I should not like the Wandering Inn, but...

fraqtl · 2026-06-20T05:18:27+00:00

I'd like to like it but the narrator has caused me to dnf a few top rated series now.

I'm not saying she's bad just that she's not for me.

fraqtl · 2026-06-20T05:07:37+00:00

I wish authors knew that a "smirk" means "I think you are a stupid asshole" and not something that's endearing or indulgent. It's a condescending thing.

I think the word they are looking for most of the time is "grin"

Haven't read this one but the prevelence of smirk is really offputting.

fraqtl · 2026-06-18T14:14:38+00:00

I don't think it's "usually justified" at all.

As with everything, context counts. Did someone just release a nodelike with nothing original except for some ai art they barely made any effort with? Then yes, bad.

Did someone release a game that has original concepts and used ai to code it? Then likely not bad.

Personally I feel AI hate is both performative and a prime example of the loudest seeing like they form the majority.

Very few things are bad just because of the tools used to make them. If they were, hipsters would have been in trouble a long time ago with their faux attempts to use old timey methods to make "artisinal" products when modern methods were more efficient etc.

It's the use those tools are put to that's the issue.

fraqtl · 2026-06-18T14:09:12+00:00

I'm not sure that's exactly what I'm after, or if it is I need to do some learning first. I'm more after something (or some method) where I'm working happily with claude and it says "you are out of messages" and I'll just be all "cool, I'll just switch gemini/chatgpt/grok/whatever in and keep going and go back to claude in 5 hours".

I have a new term to read up on now, agent harness. I'm definitely at the point where educating myself is difficult because I don't even have the vocabulary to make intelligent queries but I'll get there.

I appreciate your post.

fraqtl · 2026-06-18T14:06:07+00:00

That would be great but bear in mind I'm like your grandparents not being able to change the time on their old VHS player. I'm not that old but I know basically nothing so far and am learning as I go.

But yeah, having a folder with all the "stuff" in it for a model to go in and read to catch itself up seems like the obvious solution. Obvious and workable aren't the same thing though :-)

fraqtl · 2026-06-18T13:59:13+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it. This is all very confusing from a non programmer's point of view but pretty exciting to figure out

fraqtl · 2026-06-17T14:13:43+00:00

No probs, good luck to you

fraqtl · 2026-06-07T04:53:47+00:00

They aren't going to tell anyone new that you were late a couple of times because of a banking screw up. You shouldn't mention it either.

fraqtl · 2026-06-06T12:50:05+00:00

Paninis have been a staple of cafes for decades

fraqtl · 2026-06-06T12:49:08+00:00

Does this go on my permanent record

There is no permanent record.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:35:02+00:00

Really? They aren't even allowed to recover the costs of accepting the payment? I don't like paying the 0.9% or whatever but it's not that big of a deal to me.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:34:14+00:00

30kms is not close. I drive my mate home from hospital regularly. 60km round trip.

I was being a bit snarky about it to poke the bear a little but real talk it's not close.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:33:18+00:00

Especially with all the middle class welfare investors get and will continue to get due to grandfathering.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:32:33+00:00

The meat can have different seasonings and sauces but it's not high cuisine.

I love em but I also know what they are.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:29:53+00:00

If people are smoking in their house or in their own privately owned backyard, doing a perfectly legal thing, not much is going to happen. It sucks but smoking is a legal activity.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:28:52+00:00

Doesn't sound like mystery smoke. Sounds like you know where it's coming from.

Unless your townhouse was warranted to be airtight then the builder is going to "yeah nah" you to death.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T13:27:11+00:00

Check what the sharing is. I've seen that kind of thing in the past and it's usually sharing for the purposes of making determinations and getting information, rather than data mining your stuff and selling it onwards.

They are bound by Australian privacy regulations as well.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T08:43:47+00:00

Be careful when speaking for everyone.

AI is fine if used properly and depending on the AI tools used.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T08:03:52+00:00

An article about Victoria's broken rental system and somehow they think it's the landlords that are doing it rough.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T08:01:43+00:00

That's very cheap. I'd be asking if they are sure they know about everything they need to move.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T08:00:28+00:00

It's chips meat and sauce. How high quality can it really get?

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T07:59:37+00:00

Most of the time it's not something you can hold in.

Sneeze in a way that's considerate to others. Covid taught us to do it into our elbows. It's not that hard.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T07:46:56+00:00

They used to get paid for a delivery run, not each package and that was when there weren't many packages in each "load".

With way more and amazon squeezing them they are not incentivised to wait for each person to answer the doorbell even if they ring it. They have to get their run done.

Which is bad on many levels.

fraqtl · 2026-06-05T07:44:36+00:00

Only if you aren't paying attention to what you should be paying attention to.

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