jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Require an audit trail and third party review.

I mean, we'd need oversight and there seems to be no political will to police the police, so maybe that's moor

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 4 hours ago

"common sense" is an extremely weak appeal. Many things that are today are considered unacceptable were considered "common sense" by many people for many years. Racism, patriarchy, absolute monarchy...

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 12 points 6 hours ago

Statistically meaningless. Emotionally soothing.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That link got mangled for me for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_across_the_United_States

Anyway. I knew a guy who did the walk. It was his fun fact at parties. He wasn't white and said he learned to call ahead to let authorities know he was coming through on foot.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours ago

I use the walking and transit functionality of Google maps extensively. Being able to account for "the G is not running but there's a free shuttle bus" is really nice.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

I would be lost (pun intended) without the map on my phone, but maybe an alternative could have taken off.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 9 hours ago

Huh. I read that choice as meaning "I am excited about heading into the future with AI, but I'm concerned it might end badly", but on rereading the actual question I see that's a weird answer for it.

 

LinkedIn is kind of the bad place, but I'm on there a lot looking for work. I happened to see an informal poll asking if people would go back to a world before AI. I fully expected LinkedIn to be gushing over how great AI is, but (with an admittedly tiny sample size) it's not so hot.

  • 59% absolutely want to go back
  • 14% say AI is the future
  • 22% say they're excited but concerned
  • 2% are undecided, somehow.

This made me feel a little better, somehow.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 11 hours ago

There are far too many people who would enthusiastically go along with that.

There's something wrong with a lot of people where they just really want to submit to the group and its authority figure.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 11 hours ago

The point is that when they average person double clicks an MD file, it should probably open and display.

It does? I mean, I guess it depends on your OS and if there's an handler for .md files. My machine opens them fine. I don't know what the default is on windows. Handling a file extension with a smart default is really on the OS provider, though.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 68 points 11 hours ago

I mean, jail is one option, but the hungry wolves are right there.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 22 hours ago

We could call it... Flart. That seems appropriate.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 83 points 1 day ago (12 children)

One time at a party we were standing around chatting and bad dates and such, and someone goes, "Yeah, don't date republicans."

One guy, a young white guy, goes, "Hey! What??"

Everyone turned to look at him and we were all like, "Go on, do you have something to say?"

So far as I know he's not a maga-hat now, but has a big "rugged individualist" streak.

 

I'm a simple man. I do a lot of rice and beans with random spices for dinner, and oatmeal with peanut butter and sometimes fruit for lunch.

Sometimes I get fake-burgers, which are tasty and super easy in the air fryer, but aren't nearly as cheap.

There's lots of other stuff out there. What do you like that's the best intersection of fast, easy, cheap?

 

As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

(I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

 

This is the bad place.

It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

I hate this.

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