But… Where are 102 and 103 then? Are they on a separate street?

Oh wait I get it now. It’s a weird choice but ok. Where I live we just subdivide by adding letters. E.g 20 subdivide and becomes 20 and 20A.

That depends on if you consider the “inferior” to be human, if they’re even still alive after the eugenics part.

In retrospect the word quarterlies is what I should have chosen for accuracy, but I’m glad I didn’t purely because I wouldn’t have then had your vivid hog simile.

Amazon’s latest round of 16k layoffs for AWS was called “Project Dawn” internally, and the public line is that the layoffs are because of increased AI use. AI has become useful, but as a way to conceal business failure. They’re not cutting jobs because their financials are in the shitter, oh no, it’s because they’re just too amazing at being efficient. So efficient they sent the corporate fake condolences email before informing the people they’re firing, referencing a blog post they hadn’t yet published.

It’s Schrodinger’s Success. You can neither prove nor disprove the effects of AI on the decision, or if the layoffs are an indication of good management or fundamental mismanagement. And the media buys into it with headlines like “Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency” that are distinctly ambivalent on how 16k people could possibly have been redundant in a tech company that’s supposed to be a beacon of automation.

Now I’m curious what replacing the word “girl” with “boy” in the same prompt would return. Would they also be hypersexualized from the inclusion of “stockings” and “braids” which can just as easily be fetish categories as innocuous physical descriptions, or is it mostly the female dataset that puts it into the porn realm?

Terrorism seems cheap when you put it that way

I love how they include a “blast radius” summary for each. What a great little website!

Careful of your eyes! I’m pretty sure you need a special filter or telescope for the sun

What? He was convinced by an auto complete function? The same thing that has existed for many years in any dedicated IDE? Nadella has clearly been off the tools a very long time.

It’s pretty horrifying that someone could be regarded as an authority on the future of tech when they aren’t even aware of the present and recent past, but I guess Davos has never existed for realistic evaluations and accurate public information.

Brb, I’m going to show him my amazing new invention, the wheel.

While the conclusion of it being replaced with an LED is obviously not what happened, I think it’s very possible that the sun was often orange for him when he was growing up, because of air pollution.

30 years ago, depending on where you lived, there were more cars on the road with less efficient fuel consumption, more people using fireplaces, more people burning trash, less regulation of various industries etc. Searching for images with the phrase “smoke pollution sun” will give you a lot of photos of orange suns, and they’re definitely not all altered for effect. I’ve seen red suns in real life too when wildfires are really bad near my area even though that’s thankfully rare.

We know not the sun itself that is orange, but in a polluted environment it certainly looks like it is - and if you don’t get a great education, I can see how you might think that’s the actual color of the sun.

Lots of snuggles.

It seems like you already have a good handle on the rest already, even if 3 URTIs in 5 months is no fun for anyone.

It might be worth giving your house a thorough clean to see if that helps. Maybe there’s a source of irritants (molds, pollens, that kind of thing) that is only really problematic for someone with a weakened immune system, and therefore more prone to secondary infections.

Nah, it’s 24.04 LTS

Super interesting. Maybe your immune system wasn’t so much suppressed, but just too occupied with everything else being on fire to focus on only your skin… But then why would it get worse for other people instead? Both COVID and bodies are really annoyingly complicated.

1. Ubuntu memory allocation and limits (I think). I haven’t dug too much into finding the root cause, but I have a recurring issue where the GUI freezes up, and it looks like it might be related to not handling well how much memory it needs for the task.

Maybe it thinks it has more memory available than it does, or the gc isn’t running efficiently, or it’s allocating to 100% without including a sensible safety gap, something like that. It’s a significantly low-level enough problem that I’m wary of tinkering with values I don’t fully understand even if I wanted to spend the probably large amount of time necessary to find root cause.

2. The fact Ubuntu now withholds package updates unless you’re paying for their “maintenance and compliance subscription”, but that’s probably on me to change distros. I get that Ubuntu employees need money so they can eat, just like I do, but … The idea of paying for core package updates feels like a nightmare waiting to happen, for both Ubuntu developers managing package dependencies and end-user experience.

I’d say Claude is not at all upfront about this behavior - maybe to the point of actively deceptive. I would never give it credentials myself, but I can see less cynical people than me being lulled into a false sense of security.

Looking at my IDE integration (enterprise employer who thought AI was the solution for all things), it does mention in the interface that you can use markdown files as standing instructions (“memories”), and by proxy that tells you the default location of the logs folder. But I don’t think I’ve seen the Claude CLI ever mention logs. The in-CLI help command just points you to the online docs. Trying to “search” (chatbot) their online docs for the word “logs” only gave me info on how to hook up OTEL. The CLI has nothing in the settings about logs, and there’s nothing in their online “settings” docs even though they get pretty granular.

All their docs really push phrases about safety and doing things only with your permission, and even use auth or login scenarios for code examples: “How Claude works”

I can see they added a CLI command to let me order Claude stickers though, which speaks to their priorities I guess.

Covid has been linked with all kinds of immune, inflammation and skin issues. Recently there have been investigations into a possible correlation of people with AD and increased risk of infection and/or symptoms. I’d say trust your instincts. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40219685/

Skynet’s backstory is somehow very predictable yet came as a surprise to me in the form of this headline by the Graudain: “Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says”.

The article doesn’t provide much more other than exactly what you’d expect. E.g this Hegseth quote, emphasis mine: “make all appropriate data available across federated IT systems for AI exploitation, including mission systems across every service and component”.

Me as a kid: “how could they have been so incompetent and let Skynet take over?!”

Me now: “Oh. Yeah. That checks out”