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  • So you did one simple program.

    SaaS involves a suite of tooling and software, not just a program that you build locally.

    You need at a minimum, database deployments (with scaling and redundancy) and cloud software deployments (with scaling and redundancy)

    SaaS is a full stack product, not a widget you run on your local machine. You would need to deputize the AI to log into your AWS (sorry, it would need to create your AWS account) and fully provision your cloud infrastructure.


  • This is satire / trolling for sure.

    LLMs aren’t really at the point where they can spit out an entire program, including handling deployment, environments, etc. without human intervention.

    If this person is ‘not technical’ they wouldn’t have been able to successfully deploy and interconnect all of the pieces needed.

    The AI may have been able to spit out snippets, and those snippets may be very useful, but where it stands, it’s just not going to be able to, with no human supervision/overrides, write the software, stand up the DB, and deploy all of the services needed. With human guidance sure, but with out someone holding the AIs hand it just won’t happen (remember this person is ‘not technical’)




  • In the US at least this isn’t really true, at least not in a practical way for most people.

    Charitable donations are tax deductible true, but they are for most people covered under what is called the standard deduction, which is a standardized amount that aims to estimate would a regular person would be able to deduct from their taxes. The standard deduction is applied automatically and is $14,600. This means that if you don’t do anything abnormal on you it taxes, your taxable income is reduced by the standard amount. For most people they wouldn’t typically be able to find $14,600 in tax deductible expenses, so the standard is worth it.

    The catch is that if you take the standard you cannot itemize, as taking the standard deduction is basically saying to the IRS “yea I donated here and there, bought some stuff for work, did this and that”. Itemizing is listing out your individual tax deductible expenses (and justifying why they are deductible) so if for example you had a single year where you donated $20,000 you could itemize that instead of taking the standard deduction for a total reduction in income of 20k plus whatever you could come up with.

    The other reason why that isn’t really applicable is that a deduction is not a credit, that is to say, deductions reduce your total taxable income amount. If you deduct $1,000 (a 1k donation for example) that would have been taxed at 20% you will receive back from the IRS, $200. Meaning that you still had to pay $800 out of pocket for the donation that will not be refunded to you.

    Deductions pretty much never result in getting more than the tax that you would have paid refunded. Even if youanahe to deduct more than you make, the resulting negative would just result in a carry over loss for the next year. You can effectively pay an income tax of 0 but it requires losses and other deductible expenses that are greater than your income, which means you didn’t actually make any net income for the year (on paper and practically)

    Other countries are different of course, but I wouldn’t want someone going out and donating their life savings thinking they will get it back in tax season.



  • Normal people can’t reasonably spin up a mastodon server either.

    Everyone here seems to vastly overestimate the general public’s technical knowledge and desire for this kind of thing.

    You have technical knowledge hurdles, financial hurdles, ISP hurdles, government hurdles (in some countries), bandwidth hurdles, storage hurdles, and more.

    Running a server even on a raspberry pi takes a decent amount of effort, and when your server is down, because regular people aren’t going to have HA and battery backups and multiple Internet connections, etc, your service goes down.

    Most people, like 99.9999 percent of people don’t Want to deal with any of that, I mean hell, regular people don’t use ad blockers, know what linux is, what a raspberry pi is, what a server is, how any of this works, or care at all. So many people here or so drastically out of touch it’s wild.


  • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldtoshitposting@lemmy.mlDemocrats are garbage
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    Do you think all of the 90 million people who didn’t vote are in such a poor position that they can’t sit on their couch for 1 hour 2-3 times a decade to cast a mail in ballot?

    This isn’t some small marginalized group, it’s nearly 40 percent of the voting population. I mean, I just think that if you can’t do the bare minimum civic duty for your country because you are not excited enough for the candidate, it says a lot about your character.

    And voter accessibility is easier than ever, this was demonstrated by the fact that millions of more people voted in the previous election. Mail in, drop boxes, early voting, etc are more and more available. In 2020, 72% of the votes cast were done either early, by mail, or absentee.

    North Carolina, a red state, has online voting for blind or otherwise disabled people, mail in ballots, weeks of early voting, absentees voting, on site voter registration, automatic registration with the DMV, etc, had 400k MORE eligible voters and 200k less ballots cast than 2020.

    Absentee ballots are mailed out months in advance, meaning you have months to mark the form and send it back.

    I mean, I just fundamentally disagree, I think that people who don’t vote, generally don’t care, there are so many resources available, and saying that it’s some individual persons (Harris) fault for 90 million people failing to do their job, is just dumb.

    The actual reality, is that most people are inconsistent voters and they just can’t be bothered most of the time.


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    It’s hard to vote when you have a several week window, can do it from your house, and 4 years to prepare? I just don’t see it.

    To add: about 9 million people work more than one job in the us.

    Assuming none of the people who work multiple jobs, whats with the other 80 million people?

    This isn’t some small marginalized population of people, it’s almost 40 percent of the eligible voting population.

    Y’all can downvote all you want, but don’t act like people have no agency in their lives and don’t act like their decisions aren’t theirs.


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    I don’t give a shit if I reek of anything, I give a shit about the millions of people who fail to fulfil their civic duties.

    I’m blaming individuals for individually not doing their individual part.

    Deciding not to vote because it ‘feels’ a certain way is just stupid, I don’t care.

    I’ll add, rural people have no transit systems or infrastructure, they have to have running and maintained cars, and the ability to drive them, which would disproportionately affect disabled people and others that would have difficulty getting to physical polls.


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    How come rural, under educated voters are able to make it out every election without problems.

    I’m not going to defend people failing to do a simple task once every four years.

    You have four years to prepare for the event. And there are only two states that don’t offer early voting, and those states allow absentee ballots for people who won’t be home, have disabilities, or would otherwise struggle to vote in person. We have more resources available than ever, it’s easier than ever to vote, generally, thanks to widespread mail in voting adoption (which was demonstrated by a 6% higher turnout in 2020)

    I am sure you can find excuses for people here and there who were really truly unable, but 90 million eligible voters failed to do their civic duty. Even assuming every single homeless person was unable to vote, which is unlikely, that’s still 88.5 million that didn’t show up, and let’s take EVERY single person with a disability and assume they somehow couldn’t vote, that’s still 45 million people that didn’t show up. And let’s take EVERY single person under the poverty and assume they were unable to vote, then let’s assume there is absolutely zero overlap, you still have 10+ million people who didn’t show up, and that’s assuming not a single of the above people voted.

    Failing to prepare for something doesn’t excuse you from the failure of doing it.


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    I don’t understand this.

    Voting is easy and a basic civic duty we are taught about in middle school, in pretty much every state, you have weeks to do it, can drop off in mail boxes, ballot boxes, in person, early, etc.

    Presidential elections only happen every four years, and there are going to be very very few people who would not be aware that it’s happening well in advance.

    Not voting is just plain lazy, that’s all. It’s a responsibility that takes very little effort to do, there are multiple avenues provided to do it and you only have to do it two or three times a decade.

    No one is forcing me to take a shower every morning or brush my teeth, or go to work everyday, but I do it because it’s important, and my overall health and life is affected by it.