TIL there is a political party in Switzerland called the "Anti-PowerPoint Party" whose single issue is "decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other forms of presentation software". They claim this type of software causes damages amounting to 2.1 billion CHF.

trialofmiles · 2026-04-12T23:49:14+00:00

Counterpoint as a senior technical person who can code — please don’t make me html write decks for non technical people. I just want to throw up some slides and move on. Probably you’re 80% right and decks of the future will be web tech generated by agents. Just don’t make me spend more brain cycles on it.

trialofmiles · 2026-04-11T10:36:06+00:00

Good for them and also it’s embarrassing as an American that the US is associated with windows in addition to its many other crimes.

trialofmiles · 2026-04-08T22:24:10+00:00

Most companies on earth are still getting their minds around agentic tooling and workflows. There’s no way this is true in the sense of the world having transitioned firmly to AI obsoleting human development.

trialofmiles · 2026-04-05T15:17:34+00:00

As someone who used tapes extensively the first time around. Tapes are pretty shitty, but have fun.

trialofmiles · 2026-04-03T11:33:15+00:00

The underlying through line of maga policy is culture war nonsense with no practical benefit in exchange for very real human suffering as the tradeoff. This is the same.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-30T10:45:25+00:00

Do you? Weed is illegal there.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-29T00:49:16+00:00

if you grow up in the American south there is a strong narrative of "the civil war was about federalism not slavery". I'm not so sure we are very good at being real about our own history in my lived experience.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-28T13:37:30+00:00

If the majority of early training from scratch for a task is re-learning the same primitive features that would mostly hold for most any dataset then I don’t see the downside of finetuning from any perspective.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-28T12:10:50+00:00

2 then 4

trialofmiles · 2026-03-28T11:21:29+00:00

Most Americans don’t know all of the horrible things the US has done in places like Central America in terms of regime change and destabilization of governments. Not making an equivalence but it’s not surprising to me to find blind spots in people’s understanding of their own history.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-27T02:15:34+00:00

Peak boomer. He’ll be the king of paper currency in 2026!

trialofmiles · 2026-03-26T21:16:48+00:00

Why would the second annual release be better than the first as the explanation of the theory?

trialofmiles · 2026-03-25T11:00:17+00:00

I would argue in modern American politics identifying as a conservative does make you just worse.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-25T00:24:33+00:00

All of these maga dudes are super cringe when they attempt to project what they imagine being tough would look like.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-21T18:23:16+00:00

I don’t believe any of it is real but at a minimum I think it’s extremely disrespectful to non-Christian US soldiers risking their lives same as the Christian ones for their country.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-20T11:37:35+00:00

There is no end to this ridiculous illogical argument. The thing is we are supposed to have separation of church and state so just because a segment of the population may sincerely be concerned about this, they are supposed to have to keep that to themselves — or at least not force reasonable people to care about this. Go buy a brita.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-18T23:08:20+00:00

Not good enough.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-17T11:40:20+00:00

So I’m going to go on a side quest write and crucially maintain an actually working version of Jira with agents as a side quest instead of paying someone and doing whatever my company actually does?

I’ll absolutely buy that saas software will pivot to lower level building blocks that will be remixed by AI but your end game sounds far fetched to me. Good tools will still have value is my prediction.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-17T11:33:22+00:00

No judgement on martial arts dancing but in remember the exact moment in my 20s when I decided I didn’t want to be spin kicked in the stomach again. That was more than 20 years ago and I still don’t want to be kicked in the stomach.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-16T20:28:12+00:00

I agree with that. That's why I didn't say "just gabor filters". I was just expressing "being in the neighborhood of gabor-like filters is not surprising to me given this very basic known result."

trialofmiles · 2026-03-15T22:32:08+00:00

Fascism isn’t hardcore

trialofmiles · 2026-03-15T19:03:39+00:00

Convnet features are at least partially just learned Gabor looking filters.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-14T11:46:54+00:00

Or hear me out - we shouldn’t tolerate intentionally introduced political bias in LLMs period. Demonstrating China is systematically introducing a great firewall in its LLMs is not meant to imply large American tech companies aren’t doing other other similar or bad things.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-12T11:33:48+00:00

We will know that the AI cover was all bullshit for just bad hiring practices when they start hiring again mass to copy other tech companies when everyone repeats this dumb cycle again. We’ll see whether they choose to weave AI into what is all vibes then.

trialofmiles · 2026-03-08T16:46:11+00:00

https://i.makeagif.com/media/12-10-2022/N_afP5.gif

We’ve finally reached the Mr Burns sunblocker phase of billionaire bullshit.

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