2024.06.19
ok, we've had the "cute" girlfriend conversation and you know exactly what i think about that! i *do* understand that you're looking for someone who is attractive to you in every way. more than that, though, is that she should be the person who's always on your side, picks you first for dodgeball, and makes your knees weak. if the package she comes in isn't a ringer for, say, samantha mathis, are you going to pass that up? what a fool ye mortal be.It took me half an hour to hunt for this- and i found it in email in 2007 where I wrote "The even worse part is, I'm worried this isn't the first time I've forgotten it, and may have hunted for it before."
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again - really very thoughtful piece:
The crux of my raging hatred is not that I *hate* LLMs or the generative AI craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me stupider - it's impressive, but not actually *suitable* for anything more than churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because *programming is designing* and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriouslyThe thing is, in an age where frontend programming libraries and toolkits have just EXPLODED like mushrooms and we have more "flavors of the month" than a Baskin-Robins in a timelapse, "churning out [customized!] boilerplate" is an enormously helpful thing.
"The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed" - "50 Shades of Grey" meets "Napoleon Dynamite" (via "Girls")