I understand LLMs well enough that I really don't want to use them because they are inherently incapable of judging the validity of information they are passing along.

Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's right. But they don't tell you when they're wrong, and to find out if they were wrong, you now have to do the research you were trying to avoid in the first place.

I tried programming with it once, because a friend insisted it was good. But it wasn't, and it was extremly confidend, while being exceptionally wrong.

Man. Every time I read an unsolicited comment like this, I get moved a bit more to the "optics matter" camp.

If someone is interested, they will ask. And if they ask, you get to camly explain your thoughts and feelings.

That's how I managed to get everyone to think of the “haha, my food eats your food” guy in my social circle as the weird “berates people for their personal choices” guy, rather than me. He brought it up in the most childish, naive way, and I got to be the adult in the room.

And that stuck. A bunch of my friends lost their fear of meat alternatives, because of me wordlessly picking the meat alternative from the fridge in the grocery store, while picking things out for the BBQ. People do notice these things. And some will copy you, if you seem cool enough to copy.

Our shareholders have decided that our proprietary software now requires a subscription to work and that an ad will be displayed every 60 seconds on the fan aswell as in the app.

Thank you for supportig our goal of increasing profits.

Sure, it may sound bad when children become homeless. But have you ever thought about how much money it saves? Just think of all the good things we can afford with all that money!

Like anti-homeless park benches. Or those little speakers that emit ultra-high-pitched sounds so that young people don't … enjoy … existing somewhere or something, idk.

And just because I'm unable to actually satirize reality at the moment, yes, /s

Protoarc. I think it's the same guys who produce the "gameball" trackball. With cheaper sensors and switches, I'd guess.

Trackballs and vertical trackballs.

Not only are they better for my wrists and allow extremely fast movements in-game, but also this:

Keep in mind that more surface area usually means more bacteria. Afaik there's is nothing wrong with the usual changable filters (although there are a few horrid ones).

But many private households tend to underestimate how dirty these things get, even after a short time.

Since water supplied by the municipality is usually fine and most bad stuff happens as a last-mile problem, I shower in the morning (which I have to do anyway, but it also flushes most pipes) and then wash out a large stainless steel beaker before filling it up and drinking from it for most of the day.

Have you considered that we could reduce the number of lanes available and fuck some of our customers?

• some GPU sales guy, probably

I've only used an LLM (you can guess which one) once to write code. Mostly because I didn't feel like writing down some numbers and making a little drawing for myself to solve the problem.

And because a friend insisted that it writes code just fine.

But it didn't. It confidently didn't. Instead, it made up something weird and kept telling me that it had now “fixed” the problem, when in reality it was trying random fixes that were related to the error message but had nothing to do with the actual core problem. It just guessed and prayed.

In the end, I solved the problem in 10 minutes with a small scribble and a pen. And most of the time was spend drawing small boxes, because my solution relied on a coordinate system, I needed to visualize.

Isn't it mostly 9*10+2? 9 * ty (implying 10) + 2.

Even german does that, although weirdly the way you can't just write down long numbers reasily one by one: Zwei (2) und ((and) neun- (9) -zig (*10)).

Half-Life Alyx looks fantastic. It's a modern but faithful representation of the Half-Life universe. You can jump from HL2 to Alyx and feel like you're part of the same narrative and story. Even though there are almost two decades in between.

Half-Life RTX has more polygons, higher-resolution textures and a much more resource-hungry lighting system. The entire Half-Life universe was cast as a cameo to star in another guys remake.

Du wirst die Zukunft 2 gehabt haben werden haben.

Shaped charges are extremly good for wiping larger clusters.

Keep yourself clean. Keep your room/apartment/house clean. Look happy.

People tell me this why they assume I'm gay.

These two are cool tho'.

If you are non-german or OOTL: One refuses to bite a demonstrator (who is protesting against Nazis) even though he is literally shoved into one, and the other one just bites another cop.

Whatever I have on hand or fit's the dish.

Mostly rapeseed oil, sometimes olive oil. When I first started (before I was able to just guess), I put a drop of water in the pan. As soon as the water started to boil, I added the oil and was ready to go.

Nothing stuck for quite a while. But if it did, sometimes it was enough to wait a bit for everything to release by itself.

Aside from that: butter. Butter does some magic.