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“We trained weasels to count how many customers came into the store” - reasonable; unproblematic; probably a thing you could do.

“We trained weasels to screen resumes of people applying to jobs” - probably a bad idea, especially if the weasels are racist or sexist (the weasels are both racist and sexist).

“We trained weasels to drive a two-ton vehicle on busy city streets” - terrible idea; someone is almost certainly going to die.

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My wife says that any time someone proposes doing anything with an ML model, you should replace “AI” in the proposal with “trained weasels” and if it still sounds like a good idea you can go ahead with it.

Now that it's baseball season and the baseballs in baseball fields all over are starting to bud and flower, it's once again time to shower them with the proper blessings:

Fuck the Yankees.

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Actual hardware support in Windows is a joke, and it's only often-crap OEM drivers working most of the time that keeps you from realizing this.

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To clarify: Windows 10 won't boot. It BSOD's with "BAD SYSTEM CONFIG INFO". This is after Automatic Repair fails & offers Advanced options, that it lets me choose "Reset this PC."

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Millenials are kililng E3 culture. Here's how you can help

Okay, Microsoft, what exactly is the point of offering a "Cloud download" option to the "Reset this PC" feature in the Advanced Startup Options menu, the last recovery option remaining for my PC repair customer, WITHOUT EVEN PRETENDING TO OFFER WIFI AS A NETWORK CONNECTION CHOICE?

Do you have any idea how rare ethernet ports are on laptops & tablets? Not even your own branded laptops & tablets have one to share between them all!

This crap is why I haven't used Windows at home since '02.

Universe, send me a sign of international human unity.

Universe:

I have the best ISP customers. Today I did what the telco monopoly made my customer wait 2 weeks to fail doing, and they tipped me $100 USD bill.

if any mutuals are still being scammed by Discord and losing money on Nitro then you should send money to my ko-fi instead because i need to survive more than you need animated emoji ko-fi.com/squirrel

Let’s get these two beautiful critters MARRIED. Give ‘em 5gbp, give ‘em 15, if you just bought a new Apple thing give ‘em 150, let’s gooooo I need to see @Atatra all dolled up and @mavica_again in a tuxedo!!! gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-

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