sorry, I screwed up in my reply. I meant to say only 1/3 of the voting population voted against him (but yes also 1/3 voted for him, and 1/3 didn’t vote at all)

I was trying to say that 2/3 did not meaningfully oppose him, yes

When I last looked at the numbers months ago, the actual number of votes for Republicans was 1/3 of the eligible voting population

*what I meant to say here was actual number of votes against Republicans

lmaooooo of course it was him

2/3 of the country not opposing his policies seems pretty clear cut to me

yep, it’s absolutely infuriating that they do that shit. you do some work around to make shit actually function, and then they just go change it on you without actually adding the functionality you needed

it’s because of his definition of underage, isn’t it

stop funding their bullshit

paywall

1. they don’t know what that word means
2. they don’t care what that word means
3. they think america doesn’t need anybody but america
4. fuck anybody that is not america

Oh I absolutely think that our IT should be handling this, but that is a weak point at our company (just big enough to use an external company).

I’ve done my time as tech support for this company, I’m not doing that shit anymore.

and regardless of group policies being able to handle this, this shouldn’t be reinstalled anyways if I’ve already uninstalled it.

I still have a some sway at work regarding tech stuff, and I know roughly half of my team feels at least half a strongly as I do about how shitty Microsoft is. there are a couple programs for which we need to use Windows, but I could see us at least exploring how to not use windows anymore. It’s just too difficult to do our goddamn jobs

because we have a spreadsheet for group trips and I’m checking off the items I bought

why would I want to do that on a separate list and then transfer that information to the spreadsheet afterwards, when I could just do it directly?

not very convenient to use in a grocery store, though

ok, what goal is that

yeah but they’re not doing just security updates, they’re re-installing bloatware that I deleted a year ago

I don’t need Xbox gaming on my work computer

what’s your goal here

thanks for the detailed reply. the proof is in the end product - as long as it is used with an appropriate understanding of its output, anything can be useful.

obviously I can’t say for sure how many AI emails I have gotten, but I can say that I’ve gotten some that are obviously AI where I skip over it because of that. it’s just excessively wordy and if somebody couldn’t have been bothered to be concise, I can’t be bothered to read it - I very much ascribe to the belief that somebody should not have to put in extra effort because the person requesting something didn’t. but if you have it working for you, then great. I do think that that is a good use case if it is dialed in — if it’s got the right style and verbosity, it’s much easier to just review something and tweak it than it is to write it all out from scratch.

I have found it helpful as a search engine when I don’t know the exact terms that I need to be searching for, but that’s about it. It’s just the initial search, and then once I know where I’m going I can use regular means to get the rest, because it really breaks down once you start asking it very specific stuff in my experience (engineering stuff). but again, I haven’t really needed to use it too many times.

One other time that I did find it helpful was when I didn’t know a particular API function call, and I just could not figure it out from the documentation or what I knew of the API. it got me the function I needed (although did not at all understand how to actually use it lol, but that was fine because I just needed to get there and then use the documentation for the rest).

I have a demo for an AI tool soon that is supposed to automatically create engineered parts drawings. I am very skeptical, but we’ll see how it goes. my expectation at this time is that it will only be good for very basic parts, not even moderate complexity, which means it’s functionally useless for me. if it’s turning out drawings at the quality level of a junior designer, that doesn’t help me — I need those juniors to turn those out so they can improve and do the same on the moderate complexity stuff. if they don’t have the opportunity on the simple stuff, then they won’t improve to handle the more difficult stuff that the tool cannot. and those simple drawings can be churned out in a minute each, often, so the time savings are just not there on that type of part.

yes Joe, you are — this is what you wanted and helped push for, why are you asking a stupid question like this?

no thanks, I like saying words wrong for a decade until finding out one day that the big smart word that made me sound like a big smart boy is actually stressed on the other syllable

omfg yes please I would actually buy a brand new phone again for that

I fucking hate entirely touchscreen stuff. using a sheets app on a touchscreen phone takes 10x as long as it should