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  • Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

    Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

    The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

    I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.



  • I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.

    At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.

    Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.

    So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.





  • Thank you for reaponding with specific claims. Others have already addressed the technicals (the packages themselves don’t include NSFW offending material, they are merely engines or interfaces), but I thought I would point out that in American workplaces talking about violence is absolutely commonplace, as it is in the rest of the prevailing culture surrounding us.

    It’s absolutely common for people to be descriptive about the violence they see in entertainment, or to discuss violent real world matters.

    Even if you set aside the critique of violence espoused in the Christian Bible, there is a mountain of adult themes and sexually explicit abuses which our categorically not safe for work in most places.