Daedskin

I ran gold stake zodiac the other day, built around red seal, steel queens; I had 2 foil mimes, foil shoot the moon, polychrome free parking, and yorick at x14 by the end. My high card was, like, level 25, and my best hand was 2.54 billion. The psychic ended up taking me down in ante 12, but I wouldn't have made it much further than that.

The company I contract with has been pushing hard on getting people to use LLMs (Copilot specifically) in their day-to-day; so much so that they put out a survey to everyone who hasn't used it yet, asking why they haven't used it. One of the questions was selecting checkboxes of reasons you haven't used it; for the "Other", free-form answer field I put:

I'm not about to sacrifice the integrity of my work just so that some venture capitalists can feel justified in roleplaying as useful members of society.

As someone who's worked on printer firmware before, it makes me really sad that a company can get away with making a consumer decide between getting access to any of the actually useful changes that engineers — who have no say over ink cartridge policy — put effort towards making the best product they could, or not having said ink cartridge policies forced on them.

Don't forget the barotrauma

I just hope that when "Kakariko" is inevitably said in the movie, it gets pronounced right

My friend group refers to Left 4 Dead 2 versus mode as "the grand finals" for this reason; the players in it treat it like it's the most important event that's ever happened in their life, and a single mistake is completely unacceptable

Because the tools are here and not going anyway

I agree with this on a global scale; I was thinking about on a personal scale. In the context of the entire world, I do think the tools will be around for a long time before they ever fall out of use.

The actually useful shit LLMs can do.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know many use cases of LLMs. I don't use them, so I haven't explored what they can do. As my experience is simply my own, I'm certain there are uses of LLMs that I hadn't considered. I'm personally of the opinion that I won't gain anything out of LLMs that I can't get elsewhere; however, if a tool helps you more than any other method, then that tool could absolutely be useful.

I like the sentiment of the article; however this quote really rubs me the wrong way:

I’m not suggesting we abandon AI tools—that ship has sailed.

Why would that ship have sailed? No one is forcing you to use an LLM. If, as the article supposes, using an LLM is detrimental, and it's possible to start having days where you don't use an LLM, then what's stopping you from increasing the frequency of those days until you're not using an LLM at all?

I personally don't interact with any LLMs, neither at work or at home, and I don't have any issue getting work done. Yeah there was a decently long ramp-up period — maybe about 6 months — when I started on ny current project at work where it was more learning than doing; but now I feel like I know the codebase well enough to approach any problem I come up against. I've even debugged USB driver stuff, and, while it took a lot of research and reading USB specs, I was able to figure it out without any input from an LLM.

Maybe it's just because I've never bought into the hype; I just don't see how people have such a high respect for LLMs. I'm of the opinion that using an LLM has potential only as a truly last resort — and even then will likely not be useful.

C++ because I forgot to plan for anything else, so I'm just reusing what I had from last year

Foxy Fnaf 2

My favorite randomly generated name I've gotten was "Trash".

Oracle 5; I don't remember my win ratio, but I only played like 9 games.