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- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 8 hours ago:
My nephew was trash talking me about Mario Kart talking about how he’d smoke me because he had been playing it so long.
My reply “I was playing this before you were born”
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 8 hours ago:
Not me but in way back in high school I saw a comeback I’ll never forget. I’ll call them John and Bob.
John was teasing Bob in a mock flirting way. Bob was uncomfortable and told John to stop it.
John says “what’s the matter, aren’t you secure in your sexuality?”
Bob instantly replies “absolutely, but I’m not secure in yours”
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 2 days ago:
I mean, it’s one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
Why should that be bundled with peripherals… doesn’t seem to be a good “synergy”.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
That is your use case, that relative to your individual usage only one application uses the framework. In that very specific scenario, sure. However with electron it’s forced to be that way for every single application no matter what your scenario is.
If electron packaged as a dependency, then it would be similar. But it’s always forcibly bundled.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
With the caveat that we can accommodate everyone so long as sufficient people put in their fair share of effort. In an ideal world that will mean very short working hours and/or nicely early retirement/late entry into the work force.
Certainly the usual talking heads are spoiled rich guys that have never known labor and have not done their fair share, but it is a difficult thing to balance to make sure we do take care of each other but make sure enough people are engaged to successfully do that
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
I think that in some domains (for example, software development) one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 20 hours each.
I’ll go one further, often in software development, one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 40 hours each.
Someone working 4 days is always going to earn less than someone working 5
I guarantee that an executive working 4 days a week will make more than the fast food worker doing 6 days a week. I get your sentiment but I don’t think that even pans out for software developers. Most software developers are salaried, and whether they work 3 or 6 days in a week they get the same (just more likely to get fired if they work 3 while everyone else works 5, but their work can trump that deficit). In fact a role that is micromanaging hours of a software developer is in my experience more likely to be stingy with pay and pay less despite trying to demand perpetual unpaid overtime.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
I’ll say it has been marginally more useful integrated into my code editor, prompt driven for me has been useless output for too much effort, but it ambiently sitting there in code editor can be helpful.
I still can only get it to provide useful suggestions about 15-20% of the time for like two lines, maybe a nice error message, but the failure rate is less obnoxious if you didn’t spend extra effort to ask for it and just ignore and keep going. Getting a feel for whether or not the LLM is likely to have something in the completion worth trying to review is a part of it based on what you’ve typed helps. Notably if you are some keystrokes into a very boilerplate process you might be more optimistic, or if you are about to provide a text string as a human error message, decent chance it wrote that for you well enough.
Still I’m more annoyed and not sure that it’s worth being annoyed, but I could buy that shaving typing out a couple lines 15% of the time could be an objective boost that outweighs the burden of futzing with the high error rate.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
That perspective is consistent with the code completion suggestions I get all the time.
LLM seems to think I really want to just rewrite the same 12 lines of code over and over again instead of calling the function where I wrote those 12 lines of code already.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
So my experience has been:
- For at least some jobs, there’s a ‘work item’ of basically generating a bunch of text for humans that no human will ever read, but management thinks it’s important. AI can generate those walls of text no one actually needs while making management feel good.
- It can catch some careless mistakes and guess remediation frequently. For example, if you provide a template string but forget to actually push it through templating, it can see that a string looks like it should be a template and add the templating call and also do a decent job of guessing the variables to pass for the template. However it does have a high false-positive rate, and does hallucinate variables that didn’t exist sometimes, so it’s a bit frustrating and I’m not sure if the false error annoyance is worth it…
- On code completion, it can guess the next line or two I was going for about 15% of the time, 20% of the time with some trivial edits to fix it. A bit annoying because along with the suggested line or two it can get right, it will tend to suggest like 6-10 more lines that are completely wrong 99% of the time, so if I accept the completion I have to delete a bunch. The 1% of the time that it manages to land a full, 6 line completion accurately seems magical, but not magical enough to forget being annoyed at usually having to undo most of the work. Further a bit of a challenge as it has a high chance of ‘looking’ correct even as it makes a mistake, and if you are skimming the suggestion you might overlook the mistake because you aren’t forced to process it at the slow speed of typing. One thing it does do pretty well is if I’m about to construct a string intended for a human user, it will auto complete a decent enough error message for the human user, which tends to be a bit more forgiving of little mistakes in the data.
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 1 week ago:
Ok, I’m going to make a new nutritional supplement: “oops! all electrons!”
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 1 week ago:
On this specific point, I’d say that neither side seemed poised to pull that again. GOP has historically kicked off the biggest conflicts, but Trump’s rhetoric and even his first term seemed consistent with “it’s not worth risking American military over foreign crap” in a break from the broader GOP.
His second term seems to have shifted that and you can see it as it fractured his base, to the point where Trump supporters threw “America First” in his face and he petulantly declared HE gets to decide what “America First” means because he "invented’ it.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 1 week ago:
Conversely, you can’t have a house, you have no credit.
Fine I just paid off a 1.50 loan for a hot dog.
Ok, now you can borrow 500k because you proved yourself responsible with $1.50
Reality isn’t too far off, back in the day I couldn’t get a loan because I had zero credit history, but then could get a mortgage after a few months of getting a credit card with like a 500 dollar credit limit.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Who am I, Parker Lewis?
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.
But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the Pentium 60 botches your blockchain with some bad floating point operations.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 weeks ago:
He’s agreeing with you on secular. The parent poster said equinoxes should replace a religious holiday, and he’s saying that equinoxes are not strictly secular, they are religious.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
Frankly the online stuff doesn’t get to me, but I could see how the generalizations could leave a person succeptible to a narrative. Online interactions tend to have some people taking the easy way and espousing simplified generalizations and on the receiving end are a lot of people that may take the online stuff too serious.
The false dichotomy works because those are the two loudest viewpoints online, that men are villains without a clear path to being accepted or to embrace horribly harmful toxic masculinity to get some screwed up sense of belonging and success. Young men online are at risk of being ill equipped to navigate the nuance That tends to be quieter over the noise of the two more passionate perspectives.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
I apologize in advance if I missed some very bad0 comments by not going into the deeply down voted comments.
But at least some of the concerns are about the young men being declared the “villains” and the other side declaring them to be the victims of injustice and they will gravitate toward the more workable message.
Like bystanders seeing the people making life hard for women and being jerks, but not themselves participating and the commentary is less “that guy is a dick” and more “why are all men so terrible?”
Sure a lot of guys are terrible, but the generalizations can make it feel like you can’t win.
- Comment on Alternatively 3 weeks ago:
Put them on a board for people using a thumbtack.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 weeks ago:
I think we all can get a metaphor, but when someone lives a super safe and convenient life keeping they’re head low even in the face of some things with sticking your neck out over… and then wears a cross to claim they too carry a cross like Jesus just because they put on a little trinket…
That metaphor in context cheapens the concept. Particularly as the meaning is somewhat inverted. The “cross” was for people that went against authority. Now the cross is more aligned with following authority. The executionor may wear a cross while they definitely kill the person using anything but crucification.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 weeks ago:
I feel though like wearing a token cross in honor of being told to take up a more literal cross seems like paying lip service to a very serious call to action with very low actual stakes.
Like being told to stand up to the guns of an army to stand firm for justice and then wearing little rifle pendants instead claiming that means you look to live your life consistent with that principle even as you start well away from actual fighting.
You may personally of course live your life consistent with the values and that is just a symbol, but it’s broadly a symbol that has been cheapened by casual overuse, and to some extent corrupted by folks using it as a symbol of their alignment to God and implied divine authority granted by that association.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 weeks ago:
A difference exists in that those sentiments has less implications for daily life. People sharing spiritual speculation about the greater universe with the humility to recognize they have no way of knowing better than anyone else, fine.
I’m not bothered by the faith in something beyond what we can see in and out itself. But the bits where self asserted alignment to a silent but divine authority as a way to decide value and authority among people… There’s the problem.
I do not question the authority of someone’s God, I question the authority of the people claiming that God agrees with them.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, as long as you were on the side that benefits from success, it was better to leave things “simple” and not challenge the incorrect stuff out loud you aren’t going to “well actually…” the “expert” if it risks your job and/or the wrong stuff isn’t too important or too hard to overcome when the rubber meets the road.
Still, sitting in a room or otherwise being a party to a conversation where an executive is constantly being confidently incorrect constantly and still praised as a smart expert likely making 7 figures is maddening.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t generally mind this quite so much …
Then someone just could calls me without even texting first… While I’m already in a meeting actively taking to someone else…
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 weeks ago:
While I have not reviewed a lot of Musk speak, let alone armed with enough to credibly review his commentary, but based on my own field and “respected technical leaders” that interview with customers and the press, with broad acknowledgement that they really know their stuff…
Most of them I’ve known can sound very confident and credible while saying completely incorrect stuff. No one tries to correct them because them being actually correct doesn’t add value and trying to fix that is more trouble than it’s worth much of the time. The people paying attention don’t know well enough to recognize they are wrong… usually…
Upon occasion my company throws one of these “geniuses” at a customer that actually knows what they are doing. Then I got to see our executive basically try to gaslight the audience when they challenged his competency. The sales people has to last minute pull in the actual technical people to try to repair our image after the customer interacted with the executive…
Now one would think, clearly, after such an embarrassment, surely the company learned to field the actual technical experts to deal with technical questions… But no, for every smart customer that is turned off by that executive, there’s 10 more clients that don’t know any better and respond so much better to his baseless confidence than actual competent discussion. Also, those 10 suckers will also get suckered into more high margin stuff versus the smart customer, that will be really good at getting the most cost effective products, with low margin and skipping the pointless addions.
- Comment on what is north? 4 weeks ago:
It is still valid to point out that “north of Antartica” is a silly phrase in context, even though it’s fine given the more specific Weddell Sea information. If you did want to help readers know the story based on a more well-known landmark, a less silly phrase would have been simply been “Weddell Sea, near Antarctica”.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 4 weeks ago:
It does not state that Marty only ate 4/6 of his pizza. Nor that he ate only of his own pizza. It defined a minimum pizza consumption threshold for Marty without further details.