They get a lot of money because the company and investors that create genuine AI win capitalism. We’re in the endgame now. Or we will be when we are close to creating genuine AI rather than LLMs.

Profits must always go up. Ideally (for capitalists) faster than they were going up before. When you’re putting a price tag on services folks need to live, making sure you hit your projected margins is a lot easier. You can simply choose not to suffer the effects of economic downturn. Unlike the rest of us.

Man, I was so excited to vote Obama in. Of course I disagreed with a bunch of his choices, which is unsurprising — we elected Obama, not me — but I did really like him.

Ironically in this case the bug was in the MVC controller and fixed as part of a ports-and-adapters AOP audit implementation. MVC isn’t immune to it. It was a controller endpoint calling another controller endpoint, because someone was doing a bit of business logic there rather than in the service.

Yes, had they implemented MVC properly they wouldn’t have done that. Anyway your point is well taken but as it happens in this case, the deities of irony conspired against you today.

I think the headline doesn’t convey the substance of the article, but this is spot on. I just ran into a small, fixable problem my developers had created by doing that just this week.

It was easily fixed, but it shouldn’t have been done that way in the first place.

When I read her campaign site, it was just a bunch of generic feel good happy bullshit without any specific stances or commitments. That’s when I knew I was voting for El-Sayed in the primary. Glad I was able to see through her worthless bullshit. Go fuck yourself sideways, Hailey. I voted today and couldn’t be happier to cast mine for El-Sayed.

Hey, Hailey? Suck it.

We all stand on the shoulder of giants. Sharing these tricks is how the world grows. But having someone else sell the fruits of your labor is particularly galling.

Apparently the signals for arousal and fear can get cross-wired in your brain. It wasn’t fear for me, but I remember when I was a hormonal teen, I would play video games and get so fucking frustrated is have to crank one out to feel better. Maybe that’s the same thing. Maybe I was just weird.

Also apparently that’s why taking a date to a horror movie or amusement park can get you laid. Or maybe it’s all bullshit.

I was a little too old to get excited by a split second flash by the time this came out so I never checked, but did they edit her nipple out or leave it?

It’s not wrong the vast majority of the time. In fact, it’s petty damn good at explaining principles and giving feedback on code, but it doesn’t read minds, and so it can be wrong sometimes. It sometimes tells you you’re wrong while explaining the exact same thing you just told it back to it.

People can be wrong, too. I just saw a teacher explain something wrong in my daughter’s online school video. She had the right answer but explained it wrong and confused my daughter. I think it’s fine to prefer human assistance, but AI is really good at having infinite patience and stepping back and covering fundamentals when you aren’t ready to understand a thing.

My point is: however you find the answers you are seeking when confused, keep seeking. Keep asking questions. Keep experimenting.

The difference between a senior and a junior is how long it takes before you feel embarrassed of your code.

Once someone is no longer embarrassed by their code, but can explain it in terms of compromises necessary to get a project to completion on time and within budget, and what they wanted to do at the time but circumstances didn’t allow — I’d say that person is ready for a team/tech lead position.

Can you imagine how much dirt an fbi under direct control of Trump must have on him? He knows how fucked he is when accountability comes knocking.

When I got into computer programming my only exposure was various flavors of BASIC and I think one Pascal class. The first time I took a Java course in college, I failed it because I could not understand object oriented programming.

Then I bought a couple of books on the concept, followed the exercises verbatim and then started trying to change things to understand what was safe and what broke things. Anyway, I’ve been doing this professionally for thirty years now.

When I needed to understand new concepts (to me) like functional programming or design patterns, YouTube was very helpful. You cite it as unhelpful, but I suspect you haven’t fully internalized the concepts required to make those videos click into place. Until you’ve done some things with your own hands, it’s hard to understand why an unfamiliar thing exists or what complexities it solves.

Kafka, to grab an example, just accepts data from one program and delivers it to other programs that want it. It sounds like the easiest thing in the world and anyone could just write that for themselves until you experience some of the edge cases it handles for you.

Basically my answer is hands-on following examples and breaking them and understand why they broke.

Do this for me: hold your phone 9-12 inches from your face and stare at it. Then alternate closing your left and right eyes. See the screen jump left and right? That jump is the amount an image can appear to leave the screen. The photograph is showing you the image of the phone the left eye sees and the image of the fish the right eye sees. The image itself is a fake of course, but it’s likely somewhat close to what it would be like to view the actual 3D display.

I wish he’d come to Michigan and joke about the Epstein files and how he doesn’t care about affordability. Abdul El-Sayed could use the boost.

Between this, someone stealing 2.5 billion from Binance, and the whole running America gig, I’m rethinking my life of not-crime.

Evolution of boneless technology. First there were nuggets, then tenders, now wings. Eventually, we’ll all just be ordering one deep fried sauce-bird.

My nickname for the guy is

Nobody <clap> gives <clap> a fuck.

Trump is obsessed with belittling people with mean nicknames. But they are fucking tired and you don’t have a tenth of Trump’s brazenness to be endearing. Fuck off to whatever country you hole up in while your state suffers climate disasters, you toad-faced suppository.

That’s my nickname for you, Ted.

Call to Gondor for aid, for Sauron’s army draws ever closer.