The common joke is that English is actually a dozen different languages hiding within a single trenchcoat. Just because some words and groups of words look similar and are spelled almost the same doesn't mean they follow the same linguistic rules because they might've come from a completely different language using a completely different linguistic system or a completely different time period. It's really almost impossible to tell how to work with a particular English word without knowing its backstory, even when there are "rules", most of the rules have plenty of exceptions because of this.

Trying to draw clear, consistent, universal patterns out of the English language is a fool's errand. If you wanted to achieve that, you'd need another language. (and then English would probably steal a bunch of its words too)

Polite is what horrifying brutality wears to an interview.

Various combinations of white, wealthy, attractive, and socially connected puts you in a pretty protected class. Enough of those and you'll be in government.

Yeah people don't understand the math behind these things. They are statistical models, like demographics or climate models. They are interesting and potentially useful, but not necessarily useful for the things we are trying to and want to use them for. They can predict certain things and trends very reliably in a general, high-level sense, but they will get the details wrong if you try to use them outside of their area of applicability, just like if you try to use national climate models to determine what day your basement is going to flood, it may come up with a specific date, but just as obviously that's not actually going to be correct in reality. It doesn't mean it's a bad model, it means you're using it wrong.

And lots of AI bros and AI companies are using these things desperately wrong, and for very wrong reasons. They want to sell things to you. They want to control you and manipulate you. They don't care if they're using the model properly, they only care if it's profitable for them to do it.

When I grow up I want to be a data center.

The Streisand Effect sends its regards.

The GPL explicitly grants anyone the right to share, distribute, and even modify the source code. So yes, that is exactly what it means. They cannot claim they wrote it, but they can absolutely both share and distribute the source code, and are in fact required to if they do make modifications to it. It's literally the main thing the license is even about.

It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don't need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it's always okay to punch Nazis.)

Hey Sam, just so you know, if I do get laid off, I am going to charge at LEAST double when some of these assholes need to hire me back to fix the AI generated disaster they're struggling to keep running while bleeding money. So thank you in advance, I guess.

Man he's really got this civil war speedrun record locked in.

SR-71 would easily have been able to, they were just too chicken to give it guns and hardpoints like god intended. Cowards.

I'm always open to somebody's redemption arc, even if I dislike them. The great thing about people is that we are capable of growth, even if not all of us always grow in the right direction, we always can.

Scientists have been telling anyone who would listen, for decades, in the most dire terms, of what was going to happen and how badly it's going to happen and everyone was like "nah they don't know for sure and they're exaggerating and being ridiculous" and yet the same people are still going to have the utter gall to act completely surprised pikachu face when it starts actually happening and try to convince us that no one could've possibly predicted this.

except the scientists. who predicted this.

Ah of course, the classic criminal enterprise of doing anything while black.

As a senior developer, my most productive days are genuinely when I remove a lot of code. This might seem like negative productivity to a naive beancounter, but in fact this is my peak contribution to the software and the organization. Simplifying, optimizing, identifying what code is no longer needed, removing technical debt, improving maintainability, this is what requires most of my experience and skill and contextual knowledge to do safely and correctly. AI has no ability to do this in any meaningful way, and code bases filled with mostly AI generated code are bound to become an unmaintainable nightmare (which I will eventually be paid handsomely to fix, I suspect)

Yes. DP is the right choice for civilized people.

He's not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need, or something.

It's never wrong to punch a Nazi, even if the Nazi is Jewish.

This also has big implications for consumer rights and society as a whole in other areas of digital technology and right to repair, it is a foot in the door to start actually holding manufacturers responsible for the full lifecycle of their products (digital and real) that requires them to actually relinquish their control when their product reaches end-of-commercial-life, instead of turning everything into digital garbage out of what basically amounts to apathy and compulsive rights hoarding.

I find it wild that people find it easier to get angry enough to care about 2 dogs than for almost half a million human beings, but I don't disagree. We are a mentally really messed up people.