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One of the nuclear waste warnings.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

You assume she’s a cave “crawler” but the axolotl is a salamander that evolved to never reach maturity and crawl.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl

I think we should take a nuanced view. Maybe she’s a fully-grown idiot. Maybe she’s just an intermediate step on a mistake of evolution.

Yeah. The internet had long existed when I was a kid but I was poor and didn’t have a full-on computer until I was 17ish. (We had a Brother Word Processor with a screen so I could write school papers and copy/paste but it was just a word processor. We might need to bring those back in the age of LLMs, actually. Like TI calculators.) But I read a lot and I think that’s what formed my core opinions.

My music taste would be way worse. You couldn’t just “check out a band” back then. I now know that I like I the soul and R&B more than whatever dogshit I listened to in high school.

Non-voting democrats were further to the right. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-nonvoters-policy-preferences/

You can probably drop this trope now that there’s plenty of data showing that. It was largely moderate, working class Democrats who didn’t vote, not online leftists.

“We don’t have anyone on the list from America.” [citation needed]

Gen. Curtis LeMay absolutely would have done that.

I live in Orleans Parish in Louisiana and Kamala Harris won 82% of the vote here, the same as Manhattan. Feel free to explore for yourself:

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/louisiana/?r=0

So, please, tell me more about what natural disasters people deserve for how “they” voted.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable experiment and not something they’re going to release without extensive human and security review.

Oauth libraries aren’t new and A.I. can probably generate adequate code. My main problem with A.I. for this purpose is that senior developers/experts don’t pop out of thin air. You need junior developers now if you want any real experts in the future. Maybe you need fewer and more specialized training. Maybe the goal is to offload the training cost to Universities and tech companies only want PhDs. Maybe someday LLMs will be good enough to not need much supervision. But that’s not where we are.

We probably need a Level x capability scale like self-driving cars for this sort of thing.

I don’t mind as long as nicknames are tolerated in casual settings. Like Jr. is called “Junior” (like Dale Earnhardt Jr.), number III is called “Trey.” Number V is “Quin,” I think? (I don’t know what people call IV? I guess you have more freedom there. Trey 2.0? IVan the Terrible?)

It’s not something that would occur to me to find annoying or charming. It’s just a name and families have traditions.

Shorten every meeting by 15 minutes and call as few as possible with as few people as possible. Get rid of TPS reports or whatever bullshit forms the English and Welsh government(s) require.

I mean, fuck, reducing commute times would save people time. Spend the Copilot money on public infrastructure and you’ll increase productivity.

I don’t think there’s much of a mystery to solve here. Basically every country or territory along China’s maritime borders is forming or deepening ties with the U.S. military, buying weapons systems, and even building new bases. A full-blown war between nuclear powers is pretty unthinkable but just a blockade would seriously harm China’s economy.

Of course, everyone talks about just wanting to protect shipping lanes and their territorial sovereignty and shit like that. Peace through strength. Maybe that ultimately turns out to be how it goes. But wars have broken out over some pretty dumb shit that escalated.

I prefer to check my bag unless it’s a direct flight or very short trip just so I don’t have to deal with my luggage. What annoys me more is that booking sites often don’t include the fees when searching. You already have to put in details to search and a lot of them have options panels for things like departure/arrival times, first class or coach, etc. etc.

Just add a few options for checked bags, carry on bags, etc. and show the real cost. “Budget” airlines often end up more expensive after all the junk fees and since so many people just go with the cheapest flight, every airline is forced to use fees to look competitively priced.

I think Waymo is also trying to prioritize safety. I was in San Francisco recently and took one, just out of curiosity, from my hotel to a Giants game. It seemed to stop when pedestrian traffic got heavy instead of going all the way to the stadium. So, like three blocks from the stadium. No biggie. I might have told a human taxi driver I could walk from there.

I’m not sure if it’s a California regulation or Waymo trying to play it safe but I will never get in a self-driving car regulated by Texas and designed to the specifications of one of history’s biggest dumbasses.

As far as I can tell, almost no one is a potential A.I. customer. Devs use GitHub Copilot but it’s not a game changer or anything.

I’m not an A.I. hater. I think it’ll eventually bring great medical advancements and prove valuable. I just think it’s overhyped for average consumers. I don’t think it’s going to be something as revolutionary as smartphones or even Snake on Nokia phones. To me, it feels like a “nice to have” tech more than “essential” tech. And the downsides are considerable. I don’t suspect any Sci Fi shit will happen but making spammers more efficient isn’t worth the carbon footprint.

If a big boat sinks and it isn’t in the Suez or Panama Canal, does it even count? I want days of drama and CEOs pearl-clutching and revising quarterly expected earnings or whatever.

And it’s hazardous? This news just sucks. Not one ounce of comedy was on that boat.

I mostly use Linux but I have a MacBook from a previous job. I mostly use it for media consumption. It’s not the problem it once was but back in the day, Linux and streaming services didn’t always get along because of DRM.

I do like how using macOS pushes me to get the design details right on my own software. I mean, say what you want about Apple but they do usually put care into the aesthetics and design details. When I feel like a project is done because it’s functional, I’m wrong. That extra 10% effort to use the right fonts or consistent margins or whatever is what makes good software great.

So, I would say use it as a learning tool. There’s plenty things that are worse on macOS but it’s different. And that’s healthy. Periodically using a different OS with a different goal is good for you. (Don’t bother with Windows 11. Nothing of honor is to be found there. Distro hop and keep Windows in a VM if you need it.)

I also found it helpful when working from home. Like, I’d spend all day on my Linux machine writing code or whatever and then I’d clock out and just use the MacBook. I could have probably used a PlayStation or done anything but sometimes, you’re busy. Switching operating systems and having zero work stuff on one computer can be good when you’ve had a long day.

The reason we don’t have a Western Hemisphere version is because it would be too much to watch everyone wash Drake in Spanish, French, Navajo, Portuguese, various indigenous languages, etc. Give that man some time to reconsider his decisions. Imagine getting roasted by one of the last speakers of an endangered Mayan dialect. That’s too much. And DJ Mustard has a busy schedule. He can’t make beats for every culture.

As someone who lives near an industrial coast, oil rigs aren’t exactly sightly. They’re hideous. The decommissioned ones turn into artificial reefs eventually but I imagine wind turbines would too and never explode or spill oil in The Gulf.

This one might be 9-0. Can’t get a free bus or private jet flights if you’re not important.

If Nintendo calls me, we’re gonna have words about that Wii Zelda game.