Today I learned Men Without Hats is releasing a new album and I’m already hooked.

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If your reaction to an expert talking in their discipline is to try to find anything to invalidate them as an authority before actually validating their message, you are failing as a human being.

I feel like people have lost the plot in general. Y’all know we can disagree with things in part right? We don’t need to be “anti” anything. Eg it’s entirely reasonable to criticize “AI”, but you don’t need to define your life by it…

If you post something as a statement or opinion and then lock it from commenting, wtf do you think you’re contributing? Your views are pointless without discussion.

What juvenile narcissist nonsense.

Been using more and more AI “agents” as coding and system design tools, and I gotta say - they really aren’t leading to big productivity gains. Been at this for over a year now, and I just don’t see it.

Maybe the tools will get better? /shrug

A common Programmer brag is being extremely adept at keyboard shortcuts.



Tiling WMs, TUIs, Vim keybindings everywhere, etc...



But is it actually faster?

Apple spent $50 million on R&D in 1989 to prove otherwise:

World feels on fire, but realizing that things like Ted Lasso exist makes all the difference.

Every time I watch the series I see more small details, subtle writing cues, all with huge payoffs.

The number of companies I see laying off massive chunks (10-20%) is crazy. Indicative that the modern “MBA” leaders have absolutely no clue what they are doing.

“Don’t call us fascists…”

And then you declare protesters “domestic terrorists”. Stick a fork in it, America is done.

Whenever I hear someone state something a “objectively” true/false I cringe.

That standard is an extremely high bar to pass - guaranteed your cupcake recipe is not objectively the best ever (or whatever asinine point you’re making)

You fundamentally don’t “get answers” to questions from an LLM.

What you get is a statistically-driven token composite from a corpus of tokens.

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Old Man Take: If your band can’t hold an audiences attention for 5 minutes straight on pure instrumentals, you’ll never be one of the greats.