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There's always people like that. Elon Musk's grandfather thought Hitler was a Jewish plant because he wasn't anti-semitic enough.

Here in Sweden you have loads of languages on packages, but the only time you mix languages mid sentence is when you're trying to save space in the instructions/information label. You'll often see Norwegian, Danish, and sometimes Swedish mashed together because we share a lot of words.

So you'll see like

Ingredienser
Vatten/vann, socker/sokker, kakao, smör/smør

What you generally don't see is product names that are a mashup of two languages. You do sometimes, and generally my knee-jerk reaction is also that it's a bit obnoxious.

I think that really only applies when they hamfistedly mash Swedish and English together. Worst I've ever seen was "pullad pork." It's like they attempted to make "pulled" sound Swedish, but somehow forgot that "pullad" already is a word. Thus making it sound like someone has sexually assaulted a pig.

Eugh.

Ah! Good, a happy ending!

Thanks for sharing this blog. Read a few posts, I'm particularly fond of "The Authenticity Drought." This is a good blog!

During a meeting not too long ago someone was like "we're looking into using AI to generate these reports."

So they have a dude who gets requests to generate reports. It's not the same reports, but rather custom reports from scattered bits of data throughout a huge database. Ergo you can't really create a program to extract these reports on demand, a person actually has to sit and piece these together.

Now they want to use LLMs to alleviate him, as this isn't technically his role.

They scoffed at me when I asked about how important it is that these reports are accurate, but I mean, it's a valid concern. Best case you get sometimes-hallucinated reports, worst case you get something that wreaks havoc on the database because it just spits out garbage SQL.

I'm very glad that my role doesn't involve that BS.

I vibe more with the sewer merchant in Dark Souls.

His maternal grandfather thought that Hitler and Nazi Germany was a Jewish conspiracy. He was such a big Nazi that even Hitler wasn’t Nazi enough. Like, what the hell.

Though it’s not like we needed any more proof. Musk’s family has historically been racist Nazis going back well over a hundred years, and Trump’s racism is what made him famous to begin with. The rapes etc. are really just cherries on top.

I’m in my 30s and this is me with plants. No shame at all.

I make software for iron mining.

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My job is mostly thinking and pushing buttons.