I still don’t even understand what this movie is about. I saw the preview, there was a guy doing a silly dance on top of a desk, coen-bros-style, but the rest of the preview left me with no impression at all that I might want to watch this.

I feel like this is what the Habsburgs looked like, actually. Those paintings all look like caricatures of these guys.

I had a “Free Canada, Trade Mulroney” shirt. Smaller text suggested we would accept the return of Michael J. Fox in trade.

My plan is to pick up one of those new Commodore flip phones. They have minimal screens for stuff like weather and texting and such, and they do mobile hotspot, so you can bring whatever portable system you like along with you.

But I do agree, there’s a number of Linux phones already done, and anyone who understands this at all knows that Android is already Linux anyways, so at some point someone is gonna release a tablet-form, not-locked-down ARM machine that runs Linux, and many people will want it.

I take exception to the headline; modeling is one of a large list of Animation related tasks that Blender is capable of.

He didn’t anticipate that the leopards would eat his country.

And he did so because they had no possibility of remaining a relevant party without servicing their crazies a little more, just like Reagan did and Bush escalated, bringing us this.

GenX here. A very tiny subset of us were screaming not to do the FTA, way back in the 90s.

Programming is a very non-fuzzy topic; it’s no surprise that as the great delusion shakes out, generated art is too despised to be a significant revenue stream, and so far as I can tell the generated human text is still amateurishly bad.

But it’s a fact that these models have been trained on just about every bit of publicly-available code, which by and large, is good, working code. Not every bit of it, but enough that I have yet to see the thing spit out bad syntax… though it catches my bad syntax every time.

I have not and will never try to use it to write code for me, but it’s a smashing tutor, and I could certainly see an experienced dev who knows exactly what they want, handing off the building of tedious functions and stuff, piece by piece, and getting back good, compact code. I believe that the problems we’re having are to do with someone handing off the building of an entire website, or an entire app, that’s where you end up with runaway dependencies, bloated and badly-written functions, etc.

Now, it still goes idiot all the time. I point out that my push function is failing because the ringbuffer_is_full check is returning true every time (I’m very dumb when I’m first starting out on anything), it “sees” the problem and tells me correctly what to do to fix it, but it talks about the function returning false every time. Correct answer, but the dressing on the salad is wrong. This only happens, though, after I’ve been in the same chat for a while (context window overflow).

In other words, it’s a tool that humans can use, while keeping an eye for that kinda thing, but it certainly will not replace anyone, though we’re going to absorb a lot of damage from stupid rich people trying.

In other news, I had a dream last night where I was hanging out with an old ex, and when she showed up, she (somehow) told me that not only had she gone blind since we last talked, she had then gotten a brain tumour and had her head amputated. So I was walking around with my headless ex all day in this dream. I don’t dislike this ex, we were just walking around (how?) and talking to people (HOW?).

I wonder if this is a product of me conversing with something that has no consciousness so much this last week. Or maybe it’s the Ed Gein series we’re watching, I dunno.

I’m not walking around touting it, cause this is a time of battling cults. But I have been using an AI as a tutor to teach me how to write C code, with an eye towards kernel contributions and other things that require that speed. Obviously it’s a more marketable dev skill, even in this time, than the Python I know. It is very good at teaching, actually. Too bad about us all perishing by asphyxiation.

Here in Canada we do things right. You trying a Robertson head once, feel how the drill never jumps out of the screw, you will wish you were Canadian too.

I am one of the fortunate (right handed) so I remember one of my uncles eliminating all confusion by asking me which hand I “right” with.

What a shitstain.

We’ve seen this movie before, when they adopted systemd. It’ll be fine.

Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining

Fundamentally, it’s got a political mission statement rather than a technological goal (ie. Debian seeks to be a very stable distro that moves slowly). All the money in the world won’t fix that, but he’s gonna have a lot of fun for the next few years.

Because neurotypicals are rarely understood by us.

“Tech’s biggest names”

More like capital’s biggest scum

If there’s a long game that we might like here, one thing for certain is that we will see zero sign of it until after the treason referendum has happened, and failed. So expect no joy from this PM until November at the earliest.

The most capable technocrat, to be sure. And competence is very reassuring. Still, I despise the man, and yet I support him fully today.