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The you have lots of MIFOs flying around.

AND conversely, if you identify a flying saucer as being a T4400 from the planet Zorglub, then it is not a UFO

That and also he is German.

“I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you(r money), we need you(r money), and we miss you(r money),”

Even that is not what we’re seeing from the White House, lady.

But even for an AI, using assembly or going directly to machine code, would mean extra work for the AI. And it increases the risk of bugs. You have to be very careful when programming assembly. And I don’t think an AI understands that well enough to actually work.

I’m breaking into cold sweats at the thought of reviewing LLM generated assembly language.

If a stolen property is rented to a person in, say, the Netherlands, can the owner sue booking.com in a Dutch court? Seems worth a try.

The straw men tremble in their boots.

The problem is not really the code. It is writing the specification of what the code should do. What properties the drawn districts should have. Anyone can then run the program and confirm that the results match the spec.

Hell, with a good spec, you can just vibe code that thing.

(All of which is a result of FPTP voting and single representative districts. But fixing that is a longer term project)

So you confirm that there are states where vehicles don’t get inspected. Thanks. I wasn’t sure it could be true.

Does it say…

I wonder how you could find that out 🤔

Please lay off Monica. Other than that, do carry on!

But you know what? I’m not interested in doing that. It’s fucking boring to me - the same way I would find my professional life completely boring if I had an actual university student code monkey I could legally give orders to. I simply have no interest in doing that.

That is my exact sentiment. That’s not a job I’m interested in. I’d have become management by now if that held any interest.

Also, at least so far, the LLMs really like to write very subtly wrong, weirdly over-complicated code in large quantities. So now you’re wading through all that looking for bugs and wondering whether to (make the LLM) simplify it down to something that can be maintained (by the LLM).

It sounds dreary. Is it too late to switch to geophysics? They get to do fieldwork.

Your nick notwithstanding, never trust the fart.

Yeah, my work in my non-anglophone country is all in English unless we’re in a non-recorded verbal meeting and confirm no foreigners present.

As long as North America refuses to safety inspect vehicles

Wait WHAT?

The European brain can not comprehend.

For city driving, car brakes probably have about a 25% duty cycle.

EVs, though, are mostly braking regeneratively. I see it as a personal failure each time I have to touch the physical brakes. It’s to the point where rusting brake pads can be an issue.

I used to require dual sim, but at this point I’m happy with 1 physical sim and a couple of e-sims in rotation. I’m quite happy not to have to buy a sim after landing in Bangkok or wherever and instead buying a package for the global sim on file.

Yeah. I’ve spent (shock, horror) 25+ years resisting being moved “up” to management. Maybe the jig is just up and I’ll be managing a horde of idiot savant bots.

I guess I could deal with much of the characters on the screen being auto generated if I’m directing the data structures and stuff but…

:old-man-yelling-at-world:

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