I think I remember some doge goon asking online about using an LLM to parse JSON. Many people don’t understand things.

Was this the one with the weirdest camera system I’ve ever encountered in a 3d game? I remember just constantly fighting with it.

Also D&D 3e is not something I want to go back to. What a janky system.

Microsoft sucks and I don’t want their shit. They’ll probably cram AI into it or otherwise shit it up.

Game pass is obviously the first stage of classic enshittification. They’re trying to be good to users to get them into the ecosystem. Abuse comes later. Don’t let them change games into a subscription service where you have to keep paying forever. Think longer term.

I’ve always been kind of a cheapskate. I’ve never wanted to go to a generic club.

But I will happily go to a party at someone’s house, or a hangout at the park, or even see a band I like playing live.

Depends on what you mean by “own”.

Buying the CD has a key difference from Spotify in that no one can (typically) take the cd away from you. Music disappears from Spotify all the time. You can also (typically) copy it to other storage. And, most relevant to the topic of rent vs buy, you just pay for it once and you’re done. No subscription, no ads. That stuff is important to me.

You can’t usually take music you got from a CD and put it in your movie, for example, but that’s a whole conversation about fair use and copyright.

It’s possible to buy music, too, but most people rent it from spotify. Most people aren’t going to do the comparably hard thing of setting up their own LLM.

And even if they did run their own well tuned, ethical, LLM to write letters for them, that still leaves us with the problem of “people aren’t developing core skills like writing”

Someone pointed out that capitalism loves subscriptions and rentals. They can sell you a widget, sure, but then they only get money once. If they can rent you a widget, then they get money forever.

AI is a path for rent skills to people. You don’t need to learn to write python or learn Spanish. Just pay for LLM access. Rent the skill.

It is extremely dystopian.

Unfortunately, most people don’t care about much of anything. You could tell them, with undeniable proof, that every AI search kills a puppy, and most people would be like “well puppies die anyway and I always use Google, so…”

Recommendations for…? Just any music?

Caroline Rose’s new album is very good and very human: https://carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-slug

Tagged as “alternative psychobilly acoustic guitar alt-country alternative pop art pop folk indie indie folk indie pop indiepop rock n roll shoegaze Los Angeles”

“Use a different language” is a common defense of javascript, but kind of a weird one.

Yeah. My last job, a PR with commented out code typically wouldn’t get approved. Either leave it in version history, or stick it on a branch

One of my queer (bi) women friends today said that she thinks she’s done with dating men. It’s just too much a minefield of danger and stress.

Interesting, but I can’t imagine writing out that much of the game’s truth ahead of time. I’m always leaving things undefined so I can slot in a good idea (from me or the players).

Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)

I don’t think they thought about it very much. It’s like that spongebob meme where patrick has the wallet. Or the Friends one that I don’t know the name of the template. You could go point by point building up a case for why there should be government regulations, but as soon as you say like “regulation” they go “Nope bad”

Though some people really do believe they as a rugged individual will be able to research and test all of their food without an FDA or whatever. If they buy bread that has sawdust in it, they’ll be able to tell, and somehow get a refund, or buy some other bread that doesn’t have sawdust. That seems like a lot of work and optimism compared to regulations and inspections by qualified professionals earlier in the process.

This kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.

https://xkcd.com/169/

Most email is short. I don’t see a need to summarize it. Google is run by idiots and assholes.

Oh yeah that’s the Peter principle I think. Or closely related.

Someone is good at job A, so they promoted to B. They’re good at B, so they get promoted to C. They’re kind of bad at C, so they stay there.

Over time, all roles fill up with people who are kind of bad.

I’ve been stuck on this thought that people making decisions are often idiots.

We’re sort of told that management is smart. That big business leaders are visionaries. If someone’s the director of engineering they’re probably smart right?

No. They’re just people. People that have the skills to get promoted, but those aren’t the same skills to do anything else.

I think it would matter less if there was more competition and more stakes. If some business puts idiots in charge and the whole company dies, okay. But instead we have Google just shitting the bed for years, and there aren’t consequences.

This is a capitalist hell

I still have the onyx path WoD 2e books, and I enjoy them. I find it confusing that there several variations of “World of Darkness”