FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Back in 1999 when you'd go to join a new forum there'd be a rules page, and at the bottom would be a big bright eye-catching "AGREE AND CONTINUE" button, and a little way above it, in the rules themselves, would be something like "To prove that you've read the rules, click on the period at the end of this sentence."

Clicking on "AGREE AND CONTINUE" would issue a two hour IP ban so you could Actually Read The Rules, and also think about what you'd done.

1999 was a hell of a year

ok im pretty proud of this ngl

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Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

Help: My [1851W] dolls [21D, 28D, 30D, 25D] have unionized

i may be plural lul

unbothered. moisturized (with rye). happy. in his lane. focused. flourishing.

this new RFC 9564 is comedy gold: "Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP)" - this uses LLMs to predict what packets <would> be sent, thus obviating the need to actually send them. The Acknowledgements section is just... <chef's kiss>. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9564.html #rfc9564

Apparently, they lost a guy.

it's funny that multiple jobs have been like "nah you don't have enough experience for a java developer job, we'd only hire you for doing CI/devops"

when I've got a codebase here from when I worked for the government. it's all in java. I wrote 90% of this. it's 55,000 lines.

Why is that? "Passively reading someone else's code just doesn't engage my brain in the same way. It's harder to do properly":

https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1773780355708764665

There's a name for this phenomenon: "automation blindness." Humans are just not equipped for eternal vigilance. We get good at spotting patterns that occur frequently - so good that we miss the anomalies.

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That's the good kind of automation, and we all benefit from it. But it only takes a small twist to turn this good automation into a *nightmare*. I'm speaking here of the *reverse-centaur*: automation in which the computer is in charge, bossing a human around so it can get its job done.

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