AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.

ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.

No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:

It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.

I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.

You gotta have some special looks to pull of the midpart. This guy got it. I don’t. Do you?

Kids got no imagination these days.

Here’s me, carrying the key to the white castle, while Grundle tries to eat my ass. Thank god it wasn’t Rhindle. That mf was a heat seeking missle. See that hole is his gut? That’s my hole. It was made for me!

Granddad watching me circa 1979:

“I can’t tell what’s happening.”

My thoughts as well! Also, I can’t get over how ridiculously handsome this kid was at 15. That shouldn’t be allowed. Nerd him up or something.

Fact: The 2A exists.

Fact: American courts have always upheld it as a right to individual firearm ownership.

Fact: Changing the Constitution is difficult.

Opinion: We’re not going to change it anytime soon, even to allow Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

You’re pissing into the wind arguing against the 2A. We need other approaches.

Changing one’s face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!

That’s a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don’t vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.

Not for long. In either case you’re going to be bear 💩 soon enough.

Whenever these stories come out I think I’d be that guy. But once you’re given a description of yourself and your clothing?!

For your detractors, I’d like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.

The problem is feeding 10’s of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they’re using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.

Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock’s system is purpose built to track us.

They’re probably like my little kids. They say they hate onions and eat them anyway. About anything from McDonald’s, chips of nearly every sort, so many foods with onion powder as part of the flavoring.

This always gets downvotes, so I’ll tell this Indian proverb again. Short version:

Rich guy feels for the beggars. Decides to travel the country and give every one he sees a Rupee. After 20-years of this philanthropy, he is now a beggar himself.

Sound noble? The rich man didn’t improve anyone’s life, only wasted his fortune.

When you acquire that sort of money, by hook or by crook, the only sane way to disburse it is through trusts, scholarships, endowments. Drop a million in the stock market, now you have a never-ending scholarship to give away. Rinse and repeat. The robber barons of old did this and built great things. Apparently they’re too selfish now days. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also consider, when you’re filthy rich, you have criminals and other scum banging on your door nonstop. You literally have to hire someone to filter the noise. Bezo’s ex seems to have the idea. She seems to be doing solid charity work.

Lemmy: “Fuck her! She should splat it out all at once!”

Return to the proverb in the second paragraph.

And yes, taxation would solve most of these issues. But isn’t politics all about arguing who gets what money for what purposes? We’ve had rich people since the dawn of time, don’t see them magically going away. At least there’s a sane avenue for them doing good works. Dropping it all at once is a childish notion of how charitable wealth works.

Mostly agreed, but if Woz had gone billionaire, he’d have more to give. I wouldn’t pursue such a life myself though.

Reading it now and you’re exactly on point.

You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.

• Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious, lawsuits
• Judges toss frivolous cases
• Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment

Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.

This is my argument for government science budgets.

Headline: Scientists Spend Millions Studying Andean Frog Fucking Habits!

“What a waste!”

What if I told you those scientists were making more frogs to study how they can freeze solid and thaw out? Or how limb regeneration works?

Rereading it right now. Fucking bizarre. At this point I just want to see what happens in the last book or two.

That pic on the right? Yeah, that’s Leto II, Paul’s son turned into, mostly, a worm, with a face and tiny hands. Also, he’s going to live about 3,500 years and turn into a mega sandworm, after forcing peace on the galaxy. I assume it gets weirder.

LSD is a whole different game. And you can’t get addicted, impossible. Trip today? Yeah, you’re not tripping again for another couple of days, no matter how much you take.

We American Southerners tend to redneck out among our own, pretty normal otherwise. Ex-wife’s mom from Mississippi would go ALL out when home among friends, sounded like Steel Magnolias up there.

American here. Now you’re just making shit up. :)