I am more than a little terrified that some people I know who are professional programmers are using ChatGPT to write some of their code for them.
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Bring back the Dog Licence.
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A quick and worrying thought.
What if the US government shut down… and just never started up again in its current form?
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I’m going to make poor coding decisions in the future, and I know this going in.
But what I’m not going to do is fuck up because I trusted Spicy Autocomplete.
If I cost my company a million quid because I fucked up, I’ll own that.
But if you use an “AI” solution to generate your code and you get burned, I will have no fucking sympathy at all.
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“If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by that man's death," said Scrooge, quite agonised, "show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!”
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The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
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Little pleases me more than watching the remnants of the Conservative Party turn upon each other like rats in a sack.
Long may it continue.
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Pondering if Lower Decks will ever do a Lower Decks episode where it's Higher Decks and we follow the bridge crew in an exciting high stakes episode and every so often we see Mariner and Boimler and the rest of them in the background with maybe a small interaction or two.
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Extra information: the maze was drawn kinda-sorta from a first person perspective, with lines to show walls.
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Long shot…
One of the first computer games I ever saw (the other was Oregon Trail) was in the computer room at school.
It was on what I’m fairly sure was an early Apple machine (2e?) with 5” floppies. The year must have been somewhere between 1981 to 1989, most likely towards the later end.
The game was some kind of dungeon crawler, with a maze drawn in the top right. Character stats and flavour text elsewhere on the screen.
Can anyone help me identify it? I’d love to know. Boosts welcome.
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Reading a news story that quotes Republican congressmen saying that Matt Gaetz will never pass the confirmation hearings.
My dudes.
There will be no confirmation hearings for Gaetz. That ship has sailed.
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On the plus side, Jack Palance has just shown up to chew some scenery.
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Watching an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century because basically I’m a fool to myself and my main takeaway so far is that Buck Rogers is an enormous dick.
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How to successfully do a Resistance.
Y’know. In case you need to.
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/citroens-genius-act-of-sabotage-against-the-nazis-in-world-war-ii/
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Watching The Taking of Pelham 123 (1998) and it’s taking me back to my youth.
Vincent d’Onofrio! Edward James Olmos! Richard Schiff!
But mostly the fact that the copy I’m watching is obviously from an NTSC source, and Jesus Fuck I’d forgotten how bad those transfers were.
Shot on 35mm, IMDb, tells me.
😭😭😭
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God. We’re so fucked.
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I’m here on Mastodon because I found an instance with good moderation.
I had to move at least once, and let’s be absolutely clear I’m privileged on at least two axes as you can see from my profile pic.
If the barriers to entry are too high, and you get smacked with racist shit that’s not easily stoppable, you’re going to go elsewhere.
Right now, the network effect for any of the other new platforms which aren’t Twitter are noticeable, but not insurmountable.
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25 years ago when hiring for the BBC I told HR to forward every single job application to me personally because I knew that standard practice was looking for keywords to filter on and that talent would be overlooked.
Now there are companies who don’t even have a human in that first cutout loop at all. Which once again privileges people-who-know-people rather than talent.
Use the enemy’s tools against them. If those fuckers want an arms race, let’s give them one.
https://www.404media.co/email/df2c731a-b61b-4ed1-91c1-10874e9efe9e/
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Come on, this Tory Leadership Campaign screwup is objectively hilarious.
“I, a GENIUS GAME THEORIST will use my vote for a candidate I dislike, because they will then face my preferred candidate (who is bound to make it through) in the final round!”
Unless, of course, every other nob in the Parliamentary Party thinks the same and the votes get split down the middle and your guy loses because everyone else had the same idea and I am smiling just thinking about how badly these people fucked up.
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At #MongoDbLocaland the speaker has just dropped the trivium that no-one knows what the B in B-tree stands for.
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Is everyone involved dead? Could we not just ask?
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