If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

@rasterweb according to the American Heritage dictionary, wire is

Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity

Therefore,

"Looks inside: wires"

Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”

It’s a little known rule, but if you rename a corporation after a technology and then abandon that technology within five years, you have to dissolve the entire company out of embarrassment.

Web4 will be fought with telnet to port 80

@thomasfuchs 💯

But of course this only has any value if solving problems is your goal to begin with.

I feel a lot of devs aren't in the "solving problems" business, but rather in the "selling something as a solution" business, which plays by completely different rules entirely.

"It's like having a reference librarian!"

My Brother in Taxonomy, it is the farthest thing from that.

A reference librarian is a person with feelings, motivations and ethics, who has a goal of helping you find the answer to your question.

The chatbot is a clockwork mechanism that extrudes text optimized to make you *think* your question has been answered.

It is also a machine built by fascists with the goal of creating a dependent, de-skilled, submissive populace and ending Democracy. HTH.

@n3tcat And I just need to figure out my highest gender frequency to know how often I should be sampling it!

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

There are limits, and if I can buy two bottles of vodka from the grocery store for the price of a single cocktail, I'm going to opt to not have that cocktail most of the time

CC: @Edent@mastodon.social

Today I learned that Michaelangelo's first paid commission was a snowman during a rare snowfall in Florence, and I'm not quite sure how to incorporate that into my understanding of the world.

Somebody once asked David Gilmour how he got through the solo for "Comfortably Numb" and whether he always played it live the same way.

And he said he couldn't. He didn't know how. He just played it as he felt it should be played each time. He couldn't recreate the original solo verbatim if he tried.

But he mentioned seeing a Youtube video of a 13-year-old girl playing the solo, and he said, "But she could! So you should ask her. She's pretty good."

@lritter @catsalad “illegal operation” and “this incident will be reported” have caused so many completely avoidable panic attacks

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Print Floyd

Alt...

A spoof of the cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album but with a Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key/Black color model, commonly used in commercial printing, instead of the original rainbow prism colors.

@NanoRaptor about the same age that I started to refuse to burn myself