graveyard.
The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was three years old.
The capital-M Metaverse, a descendant of the 1982 movie “Tron” and the 2003 video game “Second Life,” was born in 2021 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his trillion-dollar company to Meta. After a much-heralded debut, the Metaverse became the obsession of the tech world and a quick hack to win over Wall Street investors. The hype could not save the Metaverse, however, and a lack of coherent vision for the product ultimately led to its decline. Once the tech industry turned to a new, more promising trend — generative AI — the fate of the Metaverse was sealed.
The Metaverse is now headed to the tech industry’s graveyard of failed ideas. But the short life and ignominious death of the Metaverse offers a glaring indictment of the tech industry that birthed it.
Wonder how many billions in jpeg real estate people bought in that thing? Probably will be some lawsuits and at least Lob will get rich.
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I don’t think the metaverse is dead, it’s just delayed and won’t be Zuckerberg’s metaverse.
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I also don’t see how it’s been “replaced by AI” unless you are talking about in hype but, if so, who gives a shit.
Edit: that last sentence sounds harsh I guess. I suppose investors, speculators and influencers care about hype. As a lowly coder though, l hate that shit. The C-Suite types keep getting their heads filled with bullshit hype by useless marketing cunts and I’m the one who has to deliver on it
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I don’t see how that would be helpful. Just having female colleagues I wanted to bang used to screw with my productivity (focus etc).
Edit: and I’m talking about the ones I didn’t end up banging. The ones I did were a whole other level of distraction.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I don’t see how that would be helpful. Just having female colleges I wanted to bang used to screw with my productivity (focus etc).
I assume you mean colleagues. Banging a whole women’s college is a worthy goal.
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@Kilemall yeah I’m on my phone so my ohhtee browsing while I eat lunch doesn’t go through work’s VPN.
Fixed now
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I liked the pre-edit version better.
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@Zeppelin needs to try this at work
GTFO
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I’m just going to fire all the unproductive boomers
Which is 90% of them
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@Zeppelin Invite them in here.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Zeppelin Invite them in here.
They all use jitterbug phones
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Zeppelin needs to try this at work
It’s the slow and careful drag that gets me…
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@tigger It requires perfect aim and timing. :)
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Zeppelin needs to try this at work
Undelete is going to be a real bitch!
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It just occurred to me today with India recently becoming the most populous country on earth, their odd English grammar might one day become the norm. It doesn’t bother me normally but, for some reason, it irritates me in technical discussion. For example, Indian programmers on Reddit keep saying “codes” (plural) for source code or programs.
And then there’s this phrase which someone used with me in Teams today and it’s not the first time I’ve heard it:
ok…ill take a pull and the same
I have no idea wtf that even means. I’m guessing he’ll create a pull request? I dunno.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I have no idea wtf that even means. I’m guessing he’ll create a pull request? I dunno.
Or jerking off?
I doubt they influence the rest of the world because they don’t make any entertainment worth watching and that’s how accents and vocab spread beyond their border. Even the stuff they do make that’s worth watching to some, like programming youtubes, is unwatchable to many other English speakers.
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I don’t know where this goes, so will dump it here. Reddit wants to get paid for AI developers to scrape their platform to train their models. They commercialized their API, which was free to everyone before. Now users are pissed off because the Reddit apps suck ass, making the platform unusable for some (especially sub moderators). Some are even claiming ownership of the content as they create the conversations that Reddit is trying to sell. Many are threatening to jump to another platform, though I don’t know what that will be. Seems like Reddit could have tailored their API license to target AI companies specifically, leaving it open for others like app developers and individuals/students to play with.
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Moderators say third-party apps are essential for their work.
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