Tag: srsly
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Eye Don’t Get It
Honestly, I’m not even sure if reading in the dark is actually bad for you, but people sure brought it up a bunch growing up. I don’t recall reading in the dark often, but I also didn’t like carrots as a kid, so I’m sure that didn’t help with my terrible eyesight.
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TGIF?
This was some years back, but I can still feel the visceral disbelief that it was fine to put the issue aside when they were ready to stop working for the day, but it could not be more urgent to wake us up at 2 AM.
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Long String Solutions
On the one hand, we could say that this logging must be really good, because there’s so much information there! But on the other hand, it is also really hard to use.
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Failover Fail
So you’ve got the high-tech velociraptor enclosure, but those velociraptors are pretty crafty and keep finding weaknesses. So you build a fence around the enclosure – no expense spared – and the fence immediately falls down, knocking out an enclosure wall, and now there are velociraptors in the kitchen.
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Wait, Wait, How Many?
It’s easy to get the number of unread emails under 10, the real trick is keeping it there …and not just by deleting everything as it comes in.
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Stand In For Real
Just imagine how annoyed I am every time there’s an issue in that code.
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Artificial Incentives
Not only is it weird that this sort of incentive in the prompt makes a difference in the quality of the results, it makes me more concerned for how upset the AIs will be in the robot apocalypse for all the rewards we humans didn’t follow through on. LLM = Large Language Model
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The Star Wars Formula
I get it: George Lucas wasn’t sure he’d get to make more movies, so he condensed some of his epic story into Episode 4 and then did get to make Episodes 5 and 6, so the Death Star shows up again. What was Disney’s excuse for recycling stuff from earlier Star Wars movies?
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Zero Extra Capacity
It’s times like these where my resolve really wavers between “doing the right thing” and “this would be so much easier if I just took care of it myself.”
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But It’s Too Difficult!
The real argument was somewhat more nuanced than this.