FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Wordpress advertises that you can customize the look of email newsletters, but I couldn’t find settings for that — so I wrote support. They replied and said actually, no, there are no settings for that.

But first, their AI Support Bot took a crack at an answer — and absolutely, confidently hallucinated two settings that don’t actually exist. I thought I was losing my mind because they just weren’t there.

That feels worse than just not replying at all, right?

i've been trying to figure out why some people prefer merge and some people prefer rebase. I feel like there must be some systematic reasons, like "people in situation X tend to prefer rebase, people in situation Y tend to prefer merge”

my only thought so far is that small short-lived changes work well with rebase, and longer-lived branches are maybe better to merge

(not looking for explanations of why you think rebase/merge is better here or why the people who disagree with you are wrong)

i've done it.

DO NOT HIRE COYOTE LANDSCAPING INC.
I caught this coyote at work on my neighbor's garden this morning, and she is NOT LICENSED.
AVOID.
⭐ 1/5

https://youtu.be/yqxC2m5-GBQ

@eniko with thanks to @foone

It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you google a subject and scroll down far enough, you'll find some "Foone" punk talking about it on twitter.

this is twice as annoying when it happens to me

not many people know this but kyon from haruhi is actually the original sigma male #光ハルヒHoliday 17

Hilbert curve + rolling cube

If I installed new server software that served websites 500% faster but also crashed sometimes, your first question would be "how frequent are the crashes?" and if I shrugged you'd back away slowly and start looking for my replacement.

But with LLMs & hallucinations that's just normal operating conditions and you're a luddite if you ask too much about it.

A very insightful talk!
"FireShonks 2023 - Chat Control: Mass Screenings, Massive Dangers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Gi5mEFSq8

#whataweekhuh

it's tragic that microsoft gs wavetable synth doesn't have chorus, the chorused honky tony piano part is one of my favourite parts of this song and you can only appreciate it if you use, well, basically anything other than microsoft gs wavetable synth to play it back

here's PASSPORT.MID from Windows 95 played back with my Roland SC-7

©1991
Passport Designs, Inc.
Prod by Music Data Company
PASSPORT PLEASE