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throwaway33381··on You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you
Don't listen to him any program claining 100% retention or anything around it is falsifying their claims. Working at walmart or target can qualify as that. Often, the only people that report on this are the ones that find jobs which is a small minority. It's essentially meaningless.
throwaway33381··on You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you
No school has 100% job placement. That's literally impossible. I went to a top 20 school and job placement was barely 50% but claimed it had 95%. The only reason I knew they were lying is because the one of the professors I researched under told me the statistics were falsified to make the program look good.
throwaway33381··on You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you
No. That just isn't true. Only 8% of students end up with jobs 10 years after. There's an IEE Report on this specific issue. It's much worse for minorities where job placement is nearly guaranteed to not occur. It's across almost all universities.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stem-education-in-the-us-is-more-o...

throwaway33381··on Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)
This problem was researched over a decade ago. It's not really complicated, human interactions are different from bots you can't really create human like responses and for botters there is no incentive to really do so. Jagex just doesn't really ban them because there isn't really a point, people bot for a variety of reasons.

Some have played their entire life and bot because they want to get ahead. Others bot because they don't have the freetime. It's complicated. As long as you don't really abuse it, Jagex has never really banned for this stuff. The idea here is that you don't get banned because it means losing a potential life long customer, sometimes they subscribe for a few months on and off but they eventually usually come back. There's a lot to it, in reality it's really obvious. Most of the more advanced ones just send packets, though that's another story and it's very obvious. Jagex just doesn't immediately ban them because well, there's not really a point.

throwaway33381··on Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)
No that's not it. There's a limited number of servers or worlds, the profitability for certain things doesn't scale when you're competing with other players. Writing bots doesn't work because the cost of electricity soon outscales profits for many things.

You'll often see certain bot farms running doing specific tasks that the game needs to run the economy, in a sense Jagex uses them to save on labor costs.

throwaway33381··on AI suggested 40k new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
Makes you wonder if you could get an LLM to find you common ingredients for things to make them but then I remember the chlorine gas is already easily accessible and easy to make. Surely like many things info hazards are often contained. Is this really an issue? If you know how to do one thing then you'd be able to do the rest of it. Not really sure if this is a real issue. What does everyone think?
throwaway33381··on The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots
Honestly, not really a fan of earthenware pots due to how easy they are to make you can't really trust the quality of them. I know in India a lot of vendors use dung in their mixture and well... It's just that honestly you can't really tell if they have anything else wrong with them at a glance, overtime they might ware and degrade and lead to possible contamination, I don't think that they're really safe to use. Even the glazes can be problematic and sometimes you just won't even know. Often contaminating the food.
throwaway33381··on People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity
Ah just from how this is all written is obvious someone with a financial interest is trying to promote GPT-4.
throwaway33381··on Not by AI
I work as a professional writer. Editing is a part of the process but for a large portion of work, editing does not exist outside the publishing sphere. Publishers will be unable to handle the sheer load of submissions given to them by "writers". More established ones such as penguin house have already determined that with increased competition they will likely see sales drop predictions for smaller workshops that have existed are believed to fold due to the scale of operations in the years to come. These problems already existed before AI or Chat GPT but due to the scale will make them much worse.

The end has come.

throwaway33381··on Not by AI
On the other note, online submissions for publishers will be retroactively filled with spam due to the ease and ability to publish and submit content. It already happened with Clarke's World. The end is coming not a revolution. Just the end.
throwaway33381··on Not by AI
No, using AI to write is basically having it do everything for you. It's not a tool it's a replacement. In the years to come several hundreds of thousands of jobs will begin to disappear from copywriters to fiction and non fiction writers. Replaced by roles such as marketers to historians. It's not photoshop for photographers is just going to push the vast majority of people wanting to pursue these fields out of the market.
throwaway33381··on 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country
Korea I think.
throwaway33381··on A suspiciously criminal portfolio website
ah froze my computer while i wasn't looking
throwaway33381··on Human height remained unchanged for 2k years in Milan, finds study
True. But the average Korean was also around and often under 4 feet tall up until the 1950s. So yeah. Now depending where you are they average 6 feet. And well, they haven't been ethnically replaced. So unless the Koreans have a magic gene that has made them gain 2 feet in height. No, it's definitely their diet.
throwaway33381··on Human height remained unchanged for 2k years in Milan, finds study
Ehh you can't draw that conclusion. North and South Koreans have a 7 height difference of 6 inches. What's more likely happening here is that the Milanese diet has no changed since the Roman Era. Or has to changed very little in meaningful ways, i.e. more nutritious meals.
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