COVID pandemic enters seventh year with no end in sight
LOL. Clownish. Just as valid (and dumbass as all hell) to say, “The 1918 Influenza Pandemic enters 108th year with no end in sight.”
Covidians are both stupid and evil. Very bad combo.
Author: Chill
AI End
Whose fault is it when the end user’s AI doesn’t work?
If the network and computer (etc.) are functional, and the user is using it correctly (always doubtful), have them put in a ticket with the vendor. There’s nothing else to be done.
I know IT is supposed to be the magical solutions wizards, but with in a SaaS world it’s just not possible any longer.
Module
Correct. I’ve found ChatGPT chokes after about 10,000 lines of code. Beyond that, you’d have to start modularizing stuff a lot. I have little interest in doing that, so I’ve mostly restricted what I’ve done to smallish projects. One day I’ll take on a bigger one, but in the main I’m not interested in being a programmer with or without AI.
It is an anti-interest of mine. I only do it because it must be done.
The Attempt
It’s not that hard to beat the market. That you cannot is just something they tell normies so they won’t bankrupt themselves doing stupid stuff. Which is in fact what happens to normies when they attempt it.
If you’re not in that category, it’s safe to say that you can just ignore all the things said to be “impossible.” Those are just protection mechanisms for the mediocre. I’ve ignored all that crap my whole life and done very well. If you fail…well, then, you know you are in fact a normie.
Left Shift
A very strange phenomenon that I think doesn’t yet have an adequate explanation.
Got Who
This is clown liberals trying to engage in “gotchas.” And has nothing to do with what actual immigration policy should be, of course. The libs are so eager to portray themselves as the righteous, good people, they have no standards at all for what would benefit the nation or its existing populace. It’s virtue signaling all the way down.
Buy the G
I’m not in favor of invading Greenland.
However, I’m definitely for buying it. Even if it’s a little forced, in a way. It’s better than China and Russia being de facto in control of the island, which is what’s most likely to occur otherwise.
Florence Road – live at 3voor12 Radio
I’ve liked this band for a bit, but wow, they are incredibly good live.
Sophie Hunter – Mic Check
She’s like if you combined Dessa and Eminem. That is, great.
Fixing the Fox
When AI gets bigger context windows so I don’t have to manage so much myself, I am going to start altering Firefox and making it better on my own.
First goals:
- Remove the requirement for extension signing
- Add an internal tool to customize the GUI, especially the context menu
- Re-add a status bar
- Optimize it better for Mac
- Built-in ad-blocking
- Complete telemetry removal
I’ll probably think of more. I could do almost all of this now with Claude Code + ChatGPT. It’d just be too much of a time investment at the moment. In a year or so as AI improves, I’ll give it a go.
I’ll probably never release it. It’ll just be for me. But for the first time in history, it’ll be possible for people who don’t want to be full-time programmers to unfuck clown-ass decisions by absolute idiots.
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout.
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, US safety board report says.
I worry that the wealthy and the powerful are fully aware of the impending collapse of Western democracy, and are preparing for it by turning all of us against each other, and by setting women up to become property again. Probably true for more than a few of the plutes.
Students are increasingly choosing community college or certificates over four-year degrees.
Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums.
US Economic Data Resilience Is Masking Underlying Stagflation.
Climate Change Exposes a Major Home Insurance Gap.
As Tech Giants Get More Hands-On With Energy, Their Risks Rise.
Navy’s Top Admiral Eyes Modular Construction To Speed New Frigate Construction.
Reminder: Your coworkers aren't your friends.
Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds.
How the job market has changed over time. Mostly accurate.
Con Job
AI and Business: It’s About Jobs.
This is what the AI-haters claim. But it’s wrong. I work in the trenches; I see what AI is doing and I can tell you it’s certainly increasing productivity and replacing people, especially for more junior and now even some mid-tier roles.
This post — like most in the genre — is wishful thinking by people who don’t actually work corporate jobs.
What is in the immediate economic future is tons of disemployment of juniors. As AI continues to improve, this will move up the stack to more mid-career roles. As I’ve already observed this post is incredibly wrong in its details and its speculation because what it is discussing, while a factor, is subsumed in the truth is that AI is already effectively replacing people ever day.
It’s so much better to evaluate the world as it is rather than as you wish it were. Or, even worse, allowing someone else to manipulate your reality which is what seems to be occurring here.
Why be so blind to reality? Why not just look around a bit and see what’s really occurring?
Secondhand
And 100% of people who live within five minutes of me live within 300 seconds of me. It’s like a miracle or something.