Should I mix creatine into my instant coffee jar?

Phoebe is so damn hot.

I'm paying absurd tarifs on stuff from China, which makes it harder and more expensive to create products here. There are zero companies in the eu that offer anything remotely similar. We're idiots.

It's called "paying attention" for a reason.

Spce

I regret not watching the boys when the episodes came out. I know Homelander isn't going to die every time there's a fight.

I was shown an example of Claude doing some coding. The task took me about 10 seconds to "solve", and would take 5 minutes to write - including a few tests. Basically we needed to check if a string in DDMMYYYY-CCCC has obvious errors. Claude suggested checking if DD was between 1 to 31..

Do we need more computing power? It only leads to stuff like blockchain and AI!

So, after Bluesky mod shenanigans David Gerard (Pivot to AI) is much less visible here but is still posting over on Mastodon https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116617321612970768

Why doesn't window provide ANY feedback when running a restore operation? Even if you restore from the recovery console, you'll just get a simple infinite progress bar. It's just so dumb. This will take anywhere from 4 minutes to 8 hours.. and in the meantime, you just wait and hope for the best.

Check your backup people! Azure reports "successful backups" - but if you actually try to mount the backup images, you'll find that you have a very old and outdated capture of the machine. Worse than useless. False sense of security.

I'm starting to think that the most promising aspect of LLMs in programming is that it can accelerate motivated juniors to highly performant devs in a shorter time. Onboarding a new dev (even a senior) always slows things down as the existing devs have to spend time explaining the codebase.

Bezos is correct. The usa has a spending problem.

At some point people have to understand that the paper wealth that Elon sits on can't be converted to cash. And what difference does it make if he has $100bn or $1tn? Trump owns his ass, and there's nothing Elon can do about that. He's a servant.

The mythical man month should be required reading for everyone involved in software development. The point is that companies that downsize WILL see productivity improve, regardless of AI being deployed or used as an excuse. Many will not understand the causality and think that AI is the reason.

I wonder if stock-market bubble + reflation of the housing bubble adding enormously to the net worth of regular folks could lead to inflation.

Home assistant + open claw... Hmmm might be acceptable

The LM Studio Installer seems broken. Why doesn't Windows tell me if/when the installer fails to launch?

i have ordered 20 x 3144 hall effect gizmos and I am going to build a more advanced super deker.

Stocks is a special kind of product. I doubt there's any product out there that gets auto-bought on a schedule by huge groups without understanding or knowing what is bought, and it is bought at ANY price. Selling stocks beats selling any other product.

Are we there yet?

When the decidedly analog electrical system on your motorcycle is acting up, check the ground/frame connection first. Always. Save yourself 2 days of doubt and grief.

Is Google running a scam? youtu.be/BfNIRyPi5QA?...

Watched a mechanic do some work. Paid the mechanic. Ergo. I did the work, and I am now a mechanic. #ai

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I'm signed up for a 55km walk in the woods tomorrow. I'm not going to make it. What have I done?

Why are modern cars even able to break the speed limit in cities? Why is a slightly senile person able to accelerate from 0-60 mph right into a crowd of people in the town center? Why doesn't the car prevent this from happening? We have all this AI, but we're not fixing trivial things right now.

I'm seeing a pattern emerge here. Let's say you can't delete a directory in your drive, and you ask Claude, and it deletes your dir. Is this a reflection of Claude being clever, or of you being ignorant?

Turns out the woodpecker who drums on a metal sheet at 5:30 am is not confused and looking for food, but deliberately trying to make noise in order to get laid.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Even if you prelude your prompt with, "Experts doubt their own answers. Experts question. Do not be confident or sycophantic, be an expert," you will get the same answers, they will just be couched in seemingly introspected language. techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-f...

TIL Lauren Mayberry on her own, is damn good. "Something in the Air" will be on heavy rotation.

Last night I had a visit from 74.7.243.212, this is a Microsoft IP, apparently in Atlanta, GA (their new data center?). What's weird is that it was trying to access some endpoints that _are_ available, but not public facing - there are no publicly accessible pages that link to those endpoints.

I should really write something about algorithmically generated content and coffee machines. I sense there's a story in there somewhere.

"ponoplayer" Bold name.

Schiff was asking a Justin D Smith if he believed POTUS could order seal team six to kill political opponents with impunity. He refused to answer (good politician), arguing that it was a hypothetical with the current POTUS. But there will be a new POTUS some day, and impunity will still apply.

Vercel was hacked because an employee used and AI tool from context.ai. They themselves had previously been compromised, leading to the vulnerability at vercel. So AI is already disrupting the internet.

Dethatched the lawn, added topdressing and will overseed tomorrow. I am now an adult.

That MacBook Neo is pretty wild. A whole section of the local tech mart just turned into a ghost-town.

Is there a similar IQ variation in cats as there is in humans?

Crinkle cut chips.

I didn't know they even made phone books anymore, but God bless 'em, they found four for Joe to stand on.

My live action Zootopia experiment was a disaster.

There are 3 opening moves in tic tac toe.

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Ominous

Shares up 639% at the moment

Removed Daxa - if you can't write a tutorial on how to build your lib, I just don't have confidence that anything else is going to work.

Looking at this graph of consumer economic sentiment, seems clear the vibes have been Bad since May 2020 - and I suspect a pervasive sense of chaos and instability since, coupled with Covid trauma we mostly just don't talk about, is contributing big-time to that: yougov.com/en-us/articl...