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If you're right (and thank you for this comment by the way - I hadn't spotted any AI tells, but I think you may be, as they say, absolutely right about the maintenance backlog achi…

So many billions of dollars spent on data centres, and they could have saved a lot of it by just employing you to do the writeups instead.

> And where a stack endpoints on a fixed silence threshold, those same speakers get talked over two to two and a half times as often Is the reader expected to understand this seque…

It's not a joke-it's an honest fact.

I write a Python script for this stuff. argparse with subparsers makes (fairly) light work of creating a command line tool with git-/svn-/etc.-style subcommands, and you get very u…

The elided part is presumably some command that the llm was coaxed into inserting, even though it'd make no sense to do that and a human operator just wouldn't.

I don't remember ever seeing one before either. Will the floodgates now open?

I dunno, man. I just... dunno.

I split the difference and write it "int*w". (Most style guides tell you to declare one name per line anyway...)

It feels like we're witness to the possible appearance of a new archetype: a whole new kind of capital-P-Person! A hitherto-unnoticed plane in personality space is slowly becoming …

It read to me like a book review written by a person. What do you see as the bot tells? I didn't spot the usual obvious things, and by the time I got to the end I wasn't feeling va…

Well, rather your ears than mine.

My thinking was that the landlord would be providing the same internet either way, work from home or no, and it costs the same whatever happens. Sure, you'll maybe use it more if y…

It looks like it supports NEON: https://github.com/erincatto/box3d/blob/781673be801569a94be7...

"Or threaten to hurt them, or their family, or their friends. Then just take the money. What about that option? Didn't think of that, did ya son." "Don, I..." "Listen. I think this…

I found it quite tiring to read as well.

I assume "AI people" is in quotes to indicate that it's kind of a term of art. Like Car People. Or Computer People. Some visible, bothersome subset of the (much larger (like, how m…

It's definitely a theme, but some people are just like that (as has always been the case), and maybe they're the ones most inclined to comment on this matter. Another theory: https…

Who pays per byte for internet?! The other points are well made, though. The lesson, I suppose: bills included is a bad idea. The incentives are misaligned all round.

You misunderstand. They are going to force everybody to pay $5, then force everybody to use chatgpt. 8 billion times 5 isn't much money, but the advertisers will surely pay a lot f…

I never liked xargs either. My replacement is kind of like "xargs -n 1 -d '\n' -J '{}'", which experience has taught me is almost always what I want. It consumes all of its input b…

Not unrelated: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/content-creator/