Most of my qualms with AI aren’t in the usage of AI, but in its creation (water usage, mass layoffs, etc.—you’ve heard it all before).

To me it’s like asking “What are some good uses for slaves?” (An extreme example to show the point, I’m not trying to say AI is the same as slavery).

Like yeah I could find good uses for it, but should it exist in the first place?

This is likely not the Generative AI, LLM-slop type of AI you’re thinking of.

I hate generative AI. But other forms of AI and machine learning have been used for much longer and haven’t facilitated the building of ecologically harmful datacenters.

For example, AlphaFold, which is an AI program that can predict how proteins fold and is an incredibly useful tool.

I expect that the use of AI here would be similar: something trained for a specific purpose, not just generic generative AI tech like ChatGPT

Yeah easy to miss. They’re great I love them,

Yes but this is an anti-meme community

It’s not a copy-paste when it has well-placed shadows

I think so

Colemak claims to not remove QWERTY proficiency, but I think that’s wrong.

I use Colemak at work and QWERTY at home. That way I keep my proficiency at both. I also game on my PC and I can’t be bothered to edit the keybindings for every single game I play

We’ll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!

I don’t think this is enough evidence to show they use Teams. At work we say “zoom calls” and use Google Meet. It could very well be someone’s catch-all term for video call meetings in general

emotional incest from my mother

I’m guessing that’s a typo but I’m not sure what you were trying to type O_O

It’s an old meme format from before AI image generation

EDIT: I’m wrong, it’s actually newer than I remembered (2024)

Cooked Dog / Dog Closing His Eyes

It’s not clear where the image originates from

Australian tortoises aren’t tortoises. Australian turtles are commonly mistaken for tortoises (as they sometimes come onto land) and so get incorrectly called that sometimes.

Where did you learn that that’s only an American thing? I don’t live in America. I’d be interested to learn more if you’re right, but I can’t find anything to support your claim

All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises

I wouldn’t count ChromeOS as Linux. That’s like counting all Android phones as Linux or something

I suspect it’s not a lack of playtesters that’s the problem, but harsh deadlines and crunch. That type of environment leads to tech debt to get things working fast, which leads to hard-to-manage code, which leads to bugs…

I also thought toggles were unnecessary, but then I read something that changed my mind.

Toggles have an immediate effect, whereas checkboxes don’t.

For example, a light/dark mode setting. You could use a checkbox, but users have become used to the above behaviour, and so a toggle may be more appropriate.

Checkboxes, therefore, are more of a form element.

Personally, I’d still be fine with just checkboxes, but that design intention is something I hadn’t known but makes sense after I heard it

any word that starts with T and ends with T

Upvoting because I saw this earlier but it was a .webp so I couldn’t easily share it but this is a .jpeg so I can, thank you!

Only if you play for less than 2 hours though

You forgot the “slop”

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