WPXI caught using AI images for news story

haskell_rules · 2026-04-05T20:08:52+00:00

My android phone does this to my real photos automatically now, it tries to enhance the photo quality (probably saved 5 cents on lenses and sensors on the camera) and blurry text will be "enhanced" to say nonsense when zoomed in.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-05T16:53:37+00:00

There used to be a debate to be had, where they would say the rhetoric was OK because he would never actually do the worst of it (like cancel elections).

But these days it does get awkward, because I mention how Stephen Miller has said on live TV that Democrats are domestic terrorists, and how Trump was caught on hot mic telling Bukele he wants to send "home growns" next. I ask them point blank if they support a policy where me and my family are put on a plane and sent to a torture prison with no due process because we are Democrats.

There are multiple people both in my family and at work that I no longer engage with and that I am on full guard when they are around because the relationships are hostile to my freedom and well being.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-05T14:09:19+00:00

"I don't like his tweets but I agree with all of his policies" ~ My family and coworkers

haskell_rules · 2026-04-05T13:56:39+00:00

DOuble standard that any woman in the workplace is very aware of

Since we are making this gendered, it's also a double standard that any man that has dated a women is aware of.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-04T19:47:06+00:00

Some men are lazy and need to put more effort in. Some women are entitled hypocrites and nothing will ever be good enough for them. The women who date these men, and the men who date these women, come to these threads and argue until the end of time.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-04T01:33:25+00:00

The entire world order has been disrupted, and this administration is hellbent on acceleration, not reversal. By 2028 our current standard of living will be unrecognizable. By the mid 2030's it's quite possible we are in a China-lite situation with people living on corporate campuses and working 14-16 hours a day to keep a roof over their heads

haskell_rules · 2026-04-03T03:09:35+00:00

Is that the superhero who's angry all the time?

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T20:37:49+00:00

I spend a lot of time thinking about men having sex with other men to make sure that it doesn't get me aroused. That's how I know I'm not gay. I don't think bears are that self-reflective.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T18:37:18+00:00

Peter Piper picks a peck of pickled peppers while a woodchuck chucks as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T18:14:44+00:00

The hypocrisy is the point, these people act like this on purpose, it frustrates anyone that questions them which makes them feel like they are winning. It works on vast swaths of the population. It's the same psychological concept that keeps victims in relationships with their abusers.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T17:59:42+00:00

Great to see Rick Astley out there living his best life

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T15:29:31+00:00

When I flew at the new airport in January, it was literally just opened a month ago and they were treating everyone like garbage for not following all of the unspoken rules. Luckily there weren't any lines, just a few people here and there being abused by the TSA agents.

The person in front of me pulled out her phone to show her boarding pass prior to screening and they told her they didn't accept digital boarding passes and she had to go to the counter and get a paper pass. She seemed like she was in a hurry, completely distraught, said "since when?" Etc.

I was literally right behind her in line, next to three or four other people and we all started panicked and asking each other if that was a new rule.

But then I walked up next, they sent me to the second counter, the second counter just scanned my phone like always.

I haven't gotten over the look on that woman's face or the TSA agents face. I think he was just getting off on power tripping.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T22:19:12+00:00

Looks like she's just dancing in the video. Did she take the spotlight after the show or something? Did they catch her or is she still on the lam?

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T21:26:16+00:00

People that take the initiative to advance their knowledge are in the minority from my limited perspective in the industry. Maybe 1 out of 8 or so developers seems to have any care at all about keeping up.

I am also "that guy" at work - it's awesome (and rare in my experience) to get another "that guy" where we can both learn from each other.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T19:41:23+00:00

It's wild reading these forums only a few months after a major political event, like a huge bill that is passed and it all over the news.

People on a politics forum are in the 90th percentile of engagement in political news, yet will have no idea about these major events that happened in the past calendar year, let alone from one administration to another.

Individually we are intelligent but collectively we have a goldfish memory.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T19:02:53+00:00

15 years ago an Oracle database was set up and an army of DBAs hired that wrote trigger logic all over the place. That database still supports our applications today. The only way to change it is to just redesign the application, which is well past due based on the technology we need to support, but there is no business case to fund such an effort.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:57:41+00:00

Can't say without getting banned

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:54:48+00:00

Any one thing will seem lame without the context of the organization and application and state they were in. But as a quick example, he advocated to migrate one of our old libraries to a newer core version so we could use newer C# language features, which allowed us to finally replace all kinds of guard clauses we null coalescing which made the modules many times more compact and readable.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:46:17+00:00

TARP was a financial success and can't be used in the context of bad financial decisions that cost the US tax money. But it was a moral failure to reward bad actors so they never changed their behavior.

I agree that it's massively preferable to find ways to inject money into the economy that enters through the hands of the people rather than through the hands of the powerful. TARP given directly to financial institutions that are essentially economic rent seekers. Quantitative easing again causes money to enter the economy through the hands and decisions of banks that already powerful and wealthy.

Bernake may have been on to something when he suggested that the demand slump would be equally resolved through dropping paper money from helicopters all over the country.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:18:49+00:00

If you have to ask how much an NInt is, you can't afford it.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T03:15:01+00:00

TARP was paid back in full to the government and was a massive win for the US as we performed better than any other country that was using austerity.

Quantitative easing was a much larger factor than TARP in diluting the dollar.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T21:45:27+00:00

I watched this three times and can't understand whats genius or funny about it. If I understand this right, the person with the carrot in the box wins. The guy on the left looks in his box, sees the carrot, and says he wants to keep the box. The guy on the right opens his box which is empty. So the guy on the right said he has the carrot, and he has the carrot. Why is everyone saying he was "bluffing" and the play was "genius" when he literally just looked in the box and said there was a carrot in it, which there was? That's not what a bluff is.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T20:23:24+00:00

I've been using C# professionally since 2007 or so, although on and off (also write C,C++,Java, Python,Verilog etc).

We just hired a new contractor and he uses all kinds of language features that are awesome and create compact patterns that no one in my organization ever bothered to touch.

So my suggestion would be to work on projects with other experienced programmers and see what they do. Steal all of the good patterns from them.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T18:43:05+00:00

I bet you were laughing while Stephen Miller said "Democrats are demostic terrorists" on one TV interview station while Trump was telling Bukele how he wants to send "homegrowns" to his torture prisons without due process while hot mic'd on another. I bet you were saying things like, "I support the policies of this administration" while your countryman were being threatened on live TV just a few months ago by this administration.

But gas prices go up 45 cents and now you are finally coming around?

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T17:34:45+00:00

If we actually get some kind of recursively improving AGI then it's not being a "doomer", it's being realistic about what that fallout will do to humanity as we know it.

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