I was in second grade, it was for reading. I don't remember what book anymore, but it was age appropriate. I was just reading the wrong thing during reading time.
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Hey that's literally everyone, you know that right? "Political" doesn't just mean the people you disagree with—everything is political. If you're trying to be "apolitical" it just means you're pushing for the political status quo, which is a political position.
Unless you're working with a private definition of political, it's all politics when you go past the surface level.
In most contexts it's trying to solve problems that are better solved by other tools. Automation scripts are more consistent than AI, for example, and automation scripts are pretty easy to set up now.
In some contexts it's trying to solve problems that don't exist. AI generated memes sit there for me.
Other contexts just... Make me scratch my head and go why. Why do you need an AI summary of a book? Why are you trying to make a leisure activity more efficient? Same with writing fanfiction. I can at least understand why people want to pump out books to sell, but you literally cannot sell this. Writing fanfiction is a leisure activity, why are you trying to automate it?
Why is it baked into my search engine? It's wrong on anything but the most common searches, and even then it's not reliable enough to trust. My job recently baked an AI into the search, and most of the time it spits out absolute nonsense, if not flat telling us to break laws, and then citing sources that don't even say what it's saying.
Most of the marketing around it is stuff like
- "Generate a meme!" I have literally never once wanted to
- "Summarize a book!" I am doing this for fun, why would I want to?
- "Generate any image!" I get the desire, but I can't ignore the broader context of how we treat artists. Also the images don't look that great anyway.
- "Summarize your texts, and write responses automatically!" Why would anyone want to automate their interpersonal relationships?
- "Talk to this chatbot!" Why? I have friends, I don't need to befriend a robot.
- "Write code without learning it!" I get it. I've struggled learning to program for 10 years. But every time I hear a programmer talk about AIGen code, it's never good, and my job's software has gotten less stable as AIGen code as been added in.
And I just. Don't get it. Don't get me wrong, I have tried. I've tried to get it to work for me. I've succeeded once, and that was just getting the jq command to work how I wanted it to. Tried a few more times, and it's just... Not good? It really doesn't help that every respected computer scientist is saying they likely can't get much better than they are.
It's an overhyped hammer that's doing a bad job at putting soup in my mouth, and on the way it's ruining a lot of lives, and costing a lot of money for diminishingly better results.
Gopher.
Or Gemini (protocol, not AI). No fancy rendering, you get plain text.
I remember when I was trying to learn German, one sentence the app gave got burned into my brain forever:
Der Tisch hat kein Geschlecht.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with the point of the table not having a gender; you just called him a man.
It was around the 1700s, right about when "you" became a singular pronoun
I did try this, and I can still tell. I sent someone a voice message, then told them to re-send it to me at a random time. Could still tell it was me.
I did, however, get around it while voice training? I'd spent a week speaking in a different voice to my usual, then when I recorded something in my usual voice it didn't give the effect you usually get when listening to your own voice. I did get it when listening to a recording done with the trained voice, though.
Who needs ISOs in 2026?
It's even simpler now: Plug in stick, reboot
Select the stick as the boot media
"archinstall"
Configure
Done.
I don't recommend it to first timers, because the install process does get you a good feel of what you'll be expected to know, but I've been running arch for years I'm not doing that manually anymore xD
Reminds me of my childhood home, we had a few dozen neighborhood cats, and the sounds of cat sex are awful. Sounds like they're in a fight to the death.
A lot of very different things. A degree in computer science basically just means you work with computers. I was a CompSci major in college with a specialization in Networking, which means I mostly dealt with stuff regarding networks: running cables, setting up subnets, getting Mac to play nicely with literally any other kind of OS on a network, setting up switches, making wall jacks for Ethernet, etc etc. Programmers are also CompSci majors (typically). I think game development still falls under it, broadly? I know it did when I was in college. It's like asking "What do mathematicians do?" The answer is math, like how the compsci answer is "Computers"
Yeah, a crossover cable is pins... 3 and 6 switched? iirc. I did not remember correctly, it's 1/3 2/6, been a while. The greens and oranges swap places
Either way, if the cable was reading completely reversed, assuming it wasn't fixed by rewiring it, check the patch panel to make sure that's wired right if you haven't. One of the first mistakes I made in college was wiring a patch panel backwards xD
Besides that the only thing I could assume is the direction one end got termed was just backwards. If someone's in a rush I could see them just absentmindedly mounting the head backwards.