I think maybe I had the ELIZA vaccine, then got a booster as an adult by building a toy Markov chain generator.
I built it as a joke, after colleagues said that an executive’s email updates were so incomprehensible that they could have been written by a robot. And now… well, here we are.
I’m sorry, friend. 💔
I think it’s slightly more (I make it about £1.09), because the US has its own gallon which is about 20% smaller than the imperial one. Just to add a bit more complexity and confusion into the mix.
Threes don’t matter if your users aren’t happy.
That sounds like a long and painful odyssey of feels. I’m sorry, friend. 💙
Thank you, friend.
A black glazed pottery bowl with reddish and white decoration, ft. an owl in the center.
A super bowl featuring a superb owl! Hellenic, ca. 700 BCE, in the Archaeological Museum, Fiesole.
🧡
This is true. I wonder if there’s an irreconcilable tension there—that automation at scale necessarily requires appropriating and exploiting what isn’t yours to take—but if there’s room for something better, I’d love to see it.
(I believe Terra Nil tried, but I haven’t played it yet myself.)
This is one of the things I appreciate about Satisfactory. It at least pokes fun at the idea of ever-increasing resource extraction, and leaves enough room in the mechanics for whimsical touches.
(My last game had a park with a small art installation. My current game has a museum.)
Oregon Trail: LARP Edition.
James.
“My God, it’s full of dirt.”
I mean, it’s sort of appropriate? Something growing up from below in a beautiful¹ act of growth and transformation?
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¹ May be less beautiful, more instant insanity, but hey.
Well, shit. 😢
“Ah yes, the sparkline. A classic Tuftean « amuse-guele », perfect for the pre-deployment « entre-temps ».”
No, but the graph sommelier will be delighted to assist you with all your visualisation needs.
A lemon dressed as a pig. It has toothpicks for legs, cloves for eyes, a coin in its mouth, and just a glimpse of a foil tail.
A little late, but now it’s official. May the blessings of #LemonPig be with you in 2026.
Ooh, I need to try these. I need more coffee in my life¹.
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¹ This is extremely debatable.
I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—that the kind of people who would come up with a straight pride flag would be super ignorant about how pride works.
I was about to say, that is about the saddest, most miserable flag I could possibly imagine.
This conversation gives me a much-needed dose of hope that there are still people who get it. I like the cuts of your respective jibs.
Exactly: the understanding is the worthier part. Doubly so when you get to distribute it across a team. That’s the good shit right there.
I can only imagine that an awful lot of people pushing this LLM boom have never experienced or understood that.
Yeah, I can see how the “reasonably accurate typing automator” model makes sense. That at least doesn’t set off the same “this is wrong tool” response for me that other approaches do.
This gets at the heart of the issue for me: for me, at least, the code is a far less interesting product than the understanding. I don’t want to ship more code: I want to know more things. I can’t see a way I would get that out of a tool designed to string the most plausible words together.
Honestly, I’m mostly just relieved that I’ve got an alibi for this one. The last one broke out on what was supposed to be my last day at GDS, and people joked that I’d gone to rather extreme lengths to avoid giving a speech.
As someone who recently started another Satisfactory run, this is delightful and good.
Hubris guides us all
Spin and smash the danger rocks
Winter’s chill wind blows
LinkedIn’s “interests and traits” setting. My first interest is listed as “AI Enthusiasts”.
Oh, LinkedIn. I cannot fully express how staggeringly incorrect this is.
(And yes, I turned this setting off the moment I realised it existed. Of course.)
Oh dear. I’m going to have to dive back into Satisfactory, aren’t I?
