Capitalism is destroying the world. We need to rise up against that. The AI bullshit is just one manifestation of the whole world being geared to serve capital and the handful of people that control it.

But emails exchanged with Kohler’s privacy contact clarified that the other “end” that can decrypt the data is Kohler themselves

This is so stupid it’s almost genius.

Yes, of course. I’m making fun of a particularly crude religious take that’s unfortunately too influential in the USA.

Who needs science when all truth is in the Bible? Also, who needs some bits of the Bible when all truth is in the other bits of the Bible? It’s just a matter of knowing which is which. If in doubt about this, check the Bible.

It’s not like the White House to tell the truth. He has to be in even worse shape than we thought.

Isn’t that like inviting all your friends and family onto your LAN? That would seem to have its own security risks.

Humanity tried that for a couple of hundred thousand years. It didn’t go so well. Then they discovered vaccines and it was a big improvement. But I guess the Republicans want to try the old way again just to make sure.

If they’re smart they’ll slip them into the chat.

It’s possible her essay was just bad, with or without the bible thumping. And the inclusion of the bible could have been strategic. Some students will try anything to avoid a bad grade, except writing a good essay.

“President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive Administration in history…"

Why do they have to talk like this? Why make an absurd claim instead of any of the more plausible positive things she could say? Are they trying to out-compete each other for the dictator’s favor?

Also, why do they all capitalize like Trump? Hold on, did Trump write this statement?

Shame about the black ones.

What are you referring to here?

“Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump complained in the Oct. 25 post. “Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD.”

The “fraud” was showing what Reagan said that today’s Republicans wish he hadn’t.

It pays badly and it can be disorganized, but no one I work with is that bad of a person, what we do is more useful to real people than a lot of tech companies and there’s no nasty politics to speak of. So yes, it has its upsides.

I’ve become quite good at paying just enough attention that I can jump in if anything important comes up, and meanwhile continuing to work. I don’t turn my camera on.

We stick to that format with minor variations:

1. Recap of the morning’s school run and dog walks
2. Update on everyone’s pets’ health
3. Update on peoples’ kids’ behaviour
4. Update on team members’ health and their families
5. Miscellaneous gripes
6. All the sports: what happened, what people think will happen, and details of particular players
7. Sports statistics in depth
8. Mutual accusations of breaking things
9. Defence against said accusations
10. Gripes about boss’s emails
11. Long, in-depth accounts from two team members of their last day’s work, minute by minute, with digressions into big-picture frustrations and grumbles about management, customers, etc.
12. Recounting of the history of these issues over the last 15 years or so.
13. Each person tells us that they’re working on the thing the kanban board says they’re working on, and that it will take them as long as it says on the board.
14. Holiday plans or accounts of past holidays
15. Goodbye
16. One guy jumps in with a 15-minute anecdote about taking his dog to the vet
17. Goodbye
18. Any further anecdotes about things people’s dogs ate, etc.
19. Goodbye.

Its supposed to take 10-15 minutes but it takes up to an hour, sometimes more. I usually tune in late and sometimes pretend I lost my internet connection halfway through.

exasterbating

An exasperating wank.

Who hasn’t encountered that one jerk who builds only new code to impress management, and never maintains or fixes existing code? I think of them as proof-of-concept posers. They make things that look flashy, impress the execs, and barely work for a single use care, then dump all the bugs, maintenance and actual architecture on the other devs. LLMs are going to be a gift to these people and a pain for everyone who actually knows how to engineer things well. They’ll encourage this kind of shallow flashiness and make the maintenance problems worse, but the execs will be convinced that only the LLM posers are productive and everyone else is sitting idle.

Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but for several years and on several different machines I’ve found Linux just works, while Windows is an endless treadmill of frustration and brokenness.

There’s always lying on the application then being quietly, passively obstructive.

I thought you made a good point. I have decades of experience and I find LLMs useful for the things you described.