@aj @adavid @spriebsch @preinheimer @pluralistic And just imagine if the jurisdiction where all of these companies happen to be located elect some geriatric demented narcissist pedophile multiply convicted criminal that decides he wants to fuck up your entire economy, for any reason - or no reason at all - and puts economic or technology sanctions on your entire country…

It doesn’t just stop you from building new things, it destroys everything you’ve ever built with the flick of a switch.

@susankayequinn @kim_harding In the fantasy that I have of building my own place on some land, there is actually a plan for having a small utility shed that's large enough for a used EV battery pack to store solar, plus a small generator that does co-generation -- using the electricity to charge the battery, plus extracts the heat to keep the batteries warm, as well as heating the house on the coldest of days.

@cdarwin Oh, and if you want to know why snow immediately turns brown in city streets…. Well, now you know.

@carnage4life Some day Tim Apple will realize that appeasement with gold bars buys exactly nothing from this administration.

Let that be a warning to anyone else who thinks they can buy their way into this administration's good graces. Nobody wins, everyone loses.

@corbet Don't post links to the slop? Post links to your original writing instead?

@dansup Where do you find the energy / time / motivation for all this? I envy your productivity.

@realTuckFrumper @sleet01 They going to issue some brown shirts to these idiots?

@gabrielesvelto @990000 Yeah, every time I hear stuff like this, I worry that there will be a day when the phrase “the bubble popped” (to refer to the dot com bubble or the housing market bubble) will be thought of as quaint and cutesy compared to when this AI ‘bubble’ popping creates a black hole where entire economies are shredded at the atomic level and then sucked into the nothingness, and there is no escape.

Have a great Sunday everyone! 🥸🥳

@bicmay And a word to guys who are worried about the procedure: It's no worse then a dental cleaning, and you have an excuse to sit on the couch all weekend with a bag of frozen peas on your junk.

For the 'no scalpel' procedure, you're healed up in about a week. And after two post-vasectomy sperm tests with no swimmers, you're good to go.

I was extra paranoid, so I also had post-vasectomy sperm tests every year for 5 years after, and it's been 25 years now.

@liztai I'm regularly presented with LLM output to ask my opinion of it, or fix the code it generates.

It gets high-level, amateur level stuff mostly correct. Ask for details? Garbage. Ask it to fix a problem? Garbage. Ask for the rationale or explanation? Garbage.

A former client presented me with some code, and said that a team of four people had been working on it for two weeks and couldn't get it working. In the first few minutes I saw weird values for command line options. Then I saw command line options that didn't exist. Then I saw they were trying to cram CSV output from one command into a tool that only accepted XML. Turns out someone started with LLM output, then tried to get it working, burning probably 100+ hours of human labour. I re-wrote the tool in 6 hours.