You have already answered yourself

It would be really funny if this was Obama messing with Trump. “Why has nobody told ME! What else does Obama know that I don’t?”. I can easily imagine Trump being unnerved by this

Don’t know what country you’re from but local versions of “how the f## are people voting for this person” are popping up and getting increasingly popular in most democracies.

The US being the US clearly have the bigliest, crassest piece of garbage of us all, but looks like we are all heading there. And I’m looking at whatever the US are going to do to reverse this trend because I need to see a glimpse of hope that this trend IS reversible and that I won’t die in a nazi dictatorship after my grampa fought to rid us of the previous one.

thanks for the advice on checking archlinux.org. I’m still fresh and in the honeymoon stage of this and I’m sure I’ll hit some snag at some point!

And I didn’t mean to disagree with you. I’d be sheepishly part of that general population too if Microsoft hadn’t actively tried so hard to annoy their users. Jumping ship to anything that is not “the default” that comes installed with your machine feels… refreshing after you’ve done it, but scary before.

I am not a tech wizard. As soon as my new minipc got home with Windows 11, I installed CachyOS on it. I found out later that it’s based on one of the “difficult” Linux variants, but everything went super smoothly (I might have just been lucky. i don’t know, don’t take this as advice!).

Yes I had to follow a few instructions on creating an installation USB key. That was the hardest part. But my relationship with windows had become too abusive. I do want my computer to “just work” and let me do my stuff, but that’s not what windows is doing any longer

I have always known. Love. -Mum

hahaha! I have to work with the material I’m given. It’s really hard to outdo real statements nowadays

Biden wrapped me in his dirty diaper again while I was sleeping listening intently to Miller!

But that wasn’t a mistake! I’m shitting myself on purpose so Miller can do the one thing he’s good at.

CEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasons

just his idea of fun, basically

Gargamel, The Movie. An old man living alone with his cat is slowly driven to madness by the soup of mushrooms he always boils in his cauldron.

“Ah shit, is that Venezuela? Where was the one with the gondoliers then?”

and WE were the snowflakes who wanted a prize for everything

I say this as someone who’s not particularly a fan of AI and tries to use it very sparingly.

For me AI is not so much about productivity gains. Where I find it useful instead is to push me past the initial block of starting something from scratch. It’s that initial dopamine rush that the article mentions, from seeing an idea starting to take shape.

In that sense, if I compare projects by time spent on them with or without AI after they are completed, I too would probably find there were no productivity gains. But some of these things I would never get started at all by myself.

If you are a senior developer in a corporation, you know what you have to do, you are an expert in your domain, you rarely start something really new (and when you do, it is only after endless discussions and studies on tools, language, tech stack, architecture). AI is probably not a great help for you.

But even in corporate life, there are a lot of things that are inportant but that you constantly set aside: from planning your career, to honing your communication skills or whatever it is that you could certainly learn to do (with time and dedication) but for some reason you keep postponing because you are not already an expert at them and it takes motivation to learn. That’s where AI found its niche in my life.

I think the generally unspoken hope is that democracy in the US is not completely fucked and that the transition to full-on fascism can still be reverted after Trump’s political or physical death (both of which seem ever so close).

I will give him my Nobel prize too if he stops invading (and threatening to invade) countries and finally stops that one russian invasion. It’s really shiny!!

Gangster starts war with some of its closest colleagues

I laughed when I read the list of organization names and saw “Education Cannot Wait”. Because I mean that one had it coming: it’s so clearly anti-MAGA!