farmgineer

I literally had a coworker the other day tell me they couldn’t work on something at all because they were out of tokens. Outrank me, make more than me, and it’s a customer-facing issue that is likely part of an incident in production (nevermind that they apparently didn’t even know about the issue that I, not even on their team or product, found).

We also have another project that I took over when moving to my current team. Boss had AI write documentation because of course there was none. It was wrong almost as much as it was correct.

I moved back in 2015 and, while many things about my personal situation are better (though not all), that doesn’t solve the actual problem. Things happening in the US still impact the rest of the world no matter what.

Weird pronunciations of tech terms that were not well known then was amusing at least. I have to go clear my cashAY

You need to help your uncle Jack off a horse.

If you don’t know how many calories you’re consuming, how do you know what to change? It also adds a mild bit of friction and makes one think more before consuming, which is not a bad thing. If you mostly eat processed stuff, many apps have a barcode scanner that, in many countries, already has all the info input by someone.

I did tech support back in 2000 for dial-up and DSL. We were outsourced (though still in the US) for a major telco. We would get punished if we took too long on any call. It was always painful when clearly lonely old folks would want to keep talking.

Your first step should be religiously recording every calorie you consume. Look at those numbers and decide where to cut.

I like summer because it means I’m harvesting things. And maybe one or two dips in the ocean per year. Other than that, it can fuck right off. We get in the 30s and routinely have super high humidity, especially this time of year in our rainy season. I look forward to only like 70% humidity later in summer (should we be so lucky). I also have to deal with ants, hornets, asian giant hornets (big as my thumb and I do not have small hands), and, as of late, potential boar and bears.

I live in a hot climate now and it sucks major major balls for riding a motorcycle

I only go touring in spring and fall for this reason. I use it when the weather’s nice enough year round for errands that are too far for bicycle/public transit and don’t require the car, but even riding 20ish minutes to the supermarket sucks in 30+ degree heat with 80+% humidity.

Replace the US with Trinidad and Tobago and it should be an equal match.

I started to write about covering, but I don’t know the full sensor suite and I assume they can still collect a bunch of data. That sounds good as a first step, though.

So the only thing that changed is that the area lost their own access to them at the termination date, but the camera companies still collect that data.

Sounds like the thing to do is take the cameras down

I’ve heard ‘take THE decision’ with the definite article in very narrow cases maybe twice. I don’t think I’ve heard it with the indefinite and it’s not common either way.

What, no fuel burning its way through his bottom? I guess that’s all I can expect from this universe.

OMFG when is this guy going to get over 2020??!

He won’t. It’s also a pretext to get another term since it is owed to him in his view.

In the Japanese domestic market, consoles are king by far. It’s better than when I came a decade ago, but PC Gaming is still an expensive, niche hobby here. I don’t know what percentage of their market and revenue are domestic vs. foreign and if that matters, but I can’t help but think they looked at the domestic market a lot when deciding to do this.

I’m reading the command to the tune of Du Hast

There have been reports of people finding someone with the same name as a candidate and having them run (I’m sure for money or something) in an effort to split the vote.

I live in Japan and don’t like ranch dressing. I still don’t have a problem with this, really. I think it would overpower the tastes of the ingredients since ranch has garlic, herbs, etc., but that’s their choice.

cowboys have been skipping steps and doing things lazily and poorly well before AI

Of course, but I think not understanding what they’re committing is more dangerous than before (even allowing for the classic “I copied and pasted this from xxxx site”). This is also true when people are fully trusting AI to review code as well.

We use AI for code reviews which I do find useful. It’s still wrong part of the time (sometimes ridiculously so). So far, it’s also failed to provide accurate documentation for various repos which seems like something rather basic. I’m not against all AI (though I do have ethical and environmental concerns with several of the commercial options). I will not have them write code for me, though.

As for the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. I’ve seen a lot of AI budgets exceeded and/or cut. I do think it’s not there yet for a number of tasks but is suitable (again minus certain concerns) for others.