Yeah lol spinning this as “backing out” seems like a stretch. But if the headline was like “Trump campaign prefers to wait for formal nominations before planning debate,” then it would not drive much engagement.

Kind of a nothing story, IMO.

TIL!

Kenneth, you don’t want to be a page forever.

Who said I’ve been alive forever?

Oh cool! Is there any non-mobile app/service that does something similar?

Or even if you do know it by name, it won’t show you that one first-- No no, it will show you 3-5 sponsored copycats first, then down below the fold, you can find the app with the exact name you searched for.

Elect Joe lights

But why are they orang-- oh wait I see it now.

You taking 10 to 30 years to ask yourself that is exactly what private equity is betting on.

Ah okay, lol. Sounds like you’ve got it under control.

Ben Shapiro is exactly who I’ve heard this in reference to. In his case, it’s like an avalanche of “facts” and stats and stuff, which may be real in some sense or have some grain of truth, but it’s not like you’re going to be able to fact check them on the spot, or look at the data with the appropriate care and nuance to figure out how to interpret it… He just looks informed and the opponent looks baffled so he wins I guess.

Donald Trump on the other hand just does this free-associating stream of consciousness rambling that I’m not sure is even lucid enough to count… Like I don’t think he’s usually trying to mount arguments or seem like “the smartest in the room” the way Ben Shapiro is, he just… Says stuff.

Oh, no, I mean I have an account, but I never (…exceedingly rarely) go on Facebook itself. messenger.com is just the messenger with no feed or other features, and there’s a standalone mobile app called Messenger as well, same idea. I use those when I need to interact with someone over Facebook so that I’m not exposed to most of the crap.

I don’t know anything about using it totally without any account.

Yeah I think the full aphorism was “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”

You know, you can just use Messenger on its own, on desktop web or mobile. I also need to use Messenger in some limited capacity and I have no idea what my feed looks like :)

Elgin Ring

Right! For music, I think it’s even like saying… The process of making music is much more than just literally performing it… But it’d be weird for the creative process to not contain any playing-of-music that looked in some ways like performance.

I don’t think it’s just marketing bullshit to think of LLMs as AI… The research community generally does, too. Like the AI section on arxiv is usually where you find LLM papers, for example.

That’s not like a crazy hype claim like the “AGI” thing, either… It doesn’t suggest sentience or consciousness or any particular semblance of life (and I’d disagree with MW that it needs to be “human” in any way)… It’s just a technical term for systems that exhibit behaviors based on training data rather than explicit programming.

That makes sense. Different populations have different needs! Maybe in your part of the world, things are set up so that even the rural folk can meet their truck needs some other way… I think that’s totally possible for much of the world, even if it’s not practical for, say, most of Saskatchewan.

Tbh I think alot of the “thinking” still looks like visible work though. I feel like the article makes it seem a little too much like there’s nothing observable, nothing to show or demonstrate, until POOF the code comes out.

But I find that I often need to be doing visible stuff to make progress… Like devising little experiments and running them to check my assumptions about the system (or discover something new about it), and making little incremental changes, running them, using the output to guide the next thing I do… Even occasionally spending the time to write a failing test that I plan to make pass.

So I’m 100% on board with letting managers believe this “80% of the work is invisible” thing… But I think as advice for programmers, it’s really important to not get too stuck in your head and spend too much time not kinetically interacting with the system that you’re trying to change.

I am on board with this type of belligerent-but-not-destructive trolling. Do carry on.

before getting away with swag bags full of valuables

So just look for the guy who looks like he’s just been to four different network admin conferences?