Whether they are or not, they don’t cover his throat. Just puts a premium on accuracy.

And remember his definition of anti-Semitism includes accurately reporting the activities of Israelis in Gaza.

Seems like getting a decent answer out of an LLM for a novel problem requires a high degree of specificity and thoroughness in your prompt engineering. Seems like a set of rigid rules for specifying what you want are required to avoid getting broken slop. Fortunately, we have great specific ways of specifying what we want computers to do. We call them programming languages.

Well the other kids thought those of us playing Dungeons and Dragons in the early 80s were nerds. Didn’t help that we also made the best grades. We also didn’t dress like the cool kids. It’s hard to separate all of the factors that caused us to get bullied.

Night sweats. Insatiable thirst.

It will be worse than the movies because they don’t portray how every mundane thing will somehow be worse. Tech support? Worse. Customer service? Worse. Education? Worse. Insurance? Worse. Software? Worse. Health care? Worse. Mental health? Worse. Misinformation? Pervasive. Gaslighting? Pervasive.

Missed opportunity for a Coal Bear that’s black instead of brown.

A recording of University of Oklahoma legend, Brian Bosworth, ranting about the University of Texas. I remember him saying, “I hate cows. I hate orange.” Pretty sure I originally heard the rant on AM 1310 The Ticket in the late 1990s. I have searched a few times over the years without finding it. Every year that passes makes me feel less likely to find it.

Well, I have not been banned from Lemmy for my anti-Nazi opinions.

Were Auschwitz and Daschau tourist destinations or are we on our way to being worse than the Nazis?

A coworker of mine changed his voicemail message to start with the tri-tone that plays for a disconnected number (bah dah deet) followed by a normal voicemail greeting. The auto dialers delete the number from their list when they hear the tri-tone. It did confuse legitimate callers that were trying to reach him though.

Well, the gun would certainly improve my chances in the battle against fascist cops and soldiers. Political resistance is proving to be a failure. The Dems are already thinking that Kamala (proven failure) is our best chance against Trump 3.0 in 2028. No third-party will be viable by that date.

I have given up. Collectively, we’re incapable of long range planning. Climate change and non-renewable resource depletion are intractable problems. A significant number of us refuse to even acknowledge the existence of the problems. Things will have to get massively worse before anyone will have any success in changing approaches.

My coworkers, especially the younger ones, are surprised when they watch me work in vi. Lots of “how did you do that so fast?”

Vim. I used to use emacs in the mid-90s, but I just found that vi was more universally supported. At this point, I am too old and stubborn to learn anything else. I am really efficient in vim.

I don’t think mine would find that to be much of an obstacle to interfering.

I tried to use dd with too much hubris once. I had to restore from backups (which ironically, I had made with dd). I’m usually overly cautious, but I was in a hurry.

I have been gaming since 1980. I have never had a more visceral blown away reaction to a game than the first time I played Doom. We even setup a LAN in our dorm so that we could play it multi-player. The only other computer experience with a similar impact was seeing web pages for the first time and realizing that my parents would be able to use the internet with them (no need to learn usenet, ftp, archie, gopher, and all of the command line utilities that I used). Doom felt so revolutionary.

I bet you can guess from my user name.

Someone is going to release a Trump administration reskin and it’s going to be spectacularly popular.