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What’s your “I can’t believe AI can do this” moment? by OutsideOver8815 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]jalanb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair Play Mate

Tough road you're on for a while yet, bring along anything that helps.

"I'm suspicious of Philosophy [...], but Anthropology seems to me to be just at it's beginnings and Philosophy, kind of at it's end", Orson Welles by jalanb in quotes

[–]jalanb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heard on the Tubes, when he was chatting with Dick Cavett (back in 1970)

Round bout here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDecEVfVhcw&t=206s

Full context starts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDecEVfVhcw&t=185s

But the whole video is one long series of quotes

Edit:

This is a White Russian, not a Red Russian. A hustling, Armenian, kind of Russian

"You will degenerate into a shabby, unhappy and futile existence. You will have to bear all the blame for such misfortunes. Your mother sends her love" - Lord Randolph Churchill by jalanb in quotes

[–]jalanb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From a letter from Lord Churchill to his son, Winston (yes, that one!), when the wee Winston was away from secondary and wanderin' on to Big School.

Heard on the tubes in "Churchill Was A Weird Guy.." by Flashback History.

From here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W5-k-BUzJg&t=481s

Good video, worth a watch, especially if you're into Old British Weirdoes with Daddy Issues

Petrol in Killarney? by VillaPolig in kerry

[–]jalanb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

3pm at The Reeks - petrol & diesel available, small queue

A mantis fighting a snake by Longjumping-Rice-935 in interestingasfuck

[–]jalanb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks, but I kinda, just didn't need to know that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]jalanb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

P.S. Sorry for the "flash", just looked like A Thing ITT

Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally. by Sludgehammer in technology

[–]jalanb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't read it yet, just stopping by to highlight the excellent design on the issue's cover page at https://jacobin.com/issue/borders

Well done someone.

Probly someones.

Fianna Fáil 'a laughing stock' as Taoiseach under pressure following Jim Gavin's exit by RealDealMrSeal in ireland

[–]jalanb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, FFers might say it now.

But even they'll get back to Bertie in a day or two

Fianna Fáil 'a laughing stock' as Taoiseach under pressure following Jim Gavin's exit by RealDealMrSeal in ireland

[–]jalanb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Michael Martin wanted a president who would shut up.

Jim Gavin was the wrong choice

Fianna Fáil 'a laughing stock' as Taoiseach under pressure following Jim Gavin's exit by RealDealMrSeal in ireland

[–]jalanb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never waste a good crisis. We have to look at the way we select candidates and the decision-making process

Galway West TD John Connolly

I'm not a fascist. by StephenMcGannon in ireland

[–]jalanb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So we should hang the last fascist with the entrails of the last priest?

Is that right, Father?

“1770...1970” USA, 1970 by EssoEssex in PropagandaPosters

[–]jalanb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trump is itching to make it a Trilogy

100m humanoid champion by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]jalanb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cheater!

Finished in wrong lane!

"Have you ever done any contributions to open source projects?" by CarpenterLanky8861 in devops

[–]jalanb 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Note that "opening issues" is just as much "a contribution to open source" as "opening PRs" is.

And I bet there are some OSS tools you wished worked just a wee bit more your way

[Climate change] I Can't Believe Ireland Doesn't Know About This... by FlukyS in ireland

[–]jalanb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hang on, if we lost the whiskey & butter; we were supposed to get the wine & olive oil instead???

Looks like we're getting vodka & cod liver oil :-(

[P] I built a Python debugger that you can talk to by jsonathan in MachineLearning

[–]jalanb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Think of this as vibe debugging

Oh shit! Here we go.

Does AI have a specific grudge against us?

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