💀 I hate my country

You don’t think there’s any middle ground between the two? None whatsoever?

The humans of StackOverflow have been pricks for so long. If they fixed that problem years ago they would have been in a great position with the advent of AI. They could’ve marketed themselves as a site for humans. But no, fuckfacepoweruser found an answer to a different question he believes answers your question so marked your question as a duplicate and fuckfacerubberstamper voted to close it in the queue without critically thinking about it.

The US is acting the way I do in grand strategy games right now.

In my naive view I don’t see why they wouldn’t just give less and less money until they’re effectively giving you none or even charging you for putting it back into the grid. It would then incenticize people to get battery banks and put it in during the night.

But again, naive view. Maybe I’m missing something obvious.

It doesn’t have a direction.

I don’t know anywhere you can actually sell it back to the network, usually they just give you credits that deduct future payments, so you can’t ever get money out of it. But maybe that’s only some places.

A dying breed

I stopped asking in like 2020 for the most part. Everything I asked was getting.akred as a duplicate even though it wasn’t because someone believed an ANSWER on a different question answered my question (they didn’t).

Plus StackOverflow Meta has been a fucking joke for years. They removed a site from HNQ because of a tweet. Why are they listening more to random Twitter users than folks on Meta?

And the whole Monica fiasco still has me upset.

But seriously. Every time I asked a question on StackOverflow I’d spend like 30 minutes wording it correctly and looking for duplicates. I’d find things that were sort of duplicates and explain preemptively why they aren’t. And every fucking time some doofus marks it as a duplicate. I just can’t take it. Like it literally makes me so angry even thinking about it. They had a problem with their humans LONG before AI came around. If they’d fixed that problem they could’ve really positioned themselves nicely when AI happened as a boutique place for humans answering humans. But no, their culture cultivates assholes who believe they’re following rules to the letter.

B trees are cool but not obscure necessarily. I didn’t learn about them in college. It sounds like binary tree and it’s similar but it’s different. It’s a data structure to take advantage of the way disk reads work.

I’d post one of Facebook’s “Imagine” images as a joke but it sort of defeats the purpose. So imagine I did it. Feel free to leave the tap on while you do if you really wanna get the full experience.

I’ve been saying this for a while. It’s gonna be particularly difficult to get valuable insight. With sponsored search results you can keep scrolling. Sponsored content will “pollute” the context of the conversation even if only some responses push sponsors.

Did you see the one where someone trained bots to do crystal pvp on 2b2t? It was fascinating and actually “AI” (not LLM AI but what we would’ve called AI pre LLM/gen AI lol). I don’t remember much else. Basically the bots actually saw the screen, not at full resolution, but enough to really see and move and attack players in a very advanced way. (Crystal PVP involves putting down end crystals and detonating them, it’s much more involved than just clicking with a sword or aiming arrows.)

Sort of already exists as Baritone. https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone I’m not sure what all it can and can’t do but it’s pretty sophisticated.

Edit: Note that, as far as I know, none of it is AI in the modern usage of the term.

AI took that too! Oops all joblessness! 🤩

BLUE PRINCE! WOO!

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Space Station 14 is a blast. If you’re really interested in hosting it though you might need a larger friend group. I think you’d need maybe 10 or so people before it actually feels interesting.

Edit: There are plenty of public servers to play on too.

Remember when the argument for self driving cars was that they don’t need to be perfect, just better than humans?

Same! Yes! I specifically remember one my (then) girlfriend (now wife) made like that. She made me a mix of some songs. I put them on my mp3 player so they had that slip in them on that too. Even on my first smart phone too back before I streamed music.