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No. No peace for you, only being hunted by autonomous drones. Now please kindly start running so we can test our latest movement prediction algorithms. You may feel a small pinch as the drone catches you, but don’t worry, it’ll soon be over.

That would depend on how fast the planet was spinning after the orbital boost. I think the big day mob are playing the long game. First they’ll quietly support big calendar in order to first normalise the idea of boosting Earth’s orbit, then, when that plan is in motion, they’ll infiltrate the planning and engineering teams, tweak the rocket placements slightly, and when the rockets fire to increase our orbital velocity, they’ll also slow the spin just enough to lengthen the day.

The alternative is, they realise there’ll be more days per year, so they’ll get more work out of people between annual appraisals anyway. It might be that big calendar is just a front operation for big day anyway.

Bah, that’s just a sham solution pushed by big calendar to sell everyone new, bigger, calendars when the year gets longer.

Gilda didn’t get a house dropped on her, the wicked witch of the east did. I think if you know the story you’ll get the joke immediately, but that “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

That doesn’t mention the lawsuit, or any significant manual recount, so I’m guessing it didn’t go anywhere.

That’s from Oct 30, has there been any update on the lawsuit?

It doesn’t, but roasted cow is tasty, so it just licks off the delicious surface crispy bits, and it needs to do something with the rest of the remains.

The dose makes the poison.

Do you have the count of total votes cast in each of those contests to hand? I’d look, but I’m in the middle of things (yes, yes, lmgtfy and so on ;) I’m interested in if there was a significant difference there too.

I am lucky with my friends and family, and I’m always grateful for that. As I said before, when I say something is simple, that doesn’t mean I’m suggesting it’s easy. The trouble is, no one but the addict themselves can break addiction. Of course algorithmic media, social or otherwise, should be much more stringently controlled, but if it disappeared overnight people who just move to the next source of quick dopamine hits.

Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean you have to let your phone become a “nightmare rectangle”. You already know things are bad, you don’t need to constantly immerse yourself in every detail of the badness. Keep an overview, of course, but save your energy, and your sanity, for doing something positive instead.

Sure, when I say these things are simple, I don’t necessarily mean they’re easy. None-the-less, it is down to each individual to control their behaviour. Having supportive people around you undoubtedly helps, but no algorithm can actually control your behaviour unless you permit it to.

Where I can, I tend to distance myself from those who can’t control themselves, and my family are all pretty disciplined, so the total is around about “everyone I care about or spend time with”.

Here’s a link to the article, rather than reddit: Tomshardware.

That’s what drives me nuts about these sorts of memes, they’re just learned helplessness. You control what you’re viewing. No-one is forcing you to read or watch anything. Some platforms try to mould and filter what you see on them, so simply stop using them, or limit your use if you must dip in. Others have biases that you should be aware of and take in to account.

Curate your own intake, and know when to stop. Put the phone down, and do something else. Uninstall the apps and delete the bookmarks if you must, but take control and stop blaming things you have control over.

now you have to do it more?

That’s a part of it, yes, but the big part is that the code you have to review hasn’t been thought about, because the entity creating it doesn’t think, it just replicates patterns. This means it misses a lot of the more subtle details that separate quality, maintainable, and reliable code from the mediocre.

If you are competent and using an LLM to generate code you’ll put your name to, that mean reviewing a lot of code that isn’t up to your usual quality, rather than just writing it yourself, which is frankly extreme tedious, demoralising, and mentally exhausting. If you’re not competent, you wont catch any of that, and it’ll either just go to production, or it’ll fall to someone else to review it.

If you’re reviewing code submitted by others, using LLMs or not, you’d better be competent, and you’re going to end up flooded with low quality commits from coworkers who’ve either given up or weren’t competent in the first place. While that’s not a new problem, the volume is, and it’s much harder to train people to good practice when they’re abdicating the thinking to a machine. There are lots of other comments here about the difficulties faced there.

That sounds like a relatively good place to be,

It’s an absolutely miserable place to be if you take any pride in codeing. Spending time on design and architecture decisions is part of the skill, but the art is in elegantly solving the details. Spending your day reviewing code churned out by an LLM, is a soulless and tedious way to spend your life.

That link wants me to sign up, but there’s a copy of the letter on wikipedia here.

Yay! Green ones are the tastiest!

slop intelligence incontinence.