Wakko

In short - I’m not.

This is a “buggy whip manufacturer” moment. Software development as we currently understand the practice is no longer needed in volume. Just like buggy whips no longer need as many craftsman making them since the advent of the internal combustion engine.

Yes, some people will still be “line editors” just like there are still some people preserving older skills and manufacturing niche items like buggy whips for the handful of horse-drawn buggies that still exist and are in-use.

But the vast majority of software going forward will be produced by LLMs. The skills required to “drive” the new LLM engine is an altogther different set of skills than what is required to whip and steer horses. Everyone fighting this tide is just fighting the inevitable.

Instead, I’m moving “up the stack” and focusing on answering the question, “What testing is difficult to game and shows me that the work has been done adequately to spec?”

The LLM-enabled future needs more mathematicians than it needs code-writers. The vast majority of anti-LLM Luddites I see online are all people who are “coders”; the “computer scientists” are busy adapting to a future that is already here.

“there is evidence” - Translation: He read a sensationalist headline somewhere about a single study, didn’t read the study, definitely didn’t look for corroborating or refuting studies, and absolutely, positively has no actual data to confirm his pet theory.

This is literally the dumbest interpretation of the concept. This is what it looks like when tier-1 tech support folks want to roleplay as ML engineers while they troll internet forums cosplaying that they’re somehow “helping” while doing absolutely nothing meaningful with their life.

Now that’s a meme I haven’t seen in a very long time.

Ice Carvers Decry Evils of Electrified Refrigeration.

Irrelevant whataboutism. Nothing about the almonds justifies or is at all related the datacenter build-outs.

In general, it’s unwise to cite carpetbaggers who don’t account for the full systemic impacts of their data centers.

See, for example: https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

Powering data centers with renewable energy sources, like solar or wind, requires significantly less water consumption than obtaining energy from fossil fuel power plants. With approximately 56% of the electricity used to power data centers nationwide coming from fossil fuels, deploying more clean energy to power these facilities can significantly reduce water consumption. Coal plants are the most water-intensive facilities, requiring approximately 19,185 gallons of water per megawatt-hour (MWh) of power generation. Natural gas power plants consume approximately 2,800 gallons per MWh. In 2022, 40% of all total U.S. annual water withdrawals, or about 48.5 trillion gallons, were made by coal and gas power plants. Of those 48.5 trillion gallons, 962 billion gallons of water were consumed and were no longer available for direct downstream use.

AI uses less water than growing almonds. Stop being a brainwashed cattle

Citation needed.

He’s also been getting IV fluids in the top of the hand. This causes visible bruising that he’s been trying to hide with the same make-up he uses on his face. In some recent photos the make-up on his hands is very obvious.

The evaluations he keeps “acing” is the MCAS - the diagnostic that is given to track cognitive decline in dementia patients. With dementia, there is no getting better. Every day that passes is another day of decline toward a cessation of all function. His recent speeches highlight how advanced his case is. Sooner or later, he’s going to choke on a Big Mac.

That’s edema.

It’s the same thing that’s been causing swelling around his feet and ankles.

It’s a sign of heart failure. It means the Big Beautiful Obituary isn’t far off.

I think this is largely a media literacy issue.

I think this is largely a literacy issue.

FTFY

If only Americans did more than bitch about it on social media.

Proof that all it takes to sound like a conspiracy theorist is to know the names of four real, actual things the CIA has done.

There’s plenty of scholarship on the topic. There are a number of judiciary-side changes that arose out of the LA Riots.

And no, violence isn’t romantic. I was in Seattle in '99 for the WTO affair. Violence is simply an unfortunate necessity when power accumulates into the wrong hands.

Billionaires are perpetrating extinction-level ecological crimes against humanity. They won’t voluntarily stop. So, it is incumbent on the rest of us to remember that politics is comprised of three boxes - soap, ballot, and cartridge. When the first two fail to curb tyranny, we must resort to the third box because self-defense is a basic right of all living beings.

Incorrect. Spoken like someone who wasn’t around to see Los Angeles in May of '92.

The French invented a solution to the problem of rich decadent assholes in 1789.

The people decide when this ends.

It’s par for the course for as long as the people choose to allow it to continue.

Yes. Rampant untreated mental illness is a consequence of not having universal health care.

Hilarious that you think I’m not American.

I love it when people tell on themselves with their assumptions. Projection ain’t just for the cinema, buddy.

He has dementia. They’ve known he’s got dementia since his first term.

Every day that passes without the 25th Amendment being invoked, Article 2 Section IV of the US Constitution being invoked, or articles of impeachment being filed is a day that every sitting member of Congress announces their complicity in subverting American Democracy.

Every day that passes without the American public taking to the streets in protest is a day that every American citizen announces their complicity in allowing their nation to no longer follow the rule of law.

So, it’s totally cool with you if the kernel that those anti-AI distros runs is being developed with AI?

Seems like a weird line to draw to me. But whatever. Enjoy whatever distro that is, if you find it.

GNU/Hurd maybe?