apothegm

3 ms·

61.
by apothegm 2mo ago
My mind went to alfalfa because lawn grass isn’t a crop. And I for one didn’t know alfalfa isn’t a grass. I suspect its being a legume is not common knowledge.
62.
by apothegm 2mo ago
“Crop grass” sure sounds like “alfalfa”.
63.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Typing in something like this still just takes me to the search engine’s page (where depending on the engine and the calculation there is sometimes an answer at the top).
64.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Yikes! I wish you luck. I promise better workplaces do exist.
65.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Now what happens is that basically-working but poorly-designed code gets pushed anyway, with half-assed bot review. What happens next is that complexity and defect rates gradually climb until the software becomes too fragile to change witho
66.
by apothegm 2mo ago
This reads like a Taco Bell PR piece.
67.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Because scammers are so good at following regulations already?
68.
by apothegm 2mo ago
I hope you’re already looking for a different job. Because it’s never worthwhile in the long run to sacrifice your own mental or physical health for someone else’s career prospects or profit.
69.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Not just the right level of abstraction but the right choice of abstraction.
70.
by apothegm 2mo ago
No need. The probes are about as real as birds are.
71.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Was this sponsored by the sugar industry?
72.
by apothegm 2mo ago
I do it more when typing on mobile. Ain’t nobody wants to read (or try to edit) paragraphs almost as long as their screen is tall.
73.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Another (worse than ever) Actions outage today.
74.
by apothegm 2mo ago
You can’t take it with you. But you can run out of money late in life and spend your last half decade either on the streets or marinating in your own feces in an understaffed nobody-cares state run nursing home.
75.
by apothegm 2mo ago
The adage that nobody uses more than 25% of MS Word’s features — but it’s a different 25% for each user.
76.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Roughly 2002-2010 that attention to detail was on display and the OS struck an impressive balance between features, ease of use, and power user access. Since then it’s been straight downhill. First they stopped investing in desktop in favor
77.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Gee…
78.
by apothegm 2mo ago
If those 2-4 weeks a year are hot enough to kill infants, the elderly, and people with health conditions, though…
79.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Yeah, that article was silly. Yes, setting up a new phone is a giant annoying exercise in yak shaving, but that’s to be expected when transferring to any device. That said, I’ve had to unlock a door with a dedicated phone app, and it’s alwa
80.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Claude has a specific version that typically starts with “it’s” or even more often “that’s”. It takes the construction “That’s not a bug. It’s a feature.” and applies it to absolutely everything.
81.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Yes. Because until now it was propped up by immigration — and mostly legal immigration — which has dropped precipitously.
82.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Okay, I’m the first to get annoyed at LLM-ese. But language requires the ability to say that something is A and not B. There are certain phrasings of that that are painfully Claude-esque, but ffs the one you quoted is the type of thing an a
83.
by apothegm 2mo ago
That’s the thing. LLMs don’t have any logical ability. Only predictive ability. They’re not the same. And that’s why LLMs are a) unreliable and b) not a path to AGI.
84.
by apothegm 2mo ago
The latter, and/or cultivating favor with certain people in positions of power. I haven’t been paying that much attention, but IIRC CBS was acquired relatively recently by someone with right wing associations.
85.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Comments should explain WHY. Why this needs to be done. Why we’re doing it this way instead of that way. Why this works when it looks like it shouldn’t. Why the business requires this rule/check/transformation/etc. why you wo
86.
by apothegm 2mo ago
They’re not, but a certain faction of the US right is taking them as a model nonetheless — I’m assuming they covet the sort of power the oligarchs there enjoy.
87.
by apothegm 2mo ago
I’m not following it closely, because I don’t believe that within my lifetime we’ll achieve anything that’s effective and safe; or if we do, it’ll be too late for me and more than I could possibly afford anyway. But knowing there’s plenty o
88.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Dude, even setting aside the question of whether eliminating aging is a good idea (for the economy, for the species, etc), what makes you think nobody’s working on it? And lol, easily solvable? Scientists have been trying to figure it out f
89.
by apothegm 2mo ago
IIRC in the past they’ve shut down some TLDs for now-defunct former countries.
90.
by apothegm 2mo ago
Most of us don’t interact with our registrars often enough to notice changes in support culture, and who has time to be constantly checking for changes in their ownership, if that information is even available? If you’re spending that much

More ›