joquarky

Sorry I'm too busy being concerned about survival at the moment. Half the people on this site reside in ivory towers.

There is going to be such a huge backlog.

The customer is always right.

If you choose to cook at home instead, just add some MSG to your recipe if you're craving junk food.

I hate it when people pick up a phone while I'm using the modem.

Religion is just training wheels for spiritually. You're supposed to take them off eventually.

I remember being explicitly taught in grade school that only other countries have propaganda.

You can avoid all of this by just using the API.

Couponers have to work extra to find and maintain a good deal.

Google doesn't hire people who actually enjoy doing maintenance.

In fact lately it seems like nobody hires for this.

Back in the day, the Amiga had a Mac emulator (named Shapeshifter) that would run software faster than on a real Mac using the same CPU/clock rate.

Are you sure that the FTC is working for our interests lately?

> If the planner has truly thought the issue through, properly designed the solution, solved all of the emergent problems, then the final "write" of the code is just a few more output tokens.

For me, what usually creates the high cost of implementation with a larger model is the validation process, not the writing of code.

I would get excited to see it finish writing code with so little usage, but then it would gobble up ten times as many tokens on validation.

I've tried to instruct it to keep the validation light with the intention of doing batches of deep validation after a few tasks, but it couldn't stop itself from doing heavy validation on each task no matter how I rephrased the instructions.

How is this different from price gouging during a hurricane?

The CO governor can't run again due to term limits, and he has already demonstrated he is willing to sell out the state as he exits.

Not everyone has $20k to retain an attorney.

I've enjoyed listening to dozens of talks by Alan Watts, who is a pretty chill guy until he comes across the subject of red delicious apples. Never heard him curse about any other subject.

On a completely unrelated topic, I just remembered that as I get well into my 50s, I'm only beginning to see the pawns on the chessboard more clearly.

Suffering is so often self-induced.

How many things should I care about before I have reached an adequate quota as determined by some collective social authority?

I am apparently getting too old for whatever that threshold is these days.

> I can count on one hand the number of times where I've been hit by compatibility issues.

This is an anecdote without a denominator nor a representative sampling.

Those that fall were insufficiently sociopathic.

The episode of The Simpsons where Lisa gets a pony. Homer falls asleep at the wheel to a different lullaby than what was originally broadcast.

The substitute is a subpar filler compared to the original.

Are you sure they aren't already doing that for certain organizations?

You're mixing up copyrights and patents.

Also, would we have something more advanced than PCs by now if we weren't hindered by unnatural "ownership" of thoughts?

Depends on if your use of "toddlers" includes metaphors.

This right here is why good leadership is fading. Who would want to be in the limelight?

So, who or what organization authorizes your opinions?

Staying in space is much easier when orbiting the sun.

It's either: I distract myself, or ruminate and despair about the state of things.

I remember in the late 90s at Epcot Innoventions there was an exhibit by Motorola showing someone communicating on a device while bungee jumping. The point was to demo how amazing it would be to be connected all the time.

So one man's desires become the rule for everyone else? That doesn't sound very democratic.