Trump and his advisors know he can’t do that. Almost every dictator has fake elections to placate the people and identify the opposition. This is a distraction and he’s going to “allow” elections (promise he says it like that implying he has the power to disallow them) but he will fuck with the integrity of the vote through intimidation, fraud, and legal challenge.

A half dozen daily? All I can say is your perspective strikes me as highly industry-dependent.

Tom’s Hardware used to be one of my primary destinations on the web, but it has really fallen off. I’ll bet I’ve been there at most twice in the last year.

Honestly though, as both a developer and a user SPAs could get fucked for all I care. I don’t think it’s a requirement of SPAs, but they seem to do so much unnecessary bullshit. So many bad development practices. I don’t hate the concept of SPAs, but it’s clearly just asking too much of the average contract developer.

As I recall, Boston market had decent bacon, but it’s been forever since I’ve been.

The Baconator uses cheap fast-food/hotel bacon that tastes like air-fried disappointment. I’d rather a shake of bac-o-bits.

We’ll be more screwed if he wins than if he loses.

I’m not at all convinced this is the case. I hated Hillary, but I damn sure wish she’d been elected in 2016.

I agree, but I didn’t have the vacation days. I had just enough for the driving day and I think 5 or 6 days for an anniversary vacation in April.

What shocked me was there was hardly any discernible lightening of the schedule. I expected the week to be pretty light, but I wound up in 8+ hours worth of meetings and deployments every day except Christmas Day. I was given half of Christmas Eve off, but I’d already put in 8 hours by then anyway.

I always feel like I lose the trail. I barely ever even take lunch. I recently moved to a tech lead role and I barely have time to look at actual code. I still feel like taking time off is hard because I have to keep constant track of everything or I will completely lose the thread of everything that’s going on.

I did get Friday off to drive back home from a working vacation. It felt great. The vacation was stressful as hell because I had family stuff and work stuff intermingled. I literally was in my car fixing an issue with a deployment one minute, boarding an airboat to look at alligators the next, and an hour later I’m in a forgettable meeting in the back seat of the car as someone else drives home.

It wasn’t ideal but the vacation was booked before I had to change jobs and I went from being forced to take that week off to having to cover for 80% of my team. I’m definitely getting too old for this shit, but I enjoy it.

Basically yes. There are problematic elements but it’s not rape. Also it’s fiction where things happen in service to a plot that, unlike real life, comes to a resolution. So even if a woman does enjoy reading about rape, that doesn’t mean she wants it. In fact, it’s often read for cathartic reasons to deal with trauma. It’s about overcoming a situation she can identify with, not wallowing in the assault (caveat: healing is different for different people. I can’t speak for everyone, but I understand my wife pretty well).

Andrew: As far as Fuentes is concerned, I feel like his viewpoints would have been mainstream not that long ago.

In 1935, yes.

If he’s saying something like most women want to be raped, well, Fifty Shades of Grey sells like hotcakes to women, so I feel like that’s just a fact.

Jesus fucking Christ.

I do not consent to your bullshit. I don’t care how you phrase it. I don’t care how difficult you make it to express. I will never, ever, consent to tracking or personalized ads.

And the thing is, you fucking well know it! No one opts in except through obfuscation.

I can only assume if they quash the report that it is utterly damning. It is not incumbent on constituents to be charitable in how we view this. No innocent until proven guilty — full transparency or I will treat the worst possible interpretation as absolute fact.

I think it’s impossible to be a billionaire and have the ability to understand how regular people live their lives. I’m not sure your thesis necessarily follows, but it’s easy to see how an inability to relate to people could easily teeter into cunt territory.

So the vectors of those numbers are somehow similar to the vector of owl. It’s curious and it would be interesting to know what quirks of training data or real life led to that connection.

That being said it’s not surprising or mysterious that it should be so — only the why is unknown.

It would be a cool, if unreliable, way to “encrypt” messages via LLM.

I’ve avoided using AI features in Firefox. If I want AI, I explicitly go to AI rather than having it integrated. But you offer some good use cases. And fundamentally I agree that 100% fact checking with a 90% accuracy rate is better than the 0% fact checking most of us do except when we think something is wrong and we go digging through for arguments against it.

That being said, I would worry about model makers building in inherent bias. Like I could never trust Grok as the engine behind a fact checker (though it is surprisingly resilient and often calls out bullshit it is supposed to be peddling).

Like imagine the person who only wants OANGPT to summarize or fact check every article they read. Can you imagine the level of self-delusion that would come from a MAGA-fied version of everything they read? It would be like living in a propaganda factory. Deliberately.

Facebook: Bob Smith [woke, probably drinks soy milk and dresses as a woman on weekends]: Had a great day at work today. [he’s probably on welfare so this is bullshit] Big things are coming! [He’s part of a trans pedo ring, guaranteed!]

Which feels like stupid hyperbole, but I’ll bet every one of us knows at least one person who is that stupid.

Eh. I use AI all the time, but my level of skepticism…

I only use it for unimportant things.

The key to responsible AI use. Of course, in the grand scheme, few things are all that important.

If the marginal cost of being wrong about something is essentially zero, AI is a very helpful resource due to its speed and ubiquity.

I mean 4 out of 5 Americans probably held the opinion: