By "they", do you mean AIs, or capitalists? There currently is no artificial intelligence, only things that are called that for marketing purposes. Those things are used by capitalists to, shocker one: accumulate capital, and, shocker two: capitalists don't have a history of caring about the general wellbeing.
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It has an "end theme", not of the Culture, though.
The ship/mind name with the most emotional attachment is bound to be Bora Horza Gobuchul, though. Oh boy, that book was a rollercoaster!
I love Use of Weapons. But it is one of the darker ones ... the Chairmaker ...
I'm not entirely set on it, but I think I'd recommend The Hydrogen Sonata as an entry into the series.
It's not a rickroll and it's not base64 ;-)
I take it, the base64 decoder result was disappointing?! :P
What are things like at Starylight.social?
Small and chill. Like it was an abandoned orbital revolving around the fediverse ;-)
I had hoped, that you would notice my user name kind of resembles Count Zero, my avatar is taken straight from a Count Zero book cover, and my home instance is lemmy.villa-straylight.social
Well, you know what they say about explaing jokes and what that does to their funnyness. I guess it was not obvious enough.
What's wrong with Tessier-Ashpool?
I had forgotten about that.
And it was good that way.
If I don't have that song out of my head by tomorrow, I'll stalk your account, find out your irl id, and send you muffins with raisins.
When I was studying CS I had a few courses on UX/UI design and the most interesting fact I learned there when looking for papers is: ~half the high profile researchers in the UX/UI field are on Microsoft payroll, and everything Microsoft does is highly inconsistent to contrary to all the insights of their own researchers. I think they buy as many of those people off the market as they can, just so they don't work for somebody else, while shitting on their work, so their UX/UI just doesn't look as bad in comparison to others.
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I remember this working really well on google. Recently (several months?) it didn't as I would expect. Fictional example: when searching for "asdf123" google would show results just containing 'asdf'. One particular thing I noticed was that google seems to omit underscores from verbatim strings. So for example when searching for "asdf_qwertz" it would show results that contained asdf and qwertz without the underscore.