The only good thing Microsoft azure ever did for me was provide a very easy way to exploit their free trial program in the early 2010s to crypto mine for free. It couldn’t do much, but it was straight up free real estate for CPU mining. $200 or 2 weeks per credit/debit card.

Ah, I did the same, but wasn't the experience/UI back then pretty nice too?

I haven't used azure since then, but I remember the web interface was way more polished than aws and things worked ok (spinning up a VM was fast etc).

So I'm confused by how everyone seems to hate it now.

I did it all in the command line so can’t say

I used it for MMO goldfarming - circa 2012/2013

Damn that’s impressive. Wasn’t it all command line at the time?

Love your work, thank you!

I’m not sure I find this to be a comparable example.

If someone was making an important calculation or decision based on the circumference of the earth, then they would likely want the number cited/confirmed and not just thrown out by a random person that doesn’t pass the smell test. “Radiologists are only right 35% of the time” does not pass the smell test and a cursory search makes the case even worse.

The point is it’s easy. It’s near frictionless. Unlike a lot of pie in the sky statements I see here like how “easy” it is to install and run Linux (it isn’t), Firefox adoption is truly trivial for any smartphone user and presents a stronger baseline than chrome does. People here often get critical of Firefox/Mozilla, and I totally get it, but compared to Google Chrome it doesn’t, well, compare.

Firefox runs great 99.99% of the time. It’s easy to add extensions. So we should be pushing people to adopt it.

I honestly don’t think “with ads” describes what we are experiencing. We are being all but violently fracked for data (and we don’t know what all they’re taking) for them to sell to 3rd parties we don’t know who then use decades of research and tooling + your personal data to psychologically manipulate you into not just buying things, but also into feeling and acting certain ways (socially, politically, etc).

This isn’t Nielsen ratings informing cable networks where to throw up which commercials in certain regions. This is far more dangerous and intense. So the conversation needs to be framed differently than the implied bar of “intrusive/annoying/incessant ads.”

No need for the leading question/bait when you know what they’re saying. No one said they’re experts on childhood development, they’re saying “it’s telling they won’t even let their kids use these services when they swear it’s safe for our kids to do so.”

So are AI evangelists to be fair.

It is almost as if two or more things can be true at the same time.

I’m not going to argue my comment was particularly substantive but these kinds of rude, canned meme-responses are not really appropriate here.

> Calm down

You had a point until you did that.

Nah there's no reason to just accept someone's outbursts and not call them out for unsolicited high emotion lol

You can’t complain about somebody’s tone/call them passive aggressive and then use intentionally inflammatory language like “calm down.”

Where are you getting these numbers? Even a cursory search doesn’t put the numbers anywhere near such poor performance by real people.

AI at 50% would be notably worse (also where are you getting that number?)

From radiologist AI training datasets, evaluated long-term/post-mortem.

Sauce or gtfo

I hate to be “source?” about it but your numbers are so far off what every search result is showing.

I am not saying those are for all diagnoses, but for some tricky yet important ones (i.e. detecting them early might save your life).

You did not give specificity of any kind until now, and now I’m even more curious where these numbers are coming from.

If your original argument was “it could be useful for more difficult/niche observations” then I think most of us wouldn’t have objected.

I also really don’t understand why you still aren’t sharing any links. Is this all LLM-generated without citations or something? Where are you getting your numbers?

Hollywood figured it out decades ago. Video games can definitely do it