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talking to a customer service chatbot pretending to be a human might be the most enraging experience on the planet I'd rather spend a day untangling cords

what a piece of human garbage

@ONAN_OUS decimal(18,2) is the correct answer 99% of the time do not use float/double

Should I use float or decimal in sql? I have used float and the LLM suggested I use decimal because money needs to be exact, and Reddit chuds are saying “only an idiot would use float in a database” Who is wrong here Is this a ‘hot liquids in plastic containers’ situation?

working for Big Tech should come to carry the same stigma as working for Big Tobacco

yeah absolutely everyone with a brain figured this out in 2023, it was immediately obvious junior devs should not use LLMs *at all* (frankly no one should)

Fuck this shit.

However much you use LLMs, it's too much. You should use them less, at the margin. (Unless you're already at zero in which case I salute you!)

Do not let anyone tell you that you shouldn't record law enforcement (so long as you're not physically impeding them). Citizen video has decisively rebutted the administration's lies. The evidence of our eyes contradicts the dishonesty of the administration's words.

Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents 3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen 4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?” They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him. Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway. An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.” The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.” Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it. At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID. This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified. ICE’s own training materials explicitly state: “Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.” In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime. And here’s the key legal issue: Unless agents have: • a valid arrest warrant, or • probable cause that a specific crime has been committed they cannot: • use force • break windows • issue violent threats • detain or arrest someone Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions. Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting: “First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.” The driver responds: “Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?” The agent replies: “I don’t know. Hands up.” Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands. At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat. Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?” The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking. The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men: “How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?” He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle. This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse. No probable cause. No warrant. No lawful basis for force. And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents. This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence. So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?” The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?

on the whole I think we can say software was a mistake

We are pouring acid on the foundations of humanity and calling it progress. The suffering produced by our hubris will be incalculable.

And no, this isn't for Doomer reasons. Skynet, paperclips, all that scifi stuff is impossible. The corrosion of civilization and human skill though, that's not a fantasy scenario, that's happening NOW right before our very eyes.

all LLM companies should be burned to the ground, and the sites where they stood forever left fallow all employees thereof should be exiled beyond the reach of civilization re-creation of the technology should be treated as a crime against humanity Just so we're clear.

it only takes me a few minutes of using twitter to remember why I don't use twitter anymore

"I asked [some LLM] and it said..." is a phrase that should appear in your writing Exactly Never.

if you've decided to make "chatting with LLMs" your entire personality, please just walk into the ocean

printing FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS caused inflation, very predictably that's it, that's all anyone needs to know it's not complicated

@visakanv music videos as a concept

what are some things in our lifetime that were obviously great from the moment we encountered them, and have remained great in hindsight? first thing that comes to mind for me are... 90s kids cartoon theme songs. diablo 2. the lion king. imo the vegas sphere will be in this class