Midair drone collision bothers dozens

European Dockers will be heard! 📣👖

Apple releases IBS 25

Every username in this screenshot is a Kojima character.

Very excited to hear about Elon winning the Masters, US Open, and Ryder Cup this year and reporting a +7 handicap, all while looking suspiciously like 3 or 4 different Chinese golf pros whenever he’s on the course.

Androdunos is the new word I’ll be using to refer to people with ambiguous gender vibes due to constantly wearing a stillsuit.

We follow the science, and the science says mama needs 10AM mimosas at an overcrowded brunch spot!

A hedge fund was able to pivot to this when their previous business model was made untenable by financial regulations!

No, I take it back, keep the original text. Westoids could not conceive of a government actually curtailing socially corrosive business practices.

Currently workshopping ideas for a “we shoot ICE agents” lawn sign to spice up the dull “immigrants welcome” and “no one is illegal” fare in the neighborhood. EDIT: Maybe a “sorry we missed you, we’re training a new spotter” for good measure.

It has never been adequately explained to me how Musk is standing behind the other two Nazis but his head is somehow the height of both their torsos. Shouldn’t it look smaller or is this some LOTR forced perspective trick that I don’t understand?

Yeah, but good luck proving liability in a civil case against the Pepsico-Walmart-Starbucks-Tyson Chicken-Coca-Cola megacorp.

We here at PeWaStaTyChiColaCorp have always stood up for the little guy! The little guy lives at our campus in Omelas and legal has advised us to make no further comments on the little guy.

At least one answer to the question is in the question.

That was a true banger.

OH FUCK I’M GONNA PAAAASTE

We’re one historical development away from :thinkpoopballs:

Lmao, this writer is surely directly paid by the State Department. The other article linked at the end of this one is “unnamed sources (some of them not white, allegedly!) claim that the R1 thinking knows the Truth about Red China, but the Seeseepee demands the machine censor itself”. Do not interrogate why the Evil Repressive State would demand the final result be censored but have nothing to say about the equally visible “thinking” process! Eat the slop!

Generating Python is a special case, first because there’s so god damn much of it in the training data and second because almost any stream of tokens is valid Python. 😉

The code generator remark is particularly aimed at the Copilot school of “generate this boilerplate 500 times with small variations” sludge, rather than toy projects and demo code. I do think it’s worth setting a fairly high baseline even with those (throwaway code today is production code tomorrow!) to make it easy to pick up and change, but I cannot begrudge anyone not wanting to sift through Python API docs.

I’m almost certain you could get 80% of the functionality of this service in plain NGINX, maybe a tiny sprinkle of Lua for the randomness. Serving “static” content is cheap. Add a little rate limiting and I gotta imagine you could run this on a very shitty board for a long time.

There is “use the machine to write code for you” (foolish, a path to ruin) and there is “use the machine like a particularly incompetent coworker who nevertheless occasionally has an acceptable idea to iterate on”.

If you are already an expert, it is possible to interpret the hallucinations of the machine to avoid some pointless dead-end approaches. More importantly, you’ve had to phrase the problem in simple enough terms that it can’t go too wrong, so you’ve mostly just got a notebook that spits text at you. There’s enough bullshit in there that you cannot trust it or use it as is, but none of the ego attached that a coworker might have when you call their idea ridiculous.

Don’t use the machine to learn anything (it is trained on almost exclusively garbage), don’t use anything it spits out, don’t use it to “augment your abilities” (if you could identify the augmentation, you’d already have the ability). It is a rubber duck that does not need coffee.

If your code is so completely brainless that the plagiarism machine can produce it, you’re better off writing a code generator to just do it right rather than making a token generator play act as a VIM macro.

The invention of the insulin pen as an alternative to vials and syringes, too. Edit: I missed “last decade”. Still nice, though.