Not everyone needs to talk to everyone. But many people need to talk to many people.

Microsoft had to abandon the initial Vista project and start over because they couldn’t manage a team of 1000 developers. People working on adjacent features had to go through so many layers of management that in some cases the closest shared manager was Bill Gates. For something like getting a change in the shutdown code reflected in the shutdown dialog.

Huge teams become exponentially harder to manage efficiently.

Back then Clippit was also memetically annoying. Perception of how him has actually improved over time thanks to nostalgia.

Welp, there goes the neighborhood. If they want to do an IPO they’ll probably enshittify the hell out of the platform and jettison all remotely raunchy communities. Because nothing says “good investment” than a service that just drove out a fair chunk of its user base.

That’s not a problem if executive orders are treated as law; the first amendment doesn’t curtail the president’s power.

That undersells them slightly.

LLMs are powerful tools for generating text that looks like something. Need something rephrased in a different style? They’re good at that. Need something summarized? They can do that, too. Need a question answered? No can do.

LLMs can’t generate answers to questions. They can only generate text that looks like answers to questions. Often enough that answer is even correct, though usually suboptimal. But they’ll also happily generate complete bullshit answers and to them there’s no difference to a real answer.

They’re text transformers marketed as general problem solvers because a) the market for text transformers isn’t that big and b) general problem solvers is what AI researchers are always trying to create. They have their use cases but certainly not ones worth the kind of spending they get.

Fx on Android user here. Works fine for me.

And if you have a bike with a belt you can replace all chain-related maintenance with “check if the belt looks weird maybe once a year”.

The prep and recovery blocks are also team calls; everyone prepares and recovers together, moderated by the scrum master.

Because giving answers is not a LLM’s job. A LLM’s job is to generate text that looks like an answer. And we then try to coax framework that into generating correct answers as often as possible, with mixed results.

I remember talking to someone about where LLMs are and aren’t useful. I pointed out that LLMs would be absolutely worthless for me as my work mostly consists of interacting with company-internal APIs, which the LLM obviously hasn’t been trained on.

The other person insisted that that is exactly what LLMs are great at. They wouldn’t explain how exactly the LLM was supposed to know how my company’s internal software, which is a trade secret, is structured.

But hey, I figured I’d give it a go. So I fired up a local Llama 3.1 instance and asked it how to set up a local copy of ASDIS, one such internal system (name and details changed to protect the innocent). And Llama did give me instructions… on how to write the American States Data Information System, a Python frontend for a single MySQL table containing basic information about the member states of the USA.

Oddly enough, that’s not what my company’s ASDIS is. It’s almost as if the LLM had no idea what I was talking about. Words fail to express my surprise at this turn of events.

There is decent UHT milk but it’s by no means the majority of the market.

And this is the point where I’d step in as a creator and announce that Paul the Protagonist wasn’t in a coma, all of the audience were, and that we’ve hallucinated the entire show.

Just to fuck with people a bit.

I’d say that Microsoft’s Fluent design language is even worse. Material at least tries to use rounded shapes and animations; Fluent has been pretending that monocolored rectangles are interesting since 2010. And it has been consistently wrong.

In KDE it depends on your Plasma theme. Often they are next to each other but it’s no problem if you misclick anyway – there’s a confirmation screen with an auto-accept timer so you can just undo the wrong action and choose the right one.

It’s the cover of Action Comics #454. The Silver Age was full of stupid plots like this.

If he keeps flipping like that we can hook him up to a turbine and use him as a renewable energy source.

I’m 50/50 on the episodic plots. I think that DS9 hit a good balance there: The plots were mostly episodic but usually connected to an overarching metaplot. That felt pretty good; not too loose and not too tight.

That’s why I’m going to vote for a party I don’t believe in. Normally I would vote for one of the parties I do believe in and help them build momentum on their path toward 5% – but with the AfD on the rise and the Union blatantly putting personal opportunism over the interests of the country, I can’t afford my vote to not count.

Once more I wish we had a preferential voting system so people can vote for who they believe in and fall back to a less preferred alternative if necessary.

What if the ants are coworkers?

And even methods like ablation don’t seem to circumvent since of the censorship. Still, in time we will see less restricted DeepSeek-R1 derivatives.