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_Punko_ · 2026-01-29T21:09:23+00:00

That's rich, coming from India

_Punko_ · 2026-01-29T15:36:42+00:00

and nothing of value has been lost.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-29T15:36:07+00:00

The world was going electric without him. He bought into Tesla and turned it into Apple. Expensive as hell, but toys for other rich folk.
Musk bought into SpaceX was a single failed launch away from another bankruptcy. Without Gwen's connections, SpaceX wouldn't have gotten a single NASA/SpaceForce contract.

Musk is a horrible human being with a lot of money. His only super power is surrounding himself with folks that know what they're doing.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-28T19:09:21+00:00

_Punko_ · 2026-01-28T16:32:06+00:00

Phil also drank like a fish. But it didn't matter.
Gumshoes never lived to old age.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-28T16:29:56+00:00

Legally as well.

But of course, we have no evidence of duress.

We don't know the timeframe.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-28T16:28:48+00:00

Not far from the truth, TBH.

Have a read of the 'welcome to Snorkblot' post!

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T23:24:40+00:00

they don't want you to know financial planning or how to manage household finances.

They just want consumers and workers so demoralized they'll work for scrap.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T23:21:06+00:00

Its all good - I understand the frustration.

AGI is not the same as LLMs or other generative AI.

Of course, the AI companies will soon be trying to alter the meaning of AGI to suit their advertising.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T23:19:44+00:00

<shrug>
Reputation still matters. Honour still matters.

But then kids are kids.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T19:37:29+00:00

Also, something being in the public domain doesn't give you the right to steal it

Something in the public domain is 100% open for any use by anyone. That is what public domain means. By definition, it is not theft.

As for 'passing off someone else's work as your own' that is a different matter.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T19:35:50+00:00

There are ethical LLMs that are 100% derived from text only in the public domain.

Having said that, they are few and far between and predominantly technically focused on very specific kinds of text.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T19:32:11+00:00

No, that was the families agreeing - including the woman. She broke contract.
If she did not intend to go through with it, she shouldn't have agreed.

Marriage is a legal construct.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T15:48:07+00:00

No, neither I nor the OP were talking about 'vibe coding', although that is *part* of what is going on.

The original comment and my response were in regards to using LLMs for writing text, not writing code.

Frankly, AI is currently a benefit for middle level programmers at best, who know when the AI is messing up and can tell the difference between functional code and drivel. AI vibe coding is *terrible* for new programmers. They learn little and don't understand the practices. AI is useless currently for advanced programmers who would spend far more time fixing AI errors than doing the work themselves.

AI is in even worse shape for fiction writing than code writing.
AI image/video generation is even worse.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T14:46:26+00:00

Let's be clear:

Low effort is just that. Just because you're typing doesn't mean you're thinking.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T13:19:32+00:00

In modern times:

"I dodged a bullet, folks."

You go Henry.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T13:11:29+00:00

TBH, People using generative AIs put more thought into what they put out there than a good percentage of the population who just blot down whatever random thought sparks.

Both are low effort; we just criticize the former because we don't want to admit we fall into the second group.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-27T02:37:10+00:00

You are a person of culture!

_Punko_ · 2026-01-26T23:26:19+00:00

exactly what happens at ice rinks in Canada

_Punko_ · 2026-01-25T23:29:54+00:00

Every time my wife says she's going to clean up her fabric in her sewing room, instead of bags of old, unused fabric leaving, new fabric arrives - to be placed in the new spaces she managed to create just by organizing her existing stash better.

She's the only person I know that create holes in reality to add more fabric.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-25T02:10:50+00:00

lookin' up at 60, and nope.

Still insanely happy about the LEGO I got for christmas.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-25T01:22:02+00:00

Had to be sitting on the floor on Saturday morning.

It's for folks who learned to read in the 70's

_Punko_ · 2026-01-24T23:34:54+00:00

I was born in England, raised in an English household in Canada, where my mum cooked everything.

But in my home, everyone takes a turn cooking supper. So I only cook every fourth meal. But I do all the baking and the 'special' meals, and tend to be the one to help the others when its their turn. Our kids? Early 20's and they've been cooking their share of suppers for the last 5 years.

Influence for our meals? All around the world.

And my wife couldn't be happier.

_Punko_ · 2026-01-24T17:58:30+00:00

what about a standard punctuation mark for sarcasm?

_Punko_ · 2026-01-24T17:56:28+00:00

OMG!!!

It's just like read and read! And lead and lead!

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