https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

It’s always one of the first things to get cut when companies try to save money.

Teams defaults are pure scummery.

No, don’t alert me on a Sunday night with notifications that I might have missed over the last two days.

I tried using some but they’re all equally shit.

That would be fine, if people weren’t using LLMs to write code, or to do school work,

But they are. So it’s important to write these articles that say “if you keep using a chainsaw to drive nails, here are the limitations you need to be aware of.”

Work socks as well.

They’re socks that go with construction boots. Basically the same as hiking socks but cheaper.

It’s super hard to get involved as a UI person. If you’re a developer, you can just rock up to a project and fix bugs, and if you follow the coding style they’ll probably get accepted.

If you want to successfully contribute as a UI person you have to convince a bunch of developers that you know what they should be doing better than they do. It basically never happens.

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It’s a consequence of parliamentary sovereignty.

Parliament can always dissolve itself and call an election, and it’s an important mechanism for getting rid of the government.

The problem is that the prime minister also has a majority in parliament, and that means he can make parliament dissolve itself when he likes.

This was actually a problem for Johnson. Initially, he didn’t have enough of a majority and it wasn’t clear he could call an election without Corbyn’s support.

Both. It’s like the saying “Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.” (With the explanation that if you keep poking it, it’ll disintegrate) also taught me how to cook fish as well as realpolitik.

The fish advice was most useful.

Ok but if you’re at a bus stop, and the bus is just coming round the corner into sight, you can say “this bus” even though it’s not parked up yet.

Same thing with this Friday. If it’s close enough to be in mind, you can use this.

They actually hired an Australian to copy it for them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levido

Yes, it makes it much worse. It is absolutely a serious plan and you should worry about it.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-foundation/

They’ve created substantial policy for Regan, Clinton, and Trump. You should also pay attention to the shear amount of money they have. They spend 80 million plus in a year on lobbying.

He’s the president of the fucking Heritage Foundation. That makes him the head of one of the most influential political organisations in the country.

That’s much more important than what his PhD was on.

It’s very true on a Mac. Almost every time you click the green button, it jumps to full screen and then you can’t drag another window on top of it.

It’s a pain in the arse because my workflow is to have a reading screen with documents and emails on, and a work screen with whatever I’m actually doing. But if outlook is full screen, you can’t drag any other windows on top of it.

Don’t know why the first guy was saying this is a Windows thing though. I only run onto it on macs.

I mean that’s a problem, but it’s distinct from the word “intelligence”.

An intelligent dog can’t classify a logic problem either, but we’re still happy to call them intelligent.

“Write an essay on the rise of ai and fact check it.”

“Write a verifiable proof of the four colour problem”

“If p=np write a python program demonstrating this, else give me a high-level explanation why it is not true.”

Words might have meanings but AI has been used by researchers to refer to toy neutral networks longer than most people on Lemmy have been alive.

This insistence that AI must refer to human type intelligence is also such a weird distortion of language. Intelligence has never been a binary, human level indicator. When people say that a dog is intelligent, or an ant hive shows signs of intelligence, they don’t mean it can do what a human can. Why should AI be any different?

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I changed companies and we all use teams now.

But none of that stuff helped when I did use it.

The problem was I was in AWS and needed to be subscribed to hundreds of channels. So when I needed to find something, I’d have to click through maybe 20 different channels all with similar names to find it. At that point the back button is useless.

Thumbs up is good for telling a person you’ve seen something. It doesn’t help the rest of the team know this, unless they like to go back and read old messages.

I mean the real take home message is “don’t work for Aws”. Slack just made some of the dysfunction worse, it didn’t create it.