what the fuck

I know I’m naive about some things, but this is just… the fuck. changing the word before the most recently swiped word, because together it forms a blocked phrase? that’s just fucked up.

I’m ashamed to say that I truly never thought about the keyboard no longer being safe from interference.

like okay I get that it won’t suggest harmful phrases, sure, maybe I can accept that. but to retroactively edit your inputs… that’s just fucked up.

I changed to bullet points to try and avoid this, didn’t much help the situation. people read the first point to the third level deep and didn’t go past, instead of skimming all the top level bullet points and then going deeper as appropriate into each one

ex:

• I hear X is a problem

– is it because of Y or Z?

— if Y, our options are A and B

— if Z, our option is C

there’d be four items like that, people wouldn’t read past the first. I gave up and now just leave items as perpetually open pending a decision from the people who didn’t answer, or I make a decision and then get all pissy with everyone when they come back and ask “well what about ___” like MF I WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED THAT IN THE EMAIL BUT Y’ALL MFS NEVER RESPOND TO THEM SO DON’T FUCKING ASK ME QUESTIONS NOW

also “this is my opinion, but I really don’t know much about the matter”

the impact of hunting for food is so far below the impact of industrial agriculture and other things, it’s fine

more like “oh, yes! what next?”

you want an economical, practical, reliable car that you’re happy with and that will develop brand loyalty?

too bad, best I can do is something that has a touchscreen cockpit you won’t be able to use in sunlight and without taking your eyes off the road, headlights that will blind oncoming traffic at all times but especially some of the most dangerous times, and reliability that will have you back in the dealership every few months for issues that are overly complicated to fix!

I’m actually impressed that the votes flip-flopped

I actually did think about taking that out, because I agree, that should be effective communication and I say similar things myself. I don’t know how to explain it right now but the way that he said it was exactly like talking to AI, whereas the way I phrase it is more natural. I got two separate opinions on the matter with multiple examples from both myself and the AI bot guy lmfao, and they both agreed that I sounded like a person and the other guy sounded like a bot

fr some people just don’t think, smh my head

I will note that for some of us outside the US, just getting rid of him is not enough. there are many steps to be made as part of reparations, and seeing justice happen is one of them.

they suck on stroads, yes. they’re mostly fine in tight downtown areas alongside a single vehicle lane.

I think most people refer to physically separated bike paths that share the same road surface as bike lanes. personally, I don’t really like completely separate bike paths (around here, most commonly multi use paths), because they’re not actually designed as infrastructure, but as recreation, so connections and directness are poor.

but, yes, just tossing in a bike lane is not the proper solution, it’s a bandaid on the way to a complete infrastructure replan. and fuck you Ontario for blocking them and ripping them out

I used to be that person. that time came and went. shame for the company, since there’s only one other person in the department that can do that kind of thing. oh well, that was the company’s choice.

yes, I’ll make stuff for myself, but only if I really want to, otherwise I’m happy to let things take longer because I wasn’t given time to make a tool for the team. not worth the stress, I’d rather go outside.

this is the kind of shit that gives me small comfort

they want to make me use a shitty stupid terrible slow system? ok, fine. but I’m gonna take my sweet time with it. oh, something else isn’t getting done? damn, probably should’ve thought of that before you implemented a system that you were warned was going to slow down 99% of the company employees and cost tons of quantifiable time

I know, that’s what pisses me off - they could have had a great return in investment in something simple like that, but nope, that hasn’t happened

and fuck if I’m gonna do it, I have other shit to do. I’ve got other tools specific to my team’s workflow that I don’t have time to make.

that’s what gets me. they just provide a simple, relatively unchanging service, that mostly just works.

I curse Microsoft daily for the shit I have to put up with just trying to do my job (it’s actually crazy to me how much wasted labour there is because of dumb changes from Microsoft) because they are endlessly searching for even more profit. and they could just… still be raking in cash if they just provided a service that worked. like Valve. but that’s not enough

honestly, the more we hire more people, the more I get it

we used to only hire quality people. we were picky. small company, so everybody there needed to be a contributor. now we just hire to have bodies in chairs and they’re noticeably less capable, and half of them sound like AI themselves.

fuck, I worked with one guy that would actually say “yes, you’re right, I was wrong about xyz, it should actually be abc” when you prodded three levels deep to find out how a dumb fuck up happened

my point is, some of these people absolutely could be replaced by AI and it would have less if an impact than my original estimations

I hate it when articles like this don’t include the person’s voting history

her phrasing implies that she voted for him before, but it’s not stated.

‘If I had known this man was going to behave this way, I would not have voted for him. And I regret voting for him,’ she added.

in other words, “if I had been paying the slightest bit of attention to the past decade, I would not have voted for him”

this is what my company owners don’t seem to understand.

productive employees don’t enjoy that. if that becomes our job, will either do it poorly or leave, and then you’ll just have shitty people doing it, with shitty results.

they’ve backed off a little bit, but they’re still trying to push AI tools to do parts of our job that we are still 100% responsible for the outcome of. fuck that.

actually now that I’m thinking about it, fuck, it fucking pisses me off. like I told them that an application with major value (which also would be one of the easiest things to implement) is just a chatbot that reads the customer spec and you can ask questions, so instead of sorting through hundreds of pages across multiple different files and file types, the chatbot can find anything relevant and then you can look closer at it. do we have that tool? no. are they trying to push other tools on us that are half complete, can’t possibly do a good job, and only have marginal time savings? yes. like yeah sure let’s fucking let AI do an engineering drawing of a part, I’m sure it’ll make it a very nice easy to read drawing that the machine shop will love, and all the senior people who are already reviewing everybody else’s work will love to review constant junior level quality work. that’s probably their favorite part of the job, reviewing shit quality work. and they love it even more when they know that the feedback they give won’t result in somebody getting better at it, they’ll just see it again tomorrow.

sometimes my schedule just doesn’t align, or the early voting locations are a 3 minute bike ride away instead of right at the end of my street

disclaimer: not american