“Part of the internet broke. They’re working on it.”
But I don’t using the Internet, I use the Firefox? Should I switch to the Google?
Its amazing how little they want to know why and just want to vent their frustration at you. Laughter doesn’t calm them down but it sure makes me feel better after I’ve explained it ten times.
Really makes me try and catch myself complaining and just to stop it.
A lot of conversations revolve around ‘dont you just hate this one process, or people like x, or y never works’ and it’s always weary and exhausting, but much more so since I became the tech guy and realize how much people default to stories like that when they have nothing else to say about your profession.
If you want to say ‘ive noticed that x never seems to work properly and I’m wondering why it couldn’t be fixed with z’ and are genuinely curious I’m more than happy to problem solve and/or explain complexities, but most people never want to hear a complicated answer about systemic forces.
Thankfully, my family understands that stuff on the internet is “someone else’s computer”, so it’s easy to explain why something is down - “It’s their fault”
I’ve managed to train my family to understand “server side issue”
Imagine trying to explain this 20 or 30 years ago.
“Yeah you know that website that sells books? One of their computers crashed and took half the Internet out.”
- “Oh, DNS issue?” “Yup.”
The cloud done burst.
I was talking with someone not particularly computer literate about AI. He was quite dismayed at how factually inaccurate it is about so many things. He asked me, as a much more computer literate person, if I could build him a different better AI system. I was like “Dude, I build websites. No.”
No one can, because they (LLMs) are fundamentally not suited to the tasks people try to use them for.
Sometimes I wonder how people can be so naive. Even if they don’t know just how much money is thrown at AI, just the fact that it is now in literally anything and on the news every day should be a clue that it is a huge industry. You wouldn’t expect the guy that changes your cars tires to be able to single handedly build a car that is better, faster, cheaper and more efficient than all car companies together.
America has always had an anti-intellectualism streak and it’s become 3000 miles wide.
You know those cute stories: “Kids solve problem that the experts couldn’t handle”. They’re propaganda. The paper left out that the kids’ solution wasn’t economically viable, and the dumber among us walked away thinking the “white coats” didn’t have enough “common sense”.
How many techie types have had someone come to them and say something like “Hey, you know tech thing XYZ? You know how it sucks? Well I’ve got a great idea: make a BETTER one! So what do you say? You whip it up in an afternoon, I’ll handle marketing, and we’ll be rich!”
Like they really thought that the issue is just that no-one can see the flaws. They thought that the fix is super easy and they’re just the first person clever enough to see it.
My rule of thumb is: if I see an incredible easy solution for a problem in a field I am no expert in, the solution must be garbage for reasons I don’t understand
LOL, I feel this so hard 😂
AW Shit not again
It seems like a lot of people are not even aware of AWS, which leads to an underestimation how badly the world is infected with Amazon.
Absolute Waste Shit
I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?
Honestly I’d compare to using Google in your everyday life and say Amazon is the business version of that
