AI coding in a nutshell. It makes the easy stuff easier and the hard stuff harder by leading you down thirty incorrect paths before you toss it and figure it out yourself.

I think there might be a lot of value in describing it to an AI, though. It takes a fair bit of clarity of thought to get something resembling what you actually want. You could use a junior or rubber duck instead, but the rubber duck doesn’t make stupid assumptions to demonstrate gaps in your thought process, and a junior takes too long and gets demoralized when you have to constantly revise their instructions and iterate over their work.

Like the output might be garbage, but it might really help you write those stories.

I’m not going to address your question, but I will say I married at 23, divorced at 30, and married again at 37. And I’ll tell you I didn’t know what real love was until I married my second wife. I have 5 kids now (3 step) and while life is far from perfect, I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got.

I can also tell you that your projection of your own lack of self esteem is incredibly unattractive. Learn to love and enjoy yourself and the rest might follow, but until then I can tell you that the way you talk about yourself presents a person that would be very difficult to enjoy being in a relationship with. Your defeatist attitude just sucks any kind of positive energy out of the conversation. You don’t have to change that and there is no guarantee of reward if you do, but you should probably acknowledge that you are in fact choosing to be far less inviting than you could.

When I was a young teen, I watched my grandparents’ neighbor die of a heart attack in his boat. He leaned over - I thought to get a life jacket or something - and his boat just kept circling backwards. Not much to say. It took the ambulance over an hour to arrive. There was a very small pool of blood, maybe 2-3 inches in diameter, on the floor of the boat.

That’s it. Nothing exciting or traumatic.

Oh I missed your reference! Nice!

I use Linux as my daily driver and I still don’t understand half of what people say when they talk about Linux. I support this idea. Not because I have dumb questions, of course, but I think everyone else’s would be very educational…

Have you ever heard of teledildonics? I guarantee if there was a demand, you could eat that. It could be programmed to respond to where and how fast you perform. It would be multi-functional so you could enjoy the devices in other ways.

I agree with your conclusion, but not your reasoning.

I’m sure you’re right. I was just being an asshole in good fun.

I saw a video about AI girlfriends, which people definitely think they have right now, and it pointed out that they are just you reflected back at yourself through a funhouse mirror. And that strikes me as being a very apt explanation.

So could you be your own friend? Your own lover? If that’s not satisfying to you without AI, I think you’d find AI to be just as shallow and wanting.

Captain Marvel?

I think the biggest obstacle would be from your perspective it would just be a steady annoying sound. TIEs only have their characteristic howl when doing a flyby. But if you’re aware of that and you one want it for how it sounds as you drive by, I’d think just playing the tone through the speakers would do.

I assume anything coming out of a Musk company is a lie unless I see it with my own eyes. And then I see an optometrist.

I count 6 people involved in this drama and now you’re inviting more? I don’t know who the asshole is, but I’m not sure a bunch more of the Internet weighing in is really going to matter to anyone anyway.

We’re all on a journey. None of us have arrived. The effort counts.

You aren’t grumpy. You’re just conserving your emotional bandwidth for when it is really needed.

That’s how I choose to interpret this, anyway.

My emotions and instincts can be assholes, but I choose to be a good person. So the answer really depends on how much you weigh my instantaneous reaction to an emotional situation vs after my rational brain kicks in and I remember that everything that angers or disappoints me wasn’t done for the sole purpose of ruining my day. Oh and little stuff pisses me off way more than big stuff.

I wish I was a better person, but I think I’m alright most of the time.

You’ve got me beat. I’ve only seen 8" disks in coworkers “check out this shit” collection.

Look at the packages. Try to break it down into architectural layers. Understand in a broad sense what each layer adds to the one before. Rage that it wasn’t so much architected as cobbled together from pieces never designed to fit together. Decry it as total garbage and recommend total rewrite.

I understand there are voters who think the earth is flat. I absolutely do not accept them.

ChatGPT says 1-5%, but I told it to give me nothing but a percentage and it gave me a couple of paragraphs like a kid trying to distract from the answer by surrounding it with bullshit. I think it’s onto us…

(I kid. I attribute no sentience or intelligence to ChatGPT.)