it is chefskiss.tiff that I keep "having conversations"[0] where people tell me that "AI" is "well-suited" to "data extraction that traditional tools struggle with" and then datapoints like this keep. coming. up.

[0] - I....am not inviting these. the promptfans just Defend their twisted little hearts away, unasked. it is tedious.

I’m sorry, do you trust junior engineers blindly?

as a starting position, fucking YES. you know why I hired that person? because I believe they can do the job and grow in it. you know what happens if they make a mistake? I give them all the goddamn backup they need to handle it and grow.

"this is why code review is so important" jfc. you're one of those "I've worked here for 4 years and I'm a senior" types, aren't you

has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so

ah yes, the dynamite guy award show, a fine institution of the ages

this "view" (of schmidt's) is probably the kind of shit that Really Expensive Analysts espouse at davos and in Private Advisory sessions to the kinds of people who go in for that; I've also heard it about GRT and "the collapse" and more

would be nice if we could know who all those dipshits are, and who they've preached to

can't decide if it's soothing or infuriating to learn/realize that, despite insane wealth causing him to get billionairebrain, he's also always been quite the dim fuckwit

imagine one day buying some shitpost novelty stickers from that one site you heard a friend mention sometime, and then getting them and laughing about it and forgetting it

all too rapidly the years pass: young trees shoot up, older trees start boughing their way past electrical lines, the oldest all already in their position of maximum comfort. whole generations of memes have been born and died. you no longer even get to make fun of your weird aunt for still sending the dancing baby gif (these days it’s all about the autotune clips of a decade ago..)

and then one day you get reminded that the shitpost novelty sticker web store exists by receiving an email from them

what the fuck.

ah yes quillette, that fine bastion of whitewashing

the best-researched article I know of on gender differences in chess

just.... the absolute weirdest thing to pick? like, fucking seriously? or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

subheading: A love story

opener: Note: I am closer to this story than to many of my others

@dgerard "congratulations" on your new stalker

you can unsubscribe. that's allowed.

Because it’s not an intelligence, it’s a machine being provided a template to operate from

all I'm reading here (admittedly between the lines) is that they have a whole bucketload of new PE/life-extending/... compounds they wish to test en masse but not on themselves

I wonder how right that guess will turn out to be