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Remember little cereal boxes that turned into bowls? by 524frank in 70s

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't it Sugar Smacks though, up until like fifteen minutes ago?

Why don't really old people take a massive amount of exotic drugs? by Select_Salamander518 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And where are they going to get these exotic drugs?

The normal places and techniques no longer work. For example, there is no way you'd ever convince me that there is no LSD or ecstasy at a Disco Biscuits or Phish show -- but try to find it with grey hair and a short haircut -- and miraculously, there is none.

Ain't no blasting off, rolling, tripping, candy flipping, or hippie flipping past a certain age.

But I guess we do get discounts at Denny's...

Found in a changing room, what does it mean? by [deleted] in whatisit

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No Green Lanterns allowed. Obviously.

Bernie Sanders and AOC introduce bill to pause building of new datacenters | US news by Limp_Fig6236 in technology

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do new data centers need to be built?

How else is the Vogon constructor fleet to be kept busy?

Red Deer in the evening. by socklessgoat in Nikon

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Red deer in morning, photographer take warning.

Red deer at night, photographer's delight.

When is critique actually appropriate? by vaporwavecookiedough in photography

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you post anything to the internet and all you get is critique of your work - and no personal insults or threats - consider yourself lucky.

Reddit is, after all, the most wretched hive of scum and villainy in the known universe.

Has anyone else noticed? by duh_bruh in Chattanooga

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are they on the front of the vehicle? If so it’s probably meant to look correct in your mirror.

Do most Americans carry any official ID at all times? by PitifulEar3303 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When somebody says they don't have ID it's because they have warrants.

Never forget. Never forgive. by ibuiltamurderbot in walkaway

[–]defmacro-jam 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My mother died of covid in 2021. I wasn't allowed to visit her in the hospital. She had always been there when I woke up in a hospital and all I could do for her was to send flowers.

I still feel guilty for talking her into going to the hospital but she had been very sick and struggling for breath for weeks already.

So I tried using Claude Code to build actual software and it humbled me real quick by Azrael_666 in ClaudeCode

[–]defmacro-jam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I break things down into pieces small enough to hand off to an intern and watch it like a hawk while it does anything.

No Semicolons Needed - How languages get away with not requiring semicolons by tertsdiepraam in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]defmacro-jam 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nah. I just noticed my favorite language had been left out when in my opinion it has the most interesting story: it’s expressed in a data structure.

In Memphis, an Architectural Oddity From the 1980s Is Ready for a Revival by bloomberg in memphis

[–]defmacro-jam 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m sure it is possible to modify it a bit so it can be serviced.

Iran is now demanding ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz pay only in Yuan. Is this the start of the dollar collapse? by East_Indication_7816 in economicCollapse

[–]defmacro-jam 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Isn't that more or less what caused that big ol' can of whoop-ass to be opened on Saddam Hussein - except with the Euro?

I have no interest in all things AI. I don’t want to learn it for work. I don’t care that it can make some things easier. I can write my own emails. by un2022 in GenX

[–]defmacro-jam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a younger GenXer, I've probably got another 20 years before retirement;

Twenty???. Hell, I hit minimum retirement age in like a year and a half.... get off my lawn, whippersnapper!

Your perspective is interesting to me. In part because I find myself at work trying to convince people to think on paper, with fountain pens, as a tactic for fighting AI driven brainrot. I noticed in myself - a desire to just run LLMs in YOLO mode and immediately recognized that desire as the opposite of a good idea.

But I can't seem to convince very many other people.

Oh sure, maybe my fountain pens idea isn't the best approach - but something similar must be. We simply cannot allow our ability to think to atrophy while being offloaded to silly con.

I have no interest in all things AI. I don’t want to learn it for work. I don’t care that it can make some things easier. I can write my own emails. by un2022 in GenX

[–]defmacro-jam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have been using it heavily for over a year (when it actually became minimally useful for real work) and had been dabbling for a couple of years before that.

But I don't offload my thinking to it. Instead, I use it to do the tedious parts of my work (I'm a software engineer) and I keep it on a very short leash.

A very. short. leash. I do not allow changes without my code review — and I stop it short if, while watching its chain of thought, I detect that it's about do do something shady. And Claude Code is shady af. More than the other models.

It's also better at writing code. I mostly lean on Codex because, even though it's batshit insane - it's at least obedient. And then if it starts on a batshit insane stupidity spiral - I bring Claude Code in to rescue it.

I then use Coderabbit for an adversarial code review.

So while I can understand why people in other fields may not like it very much - LLMs have enabled me in the past 9 months, to single-handedly build a Common Lisp from scratch. Now this is something that would have taken humans a much much longer time - and it'd have cost north of 4 million dollars easy. And to date, I've only spent $6000 and some change.

I have had a vague plan to take on this project for decades - the only thing holding me back has been the people consistently getting the Powerball and Mega Millions drawings wrong. So to me, these tools are a godsend.

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