They exist??

Gross

My standard response is I would like to know more

Same.

I was like oh it makes sense that there would be different types of protein. Here I go into the comments to increase the fidelity of my mental model! rofl guess not

Yeah one of the Moody blues someone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it click

EDIT oops I meant “comic.” I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.

What does that… mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?

Hahaha

I live in a kind of steal-y neighborhood, and not that I got a big neurotic dog for this reason, but I haven’t had anything taken since Ronda and I teamed up.

And terminators

Yeah! It’s like just considering these things is fun and enriching. You might let yourself get swept away in the fantasy a bit, but ultimately you’re telling yourself different stories.

So they only ever feel like stories, and not like, a whole to paradigm that you’re going to flash your BIOS with rofl. Just maybe run it in a sandbox/cgroup and see if anything actually fun or inspiring comes out.

Pardon the opaque metaphors.

And writing, particularly editing, requires considering multiple possibilities and disregarding the bad ones.

Yeah I remember loving all that conspiracy, X-Files, Umberto, past lives, lost cities, etc etc — all that stuff. But scratch at any of it and it’s always some of the dullest, unimaginative reactionary bullshit just a hair’s width below the surface.

Not to stereotype, but reminds of prison where everyone complains about capitalism without actually using that word (probably different now), but talk to them for more than 30 minutes annnnnd yup that’s antisemitism again. Fucking hell.

Not everyone who doesn’t understand ai is a troll, and there are legitimate reasons to want to avoid using it, even when it is useful. I’ve got you both tagged as “cool” on my client so I’m assuming you’re both capable of chillness.

Not to high horse you, but maybe a little bit; the internet is a nice place when you don’t immediately assume trolling because someone disagrees with you.

Oh my god that’s so cool I wish I’d thought of it. It’s similar to this idea I’ve been mulling over about a world where areas are fixed/dynamic based on how certain people are about them. But that is a better implementation than anything I sketched up.

Some white knight that seemed to house only people on the worst days of their lives having super aggressive arguments just outside my door.

We are same. I sometimes use comments as kind of tags, like

xinput --disable $(xinput --list | grep -i touchpad | grep 'id=[0-9]\+' -o | cut -d= -f2)  # Disable synaptic touchpad trackpad pointer

or

python3 -c 'from ctypes import *; X11 = cdll.LoadLibrary("libX11.so.6"); X11.XOpenDisplay.restype = POINTER(c_ubyte); display = X11.XOpenDisplay(None); X11.XkbLockModifiers(display, c_uint(0x0100), c_uint(2), c_uint(0)); X11.XCloseDisplay(display)' # swap caps CAPS CAPSLOCK

or sometimes I’ll add # works at the end of a long string of attempts (usually involving dialing into a regexp), like

xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Eow '\d'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Eow '(\d)'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -ow '(\d)'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -o '(\d)'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep '1920x1080'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -o '1920x1080'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -o '\d920x1080'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '\d920x1080'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '\d+x1080'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '\d+x\d+'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+)'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut -f1
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut -d\ -f1
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut -d'' -f1
scrot --quality 1 --compression 0 --format jpg - | convert -scale 10% -scale 1000% -quality 100 - RGB:- | i3lock --image /dev/stdin --raw 3840x1818:rgb --nofork
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut -d' ' -f1
xdpyinfo|grep dimensions|grep -Po '(\d+x\d+) pixels'|cut -d' ' -f1 # works

Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.

My theory is that it offers a simple scapegoat …

That’s my intuition too. In my experience, adopting AI mostly has lead to marginally faster MVPs, balooning sloc in PRs, and an explosion of wildly unqualified people applying for tech roles and sometimes even getting them.

It’s a better kind of nihilistic business story to say that LLMs have been so disruptive, that people are getting fired, rather than investors are scared and greedy and are just being guided around by vibes and their amygdalae right now.

What you’re doing is the secret sauce already, you’re just missing luck. Obviously take whatever job you need to pay rent in the meantime, but if you keep it up then I think you’ll get something eventually.

It is the worst time in all of history to be a software developer looking for work, so don’t internalise it.

I think we’re going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I’m one of those, because I’m about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.

My friend is a townie, and he does this. Actually, we’ve been musing about putting our lot in together, since I usually work for the corp outfits, except I can’t find fuck all lately in the 9-5 realm.