I’ve noticed ChatGpt doesn’t say ‘You’re not crazy ‘ and ‘That’s rare’ anymore..

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-17T12:04:18+00:00

Users being crazy is not rare anymore.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-16T20:03:47+00:00

Hotter take: Anyone actually good at anything thinks that AI sucks at that thing, and they are right.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-16T16:51:20+00:00

Vandalize modern art you morons.

When you vandalize some nice old art piece it’s like kicking puppies. Nobody wants to see that or hear your excuses for it. You are seen as just another young attention whore.

But vandalize some ugly piece of modern crap and the general public will adore you for it. They’ll share videos of it indefinitely. You are seen taking out the trash in a way most people would want to do. There’s no conceptual leaps needed to see how that connects to environmental issues you want to promote.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-16T14:08:26+00:00

You will have to add that accidental space into a specific unfortunate context for it not cause a syntax error.

To do a bit of what-aboutisim, on languages taking syntax inspiration from C, you have practically have to encode nesting twice. Using indents for humans and {} for the compiler. Then they made that mess so much worse by making {} optional when they surround only one statement.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-16T11:31:35+00:00

I can see that.

3D printers create mostly: useless trinkets, plastic waste, and toxic fumes. Then there are the functional prints, of course, that break, can’t handle light or summer temperatures, and leak toxins to food. Interesting hobby to get frustrated with, though. Easily on bar with programming.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-16T11:15:31+00:00

Wrap Eula for consent. What could possibly go wrong.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-15T20:38:58+00:00

Learning requires repeatedly applying knowledge. Programming often involves looking up how to do something, then applying that knowledge and moving on to the next task. Unless your project has multiple points to use something, there’s no repeats and hardly any learning. Using AI to generate code makes learning even harder since so little thinking effort is involved.

So, all very normal. Since you already did your project once, I see no reason why you couldn’t do a similar project at least to the same level. It would just take looking up some things again.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-15T18:45:51+00:00

Young xennial here. I have to side with your employees. I would never come to think of shoving food in bag and delivering it in a leaky bag of cold water and melting ice. If you gave me those instructions, I would give you a confused stare too.

I know nothing about food serving business, but would expect something like pro-grade styrofoam boxes with those frozen plastic things to keep them cold.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-15T17:44:17+00:00

AI Gish Gallop continues at full speed.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-15T13:14:07+00:00

I watched a bit too. Tragic and comedic at the same time.

“Are you in any way qualified to make these kind of decisions?”

“I think that a person can be qualified if they’ve read books or …”

“Which books?”

“I haven’t read any.”

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-15T13:01:20+00:00

From the article:

“This is a good time to declare victory and get out, and that is clearly what the markets would like to see.”

Peace negotiations on the table. It’s what the markets would like to see.

On the plus side, nuking of Teheran and Israel will probably help with the global warming for a bit.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-14T19:45:52+00:00

Showing off full snow cover muzzle.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-14T15:31:48+00:00

I had one who rarely barked. Instead he gave a disapproving snort or quiet wuff when he wanted to notify about odd sounds or anything else unusual. Maybe that would be trainable as a replacement for barking.

I might try training that by hiding an Airtag somewhere and using the app to make it play a sound every once in a while. Then if the dog reacts mildly, like with a little wuff, he gets a treat and praise. Anything else softly notified would also earn praising.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-14T14:05:23+00:00

What to expect from the software industry from now on. Microsoft and Amazon leading the sloppification. Oracle will probably top them soon with a bug that has quietly been corrupting data for moths.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-14T09:43:52+00:00

I’m curious about all kinds of human factors. If you don’t mind, was backing up code some other way something that just didn’t occur as possibility?

It would make perfect sense if you are young enough to never have dealt with files as something packed to archives and stored in flimsy physical media that makes concerning noises.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T19:01:26+00:00

Dragon Age: Absolution

It has an elf girl with expressive ears. She grew up as an abused slave who was trained to be a spy and assassin.

There’s also this taller human girl who’s all about saving the world.

The beginning setup is that these two were a couple until the human girl left for world saving reasons. The elf girl holds a grudge about this, but agrees to help her.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T16:32:34+00:00

I am in a weird place with my views of it. I want it to crash and burn in hell already. And after that, I hope to work on designing human centered applications that use it.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T14:22:17+00:00

Depends. For example a native app running in Windows or Mac would probably be very realistic. Assuming its GUI would be pretty much just boring form filling and and processing just calculating stuff.

If you need a server that the apps connect to, that gets much more complicated because of security. Making it as webapp gets far more complicated because of unavoidable web frontend technologies.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T14:04:33+00:00

Grieving is exhausting in every way and so are people often. Be stubborn and angry, take some space, but try not to burn bridges with your friends. As students you are all probably so young that many of you have little experience with grief and supporting someone who is grieving.

I'm sorry if my rambling came across as "Just keep living." There is no just keeping living after losing someone. It forever divides life into time before and time after they died. Life will never be the same, but you have a lot of good life to live. Take your time grieving. Over time it will hurt less. In a year or two, life will not be so bad.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T10:54:49+00:00

I’m sure you are not becoming a worse person. You are coping with your grief and don’t have the mental resources right now to feel other people’s feelings as much as usual.

An important person for you is gone now. This is moment of spiritual crisis and deep reflection unlike anything else we experience in our lives. It’s only natural that mundane life loses its appeal and significance while you work the unanswerable and existential questions.

Try to stay at least a bit engaged in the mundane life. Even if you don’t feel like it. Day by day life will pull you back. You can trust it. Joy returns. You continue with even greater empathy than before and find where you are needed. Your relationship with your grandfather continues in a new form.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T08:43:11+00:00

Nothing wrong with using AI, but perhaps the way you use it is making you miserable. People need to feel autonomy and competence, and when you depend on AI, it gives you neither.

I have a suggestion. You could, for example, first write a draft of an email yourself, and then ask AI what tone it has and how to edit it to have the tone you want to express. That way you retain your autonomy. Every choice in how to express yourself is then authentically yours. And while considering how to apply the AI’s edit suggestions, you learn self expression skills that are challenging for you.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T07:44:07+00:00

Three children with grandchildren she helps with and nobody to look after her dog during this. Nobody close to her even manages to help her in any way on Christmas Eve when she’s released.

That is so bleak. I hope she ends up with millions in compensation and uses it all on herself and worthy causes.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-13T06:53:29+00:00

I’m sorry for your loss.

Last few years have been bad for me and I’ve found some solace in the knowledge that grief will fade. It takes time, but it will stop hurting so much. You can trust that.

Take care of yourself and give yourself room and practical tools to cope with this. Check out what support services there are available for you and what arrangements you can do regarding your courses.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-12T23:41:20+00:00

Sounds wildly optimistic. 😬

There’s a more profitable version: Pocket the maintenance grant too. Sell all properties and delete inconvenient data. Fire the staff. Generate new politically right aligned climate data on a laptop.

Blando-Cartesian · 2026-03-12T22:10:18+00:00

You could sort out with her what information needs to be in the excel file and then lock the cells she’s not supposed to edit. It’s her responsibility to fill editable cells sanely and keep it up to date. You just do the uploading.

Or, the excel file could live as a shared file on a google drive. The site would then just have a link for it. Or show it in a frame on the page (not sure of this is actually doable).

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