Jimmycrackcrack @ Jimmycrackcrack @lemmy.ml

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that's what I'd hoped, and was the first thing I tried, but it just at some point figured out I was on android and redirected to a google sign-in. On desktop it was some useless link that essentially brought me back to the page where the link to add to apple wallet started on.

I realise the dumbass here is the guy saying programmers are 'cooked', but there's something kind of funny how the programmer talks about how people misunderstand the complexities of their job and how LLMs easily make mistakes because of an inability to understand the nuances of what he does everyday and understands deeply. They rightly point out how without their specialist oversight, AI agents would fail in ridiculous and spectacular ways, yet happily and vaguely adds as a throw away statement at the end "replacing other industries, sure." with the exact same blitheness and lack of personal understanding with which 'Ace' proclaims all programmers cooked.

That's got to be the key to all this, specificity, it's great that it's got natural language processing to simplify things but sometimes that's what's actually getting in the way. What they should really do is have a special version of chatGPT for programming where users can interact with it in a very special form of structured English. It's still natural language, this is the future after all, none of that zeroes and ones crap like the stone age, but just highly specific words with carefully defined meanings particular to making repeatable and executable steps in a pattern that does the same thing every time in response to inputs to produce outputs. You could then "speak" to one of these LLM things using this carefully structured English to automate specific tasks. The real kicker would be that you could tell it to chain together a bunch of these tasks you've had it automate for you to build up in to something much more complex. This would really harness the power of AI because at each step it's made it for you, with minimal input from yourself because you're just 'talking' to it in a very specific way. Admittedly this approach would be a little bit less obvious for new users than a standard LLM, but if an average person kept doing this for like a year or two they'd get pretty adept at this manner of speech, it'd be kind of like learning another language and people have been doing that for as long as there's been people, I speak in a language everyday, I'm doing it right now. We could make it easier too, we could have courses and schools to help people get better at it faster.

Thanks, that's actually the one I'm using but I mistakenly called it "Android Pass" originally. I've edited my post now to reflect this correction. Unfortuantely, at least in the only 2 situations I've ever tried to use a wallet which was now twice in days, I was receiving emails from organisations, one with an auto club membership digital card and one with a ticket to an event, on both occasions, I was given a link to add to my google wallet or a link to add my apple wallet and neither link actually leads to a pkpass file or any downloadable file. In the case of one of them at least I saw it links to some unrelated company that I guess they teamed up with for distributing these passes called urban air ship. I assume if you go ahead an sign-in it eventually goes on to give you a pkpass file or something similar that a google wallet app deals with but I obviously wasn't going to do that. I was wondering if there was any commonly known way to just get the pkpass file from links like those since both seemed to work in much the same way and I assume somewhere at the end of the hoops you jump through you get an actual file.

They might end up making a pretty crappy loaf of bread but it's a bit much to imply they'll become a bad person because of this.

Maybe he came back really quite some time ago and died in obscurity trying desperately the whole time to persuade everyone he was a big deal and ever since people are still waiting around wondering "when's this second coming happening?' having no idea they missed it and it was pretty lame.

Yeh I think the phrase "shit your pants" definitely implies like the same account of piop that you would have dumped in the toilet in a deliberate manner, except in your pants and most likely accidentally.

I mean if you have any choice in the matter it's obviously time to go home.

I don't have kids and I don't know anything about sports. If you continue reading after those disclosures, I'll offer a perspective anyway, since you put this out to the internet for comment.

There isn't really a way you could have put this to your son that would be taken well, it's evidently sensitive for him and despite your intentions it'll feel like a tragic monent. It's just hard news. Whether it's right to break that to him, well I'm not sure but I think maybe you're putting too much emphasis on this one interaction like it was your one shot and there was a definitive right it wrong way to do it. What will matter most is more likely to be what you do generally moving forward. You may have your doubts about his ability in his chosen path and perhaps they're well founded but you can still encourage him and be rooting for him whilst gently suggesting having backup options in times when he appears uncertain. If you consistently do all you can to help in whatever way you can with whatever choices he makes, then if they don't work out and he has to abandon that dream, he'll at least know you supported him all throughout despite your concern and that should count for a lot. If somehow he ends up unexpectedly rocketing to success in football he'll also remember you'd been there all along encouraging and assisting. It's ok to counsel against putting his eggs all in one basket, but just don't push it, you must respect his choice whatever it ends up being and he there to help pick up the pieces if those choices don't make him happy.

Much like with football fans, you support your team by just showing up to every match and cheering on. Perhaps he didn't like the uncomfortable dose of reality today but so long as you are consistently a positive and helpful force he'll hopefully come to appreciate what you've been trying to do for him.

Hahaha that's gold. It's kind of hard for me to accept anybody really believes that. Feels like some disingenuous conviction there or deliberately not examining the statement because they know on at least one level it's too completely illogical to be true but then again there are some people who've had such serious distortions to their reasoning over time that they're not even lying anymore when they claim to believe this stuff.

I'm surprised he chose to express his point in this manner. Unless this is an expression of humanity from Mr Musk that we're so otherwise unaccustomed to that it's hard to recognise, then I assume he wants to persuade people to have less empathy or sympathy for homeless people, not more. This statement, taken at face value would seem to suggest that contrary to what some may think, homeless people are facing significant challenges not of their own making that have contributed directly to their circumstances.

I'm going to guess that's not how he meant it

I think one of those guys has an arm growing out of his back

Not meeee obviously!

Senescence maybe?

I think I'd be pretty pleased with that actually, so long as it's on my local machine. That's because I often find myself wanting to locate a particular email that is along certain lines, or on a certain topic, or involves an organisation's name that kinda sounds similar to this one word but isn't actually that word or things like "the email where they mention they've had a kid" but I can't actually recall either what they called their child, or what gender they were, or when the email was received. Or actually, even better, in that last example "What's Dave's kid's name again?" and just getting a 1 word, correct response, with the ability to open the email it found where this was mentioned for additional context if I want it. Or things like "how long has it been since we moved out of that house?" and instead of finding the earliest email I can on the topic of moving house and reading emails to surmise when we discussed leaving and then finding which one might have mentioned that actual date we moved out, I could just get an answer, in English again hopefully with a link to the email or emails that provided the rationale for how the answer was arrived at.

Often in those simpler search situations I mentioned where I just need to find a specific email, keyword searches don't always cut it. I have an absolutely appalling memory so figuring out pertinent details to things happening now based on what was going on in my inbox at some point in the past are a very important way that I get by. If I could achieve this more easily by asking relatively vague, English language questions that will help direct search efforts that are being done for me would be really helpful. Sure, theoretically all existing means of filtering and searching email should eventually find me that message but they'd likely be more effort than just asking directly like you'd ask a person tasked with digging through a filing cabinet for you, and sometimes even after extensive filtering by all kinds of clues: date, senders, keywords, labels, subject lines, emails I remember around the same time that I can find; I just for whatever reason can NOT dig up that email only to discover it later when it's too late to be useful to me anymore and get to see what obscure reason it was none of my clever search methods caught it..

Yeh, like a whole lot of US politics and a smattering of more global politics and an even smaller smattering of just bad things that have happened recently. When it's a community not dedicated to that kind of thing it's a post on something tangentially related to it, or a commentary upon it. Occasionally it's not even tangentially related to the supposed focus of the community and someone is just attempting to deliberately inject such subject matter in there artificially, a lot of the rest of the time it's the comments where somebody finds a very tenuous connection to capitalism or Donald Trump or landlords. They're all interesting or maddening enough topics to keep me scrolling but no amount of passion can resist fatigue and boredom after some time. The only other topic that is reliably separate from those other Lemmy greatest hits are people complaining about Reddit or Linux/FOSS discussions which again, are juuuust interesting enough to kinda make me feel like at least there's something here but it's not exactly a barrel of laughs. I realise that comments like this one are their own particular genre of lame, complaining about Lemmy itself as if it contributes, but since you ask lol.

It's bad that this scam is running of course but, I have to say this particular scam has almost a nostalgic quality to it. It reminds me of the type of trickery that old school malware back in the day used to rely on to get on to people's computers. It's kind of quaint how unsophisticated it is and how much active work it requires of the victim to successfully infect them.

You know I'm not sure. I sure spend a lot of time here on Lemmy but somehow I'm not sure I even exactly like it. I was going through my feed to see if I could find a kind of quirky counterintuitive answer that I could justify by saying at least it's not some super depressing news or angry commentary but they're kinda... all like that.

I guess I cherish all of them equally as much in that I somehow keep coming back.

Ah I knew it'd be something that should have seemed obvious to me only after it's explained.

What's com's?