It’s inaccurate and therefore stupid to maintain.

All 2 dimensional projections of a 3 dimensional object are inaccurate. This a bicycle shed kind of issue. “I like this map because it makes my country look bigger durrrrr.”

Look at the UN flag. It’s not Mercator, but it portrays Australia as being about twice as wide as Canada. That’s not accurate (Canada is about 1000 km wider than Australia), so does the UN flag need to change?

I’m from Canada and I don’t think it needs to change because I know that maps are flat and the world is not flat. If you’re worried about accuracy, you have to ban all flat maps and only allow globes.

The UN doing this doesn’t mean they’re not focusing much more intensely on other issues and anyone claiming that is a fucking moron.

People that don’t understand the concept of political capital and opportunity costs are morons.

The US being the only one opposing this makes the US the only one pushing some dumbass conspiracy theory.

Voting against it is kinda dumb, countries should’ve done as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Estonia, etc. and just abstained because this is dumb shit that’s worth anyone’s time when there’s real problems in the world.

This is just the UN version of the Trump renaming Gulfs and Lakes.

On Youtube you can just click on subscriptions and it only shows content from channels you’re subscribed to. If you make some effort to curate the channels you’re subscribed to, there will be some pretty good content there.

To me, this should be the default page with the recommendation algorithm being an “explore” option to find some other channels to subscribe to.

The big problem with social media is you have millions of people competing with each other to grab attention. If the goal were instead to convince people to subscribe to their channel, people might actually put some effort into creating better content instead of trying to be the first to get out their hot take on whatever is going on. If they adjusted their interface to start up on the subscription feed, and have an explore feed which show maybe ten channels that have had a lot of subscriptions recently, it would probably solve a lot of problems with shit shit tier troll content dominating social media.

Nobody other than boomers have brainrot and nobody other than boomers would ever go along with anything AI related to make money. Definitely just boomers doing that!

My generation is special and is completely pure of any greed and always well-informed!

There is a weird narrative where people pretend like there’s some conspiracy to make countries near the equator appear smaller on maps.

The reality is the Mercator projection was made for navigation purposes. The world is round and there is no projection of a globe on a 2D surface that will ever be accurate. No one is trying to kick people down by choosing one projection over the other because none of them are going to be accurate. All maps are made with the general assumption that people understand the world is actually round and they should account for that. This kind of debate edges on flat earth kinds of silliness where people are being deliberately ignorant about how maps work in favour of dumb conspiracy theories.

Sure it’s probably not worth opposing, but it’s also a bunch of silliness that isn’t worth proposing either. It is a sign the UN is disconnected from the actual problems of the world when they’re worried about fucking map projections. Is it going to be international law that we can’t use the Mercator maps for navigation, which is what they’re designed for? Does the UN even understand that for some people a map isn’t just a decoration to be put on a wall, but something that has a purpose?

Yeah I know there’s some really deranged people on the internet.

It’s a bizarre thing when people think that proving the existence of a narrative is the same thing as something being true.

Apparently there’s a synagogue in it so some people are upset by that. You’ll of course claim that Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, while also spending a lot of time reading a lot of articles that tell you to hate a video game because it shows a synagogue in it.

Why wouldn’t you put them on the grid? The point of a grid is to have more robust and reliable energy distribution.

How about they need to spend some of their trillions on solar and wind (and batteries) that are connected to the grid so they’re adding electricity generation to the grid that’s equal to the their energy consumption?

That way when the bubble inevitably bursts, we can shut down the dirtier forms of electricity generation since there will be an excess of clean energy.

Not everything has something to do with Zionism FFS.

If the rumours are true, Andrew Tate is to Baron Trump as Jeffrey Epstein was to Donald Trump.

So maybe Tate’s extradition warrant disappears. Or maybe he “hangs himself” in a prison cell. Or maybe he does get extradited because the rumours aren’t true or because Trump doesn’t give a shit about his children enough to intervene.

Hate to tell you this, but I’m pretty sure Jeff Bezos isn’t for taxing the rich. Hasan Piker is a millionaire, so he doesn’t want that either. He’s gotta give that some lip service to keep his audience, but his primary goal is to promote racial tensions. This is how the wealthy have been keeping people divided for a very long time, so you’re unable to make a unified effort to tax the wealthy, and do trust busting. I doubt Hasan ever even mentions trust busting, that’s simply not in the public discourse at all. Because wealthy people like Jeff Bezos have control over what people are seeing and are able to keep certain things from entering into people’s minds.

Hasan is in the wealthy class, and his job is to keep you from thinking about things Jeff Bezos doesn’t want you to think about. The fact is Biden was doing antitrust actions against Amazon and others, then suddenly monetized leftism turned against Democrats. Whether that’s a coincidence isn’t all that relevant. The nature of algorithmic information consumption is you’re fed what’s in the interests of the wealthy regardless of the intent of the content creator. If a leftist is saying Democrats are bad because of Israel stuff, while the wealthy think Democrats are bad because of antitrust and higher taxes, they don’t care about the reason why you turn against Democrats, only that you stay home instead of voting for a party that’s against their interests.

In the past, Rogan had some pretty good guests on. So there was a lot of it being “smart guy explaining things to a dumb guy”, and him just being all “wow” at whatever was being said was fine.

But at a certain point he started thinking that he wasn’t a dumb guy and began talking about what he thought about things and having on guests that thought the same way as him. So now it’s just the “dumb guys talking dumb guy shit” show.

Conspiracy theories fail as soon as you ask, what is the motive?

What would the motive for Israel to assassinate Charlie Kirk as opposed to Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson? Those are the people promoting these conspiracy theories, so why would they get a pass?

Obvious conspiracy theory, promoted by obvious anti-semites. You should look into the history of the people promoting this bullshit a little more.

In software engineering, sure there’s patterns, but that’s just guidelines. Eventually you run up against a problem where an something you don’t have control over isn’t 100% reliable so you have to think through how to handle that scenario. Maybe you retry an API call, maybe you notify some people about the issue, it’s all context dependent what you need to do. The AI doesn’t know what to do, because how would it? There are a massive (I won’t say infinite, but in terms of a human lifespan it may as well be) number of combinations of technology X connecting to technology Y. So there is always going to be a great many problems that no one has ever encountered before. LLMs increasing the number of features in the software doesn’t solve those kinds of problems it just increases the number of problem.

I think it’s fine to think of it as a tool, like an IDE. But just like an IDE, it doesn’t solve the problems, the person using the tool solves the problem.

For instance today, the LLM explained to me how to enable SSL certificate negotiation with TLS 1.3 some shitty IIS setup I have to maintain. I used the LLM because I figured that I’m probably not the only one that has seen that issue. Now the problem I have to deal with is whether the software that updates the certs might break the config, that’s a little less likely the LLM will have a reliable solution to. I might just wait until the software updates the cert an manually test if it broke. The day before I had to launch some stuff in the middle of the night so I wouldn’t interfere with business operations. The launch was to change something from single linked list to a doubly linked list which is important for reasons I can’t explain now. I mean I would explain it, but honestly I can’t remember why. I just have in my notes that it needs to be a doubly linked list for the recursion to work properly. Maybe next week when I fix the FE I’ll remember why, but if I was correct many months ago (it’s a low priority issue), the FE should now have the data it needs to solve whatever problem was there.

So yeah, I use LLMs sometimes for problems that I think other people have seen before but sure as hell can’t be driving on what I do. Someone has to make the various pieces of software work together, know the business the software is being used in. More software means more problems that someone has to figure out. If you make n pieces of software with LLMs, you’re make n! problems to solve.

Not necessarily that close. I know a guy who catches tuna in the Atlantic. Goes out with a rod, and catches about one per month. When he catches one, he immediately calls it in and heads to port. When he gets to port there’s some Japanese guys waiting for him, they assess the fish, buy it for a significant amount of money, put it on ice and it’s put onto a plane bound for Tokyo.

So for high end sushi, it’s possible for to be on someone’s plate in Tokyo about 20 hours after being caught in the Atlantic. Of course if it were Tokyo, time zones would make it weird to say “this morning” because of the dateline. But it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say a fish caught in the Atlantic in the morning that’s on someone’s plate about 20 hours later was caught “this morning” and the chef may not be all that worried about the timezone dateline stuff.

Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Georgia have actual problems to worry about.

I mean this is just UN navel gazing about the fairness of map projections. Countries that are staring down an increasingly unstable Russia probably aren’t too worried about that.

And you are fighting democrats. “Socialists” spend more time attacking democrats than they spend on attacking republicans.

Hasan Piker is millionaire that’s on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos every night. What is it with Americans always getting scammed by the wealthy?

They’re going to put Terry Fox on the Five. I think will likely be better received.

I suspect once people are used to that, they’ll make another try at replacing MacDonald on the Ten. If people get up in arms over that, then they have to explain why they were fine with removing Laurier, but are upset over removing MacDonald.

I find writing the code is the easy part. The difficult part is figuring out what the requirements are, fitting together all of the data relationships, figuring out the security so the correct people and systems have access to the data. To do these things I need very specific knowledge of the systems I’m working on, knowledge the AI doesn’t have.

I could see it could give you a simple interface that’s similar to something it’s been trained on. But it’s capabilities are very limited in terms of doing anything novel. It can’t actually understand a problem, it can only give some code similar to problems that exist in it’s training data. Sometimes that’s useful, since at times I do have to solve problems that’s been solved by others. But most of the time the AI can’t understand what I’m trying to do and it’s easier to write the code than it is to try to explain to an LLM how to write the code I want it to write.

Yeah I get the feeling lazy people love it, and people who work hard know it doesn’t produce very good results in most circumstances.

Unfortunately it seems a lot of managers are in the lazy group. So they assume that when employees tell them it doesn’t work very well, they think it’s because they have a “bad attitude” or something like that.