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Henry Pickavet / May 5, 2024

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch

Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start

Disappointing.

Oh.

He looks like a plumber

Not an Aussie plumber. He’s too fit and you can’t see his butt crack peeking out of his shorts.

Gators1

It’s soooquel!!!

Mohammad Asjad / May 4, 2024

Researchers at Stanford Introduce SUQL: A Formal Query Language for Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data

oyaji

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

It’s soooquel!!!

Mohammad Asjad / May 4, 2024

Researchers at Stanford Introduce SUQL: A Formal Query Language for Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data

In 'Mur’kuh, say it like it’s spellt: “suckle”.

Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.

https://wapo.st/4btMo8Z

oyaji

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Benj Edwards / Apr 23, 2024 / Tech

You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first “flamethrower-wielding robot dog,” is completely legal in 48 US states.

“completely legal in 48 US states”

I need a pack of them to loose upon the ROUSs… ermm, RsOUS.

I wonder if Bushman will get some and come by for a day or 2. I had found his number and rang him up a few years ago, but then I lost it. These would be right up his alley. Anybody got his contact info?

I don’t think they exist.

I think they do exist. A day or three ago I heard part of a radio story on NPR about the Therminator now being offered for sale.

This is why we need the three laws of robotics.

We won’t get them.

More like we are heading for the Bulterian Jihad.

@Kilemall

Late late edit:

“Butlerian Jihad”

I’ve got this guy I’ve been working with for a month or so. He needs to regularly schedule meetings with up to five people in five different time zones. Every time he manually asks everyone individually, what time are you free tomorrow? Me: I don’t know, use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me to convert it into the HQ time zone. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me what time I finish work. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks what time that is in the HQ time zone. Me: dude, I’m trying to fucking code here, use the scheduling assistant.

After doing the dance several times now, I’ve posted screenshots of how to use the scheduling assistant. Not that he’s ever asked for them or acknowledged that there even is a scheduling assistant.

Anyway, I’m no longer going to take that scheduling assistant for granted. Having to do every meeting the way this guy does it would be unspeakably bad. I’d spend half of my day manually coordinating meetings.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’ve got this guy I’ve been working with for a month or so. He needs to regularly schedule meetings with up to five people in five different time zones. Every time he manually asks everyone individually, what time are you free tomorrow? Me: I don’t know, use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me to convert it into the HQ time zone. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me what time I finish work. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks what time that is in the HQ time zone. Me: dude, I’m trying to fucking code here, use the scheduling assistant.

After doing the dance several times now, I’ve posted screenshots of how to use the scheduling assistant. Not that he’s ever asked for them or acknowledged that there even is a scheduling assistant.

Anyway, I’m no longer going to take that scheduling assistant for granted. Having to do every meeting the way this guy does it would be unspeakably bad. I’d spend half of my day manually coordinating meetings.

We force people to use it, but does no good for external vendors.

Kilemall

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Benj Edwards / Apr 23, 2024 / Tech

You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first “flamethrower-wielding robot dog,” is completely legal in 48 US states.

“completely legal in 48 US states”

I need a pack of them to loose upon the ROUSs… ermm, RsOUS.

I wonder if Bushman will get some and come by for a day or 2. I had found his number and rang him up a few years ago, but then I lost it. These would be right up his alley. Anybody got his contact info?

I don’t think they exist.

I think they do exist. A day or three ago I heard part of a radio story on NPR about the Therminator now being offered for sale.

This is why we need the three laws of robotics.

We won’t get them.

More like we are heading for the Bulterian Jihad.

@Kilemall

Late late edit:

“Butlerian Jihad”

Big fat Jam edit cheater!

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’ve got this guy I’ve been working with for a month or so. He needs to regularly schedule meetings with up to five people in five different time zones. Every time he manually asks everyone individually, what time are you free tomorrow? Me: I don’t know, use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me to convert it into the HQ time zone. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks me what time I finish work. Me: use the scheduling assistant. Then he asks what time that is in the HQ time zone. Me: dude, I’m trying to fucking code here, use the scheduling assistant.

After doing the dance several times now, I’ve posted screenshots of how to use the scheduling assistant. Not that he’s ever asked for them or acknowledged that there even is a scheduling assistant.

Anyway, I’m no longer going to take that scheduling assistant for granted. Having to do every meeting the way this guy does it would be unspeakably bad. I’d spend half of my day manually coordinating meetings.

We force people to use it, but does no good for external vendors.

I can see this guy’s working hours and busy times in it so I assume he should be able to see mine. Assumptions are bad though.

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

tigger

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

You only say that because you haven’t eaten enough small rocks with your titebond pizza.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

You only say that because you haven’t eaten enough small rocks with your titebond pizza.

Can’t you fix this shit Tigger?

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

"Google Search is generative AI at the scale of human curiosity. - Google Boss

Dude, seriously. That has to be the most wankish statement I’ve ever read.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

You only say that because you haven’t eaten enough small rocks with your titebond pizza.

Can’t you fix this shit Tigger?

Only the stockmarket can fix this…

@tigger I had to duckduckgo that:

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/24/googles-ai-enhanced-search-suggests-users-add-glue-to-their-pizza-and-eat-one-small-rock-a-day.html

Gators1

There is always Bing!

tigger

I’m actually thinking of this as a public service. It’s also going to be crap later on, just much more subtle crap.

@tigger I kind of feel it’s going to go the other way. It’s going to be crap later on but even worst and more noticeably crap. Assuming Google doesn’t change course or some other search engine doesn’t replace them, they are starving the real content creators that feed both their search results and AI answers. Take those guys away and you’ll have a runaway cycle of worst and worst results.

tigger

Sure, but the most blatant issues are going to go away and you’ll get systematically wrong stuff that will take you hours to figure out IMO once all the logic to make sure you don’t glue your pizza is hardwired in. Plus the chance that whole swaths of AI feeding AI will be somehow systematically swayed to do something.