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    Study: AI wiping out entry-level jobs for young workers

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  • I was in a company that tried to develop some ai apps, but kind of failed, but I learned a lot about how to use ai, what can be done and what is not sensible to do with ai

    That's basically the "AI is replacing jobs. AI can't replace jobs".C-suite don't get it. It's a hugely accessible framework that anyone can use. But only trained people can use the results. But c-suite trust the results because software has been so predictable (so trustworthy) in the past.C-suite replace employees with AI. AI can't actually do the job that it pretends it can do. Everyone suffers, and the people selling the shovels profit the most from the gold rush.It lies on its resume and in it's interviews, but in ways that are hard to detect.

    I bet there was a similar sentiment when automation replaced blue collar jobs.And yet, all those automations still require tool and die manufacturing and maintenance. Buy a tool & die from wherever which is purpose built to your process, and a year down the line you require the supplier to maintain the actual die - the actuators and machine can be maintained by anyone, but the "business logic" is what produces a good high quality part. Process changes? Updated design? Changing supplier to a slightly different material? Back to the supplier to new die.But so many jobs were made "redundant" by cheap tooling and automation, and now it's (nearly) impossible to actually manufacture something at scale in America.

    Except LLMs action the next most likely step to the most likely dimensions based on the prompt and based on the popularity of similar/previous processes.Fine for art and subjective medium, not for manufacturing and not for engineering.

    I guess you could write automated tests which define the behaviour you want.Probably better to write the behaviour you want and get AI to generate automated tests....

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • Imagine the debuff that blueballs would inflict because you missed the quicktime event

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  • I think it can elevate the level of a power user. But not to the level of a sysadmin, unless the user is then picking apart everything the LLM is telling them to do and reading the man pages. At which point, they are pretty much just learning to become a sysadmin.

    A smart power user would likely search for some solutions to a problem, get some rough background, then ask an LLM to either explain how a solution solves their problem, or to use their research to validate the response of the LLM.

    I don't think an LLM can elevate a normal user to a power user.Because the user is still going to be copying & pasting commands without understanding them (unless they want to understand them, instead of merely solving the problem in front of them. At which point they are learning to become a poweruser).

    I can imagine a general sentiment amongst employees of "support the use of AI or be the first to be layed off".So even if it lets them close tickets earlier, the tickets might not actually be resolved. Instead of kicking it to someone that actually knows how to fix it, they've just bodged it - and hopefully that bodge doesn't fuck things up down the line.But the metrics look better, and the employees aren't going to complain.Looks great to a manager

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  • You dropped one of these: \

    It's spare, you can use that one ^

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  • I find AI to be extremely knowledgeable about everything, except anything I am knowledgeable about. Then it's like 80% wrong. Maybe 50% wrong. But it's significant.

    So, c-suite see it churning out some basic code - not realising that code is 80% wrong - and think they don't need as many junior devs. Hell, might as well get rid of some mid level devs as well, cause AI will make the other mid level devs more efficient.

    And when there aren't as many jobs for junior devs, there aren't as many people eligible for mid devs or senior devs.

    I know it seems like the whole "Immigrants are lazy and leech off benefits. Immigrants are taking all our jobs" kinda thing.But actually it's that LLMs are very good at predicting what the next word might be, not should be.So it seems correct to people that don't actually know. While people that do know can see its wrong (but maybe not in all the ways it's wrong), and have to spend as much time fixing it as they would have if they had just fucking written it themselves in the first place.

    Besides which, by the time an AI prompt is suitably created to get the LLM to generate its approximation of the solution for a problem.... Most of the work is done, the programmer has constrained the problem. The coding part is trivial in comparison.

  • Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus

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  • Yeh, exactly.It's a private company.It's a huge platform, but YouTube can choose what YouTube is.

    The only way any change happens is if YouTube gets raked over the coals by enough content producers (that they could collectively start their own platform) by media and potentially by governments (recognising them as some sort of critical communications or something and implementing regulations?).Or if all the YouTube viewers decide they have had enough and go elsewhere (where, tho? Kinda goes hand-in-hand with creators starting their own platform).

    So the pressure needs to keep building, YouTube needs to keep doing shitty things. Eventually... Hopefully?... Something changes: YouTube gets better, a new platform is born.

  • Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus

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  • Oh, gotcha.I'm pretty sure they have a patreon.They ran a Kickstarter to fund the production of this specific 3h episode, and all levels of backers got a USB key with a copy of the video on it.

    The issue isn't it being deleted. It won't disappear.

    The issue is the contents potentially not reaching as many new viewers unaware of Nvidias shady behaviour and how the black market of GPUs actual works because Bloomberg (who have sponsorship from Nvidia) DMCAd the video.Either because their articles were used as a source and the text of those articles were shown on screen (potentially reducing views those articles would have received if they were linked? Or something? No idea how you would provide a snapshot of the information as it was at the time of publishing the video, tho. Cause the article could be edited after GNs video was published, making any soft references meaningless).Or because they used some of Bloombergs video of POTUS, which (in my understanding) cannot be copyrighted.

    So to me, it seems like GNs video was frivolously DMCAd to reduce its impact on Nvidia.The impact of that DMCA is that: as it was starting to trend it gets taken offline for ~10 days. After which, YouTube's algorithm will be unlikely to promote it via its algorithm because it hasn't had any new views for 10 days.Effectively killing the video.Gamers Nexus gets a "strike" against their channel (of which they get 3).Bloomberg has 0 repercussions.

    Unless we all kick up enough fuss to cause some repercussions, and support GN enough to get the exposé trending again.

  • Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night. Seriously.

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  • Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom

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  • You know how I explain it for people that don't get it?

    You don't assume someone's name.

    You don't walk up to a complete stranger and say "Hey bob, nice to meet you".

    So why would you assume any other part of their identity?

  • Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?

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  • What about liquid particles in the flatulence phase-changing and lowering the temperature? (Like how an evaporative swamp cooler works)

  • Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg

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  • A bunch of other YouTubers are reuploading it in protest.So, you can watch it on one of the reuploads.Just make sure you watch it again on Gamers Nexus when it comes back, help them jump re-start it on the algorithm so it gets the views it deserves.

    Thankfully the Streisand effect will take care of the publicity.

  • I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal.

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  • I'm guessing that - from my experience of the CasualUK community when I used to be on Reddit - they have similar rules of ABSOLUTELY no politics. Even something that might lead to politics.It's to keep the place extremely light hearted and not turn into a depressing news/politics community.

    So immigration/border policy and Palestine Action would both be out.Even jokes about small boats would likely be too close.

    It is a fun story, glad you shared it. And good on the mods recommending an alternative community

  • Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus

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  • There is no good answer to it.

    It is ridiculous that a channel which uploads thousands of authentic original content can lose all algorithm momentum from a frivolous DMCA strike removing their video for 10 days.It basically guarantees a video gets killed. Even if the video gets reinstated after an appeal.

    This particular video will massively bounce back. People are angry at Nvidia, people are angry with YouTube and with YouTubes DMCA process, and now people are angry at Bloomberg.And Gamers Nexus isn't gonna let this drop, and GN has earned its communities trust (and I think trust in general) that there will be flocks of people ensuring the video doesn't die.

    But if this was a smaller channel releasing a massive expose like this, it would probably just drop out off the public's radar before it gets established

  • Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus

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  • Yeh, absolutely.The DMCA takedown works because music/film industry execs have previously gone after YouTube for not responding to legitimate copyright infringements.So YouTube now favours the person claiming the strike and makes it very difficult for the defendant to exonerate themselves.

    Changing how they publish will sidestep YouTube overplaying.But YouTube has revenue split with content creators, and has an absolutely massive audience with discovery algorithms and community stuff. Moving away from that platform would be an insane move

  • Best Practice Ideas

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  • I'd still run k8s inside a proxmox VM. Even if it's basically all resources dedicated to the VM, proxmox gives you a huge amount of oversight and additional tooling.Proxmox doesn't have to do much (or even anything), beyond provide a virtual machine.

    I've ran Talos OS (dedicated k8s distro) bare metal. It was fine, but I wish I had a hypervisor. I was lucky that my project could be wiped and rebuilt with ease. Having a hypervisor would mean I could've just rolled back to a snapshot, and separated worker/master nodes without running additional servers.This was sorely missed when I was both learning the deployment of k8s, and k8s itself.For the next project that is similar, I'll run talos inside proxmox VMs.

    As far as "how does cloudflare work in k8s".... However you want?You could manually deploy the example manifests provided by cloudflare.Or perhaps there are some helm charts that can make it all a bit easier?

    Or you could install an operator, which will look for Custom Resource Definitions or specific metadata on standard resources, then deploy and configure the suitable additional resources in order to make it work.https://github.com/adyanth/cloudflare-operator seems popular?

    I'd look to reduce the amount of yaml you have to write/configure by hand. Which is why I like operators

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • Isn't that just a van?

  • EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe

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  • Knowing what lurks underneath old cities the demand for archeologist would absolutely skyrocket.Great job creation prospects.And then we get to queue in cars to get coffee. So convenient.It's just wins all around

  • White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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  • In his Truth Social website President Donald Trump described the Smithsonian as "OUT OF CONTROL" and said museums across the United States are "WOKE."

    Convicted felon says museums are woke and out of control.

    In a statement sent to Newsweek the Smithsonian said: "The Smithsonian's work is grounded in a deep commitment to scholarly excellence, rigorous research, and the accurate, factual presentation of history.

    The world's largest museum, education and research complex says they are grounded in accurate presentation of history.

    It's pretty clear that the US government is targeting the Smithsonian and other historical archives to rewrite history.

    Considering the other articles linked which talk about the removal of trump's impeachments and other pressures on historical facts and accuracy, I'd be worried about the following quote:

    "It's not about whitewashing it's about full context, so while slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress and I think we need to be focusing on the progress that we've made then and we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress.

    So, yeh the Nazis killed a bunch of people. But they also developed the Volkswagen, Porsche and Hugo Boss. And we have all come to appreciate fancy cars and fly shirts. So, let's not focus on what the Nazis did, but instead let's concentrate on the hope that cars bring!

    And even if you argue that "things are better now". Sure, somewhat. But, imo, it's not really something to celebrate. Black people can vote, but shitty racist people in power still suppress the fuck out of them.

    Germany recognises it's history. It teaches it in school, it's made memorials & museums of historically abhorrent places, and it's outlawed everything related.

    US still celebrates Thanksgiving.https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2022/11/24/the-real-history-behind-thanksgiving/

    So yeh, here is the directive:https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

    to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

    So, eliminate some history.But - depending on how carefully that scalpel is wielded - it could cut away the bad parts and leave the "good" parts. Cherry picking, if you will.Leaves a generally positive vibe of slavery.Divisive and anti-american to whip/hang/rape slaves. So, leave that part out.But provide the American dream for a slave by impregnating them and giving them a less crowded room and easier slave labour, or elevating them to a house position, or whatever... THATS the American dream!Slaves that behaved were treated well.But, just leave out the thousands of slaves that were beaten for sensless reasons because they were considered barbaric and sub-human.Just... Ignore the fact that they were kidnapped from their home, transported for weeks in horrendous conditions, then auctioned off to rich white men.

  • SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

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  • Yeh, 30ms is still inside the haas delay.If you are a professional listener (sound engineer, musician, dancer) then you can probably perceive it (in a similar way that eyes theoretically only need 25fps, but 60/120/144 is noticeably better).

    In 30ms, sound can travel 10 meters.So, if you've ever had a conversation with someone across a classroom, you've had a conversation with 30ms latency.

    For data, 30ms is 8100 km for electricity over copper, or 6000km for light over fibre.

    Meaning 30ms over fibre (considering no transmission delays) would be roughly the direct distance between US and UK.

    So yeh, 30ms is nothing