You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it’s just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that “I am Rich” app…

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Republicans frequently run on a platform that government is corrupt, the they get elected and prove it

Yup, I still have baconreader installed, I can’t delete it.

Good, I might get some shit done this afternoon without everyone else’s “emergencies” getting in the way

I like the idea of Canada naming the lake after Trump personally : “Lake Inferior”.

“NATO is a bunch of pussies! From this day forward I proclaim that the water between France and England be known as the “Strait of Ben Dover”. Get it? I’m so clever…”

He didn’t follow any official legal process. He basically just released a proclamation, just like a King would do. He’s getting away with it because the other branches of government let him.

The President, as the leader of the Executive Branch, has wide latitude over what Federal Agencies do. It’s possible (but not a 100% certainty) that his Executive Order might bind Federal Agencies under his control, but certainly not the rest of us – not without legislation that goes through the normal process. It certainly doesn’t compel Google to do it. Now, Google may want to do it because they understand it can build political capital with such a small man, but that’s a different issue.

He’s done this before too. It’s still officially the “Department of Defense”, no matter how many times he calls it the “Department of War”, until Congress sends him a bill stating otherwise. Same with the Kennedy Center. He is doing shit like this, with no legal basis, on purpose, to find out who is “loyal” to him.

The factory farm doesn’t hate the chickens, they do the bare minimum to keep them alive and productive.

How dare you question King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys? If he proclaims HTML to be unsafe, it must be so. That’s a King’s job, to tell the Landed Gentry how to behave…

Stern fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of the word “abolish.” When people call for the abolition of ICE, it does not mean simply an end to the agency that calls itself Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It means an end to the violent and racist practices of US immigration enforcement.

No, what he’s doing is noting how Conservatives redefine the terms of the debate in their favor. (It’s their superpower). Yes, what Progressives say when they say “Abolish ICE” is an end to those violent and racist practices. But whenever that term is used, Conservatives can instantly twist it to mean “These people are for unfettered immigration, and military-age foreigners invading our borders”, and their voters (and even some others) fall for it.

That’s ultimately why we should stop saying it. Not because it’s not important, but because it froths up more opposition than its worth. Progressives should note that it entirely appropriate to enforce immigration laws, but that it can (and must) be done without violence. And, it is important to hammer home all the people caught in this immigration stuff who were in the process of doing it “the right way”, through Immigration courts, only to have it all pulled out from under them, because the Administration is cruel to people they think are inferior.

That’s a winning message. It turns the conversation from “Liberals want to let everyone in” to “Conservatives want all brown people gone, even the ones who follow their rules”. There were a significant number of Latino voters who voted for Trump in 2024, under the belief that since they came here “the right way” and got their citizenship, they are “safe” and Trump would only go after the “bad ones”. These people need to be reminded that no minority is safe as long as Trump (and Republicans) are charge.

I thought it was commonly understood that AI is short for Actually Indians

And bring lots of cameras, filming the house from all angles

No, silly, the problem is when it vibrates when you are nowhere near the lane dividers. I don’t drive a BMW, I know what turn signals are for.

I can’t stand lane assist that tries to keep you in the lane by actually moving or vibrating the steering wheel. To me, it feels like the car is slipping. That shit gets turned off right away. But I have driven some cars where the lane assist just beeps, and doesn’t force the wheel at all, I can deal with that.

I find HUDs extremely distracting, they get turned off too.

Adaptive Cruise Control is extremely useful, I love that one.

I can believe that an agent can do 80% of a competent job. But the 80/20 rule posits that the 20% is the hard part, the part that actually justifies your salary. If a human is not going to go in and do that 20% (which might be 80% of the effort), then having the AI do the easiest 80% doesn’t gain you anything at all.

In fairness, this was all on a switch, where the commands are very tightly tied to the vendor and their underlying in-house shell. So commands may vary by release greatly. I was already explicitly telling the bot what software version and licenses I had, but ultimately I had to resort to the CLI’s help function at times and tell the bot “The command you gave me didn’t work. Here’s where it broke, and here’s the commands it will accept”. Given that information, it could (generally) figure it all out.

I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers.

Except I have plenty of experience dealing with this from humans. (Mainly from the aforementioned new managers, because being wrong with confidence seems to be a key trait to get promoted.) It’s been my experience that when you tell an AI “I just tried that and it didn’t work”, it will accept that more readily than a human would.

Every bit of AI-generated code that I use, even in the smallest and most meaningless context, has to pass my own review first. I have to understand every line, and if I don’t I will ask the bot to explain what it did. By the time I am done with it, I can stand behind it just as if I wrote it all myself. I might note that I got AI help, but if my name is on the commit I will not pass the buck on any errors.

I had this experience once. We have a ChatGPT license where I work, and I asked it to configure a switch that I wasn’t familiar with. I simply described in words what network architecture I wanted and it did it! It even made some nice-looking documentation.

But, then I tried the new configs, and they didn’t work. It turns out there were some key syntax things it got wrong. And the documentation was wrong on top of that, with incorrect diagrams, and when I asked it to fix it it made different errors I the diagrams in different places. On balance, I still saved some time over reading all the manuals and figuring out the syntaxes myself, but only because I made my own documentation with the results that worked. If I had trusted the AI I would be sunk.

I’ve concluded that AI gives the illusion of competence, like a overly confident new manager. This can be very attractive to a less experienced person. But it’s really guessing, just like we all are. It can just guess after actually “reading” all the manuals. I haven’t used AI to write anything more than simple configurations and helper scripts. If I did want to use AI for more it would be in more of a pair-programming context. I might have a window open where I describe some things and ask for analysis, but I wouldn’t just run anything it does blindly.

RSS still works, sometimes. They seem to be doing something weird with it but have not cut it off entirely. You can take individual subreddit URL’s, add “/.rss” to the end, and use that in an RSS reader.

You will only get links and post text, you won’t get any comments.