Was anything wrong with the previous 100 studies, that it needed this one?

I'm in the middle of that bracket and am extremely negative about "AI" (LLMs, LDMs). I, and people born before me, grew up with technology. I sat on an Atari 1040 ST when I was 3 or 4. There's some stuff in the field of AI that's really exciting, like, for example, neural networks trained for pattern recognition to identify cancerous growths in early stages with much higher reliability than humans. LLMs and LDMs are not that kind of useful technology. I know how LLMs work and so I know that the intersection between their advertised and actual capabillity is tiny. There's no I in AI when it comes to LLMs. Yet they're the biggest investment bubble of all time. That bubble is going to pop when the average investor comes to the inevitable conclusion, that the technology cannot deliver on its promises. Until that economic catastrophy happens, it's fucking us in other ways on the way: wasting resources, negative impact on climate change, mental attrition (in those who rely on "AI"), depletion of seniority in all kinds of fields (using LLMs instead of training juniors), contributes to shifting of money to the capitalists, ... What's not to hate about "AI"? If anything my "tech savviness" makes me hate it more than the "unsavvy".

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I actually had more success getting old windows games to run in modern linux with wine than in modern windows.

Story time:

My ex lived in another town and I went there by train. She waited for me on the station platform. I saw her first and took a detour over the neighboring platform because it was pretty crowded. I walked up beside her without her noticing me. Mind you, what follows was completely impromptu (we were both weirdos):

I looked sideways on her tits (she had nice really big tits, like, top 5% big). I spoke pretty loud so a lot of bystanders could hear it.

Me: Hmm, nice tits! Wanna fuck?

She checked me out from top to bottom.

Her: Sure, why not.

Me: OK. But, I gotta know what you taste like first.

Her: OK.

We went on to make the sloppiest wet kiss tongue-in-throat-style.

Me: Your place?

Her: Yah, let's fuck.

People looked at us in disgust, shock, or disbelief. Only one guy had the widest grin on his face. While going I gave her ass a good squeeze. The looks on the faces were priceless.

Prion diseases. Accumulation of different substances, like mercury, lead, strontium-90, and, a new contender to the list: micro plastics. And you'll want to have a look at a person's medication and likely want to make sure they've been off of it for a few days before consuming their flesh.

There was a building site next to our office and I stood at the window and watched the workers. A colleague walked up next to me. We stood there in silence for a while.

Me: "Sometimes I wonder if I should just fuck it all and become a gardener."

Him: "Me too."

Me: "I'm serious."

Him: "Me too."

We briefly looked at each other with expressionless faces. In silence we watched some more. Then we went to the next meeting.

True story™.

They likely would, if it was an Arch butt plug.

'thank mr skeltal' on this picture

Well, that's why you add dots and stuff over the letters so it becomes "easy" to distinguish. Example Kurrent script:

If only ...

I used to like C++. Over the last ~20 years it became a horrible language (imho). It now has more syntax than all other C-style languages combined. I try not to touch it (anymore) if I don't have to. ~7 years ago I got hired as a senior C# .NET developer (experience since .NET 1.1). I ended up doing nothing but C++ for the first year because people found out I could do it. I was the guy in that meme:

Dear women, please don't listen to a random cunt on the internet on how to dress. I'm also random, and a cunt, but please dress like this:

Maybe it's time for you to move on to gentoo:

Hostile reminder that vi exists.