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Guessing this is the relevant part: "worst AI model I ever used "

Not the OP, but I suspect no one goes to my website anyway. (I write nonetheless.)

Me, I'm just scraping the parts of the internet I like, toying with local LLMs… ready really to just shove off.

Yes. When my kids wonder why I don't hate AI the way they do I tell them it's because I hate Google even more. To be more precise, I hate the SEO shithole the internet has become, …

Regardless, we expect better from our corporate overlords.

It's still "be careful what you wish for." We got tech and only then realized all the things that we then lost.

Yeah, what I was thinking—you don't need something strapped on your face to do these things.

I read that as, "Meta is a piece of shit but they're rich and don't care." (Which I guess I agree with.)

Money Pit has stuck with me.

Better than Overflow .

I like how-to videos—restoration videos even more. I find something "restorative" (ha, ha) for the soul—watching a thing made (or restored).

Maybe. I'm cynical enough about how work-organizations function to worry that those at the top will be selective in firing officers found violating policies.

"What I described is a realistic activity criminals do in order to disguise their identity." I've never read about this happening.

Code was never the hard part… once you made it to some level of advanced programmer. Then clarity, maintainability, etc. became the next tier of Maslow's Hierarchy of Coding.

Suspect this was flagged for being obvious.

"Unfortunately Americans remain too comfortable…" I suspect this too will change. We may get to a point where we'll refer to the Great Depression as Great Depression I. We'll see c…

I think we're there already?

Yeah, I'll never understand the disconnect between Wall Street and the mudslide of diarrhetic bad news that has been rolling in constantly.

"And then you have the current president's habit of just lying about everything…" And I suspect, sometime in the future, we're going to discover that the numbers were even worse th…

Yes, but as a nation, we are stupid to go along with it.

As I got older I began to recognize that some things are just bad for society at large. My refraining from a thing doesn't fix the societal ill the thing causes.

And good thing we didn't shitcan alternative (essentially free) energy projects that were in the works.

An ad in a 1972 Race Program touts a brand new Toyota for $1200 (for a sedan, not including tax, freight and handling, etc.). I ran an inflation calculator and… where are the $10K …