https://youtu.be/kSVkprXlc6k

Oh but it can be so much worse. I’ve had to work with a task management system of a company I was doing some jobs for. This system was the absolute worst. It’s one of those SPA this isn’t a website but an app kind of thing.

First thing I hated, as soon as you did anything, it was immediately done. Edit a title? It saves all the time, so other people see you editing. Click on a toggle, oops it’s toggled now, hope that didn’t just send an email to 30 people. Clicked somewhere in the page and it did something, but you aren’t sure what exactly? Sucks to be you. Just want to see what options pop up when changing some setting, nah it’s already set and screwed up everything.

Another system I work with doesn’t do anything unless you explicitly click the save button. And for anything that does something right away, there is always a confirm prompt. I love that for business applications, when you do something you know what it was you did. And you can mess around with stuff, without worrying you’ve messed something up.

But that cursed task management system was designed so you could just leave it open and the view would automatically update with any and all changes. That way you didn’t need to refresh and new stuff would always be seen immediately. Sounds like a pretty nice feature and something I would actually want (even though I do like the old refresh to make sure it’s up to date and not stalled in the background). However the way they implemented this was to have a view state. That view state was what you wanted to see and would be kept updated. Navigating wasn’t really navigating, it was just updating your view state to look at something else. This meant if you open two tabs and navigated in the first tab, the second tab would also change!

Alright not the biggest of issues, just open up another browser profile or incognito or something and log in to for example compare two sets of data. NO! They connected the view state to the account, not the session! I simply couldn’t believe it when I first ran into this. And the app had no way of opening two tasks side by side, it was infuriating. For a second I even contemplated getting a second account, but of course it was one of those SaaS things that you’d have to pay for per account.

I got a message Necesse got its 1.0 release. I played it about a year ago and it was rough around the edges. So I’m giving it another go this weekend.

That’s easy, I keep my Ethernet cable tester next to my Ethernet cable crimper! Where is that? Well it’s where I keep my Ethernet headers! Where are they stored? Easy, next to the Ethernet cable tester!

nO yOu DoNt UnDeRsTaNd AmErIcA iS rEaLlY big!

One of the things I’ve really had AI fanboys going crazy over is by asking them to feed their AI generated code back into the AI and ask for potential issues or mistakes. Without fail it points out very obvious issues and sometimes some less obvious ones as well. If your AI coder is so good, why does it know it fucked up?

This is basically what these new “agent” modes do. Just keep feeding the same thing in on itself till it finds some balance. Often using an external tool, like building the project for example, to determine if it’s done. However I’ve seen this end up in loops a lot. If all of the training data contained the same mistake (or the resulting network always produces that mistake), it can’t fix it. It will just say oh I’ve made a mistake let me fix that over and over again as the same obvious error pops out.

“What are you doing Cooper? DOCKING” - Interstellar (2014)

Sure, but like the other commenter said, everything turns into heat eventually

Well that’s just objectively wrong. Light is EM radiation, where heat is movement of atoms and molecules. Via incandescence objects can radiate away their heat (following black body radiation), however they are not the same thing.

In the end we are all infinitely falling into the pit of entropy

Nah this thing puts out light and probably vibrates as well, so not even 100%.

Pushup like the exercise or like the bra?

I do love me a good wrap and always go vegan. Usually it’s bean with beans and more beans, for a more Mexican like vibe. But sometimes I want something fresh with a bunch of green lettuce like shit, put some cucumbers in there, maybe some fruits and hot sauce to spice it up. My wraps are the envy of anyone as they lay on the plate, looking all nice and tasty.

Then I go and take a bite, the juices go everywhere, along my arm, over the plate and the table, over my shirt. The backside tears out and the insides come flying out and make a huge mess. So I end up taking a knife and fork and eating it that way, much safer than picking it up and taking a huge bite. Still damned tasty tho.

Read the book, it’s 1000x better. The movie isn’t very good, which is sad since I was looking forward to it.

We all misunderstood, Judgement Day didn’t happen because the AI got too smart. It happened because it’s dumb as fuck and people still put it in charge of everything.

Presenting to the emergency room

I really don’t understand why someone would use a bot to go to Wikipedia? Like if you wanted to use the data for training an AI or something like that, you could just download the data directly? Why go through the whole inefficient web crawler path?

It’s so weird as well how they carefully designed these things to just do random shit and lie about it. The technology would be so much better if it actually acknowledged limitations and said sorry I can’t do that. I understand why they did it, because then the hype wouldn’t be nearly as big, as it would be obvious to everyone these things are mostly useless. But for it to be so confidently incorrect or just make up random shit and hope you don’t notice, is so bad.

Just the other day my co-worker was working on some CSS stuff. Earlier he had asked me how to access that function in the tool he was working with. I told him be careful, this is technical and pretty hard. But if you need help just let me know. So a few days later he came to me, said he got it all figured out, there was just two little issues.

First issue was he blew up a thumbnail photo to be pretty huge and didn’t like how it was all blurry and ugly. I told him that’s what happens if you scale up a raster image. He said well why don’t we use SVG then? That always scales without issues. I blinked as I didn’t know he knew what SVG files were. I tried to explain SVG is just a file format (and a pretty complex one at that), you can put a raster image in an SVG image, but that won’t solve anything. The key difference is raster versus vector, raster won’t scale without quality loss, vector will (to some degree at least). I said we use vector where possible (and not just in SVG format), but photos are pretty much by definition raster so that won’t work. I don’t think he understood a word I said, but we moved on to the second issue.

Second issue was this really weird bug where the entire page would get messed up. Something I never saw before so I asked to take a look at his code. This code was wild, weird comments all over the place. Stuff with very obvious errors, only to be then corrected a hundred lines further down. Or stuff that was pointless, redundant or nonsensical. And the stuff that was “correct” was only correct in terms that it was valid code. It was things that one should never ever do and would only “work” in a very specific situation (eg my coworkers browser, screen and page combination).

My AI bullshit detector was going off as I stared at the code in disbelief. I asked who wrote the code, he said he did. So I asked how he got to this point as I thought he didn’t know any code. He said he used a combination of tutorials on the internet and his own creativity. After a bit of prodding about specifics he couldn’t answer I said: This code looks like it was written by an AI, is that true? He broke down and said yes it was all done by AI. He acted like I was the asshole for calling him out on it and he simply didn’t have the time to dive into these things and actually learn stuff. So he used the AI to get it done fast. I was going to say if he didn’t have enough time, he should have focused on a lot of stuff he was supposed to do and hadn’t finished instead of messing around with this nonsense. But I thought better of it and instead said the AI generated total bullshit and in contrast to what the marketing says AI can’t actually code for shit. So I offered to write the code for him if he explained what he wanted to do. Half of his ideas were plain bad ideas and some actually illegal as they would not meet legal usability requirements. But I understood the gist of what he wanted and took an hour to write his code for him. I later heard he took what I did over to marketing and told people there it was his “design”.

People slobbing the AI knob are so fucking annoying. And the AI feeds into this with their flattering language, making these idiots think they can actually do something. Braindead all of them…

I’m a huge fan of sweet and savoury in the same dish. Pineapple on pizza is great, but there are a lot of dishes from South-Asia that combine unique flavours. One of my favourites is rice with a yellow curry sauce with raisins and peach slices on the side. There can even be nuts in the rice to mix it up some.

People need to step outside of their food comfort zone and try out different things.

This joke is pretty damned old at this point. This video was posted 15 years ago, but I think I saw it earlier than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avaYymFHrE