Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.

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I just use Photopea https://www.photopea.com/ instead. It does everything I need, and I don’t need to install anything.

I just use Chat-GPT, I also have the capability to write my own formulas, but especially for more complex or repetitive formulas it’s faster.

Here’s one for PowerApps I asked it to extend

Patch(Timesheets, LookUp(Timesheeets, ID=SharePointIntegration.SelectedListItemID), {DataString:Concatenate(TextInput1.Text, “;”,TextInput2.Text, “;”, TextInput3.Text, “;”, TextInput1_1.Text, “;”,TextInput2_1.Text, “;”, TextInput3_1.Text, “;”, TextInput1_2.Text, “;”,TextInput2_2.Text, “;”, TextInput3_2.Text, “;”, TextInput1_3.Text, “;”,TextInput2_3.Text, “;”, TextInput3_3.Text, “;”, TextInput1_4.Text, “;”,TextInput2_4.Text, “;”, TextInput3_4.Text, “;”, TextInput1_5.Text, “;”,TextInput2_5.Text, “;”, TextInput3_5.Text, “;”, TextInput1_6.Text, “;”,TextInput2_6.Text, “;”, TextInput3_6.Text, “;”)}); Refresh(‘Timesheets’);

I just gave it the first bit and two text input fields initially and then asked it to add the remainder for me instead of hitting copy paste and changing the numbers a dozen times.

Probably saved me 5 minutes, but I do this kind of thing fairly regularly so it’s probably saving me a half-hour to an hour per week on formulas alone.

I use it all the time to write Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerApps formulas. I use it to draft and re-write e-mails. I use it to come up with ideas and brainstorm.

Or it’s just to show off the joint rotational abilities the thing is capable of compared to the hydraulic limitations that were part of Atlas.

Or both…

Boston Dynamics’ videos seem to make us disbelieve a lot, but so far it’s all been real.

The word you’re looking for is adoption, not adaptation.

I will literally build my own printer before ever subscribing to this bullshit.

Go fuck yourself hp, you are not as important as you think you are.

The instance would likely just act as a regular instance and allow normal users on, you couldn’t even tell they were using it to scrape data at that point.

It isn’t though, nowhere is it asking when, it’s just complaining it isn’t here yet.

During testing, sure… That’s not going to be the long term value.

There are autonomous cars on the road right now driving people around without anyone in the front seat. The article even admits this.

This entire article is just complaining that it’s happening slower than predicted as companies refine the technology, like that’s somehow a bad thing.

It’s still happening.

The equipment required to “make” a motherboard is orders of magnitude more expensive than anything you could afford.

There’s a reason why it’s all custom designed and there’s only a handful of board manufacturers in the entire world, most laptop companies don’t even have their own fabrication for these pieces, they just do the design and final assembly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxrmussq4E

Have you not been paying attention to robotics recently? Opening doors is a solved problem with consumer grade hardware and software at this point.

Anecdote are not statistics.

Head counts increasing at one company are often offset by losses from their competitors as they take market share due to increased productivity.

The number of auto mechanics went up as the number of horse ranchers went down.

No, I have worked with a dozen or so organizations, but I’ve done multiple jobs for each. I’m a freelancer.

As for your second question, I’d like to see a basic income implemented for all citizens in my country. I’ve talked to my local politicians about it multiple times. It’s something that people now know about, which is good progress in my opinion. I don’t expect it to happen soon, but hopefully we’ll get there before we start to have too many social problems.

I’ve been following Doctorow for decades now (BoingBoing) and yes, he’s an idiot in this situation.

I’m still working with the organizations I started automating for more than a decade ago. I’m sitting in the office of one of them right now. It’s worked out great, nobody is complaining about the fact that this office space now has people at separated desks instead of crunched together like they were when I started. If it makes you feel any better, I almost exclusively do this for government and public organizations (I’m at a post-secondary education institution right now) though I really don’t care.

Stopping or stalling productivity improvements is stupid, that job is effectively useless if it can be automated, it’s nothing more than make-work to keep it. We should pass laws to redistribute wealth to solve that problem, not keep them in useless jobs by preventing automation.

Another idiot writer missing how AI works… along with every other automation and productivity increase.

I literally automate jobs for a living.

My job isn’t to eliminate the role of every staff member in a department, it’s to take the headcount from 40 to 20 while having the remaining 20 be able to produce the same results. I’ve successfully done this dozens of times in my careers, and generative AI is now just another tool we can use to get that number down a little bit lower or more easily than we could before.

Will I be able to take a unit of 2 people down to 0 people? No, I’ve never seen a process where I could eliminate every human.

It’s stolen in the fact that these people are using Image-2-Image generative AI. That means that his original image is directly used as an input to make the resulting pictures, which then compete against his original image for attention on the internet. Fewer people will then see his original, and perhaps purchase one of his carvings.

Is it “real” theft? No Does it harm him? Yes

It’s a very tricky situation, given that there’s no way to stop it. We cannot shove this back into Pandora’s box. Even if you made it illegal, it would be almost impossible to enforce in a court because of the lack of jurisdiction across borders.

I suspect our culture is about to see a seismic shift again, I just don’t know how yet.