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  • Do you feel a kinship with people who drive the same make/model car as you?

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  • Definitely! I have an MX5 (miata), and the camaraderie between strangers is great. Majority of people will wave to each other as they drive past and I often get stopped for a chat in petrol stations etc. It's one of the reasons I would really hate to get rid of the car because it's just an extra dose of fun compared to everything else I have owned.

  • It's just a matter of time

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  • Yup...the comment above yours is giving copilot way too much credit lol. That shit needs to stay a 1000 miles away from Excel.

    Excel is already a global nightmare, with so many jank should be databases run on it, with AI on top...oh boy.

  • Atlassian Will Collect Jira and Confluence Data by Default to Train AI Models

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  • I suppose these things have to be opt-out because if they were opt-in then literally nobody would do it. Which is quite telling really isn't it lol

  • Gen Z’s use of AI is plateauing as youth feel less hopeful about the tech

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  • Maybe? But to give an example of how I think it's been pretty cool, is summarising my Dungeons & Dragons session notes, and being available to answer questions, or spin up ideas on the fly. I can take horrible and inconsistent notes with holes in them, but an LLM straightens them all out into any format I need. If I need a small piece of world building and ran out of time I can get it to spit a few ideas at me. Often generic ideas and tropes are actually what I am after. If I forgot something that happened 6 months ago I can just...ask it. It can pull up stuff I noted offhand and totally forgot about no problem. This sort of use where it's like an admin assistant, and being inaccurate is totally unimportant, it's a good tool.

    Maybe that's a really niche example but it's one of the few cases where I can see long term use with zero downsides.

    Ultimately it's powerful at consolidating large volumes of information and allowing the user to probe at that information. As long as the use case can tolerate inaccuracies and hallucinations then it's fine.

  • Gen Z’s use of AI is plateauing as youth feel less hopeful about the tech

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  • For sure, it's amazing for some things. But it also appears to do more than you think it does until you become familiar with it. I think everyone new to using AI should quiz it on topics they are knowledgeable in, to realise how much shit it makes up.

    Also yeah I'm specifically talking about LLMs because I think that's 95%+ of AI usage right now in volume.

  • Gen Z’s use of AI is plateauing as youth feel less hopeful about the tech

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  • Once you use AI enough you start to peer behind the curtain and see how it's all just a magic trick and not actually magic like it seems to begin with. So yeah I think its unsurprising people would come to this conclusion.

  • how do school shooters know how to use guns?

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  • Not to blame video games but genuinely having never even held a real gun I could definitely work out how to operate one from the thousands of hours I have interacted with them digitally lol. They ultimately are designed ground up to be user friendly and simple. Yes I would be a terrible aim etc but still not the point, an idiot can still cause chaos.

  • Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras. Here’s how it’s going

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  • I noticed in my local supermarket in the UK they started wearing cameras too it's really weird. I'm really not sure what their goal is - it will never help shoplifting as much as static cameras, and seems a lot of effort to safeguard against abusive customers.

  • Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

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  • Eh I dunno, I got bored of it before I finished the story or explored the other half of the map. Feels like a bit of a failing there. 30 hours would be fine if it was a fully contained experience.

  • Pensioners will need £8,000 more than last year to have a modest retirement

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  • This doesn't even make sense to me. Are we assuming these people don't own their own homes and are still paying rent to reach these figures? 31k to be 'moderate' seems absolutely stupid to me if housing is taken care of, and who has 31k a year pension but didn't pay off their mortgage by retirement? Seems their definition of comfortable must include a lot of expensive holidays.

  • Taylor Swift launches legal broadside at a college student who tracks private jets via public data

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  • Maybe she should buy twitter and ban the guy, or is this the wrong billionaire I am thinking of?

  • Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

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  • Hogwarts is fun for about 30 hours roleplaying as a wizard, as a casual potter fan. I got really bored of it after that and never finished the game. At its core it really is very generic, it's really propped up by the IP. That's not to say it's bad by any means but its not got the depth of Zelda.

  • London rents hit 'record high' of over £2,000 per month as shrinking supply hits tenants hard

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  • House prices are going down. Just not by as much as many expect because ultimately there is still a housing shortage I guess. Also inflation is perhaps offsetting the actual drop in figures but technically is lowering prices too.

  • 2FA works in 1.0 🎉

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  • Not for me sadly.

  • Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted'

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  • If he was destroying it for the good of humanity he would have to somehow destroy the concept of it rather than a single platform.

    Probably best spending 40 billion on education in the harm social media can do lol.

    I really do think he's just delusional. I won't call him an idiot because there is clearly intelligence and talent in his head, but he's gone off the rails in some capacity whether it's mental health issues or power crazed or who knows.

  • EU blindsided by ‘spectacular’ solar rollout

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  • This part is interesting:

    As solar becomes increasingly widespread and electricity prices plummet in the middle of the day when the sun is brightest, some see a risk that the incentive to deploy solar power also decreases, said Esparrago.

    That makes grid improvements and the rapid rollout of storage technologies like batteries crucial, experts argue. But the EU is still lagging behind in that area.

    I wonder however how far we are from that? There is probably a lot of incentivising that can be done to get people and industry to use this 'surplus' daytime energy up surely. Its weird because its usually the opposite with cheap night rates - I know many people who intentionally consume energy overnight instead of the day because its cheaper. Flip that on its head maybe that isn't as pressing an issue?

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    Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?

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  • I mean there are also other countries in the world with various varieties of conservatives but I see your point

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    Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?

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  • I mean, while that could be correct I also consider that if far right spaces get banned regularly then those people are refugees that will invade the next closest thing?

    Obviously the next closest thing to far right, is center right. Does that make the center right inherently bad? I don't think so necessarily on principle.

    I disagree with conservative views almost entirely but its not something that I believe shouldn't have discussion spaces, unlike far right politics which can just get fucked with their disdain for basic human rights, they don't deserve a seat at the table at all.

    I suppose ultimately it's down to moderation isn't it. If conservatives want a seat at the table they have to keep their lunatics in check and if they don't then yeah don't see why I should cry over it really, and thats true of all online communities.

  • is this pixel 6 pro salvageable or should I return it?

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  • Yeah I feel you there, it is very annoying. I'm similar to you that I don't mind used phones with some bumps and scrapes to them but a giant glowing line and two dead patches on the screen really make the phone unusable without screen replacement and it doesn't sound like the business made that clear to you at all. Hopefully they will give a refund without issue!

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    @F1 Twitter: Most positions gained so far in 2023

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    Lewis Hamilton vs George Russell Head to Head

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    Red Bull to reduce junior driver count – Horner

    www.motorsportweek.com /2023/08/06/red-bull-to-reduce-junior-driver-count-horner/
  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    @MercedesAMGF1 Poster: You'll find us on the beach. The F1 summer break starts now.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Why does the URL field not do anything?

  • Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Daily Lemmy comments up from ~7m to ~11m following the launch of Sync?

  • Sync for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Stop posts from hiding after being read?