to say nothing of the violence that necessarily follows a boots-on-the-ground occupation
I doubt there are going to be boots-on-the-ground. Not for any good reasons, just because Trump lacks the commitment (or even capability of commitment).
I love* how the AI stans never get tired of proselytizing.
The result was about 25,000 lines of Rust, and the entire port took about two weeks. The same work would have taken me multiple months to do by hand.
*Love, as in: "I love to get my eyelids scraped with a cheesegrater.
The article tries to fact check Asha Sharma’s (the new CEO) claim that
fertility rates are declining, the average birthrate in the ’90s when we were growing up was, like, 3, and now it’s 2.3, and in 2050 it’s estimated to be below replacement
Unfortunately, they forgot that other countries than the US exist and didn’t occur to them that she could be talking about global fertility rates. In which case the claim is pretty much correct.
Embarrasing.
Broke: The METR studies are the best research on impacts of AI productivity available today.
Woke: The METR studies are hot garbage.
Bespoke: Both. It’s both.
Apparently some of our AI Safety cult “friends” are planning a protest in London on 28th of February.
Is it going to be something worth critically supporting instead of the usual criti-hype? Possible, but not likely.
The AI Safety movement is finally changing by Sillyconversations Siliconversations.
Who?
I used to be a quantum scientist and now I’m a YouTuber. My parents are thrilled.
Oh, okay.
Also curious that they’re not protesting Anthropic on the thumbnail. A cynic would say they’re giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.
They’re giving them free pass because they say the right shibboleths.
Oh I get it now. I thought there’s some backstory that either Nathan Baschez or Simon Willison lied about having a CS degree.
You have a level of faith in humanity that is completely unwarranted.
Your mum is an antique.
Wait, wait, wait. I didn’t realize this before. Who the F needs to lie about not having a CS degree? Being a code monkey is (or at least used to be) something, where you can get away with not having a degree.
I unfortunately do understand. I think there are severe tradeoffs between living a good life and living a virtuous life. Most people usually compromise to lesser or greater degree and find ways to cope with that. Nihilism is one way.
I think I understand it. Think of an alcoholic that’s trying every sort of miracle hangover “cure” instead of drinking less.
Two thoughts:
That this is not just some random AI generated graphic, but from official Microsoft tutorial is unpleasantly unsurprising.
I think the tinm (timn ?) axis goes the wrong way.
Tim traveller? The YouTube channel?
Regret? I dunno, a rat being harassed by a clanker seems fitting.
Groan, you don’t need to finish high school to learn about false dichotomy.
I’m curious though how much vibe coding and AI mandates are responsible for the latest disaster of a patch. Or if they are all just results of disfunctional company culture.
The demand is real. People have seen what an unrestricted personal digital assistant can do.
The demand is real. People have seen what crack cocaine can do.
Dang, I want to find this article more relatable than I do. Most software I have dev experience with doesn’t have the problem of relying on automated tests too much, but the exact opposite.
And while I very much write tests for the dopamine high and false sense of security green checkmarks provide, I still prefer that to the real sense of un-security of not having tests.
I think I installed the cursed Windows 11 update on my work machine, because after taking several tries to boot, my second monitor stopped working (detected, but showing a black screen).
Tried some different configurations, and could make only 0-1 screens work.
Uninstalled the update and everything worked correctly again.
Thanks for nothing Microslop.
Mike Masnick coping about Bluesky (de) centralization again.
In a moment of weakness, I took the bait.
Didn’t get banned yet, but here’s hoping. He be mostly posting cringe lately anyway and my timeline could use some cleaning up.