Back in 1995, my family got our first computer, and despite being a kid at the time, computer maintenance fell in my lap because I quickly became the most tech-savvy person in the household.

Computers in '95 still had a lot of rough edges and so I found myself needing to call tech support on occasion. On one such occasion I got a guy on the line who immediately jumped on the opportunity to be a dick because he could tell I was a kid.

After describing my problem, he asked when the last time I ran a defrag was. (The problem had nothing to do with this.) When I replied that I didn’t know what a defrag was, he busted out laughing for like a full minute, and I could hear him telling his buddy and they started laughing again. He also blamed my problem on this, of course.

So yeah, that’s my defrag story I guess.

How many particles does it take to record the location of one particle?

I’ve never heard the term “pre-written software” in my life and I’ve been a nerd for many decades.

lawyers sure are something else with their stupid-ass terms.

They didn’t say communism, though. They said tankie dictators.

In fact, if you give it this prompt 50 times and it only fucks up once, that clearly indicates that this is post is misleading. It’s also likely this post was faked with a different prompt than the one shown.

DeepSeek does a little better with this.

That’s a fun play on words! Since “the size of Japan” is just a measure of its own land area, it’s trivially true that Japan fits perfectly inside itself — just like any country or shape fits perfectly inside its own boundaries. It’s a tautology, but it sounds like a clever riddle at first listen. Nice one!

I find it’s much better to have an LLM give me a code review than to have it write code.

I’ve learned quite a few tips and tricks that way which I can employ at my discretion.

Making everyone on earth richer is how it’s supposed to work. Not like millionaires, more in the sense that gold is a resource that requires us to ration it in a sense, and we would be able to use the cheaper gold to make all lives better.

That an influx of gold wouldn’t do this is an indictment on our economic system.

AKA Falling Down.

I only write math in the context of programming languages. I prefer ones without order of operations. Rebol, (Polish notation), Factor/Forth (Postfix notation), smalltalk, (left-to-right) apl (right-to-left), etc.

In short, it doesn’t matter as long as your audience understands you.

That’s cool and all but what does it have to do with the size of gmail storage?

None of the above. Living in ignorance of things you can’t fix anyway is comfy

it’s all a ruse to see how you react

That’s true of all software. Always has been, always will be.

blows my mind how there wasn’t a mass migration in 2018.

I too know how to press the f12 button

This.

For some reason they hate is really strong this time around but it’s the exact same thing.

Coders already didn’t know what was going on for years before AI. All of the libraries they used were based on zillions of lines of code they didn’t understand

The naunceless, rabid violence and hatred directed at users of these will get disabled people hurt all the same.

Same here. They don’t want users. They just want bots.