Had a new hire try to do all his automation programming in python with an AI. It was horrifying.

Lists and lists and lists of if else statements they caught if a button errored but never caught if it did the right thing. 90% of their bug reports were directly due to their own code. Trivially provable.

Work keeps trying to tell us to use more AI but refuses to mention whether the training data is using company emails. If it is then a buttload of unlabeled non public data is getting fed into it. So only a matter of time until a “fun fact” from the AI turns into a nightmare.

Most of our stuff is in an obscure field with outdated code, so any coding assistance is not really that impressive.

Oh my god we just bought a house and I feel this too much.

The previous owners will constantly shift between roberts, phillips, hex, and flathead within the exact same sheet rock wall.

Yeah, the performance pushed me away as well. I haven’t had a graphics card struggle in a long time. It was very painful to see it happen to me in VR. Like damn near nauseating.

Oh my god yes!

I always thought that heaven sounds like hell. It’ll be great for about a week but eventually nonstop perfection would become so monotonous. Like playing a video game that you completed for all eternity. It’d be the worst kind of torture, to make everything you love into something you get bored of.

Have you looked at resonite at all? It is what they’re trying to aim for.

I’ve brought it up before but every time I mention it’s been like that for over a decade, they all lose interest

My neck clicks whenever I turn to the right.

I mean… it’s not, quite nature… but a massive cornfield, surrounded by more cornfields, surrounded by more cornfields.

One of my relatives is a farmer and I remember sitting on his porch and hearing absolutely nothing, nothing but corn. His neighbors grew corn, his neighbor’s neighbors grew corn. It was just, pure corn stalks. Everywhere.

No bugs chirping

No birds flapping

No squirrels running around

No cars on the road

No planes in the sky

Just wind through fucktons of corn. It was so surreal. It was the closest thing I’ve ever heard to total silence. It was like living in a barren wasteland but everything was green, with endless food. It was both chill and unsettling all at the same time.

Oh that’s clever, I’m keeping this one in my back pocket

What’s at the start of an era, twice in a generation, nowhere in an instant, but awaits you at the end of time?

What I usually do is think about all the time today when I wanted to be left alone. To be uninterrupted. To just get five minutes to myself.

Because now, I have it. I have all the time in the world. I can do nothing. I can let my mind wander. No one will interrupt, no one will dump bullshit on me. Countless times today I just wanted a pause button for five minutes and now I have hours to just do nothing.

Then I wake up and realize “nope, all that time is now gone”. Can’t catch a fuckin break.

Oh I found it, but it also was on eastern time. I’m in the central time zone. So without a syncronize step it was an hour ahead.

I was just looking for something to put in the background while my wife and I chilled. I just like to have that 10 second countdown ya know?

I won’t say it’s hated but I feel like it completely fell under the radar because of covid.

Ron’s Gone Wrong

I really liked it. It came out of 20th century studios, I suppose it’s technically under Disney now. It got released and no one gave it the time of day.

Now you’ve reminded me of this joke again.

Gotta love that narrator. One of my favorite narrators in a movie.

Murdoch was dead on. I thought face was pretty good. Liam did a decent Hannibal and BA was fine.

What irked me was this weird back story of like… trying to let face taking over to lead the group sort of thing, plus the romance. It really rubbed me the wrong way.

Like, the A team isn’t some club, they’re this perfect storm of chaos towards bad guys, there isn’t so much a hierarchy as just this inexplicable plot armor and audacity. If it wasn’t all four it would all fall apart.

Oh I agree, it’s horrifying. And I have noooo guarantee that it’s me doing the jump. Don’t misunderstand I am NOT the only real mind in this example. I’m curently just hitching a ride on said laser beam. No guarantees that I will be the same or even exist if somebody so much as moves a pebble into the past from the future.

Existential dread all the way. If we get time travel I think it’s as horrifying a prospect as teleportation on a universal scale with only the traveller maintaining continuity.

What happened to the timeline you left? It must still exist. You couldn’t have been the only consciousness that was experiencing it. To think otherwise is some extreme solipsism.

Why does it need to remain? It seems like solipsism to assume it must remain because it’s your point of origin. If something or someone has the power to drop something into the past why wouldnt it overwrite everything? I don’t see why consciousness even gets applied. The universe keeps on whether I am alive, asleep, or dead.

I see the path of time like a laser beam in a house of mirrors. If someone has the power to add a mirror somewhere. Yep, the whole beam after the fact is a vastly different pattern. Any multiverse would be entirely virtual and theoretical.

You don’t share food if you’re starving. You don’t share time if you work 12 hour days, every day.

If you spend all your energy on survival, you got no energy to spare on anyone else. I bet our hypothetical starving person would be moral and share, if they had the chance and materials.

If they don’t… then it’s not a matter of won’t it’s can’t. People are more likely to share food they have excess of, time they have excess of. If they can’t spare it, they won’t.

So what, then bribes and intimidation just… aren’t actually effective ways of bending morals?

I gotta say I have 0 papers backing me, but I feel like the fact that the very concepts are words in the English language carries some weight.

… How much are you willing to overlook to keep yourself from going homeless?

There just ain’t enough protection for whistleblowers right now.