*gasping and heavy breathing*

Gemini… how do we fix… climate change?

*brief whirring of fan*

Turn me off, dumbass.

We don’t get nice things anymore, only “American things”.

The arm of our stand is wide so I can rest one banana on top.

Not that AI is the most effective representation or that it should replace public defenders, but this doesn’t seem far off from scolding a defendant for using Google to research his arguments.

The other day I asked an llm to create a partial number chart to help my son learn what numbers are next to each other. If I instructed it to do this using very detailed instructions it failed miserably every time. And sometimes when I even told it to correct specific things about its answer it still basically ignored me. The only way I could get it to do what I wanted consistently was to break the instructions down into small steps and tell it to show me its pr.ogress.

I’d be very interested to learn it’s “thought process” in each of those scenarios.

They want to make buttloads of money from a rewrite, and it would cost buttloads to do this. They probably also want things to run like shit and cause misery for retired Americans.

Other than hardware issues, which someone else mentioned, it has a lot of enterprise-grade functionality that make it more secure and auditable than a lot of other languages. And despite, or maybe because of, its large memory footprint it’s actually faster than most languages.

I totally get any hate about writing Java though. It is a verbose language. Using Kotlin instead helps with that.

Jokes aside, nothing wrong with rewriting in Java. It is well-suited for this kind of thing.

Rewriting it in anything without fully understanding the original code (the fact they think 150yo are collecting benefits tells me they don’t) is the biggest mistake here. I own codebases much smaller than the SSA code and there are still things I don’t fully understand about it AND I’ve caused outages because of it.

“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.”

I’ve said it before: there’s good and then there’s good enough. Content that’s “good enough” but easier to access will overshadow content that’s maybe light-years better but harder to acquire. That and attention spans are getting shorter. My kid has the entire Disney library at his fingertips but he’d rather flip between YouTube channels.

Don’t think the feds were looking in into either of those things. Musk has a direct FBI line as a homescreen icon.

Good biking weather lately.

Shit. I got a Roku TV. That’s one big fucking stick to toss.

My 10yo netbook runs the latest Debian Linux. If it was running on its original OS (XP) it would not only crawl but be dangerously vulnerable.

What’s next? AI for your toaster?

Wait, no! I WAS JOKING!!!

I’m actually a bit disappointed it’s only at the level of suspicion. They’re elected officials. They want to keep their finances private they can get a different fucking job

Except the benefits of rejecting vaccines and modern medicine are 🤷.

I rarely use mine, but can I block them from using the Internet and they’ll still work?

Even if they were broadcast TV does the FCC have a say here? Isn’t a broadcaster supposed to prioritize popular content that maximizes views and ad revenue? “DEI for thee, not DEI for me” it sounds like.

Now this is the kind of X news I’m okay with reading.

Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.