This is the first time I’m hearing about semver contract. I always assumed the x.y.z versioning was pridever, which was the first definition I found. And that says nothing about backwards compatibility.
So it might as well be the case of the XKCD.
I think I might have it, and it’s interresting. I’m generally a nice, flegmatic and extremely non-confrontional person, but when someone tells me what I can’t or have to do, that I don’t agree with, it awakens something in me. An intense drive to just be extremely petty and get my revenge, either through malicious compliance or some other petty revenge. It can drive me for quite some time, and it’s an intense impulse that is hard to ignore.
It’s not anger, and it’s never violent. I kind of assume this is how people with OCD feel, but instead of being unreasonably triggered by OCD stuff, you hate being told what to do.
It’s usually enough for me to plan the malicious compliance, or the petty revenge, I usually don’t go through with it and let go eventually, but it is intense nonetheless.
My partner works in HR, and from what I’ve heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.
There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.
But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn’t do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.
It sounds like hell of a job, that would’ve been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can’t follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won’t do it if some AI is telling them to.
From what I’ve heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don’t care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.
I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.
If you want the cheapest, go with Cloudfare. They guarantee to ask for the wholesale price, which is the price the registrar pays to the top level domain owner, so they can’t go lower without footing the bill.
What most of registrars do is foot the difference for the first year, so you get a domain for super cheap, then add 50%+ cut on top, so you pay i.e 5$ for the first year for a TLD that has wholesale cost of 10$, while they loose 5$ on that sale, and then you pay 25$ for the second, so they now gain 15$ on holding your domain hostage.
Cloudfare guarantees that they will sell you that domain for 10$, and only raise it when the TLD owner raises the price.
I’m not aware of any other registrar that guarantees wholesale prices, but LMK if anyone knows any.
If you want to get the best deal, buy your first year (or maybe 10 years, if they let you buy 10 for the sale price) with the scammy registrar, i.e get the 5$ sale on Namecheap, and before it expires transfer it to Cloudfare so you don’t pay extra for the second year and can continue with the (much lower now) wholesale price.
Each TLD has a different wholesale price, but every registrar pays the same to them for selling the domain to you. The differences you see is exactly in how much are they willing to foot the bill at first (most have a massive sale on first year, then huge markup on renewals), some just add a flat fee and have markup from the start.
Cloudfare just states “you will pay wholesale”, and don’t do any sheninegans. At least that’s how it was last time I checked.
Is that better than directly allowing the way worse evil to win, by letting it get majority due to your inaction, that they would not have otherwise?
If there is such a huge difference between the lesser, and worse evils, letting the worse one win, giving it free reign to do a lot of vile shit with the world that definitely would not have happened otherwise, still be better?
I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, but putting your head in the sand out of principle has literally led to the situation US is in right now.
This made me look into Copilot skills marketplace, if I could make a skill that just runs https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI in a way that works even if Copilot dies in the middle.
I was ready to make a Microsoft dev account to publish that skill to the official marketplace.
Turned out it’s not really possible with how Copilot works, plus it’s also against a lot of the rules you need to pass when sending anything to the Marketplace.
Shame, I still think it’d be hillarious.
Assuming a dev company, first thing I would do is let the manegement know, in writing, that building a dependance on AI into your processes will make you depend on a tool that is currently heavily under-priced, with operating costs for all AI firms resulting in hundreds of millions of losses, that they will want to recuperate eventually.
Link articles about firms blowing the yearly budget on per-token price in a single month. Companies spending 500mil per month on tokens woth uncapped usage.
Also explain that allowing your devs to use it will lead to erpsion of their skill, building a dependency, that will then tie their productivity going forward to the whims of AI companies, that are currently operating at heavy losses.
Link any of the numerous papers how AI erodes skill of devs.
Ask them if they really want to build a dependency into this ecosystem, and if they are willing to pay the heavily increased price, once it inevitably gets expensive. That you can start replacing devs with AI, but even now, at the heavily undercut prices, it’s already costing more than a developer would, and it will only get worse. There are articles for that too. Make sure to highlight that you will be giving control of your systems and development to something that will be expensive, and it will be expensive to walk back on those decisions, once it’s integrated deep enough.
Get a paper trail. Make them sign off on the risks. Don’t do anything unless they sign off on the risks, and make it super clear how stupid idea it is. Bring as many recipes, papers, and blogs you can find.
Make a citation for how much it would cost to run a competitive local models. How much you would have to spend on GPUs to have a local solution for all of your planned AI need, so you can continue working once third party AI is not affordable.
Also take a look at all currently unresolved GDPR and general laws around copyright, unsolved cases. Send them blog posts that imply that there might be a copyright problem with AI generated outputs down the line, once all lawsuits resolve.
Mention the google lawsuit in germany, where Google might be legally responsible for the outputs it’s AI gives. Ask if that is a risk they accept, assuming it passes.
It’s an extremely stupid idea to currently even consider being dependant on AI. Give the recipes and arguments, and have them directly sign off on every risk you can think off. Basically - whatever you do, do a proper long term risk analysis, and make sure the management signs off on the risks.
You will need it down the line. There is a lot of risks.
Keep in mind that people refusing to choose the less of the two evils are directly responsible for the current state of the US.
Does it suck? Yes. Should you let them do this without protesting it, just because they are dems? No. But refusing to choose the lesser evil is way, way worse.
Yeah, that was my first thought. Could be that, if it’s a simple word based filter.
Assuming it’s not fake, I honestly wonder what could’ve happened, what rule got triggered, that this was flagged.
Thanks for mentioning NS2, I would’ve scrolled past this game otherwise. NS2 was my most favorite competitive game, that I never found people to play with for (aside from once being approached by someone at a bar, who overheard me talking about NS2 and that I play Starcraft, that they’re looking for an RTS player for their e-sport NS2 team. I… wasn’t good at Starcraft, so it didn’t work out, but it was a funny random happenstance).
I love asymmetric games, and the mix of RTS + FPS for the rest seems like a really interesting game from the competitive/meta standpoint.
I’ll check out these two games, sounds like it might be right up my alley.
I was just about to post this, the fact that it means that there is actually a precedent of astronauts using Teams on a mission, so we may be bringing Teams to the Mars for real, makes it a lot more funnier.
Awesome, thanks! Managed to get it working, and even found a version with the Czech dub, so all is good! Thanks for reminding me the game exists :D
Are you playing on Linux by chance? I did finfld a few Windows guides, which I assume would ve easier due to Windows Play whatever, but it also sounds like it would make it hell to set up on Linux.
I highly recommend Space Station 14.
It’s an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.
Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it’s generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be “spawn a monkey”, “print money” to “thermonuclear explosion”.
And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between “Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion”, “a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend”, “pantient zero that turns into a zombie”, or a “syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction”.
It’s massive fun, and I highly recommend it.
Oh, and that’s basic SS14. There’s also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.
If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It’s aboslute cinema, the way it’s told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE
Then there’s also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (SS14 is basically a reimplementation/modernization of SS13 into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I’d recommend the previous video more.
Note: There’s currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it’s auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It’s pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other web pages, but that would lead you to the launcher that’s currently being ransomed. You’re better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.
Oh, that was my favorite game. If I recall correctly, it also was dubbed in my (Czech) language, which made it awesome.
I have to check if you can reasonably play it on PC.
I’ve never looked at Esperanto. Is it at least easy to learn and use?
I have to look up it’s history, like who and when thought it’s a good idea, and why it didn’t work out. Sounds like a fun rabbit hole.
Yeah, what I’ve been trying to do, on a rare ocassion where I chime in with the whole “just use Linux” (because it’s usually not necessary to be 27th person with the same comment), is to at least add more relevant info, or mention misconceptions that I know were reasons why I didn’t switch, or what I found cool.
I.e for me it was gaming, which for a long time used to be considered bad on Linux, especially if you had Nvidia. Which is no longer true in the sligjtest, and I was pretty surprised how smooth the transition was, so I just share a bit of my experience.
But yeah, it’s a balancing act. And as always, if you can’t add anything to the discussion that already wasn’t said (i.e just use linux), it’s better not to add anything :D
It’s what convinced me to make a switch to Linux, two years ago by now.
I’ve seen it mentioned for years at that point. Did it feel annoying? A bit, especially when I was trying to solve something. But it was one post that pushed me over the edge. I’ve probably seen a lot posts/replies like that before.
I can’t say why, I guess the stars aligned, but I’m glad it happened. I probably wouldn’t do it, if it weren’t for years of constant reminders that Linux is in fact an option.
It mentions that Privacy Guides have apps that help with batch-submitting requests to Data brokers for removal of data, but I couldn’t find it there. Anyone has a link?
Also, is this something that applies only to the US residents, or is there a similar process for EU people? Most of the guides/services I’ve seen were US-only.