One day I had worked for 18 hours straight. I was going home at 1AM and walked past a McDonald’s. It was in the middle of summer, 35 degrees all day, but cooling off at night. I really needed a pick me up, so I walked in and approached the counter. A pretty lady looked at me and said: “I know exactly how you feel and what you are here for”. In my mind she transformed into an angel and felt the holy energy radiating out. Then she followed up with: “I’m SO sorry, our ice-cream machine broke”. I didn’t even say anything, I just stared at her, a tear pushing it’s way out of the corner of my eye. I mumbled something like “It’s fine, don’t worry about it”, turned around and walked out. I’m not even sure how I got home that day, I was just mentally destroyed. This was 20 years ago and I still remember that moment :'(

Is was so sad to see those earlier experiments. A lot of those people actually thought they were helping those kids. But then when the results became clear they were really shocked and sad to see it was them all along. Often it was just little subconscious nudges.

There were however a lot of people who knew exactly what they were doing, at the cost of those kids. Especially that story about the “kid” claiming he got raped by his father was terrible. It really shows how something with good intentions can spiral out of control real fast.

Fuck those Spelling to communicate people, they should go to jail for the shit they are trying to pull.

Yeah those refurb drives from eBay were the last good source. I got a bunch of them last year, 2 of them had issues but were replaced under warranty by the manufacturer. All of those seem to be either gone or not priced very well.

Doing anything PC related these days is very rough with prices being sky high. And even if you are willing to pay, there isn’t a lot of good stuff to get. It sucks ass.

I personally recommend watching the video at 1.4x playback speed, if not at least 1.25 times

100% agreed, it feels like Salt makes his videos and then slows it down by at least 25%. When playing at 1.25 times it feels totally natural. A higher speed is perfectly fine even, since the information density is very low.

I know a lot of people like to do some drugs and vibe out to Salt videos, but it kind of annoys me. The length of his videos have gotten longer and longer and I feel like the quality has went down some. Not bad, but not as good as it once was. And the low information density and slow speed definitely contributes to that.

But that’s my personal view, other people might feel differently. The vids are still good, so it doesn’t matter all that much.

I feel like it’s more like 75% wrong and 25% right. The biggest issue is the answers may seem right, because that’s what those models do. They generated answers that would fit, regardless of if they are right or not. This makes it very hard to tell if they are right and in my experience they are wrong in some way a lot of the time.

Sometimes it in small details that don’t matter much, sometimes it’s in big ways. But the worst times are when it’s wrong in little details that do matter a lot. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details, so details matter.

This is why I hate it when people say LLMs are good for coding, because they really really aren’t. If there is one place where details matter, it’s in coding. Having a single character in the wrong place can be the difference between good working code and good working code with a huge security hole in it. Or something that seems to work, but doesn’t take into account a dozen edge cases you haven’t even thought of. In my experience those edge cases present themselves whilst writing the code. When the working out part is skipped, that crucial step is being skipped. This leads to accumulation of tech debt at about the same rate an AI startup burns money.

I like the analogy of a broken clock. People say a broken clock is right twice a day. But that’s only true if you already know the time and therefor know it’s right or not. The same thing is true when asking an LLM for anything, it might be right, it might not be. The only way to know is to already know the answer, which makes the whole thing rather pointless.

Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.

If children don’t yearn for the mines, then why do they play Minecraft all the time? Checkmate liberals!

They said, sobbing

It does not come with Copilot, that’s an extension you need to install and then sign in using your Github account. I’m a Microslop hater as much as any sane person, and people should definitely opt out if they want to use Copilot. But don’t spread FUD making people think it uploads everything to Microsoft just when using VS Code. It’s perfectly fine to use VS Code without installing the Copilot extension.

Sometimes I wish I could just shout “Oh no!”, grab my head and explode…