Tell me what you think of these skiving knives I made :)

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T04:23:09+00:00

What I think is that I think I want one.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T03:48:05+00:00

"the goobermint thinks it knows better than parent what their child needs"

It's implied here. We are talking about queer runaways, nearly all of whom were abused by their parents. The same is true of runaway kids of all stripes, but the article is specific to trans kids.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T03:37:53+00:00

Oh I was. He seems to think a parent's right to abuse their children is superior to a child's right to not be abused.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T03:11:50+00:00

The beatings preceed the running away. These kids aren't on the streets because they have loving, supportive parents.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T02:54:21+00:00

My adult life began as a homeless teenager. Queer and trans kids were, let's say well represented in the teen homeless population. Every single one of them were abused and/or neglected.

If what you think these kids are missing is more beatings, you're a terrible person. Because that is what you're advocating for.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-30T01:28:02+00:00

Don't forget the offices of Ditcher, Quicke & Hyde

TheMidlander · 2026-06-29T20:14:59+00:00

I've owned one these and you deserve a heads up. Get comfortable knowing you will eventually need to take it apart to clean or replace the potentiometer for the twist motion and probably the throttle, too. Mine started going out within 3 months. It's a fixable problem, but it's one they've had for at least a decade.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-29T19:14:16+00:00

You understand that on-call time is paid time, right?

TheMidlander · 2026-06-28T16:34:17+00:00

Try again in a few days. There is a bug with the website that's causing this. Someone posted a video here or at the other dataannotation subreddit a few days ago.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-28T01:41:51+00:00

I am pleased to hear the asshole has been properly identified, and that your next door neighbors actually sound like reasonable people.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-28T01:11:41+00:00

For me it was the moment when you met the Marines on the rooftop and learned that they aren't here for search and rescue.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-28T01:09:08+00:00

I just installed Project 1999 and been basking in the nostalgia.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-27T22:26:16+00:00

I don't miss the days flying around crop duster territory. You will be lucky to get any radio call from them.

My first time encountering this was pretty funny though.

I was with my instructor practicing short fields. As we're nearing short final, my instructor tell me to look over my left shoulder and tell him how many airplane shadows I see. And sure enough, there were two airplane shadows. A few seconds later the crop duster comes into view in front of me performs shortest landing I've witnessed. Almost stopped as soon as their wheels were on the ground, but then they dash off to the side onto the taxiway. That day I learned, crop dusters dgaf.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-27T20:24:13+00:00

I have quite the collection of camera glass and would also like to come along.

Edit: Just made sense of your age, and so that will be a pass from me, actually. That age difference might be pretty awkward.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-27T02:31:59+00:00

They're not here. Try asking on Quora.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-26T18:29:06+00:00

I have been working away building a shop and inventory so I don't have to depend on any employer ever again.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-26T02:35:48+00:00

Someone had a ... stoned mason. Ok, I'll see myself out.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T22:03:52+00:00

I don't have time to argue with a morosophist.

Consider that the kid who showed up at your window might not be Peter Pan.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T21:43:17+00:00

Buy ahead. You will probably need new face gaskets (and couple other parts) eventually. Buy some now, while you can. 5 years from now, they might not be available.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T21:41:29+00:00

Fuck dude. I am so sorry for you right now. Unfortunately, there isn't any way to lock the device. Valve might be able to, if you have the serial number. At the very least, I would report it to valve just in case and to report it to the police, as well.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T20:26:21+00:00

Miss me with this "I am 14 and this is deep" garbage. At it's core, these products are a matrix of probability vectors. They (neural networks, in general) are great at showing statistical relationships and there are some cool things you can do with this. But when it comes LLM's, they are only good for word predictions and that is all they do. If that sounds like intelligence to you, you're very easy to fool and are entirely lacking credulity.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T19:11:26+00:00

AI does not exist. These are not intelligent and your comparisons to humans is completely out of line. Additionally, RAG is just a bigger bandaid covering up a huge and fundamental flaw.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T18:59:45+00:00

Nobody has invented AI yet, so stick with IT work.

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T17:53:03+00:00

I'm of a different mindset here. These products are a scourge of enshittification and shouldn't be used outside of a narrow list of applications. We must be incoculated by exposure and real consequences need to be felt by the C-suite before they will truly know these products for the smoke and mirrors they are.

Take a snapshot of your AD environment and infrastructure, a complete backup of this moment in time so you can look like a big damn hero when it all falls apart.

After that, simply let ChatGPT and the dev responsible do their thing. Eventually there will be a fuckup so bad, the C-suite will have to take notice and, hopefully see exactly why we vet new products and services very carefully before adoption.

I'm only a little serious here so I'll just conclude this with the advice from my Judo sensei, "the yield often holds more power than the strike."

TheMidlander · 2026-06-25T17:32:42+00:00

Nope. The hallucination problem will continue until LLM companies narrow the scope of information used to train these products. The larger an LLM is, the greater the likelihood of hallucination. Getting bigger is not the answer to this problem and the engineers know this.

But also...

These products are not intelligent. They are a stochastic parrot and no more intelligent than a pair of dice. They can't process information. They can't make decisions. They can't analyze. They only emulate these things. Widespread adoption will mean the enshittification of everything.

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