Flamekebab

Mobile-first seems to be the future 🤢

I’d say he’s the opposite of teflon - he’s so fundamentally dirty that it’s impossible to make him worse than he already is. If who he is doesn’t move the needle then nothing else will make the difference.

Excellent. Sometimes I’d use the option for my work machine on a Friday only to find the fucking thing had rebooted instead.

Let’s see if it behaves when I do it in an hour or two.

Unless it’s a referendum, apparently.

I’ll take them over the worse evil but that’s not a situation I’m happy with.

Fucking neoliberal arseholes.

There’s always money to be made if one doesn’t stand for anything.

I was making a parallel to another wildly over-hyped technology that has had multiple opportunities to make it when it’s clearly only suitable for niche usecases.

LLMs and “AI” are not useless but the notion that they’ll lead to something significantly more advanced is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the technology.

And VR will take off any day now?

You seem very convinced that glorified auto complete will lead to AGI…

Yeah, same. I use a combination of Linux and macOS at home but have a work laptop running Windows. It’s dreadful and feels like it only exists to make my tasks harder. I never find myself saying “what a useful feature!” but I often say “Ugh, why are you like this?”.

Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I’m picking up the novelisation instead.

I suppose if you’re that far right the gap between yourself and other points on the political spectrum is quite a gulf.

Brian Lunduke is still around? Oh dear

I thought it had had that for twenty years?

HENGE’s song about them is excellent.

My job isn’t this bad but has the occasional pointless company meeting and the like. I’m fine with it - it’s their money they’re wasting. I do not look to my employer for meaning - I like the team I work with but I’ve no love for the work. I’m good at it and try to find joy in it where I can, but it is not my primary source of personal validation.

It’s a pretty comfortable life. I’ve worked for myself before and it was much harder in every way with nowhere near the pay.

You met me at a very strange time in my life.

Similarly I find it very useful for if I’ve written a tool script and really don’t want to write the command line interface for it.

“Here’s a well-documented function - write an argparser for it”

…then I fix its rubbish assumptions and mistakes. It’s probably not drastically quicker but it doesn’t require as much effort from me, meaning I can go harder on the actual function (rather than keeping some effort in reserve to get over the final hump).

Yeah, one of my colleagues leans on it too hard and it’s really undermining his actual talent.

I’ve seen it generate working unit tests plenty. In the sense that they pass.

…they do not actually test the functionality. Of course that function returns what you’re asserting - you overwrote its actual output and checked against that!