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PolarKraken

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  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • Finger on the monkey's paw curls

    Too little delay on the automated back and forth.

    Clueless middle management dork sees (imagines) amazing, promotion-grade results - huzzah, obviously I was right all along!

    Things get weirder, and worse.

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • (eh, the sardonic joke I read was: ya stopped short of deleting Windows)

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • Fuckin lol. Lotta these old greedy pricks starting to converge, in visage and thought, on - "well, there has to be a first lich, after all, so..."

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • They utterly trashed their OS, a globally ~dominant cash cow, at an astonishing pace. By completely, eagerly (forcibly!) jumping the gun on exciting new tech, maybe the single above-all "thing you never do with anything even like a cash cow of any shape or size".

    As in, that is known - viscerally, below the level of words or even thought, as if that knowledge originates from another realm - by anyone who has ever actually been directly responsible for any valuable piece of technology.

    The depth of ignorance and really just flat-out juvenile naivety (fueled by naked greed) that produced this is something I'll probably be thinking about for the rest of my life. Truly amazing, just historically, I mean mythically foolish.

    This dude has been locked into this outcome for a long time, and it's getting increasingly obvious how disastrous it is.

    There are no dances left for him to perform except "it's really not that bad!"

  • How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills - Anthropic study

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  • I completely agree and appreciate sincerely that they released this. It's unfortunate, the way the obviously nonsense claims made by the industry at large - "LLMs are AI and can do everything!" - have polluted a lot of devs' ability or willingness to see the tools for what they are, and maybe official acknowledgements like these can help.

    It also seems likely to me that the major players know a lot of negative truths about all this stuff, you're probably right about hiring observations. I don't follow any of their marketing really so I have to admit I'm even just assuming that releasing this is out of character.

    If I'm being honest, I'm mostly just on the edge of my seat waiting for the hype bubble to burst, lol, and curious about how it'll unfold. Probably just kind of hoping this marks a step toward that.

  • How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills - Anthropic study

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  • Interesting read and feels intuitively plausible. Also matches my growing personal sense that people are using these things wildly differently and having completely different outcomes as a result. Some other random disconnected thoughts:

    1. I'm surprised they're publishing this, it seems to me like a pretty stark condemnation of the technology. Like what are the benefits they anticipate that made them decide this should be published, vs. quietly kept aside "pending further research"? Obviously people knowing how to use the tools better is good for longevity, but that's just not what our idiotic investment cycles prioritize.
    2. I'm no scientist or expert in experimental design, but this seems like way too few people for the level of detail they're bringing to the conclusions they're drawing. That plus the way it all just feels intuitively plausible has a very "just so" feeling to the interpretation rather than true exploration. I mean, cmon - the behavioral buckets they are talking about range from 2-7 people apiece, most commonly just 4 individuals. "Four junior engineers behaved kinda like this and had that average outcome" MIGHT reflect a broader pattern but it sure doesn't feel compelling or scientific.

    Nonetheless I selfishly enjoyed having my own vague subconscious observations validated lol, would like to see more of this (and anything else that seems to work against the crazy bubble being inflated).

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • I shudder to imagine such might. Utter your shriveled curses to the unwary, fiend, not to me!

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • My foray into woodworking began and ended with figuring "sheesh, custom picture frames are so expensive, how hard could it be?!"...

    By the end of that experience, nothing felt real anymore. Every foolishly pure mathematical concept, every platonic ideal - shameful indulgences of the young and weak. Our grand edifices of knowledge, little more than piles of tattered rags with which we clothe our nakedness, arrogant and hubristic in our vulgar conceits.

    Don't do it y'all. That abyss gazes back.

  • ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

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  • After listening to some of the Behind the Bastards on Thiel's Antichrist obsession, his names for things are more understandable. Not by being sensible, by his demonstrated tendency to read things and take interpretations from them that make no sense to anyone else.

    So yeah I'm sure he's got some nutso bananas reinterpretation of what a Palantir is, etc.

    He seems unwell, truly.

  • Yep

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  • That sounds (from a distance of course), cartoonishly silly. Of all the forms "IT for relatives" takes, yours feels like a rare one lol. Cheers.

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  • So, I can't decide if you're directing this at me or just phrasing things unclearly. I'm not in the demographic you're talking about, at all, never really have been.

    I'm expressing sympathy for people who are lonely and who don't want to be, because the way you phrased your previous set of complaints sounded, among other things, like you mocking people experiencing that. I get that people are being reactive jerks. It's cuz they're hurting. I'm not, so the things they are saying about it really don't bother me (as you can see elsewhere in the thread).

    The fact that you're just doubling down, saying my POV is "stupid", you've shown me all I need to see here. I'm not angry at you, I just think you have some gross views.

    And btw, having neurodivergence(s) doesn't just magically qualify you to speak for others.

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  • Certainly some strong opinions and even hostility from some folks, but for myself I don't find it very fruitful to minimize the suffering caused by isolation the way you've done.

    It's a big deal to experience, it's a chronic thing many find hard or impossible to escape (whatever your opinions on the reasons for that), and I think it's pretty gross bordering on cruel to dunk on folks that might be experiencing something so painful.

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  • The end there, brutal, holy shit lol. And never any acknowledgement, huh, that she basically navigated the whole scenario herself after one of these sessions?

    You have some saintly patience.

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  • Feels to me like a very normal thing to share with people I'm very close with, just sorta sharing life updates and chatting ("I'm looking for a job", but weightier). But yeah would be really weird outside of that.

    But also, no argument about the cliche lol. The one area of human sexuality the US is apparently less prudish about - specifically intending to make babies!

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  • I think the joke is just that the individual's subconscious supplied explicit imagery that the consciousness never asked for, like an intrusive thought. Doesn't read to me as a comment on the couple sharing the info.

    "Sorry, my brain did a thing", right there.

    Edit: it does not seem that the rest of the thread agrees with me lol

  • Under communism, what incentive is there to pursue highly dangerous or specialized fields?

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  • When you've visited enough industrial plants and seen the wildly ranging safety standards and practices, the aggregated statistics just aren't very interesting.

    I've been to a plant, a Superfund site that supplies a material strategically necessary to the US, and which will thus never be closed - that released clouds of chlorine gas daily. Staff at the neighboring plant have to literally watch for yellow clouds and fuckin run when they see them.

    Paper mills? Even just their "man lifts" (thankfully going the way of the dinosaur), something like a vertical conveyor belt where you stand on this narrow pad to rapidly ascend floors - hilariously dangerous.

    Any kind of metal extraction and processing with strong acids, incidents do happen. Worst I personally observed (far from the worst I've heard of) I got called to remotely help assess a refining plant using lots of gross acids, after an earthquake caused a plant evacuation and an unknown cloud of mixed something started building above it.

    Some of the high tech processes I've seen are truly chilling. Like, "no one in a 100 ft radius survives at all if this stuff gets released".

    I did that work for less than 10 years. Statistics are great, but they also hide nuance like it's their job. Anyone who has done this kind of work understands the elevated danger, though it does vary a lot from place to place (really more industry to industry).

  • Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

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  • My favorite author of fiction. Try Revelation Space (a series) for more far-future deep time craziness. Try Revenger for a treasure-hunting romp in a universe with countless fallen space empires and their spooky relics.

  • Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?

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  • Neither this nor the comment you're replying to help at all with providing v3.10 in particular. Unrelated.

    (Just pointing it out for anyone later trying to solve it themselves)

  • Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?

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  • If you've already got Docker available, testcontainers is awesome!!

    I like little SQLite in-memory DBs for testing sometimes but just accepted the annoying friction of a slightly different SQL dialect (typically use PG). Testcontainers was a "have my cake and eat it too" situation, really like it.