FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

pop-ups? kids these days don't know the horrors of pop-unders

they put bleeps and guitars in the same song. is that legal

After I got the "right answer", I asked myself the question that I ask all AI boosters when they say that it worked, which is "'worked' compared to what?". And I realize that the pre-AI tools for finding solutions via human connection have all decayed as a result of the funding pumped into the AI versions. Case in point being Stack Overflow; SO has degraded so much that it didn't even *occur* to me to post my question there.

If you’re missing your potato in #CambridgeMA, it’s at the Mt Auburn St & DeWolfe St bus stop.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/sciencealert-3mvdqjtaz/-/a-y1twlrerTh2UlhP99RiukA%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0

"Our results show that fungi in fjord sediments can efficiently retain labile organic matter as biomass, which means they may contribute directly to carbon storage at the seafloor."

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Jean-Yves Girard, 2001, ahead of his time

"You're going to be left behind if you don't embrace Ai."

Okay. Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills. Leave my ability to be creative, to brainstorm solutions. Leave my common sense. My judgement. My ability to research and fact check. Leave me alone with my thoughts and my philosophies. Leave me with my art and my poems and my music. Go ahead. Leave me behind. Leave all that to me. It's mine.

I put the desktop in a window on Windows 2000 and set it to Thumbnails view and my gf exclaimed “it's Windows 8!”

yo dawg, I put a desktop on your desktop, so you can bliss while you bliss

I know I've made the "You're probably wondering how I got into this situation" with a Death Stranding vehicle screenshot before, but I've been staring at this screen for like 10 minutes trying to parse how I did it.

@josh

I’ve been thinking a lot about the gulf between people who think LLMs can cut 90% of the cost of software development or whatever and people who think that’s a pile of catastrophes balanced on top of a nonsense wish.

I think a lot of that chasm boils down to the fact that software is already •terrible•, and people have very different feelings about that. I don't just mean “Liquid Glass is ugly” terrible; I mean “it’s broken and insecure and unreliable and just doesn't flipping WORK” terrible, like Arbiter Sports.

We are right now in a war between people who think software should treat humans humanely and people who are perfectly willing to offload their development costs onto captive users in the form of wasted time, anger, anxiety, and even more severe forms of personal harm. That war was raging well before LLMs entered the picture, but LLMs drove it to fever pitch. I’m extremely skeptical of the idea that LLMs make any significant positive contribution to the long-term speed or cost of writing •good• software, but they clearly have the potential to lower the floor for •bad• software to unheard-of levels at unheard-of speeds. How you feel about that fact probably predicts a lot about how you feel about the “LLMs can 10x software dev!” hype.

3/3

I have to deal with LLMs at work and it's taking such a toll on my mental health. First, I feel dirty because I have fundamental ethical objections. Second, it has no judgment and has inherent problems that are literally not fixable, yet we're supposed to ignore this. Third, it feels *exactly the same* as having several toxic people on the team. I still love my job. This fucking bubble can't pop soon enough. The thought that it will all end is the only thing keeping me sane.

Nailed it, Steve

what's this? a brand new show from former video essayist sarah zedig?? and you can watch the first THREE episodes RIGHT NOW by giving her money on patreon or comradery??? what kind of sick joke is this!!

https://www.patreon.com/ltas/posts/new-show-is-soon-167219455