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Last Notes npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "I added a new rule 15: do not be the reason we need to add a new rule." npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦dmpa I'm liking the Marley suggestion. was gonna try Them Belly Full but I like this better npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have so far. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "If I had to burn every other scene Iāve ever done in my career and leave one, it would be the bus scene in Swiss Army Man. Itās the best six minutes Iāve ever been involved with onscreen." -- Daniel Radcliffe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrK1f4TsQfM npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood If anyone tells you another, shorter version of this song exists, DO NOT BELIEVE THEIR LIES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3scfw7DTc npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦h0ll alt text is worth it though (unless you are legit in urgent hurry), I need to blog this npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦380z that's because YOU are not funny npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "No one person should own a billion of anything." npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood The three sweetest words any man can say to another man: you were right. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "There's no way the United States can possibly afford Universal Healthcare, it would cost more than all the taxes we could possibly collect!" Perhaps that is because healthcare in this country -- for some reason -- routinely costs 3Ć-5Ć more than it does in any other country. I present before the court Exhibits A and B: npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦0hte that's not true, if it's encrypted properly. You can obtain it but nobody can open it unless they beat the key out of you first. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood We can't just hassle people constantly until they move off {insert name of evil, you-own-nothing we-own-you-all deal-with-it-you-losers-dot-jiff platform}. We must build viable alternatives for them. That's the real work. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood If you, or someone you know, works at MediaTek, please connect me with them. All I want to do is help them. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood I am EXTREMELY happy that The Onion got InfoWars and not Elon Musk. Because.. that was a possibility. Check the wikipedias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o28FfNKv6w npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Incredible writing by @nprofileā¦yqr2 .. I canāt even decide which pull quote to use, trust me, just read the whole thing https://www.todayintabs.com/p/over-leveraged npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦ds0l the music industry is not a survivable path for humans in my experience npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood I was thinking of upgrading my CPU, looked amd realized again that Apple is still absolutely destroying everyone else out there on the only thing that really matters for real world performance. Why bother? There's no point. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%"" https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1uhwork/solutions_to_all_the_worlds_problems_oc/ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood The talk @nprofileā¦w50d and I are giving now has a proper name and synopsis. We're not saying it will be a good talk, necessarily, but I can assure you this ain't your typical tech talk -- we aim for quality edutainment! https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress/agenda/sessions/none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us-community-and-knowledge-go-hand-in-hand-1259825 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Donāt worry, I also hate myself just as much as everyone else does. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood You Never Can Tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLMN6g_Od4 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Make sure your kids see this graph https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2436 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦0hde I support a much fairer distribution of wealth, here in the second gilded age. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood (to be read in the voice of Judas Priest's "You've Got Another Thing Comin'") npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦v4gt agree; sort of like when THC was legalized. Where was all the predicted carnage? Compare: alcohol š± npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "26. There's a quote being passed around that reads npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Dan Luu is the perfect person to evaluate and benchmark these claims.. I can't unlock the content for you, but I wish I could!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/exercises-in-and-160473058?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Leo Laporte and I now have a monthly video/audio show! "Off by One with Jeff Atwood". The first episode, #2, is freely available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jveUllo7Mjs npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦h0ll basically you're saying "why don't blacklists [outdated term] work?" I got some bad news for you, my friend.. https://blog.codinghorror.com/blacklists-dont-work/ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood walnut finish / grey caps or raw finish gold caps .. arguably the best playing responsive yo-yo ever created.. and made entirely in the USA, too! https://rgmii.org/help-out/#one-drop-yoyos-lane-county-oregon npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood We are honored to partner with the wonderful āStay Gold, Americaā project of the Atwood family a second time to bring you the Ultra State. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Now with completed art collab w/ https://claygrahamart.com š npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood What creates billionaires, statistically speaking? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood read the truth, people. Fuck complicity. And most of all, fuck the so-called "leadership" at substack. I lose a little bit more respect for anyone still on that platform, month after month. Look. Take my advice and do as you please. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood people still on substack are like "(fetches fainting couch) but mah clicks! my metrics!" You know what, fuck your clicks, fuck your metrics, and FUCK YOU. Grow a backbone, you absolute cowards. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can ā perfectly legally ā pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year." https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦a6hr performance based model is a lot better in general. Asses in chairs per billable hour has so many perverse incentives.. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood āYeah, I could give billions, but what would it even do? It wouldnāt do shit.ā If you want to be utterly enraged, watch this clip. And let's turn that rage into action, please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOIMdHecfz8 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦u7p7 it just depends if you want to be effective or not. See https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116606215038359341 .. I ain't the boss of you, nor do I pretend to be. Do whatever you want. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦u7p7 I feel like no one actually wants to take full responsibility here. It's always something else, someone else that's the problem, isn't it? Never us. Them. They're the problem. Right? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦u7p7 why not all of us? aren't humans the original mistake? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦u7p7 ok so we're at war with ... (checks notes) Google? Not Meta? Not Microsoft? Not Amazon? Not Oracle? Not Palantir? Not Apple? Not Tesla? Not X? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦3yyh I view this as an energy space race to get us away from the petrodollar. I only oppose coal-based stuff, or horribly designed datacenters. As far as "destroying education", given that college costs 23 skadillion dollars now, maybe something ought to change there? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦3yyh I got a pretty good idea of where the screws are.. but there's definitely a lot of confusion and overselling going on. Also the free models are universally not great... the pro models are SO much better. Like.. dramatically. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Dogs are OK, and all, but personally I prefer foxes -- cat software running on dog hardware. š¦ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "In The Opportunity Map, Jeremy Ney travels around the country to visit the communities with the worst prospects for housing, healthcare, employment, incomes, and education. Along the way, he uncovers something remarkable: for many of the most distressed places in America, there exists a counterpartāa community that is almost identical yet it has cracked the code on the American Dream. From the coal mines of West Virginia to the farmlands of California, from the vast plains of South Dakota to the roaring metropolises of New York, Ney reveals that āmirror countiesā offer a blueprint for prosperity that can reasonably be transplanted from one community to the next." https://www.worthybooks.org/the-opportunity-map npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood I want everyone to know that @nprofileā¦yrm5 is a monster. And by monster, obviously I mean a magnificent goddamn human being that I think of as the brother I never had. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station. Ā¶ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "the bat, he screams like a man" npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦42mr I can't not npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦28lf alt text matters npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood If you'd like to help spread the word that simply giving money to those who most need it is effective and practical, here's how: https://rgmii.org/blog/help-bring-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-to-more-families/ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦u98q I know, humans were a mistake, right? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood wow, subreddit delivers big time. THEY FOUND THIS ANCIENT DOT-COM BOOM SNAP.COM AD FROM 1999 WITH THE DIAMOND STUDDED COUGAR!! šš» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atQb6nhfJy4&t=193s npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Every mother loves a diamond studded cougar!! https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/1t91bmo/how_about_a_nice_diamond_studded_cougar_tv/ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦fkqn I feel like 640kb of memory should be enough, too npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦w945 this is dangerously close to my "correct" advice of long filenames and absolute minimum folders, max 2 levels and even avoid that if you can at all costs. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/546/116/381/094/206/original/47fbbcbf2a642ce9.png npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦l2jj if you want to have this superficial understanding of what's going on, and fight battles that just don't matter instead of concentrating on THE CULT.. well as my dad, who died April 7th, used to say to me.. "take my advice and do as you please." https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116540082835363973 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦l2jj Altman is not part of a cult. Call me if you want to know why, and if you think my heart is pure. Because I don't care if I live or die, Michael. It's about so much more than that for me. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-trap-you-set-for-yourself/ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦l2jj Sure, we can send them print books, if you want. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Let me educate you all about Misanthropic and Wario. There has never been a computer industry cult like this before, at least not in computer history... npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦fqts I respect where you are coming from here, but big oil is far different then Generative AI / LLMs. Oil -- the petrodollar -- is destroying our world. Knowledge, online knowledge, is a vastly different thing. It is serving us directly in a way that oil, coal, and gas -- and certainly tobacco -- is ABSOLUTELY NOT. We need clean energy. We need to annihilate the petrodollar with electric... and knowledge. Understand what you are advocating for here. Call me if you to know more. I'm available to you .. and my own children .. 24/7. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "Say hello, welcome them. A kind word can go a long way to not only making others feel welcome but to also encourage respectful conversations." npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Yet again stellar reporting by 404 Media. I don't make a big deal about it, but yet another illustration of how powerful cutting-edge digital native journalism can be, and why we donated ~$1m to this org as part of Stay Gold. https://www.404media.co/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood All it takes is some goddamn bravery here in the land of the free. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood That rhetorical reversal matters. Reactionaries love posing as restorationists: they are āreturningā to the founders, ārestoringā constitutional order, āsavingā the republic. Vidalās whole joke is that this is nonsense. He calls original intent āgorgeous nonsense,ā because no one can coherently know the single intent of those fifty-five men, and because many of them did not treat the document as sacred in the first place. The Constitution itself was born from an illegal-ish supersession of the Articles of Confederation. The Founding was not piety, but audacity. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood But youāre making a sharper Vidal-style point: what if their Article V project does not trap us inside their country, but reveals that they have already constituted a different one? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood THE CONSTITUTION -- CONFOUNDING THE FOUNDING FATHERS - Reconvene the Convention and Rewrite the Document - LA Times - 1987 - Gore Vidal š¤ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦637m oh yeah sure that's an actual real screenshot on a real device at native resolution š npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses, or start eatin' that trash can." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood I go crazy when I hear a cymbal and a hi-hat with a souped up tempo, I'm on a roll, it's time to go solo npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦l2jj depends how you focus it npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "Go to sleep", they said. But I can't. Not yet. I have many miles to go. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦s32f it's ok, we can all do better, I'm just as guilty as anyone npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦s32f awesome, thanks for researching that, appreciated, maybe do that first next time, just a suggestion npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood What are your favorite materials? These are mine. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood p.s. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood It is now the first of may, my friends, and you know what that means, right? https://youtu.be/WzZaJDg6E0A npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦s32f I dunno, have you actually researched the answer to the first two questions? Get back to me when you have. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood If you write blogs (or pick synonym of choice) online, do you use LLMs? And if so, how? https://forms.gle/RAK8sTPF8Ey24Ehs6 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Time to start the day right! š¤ npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Why does Steam let me gift Windows-only games to Mac users? I don't get it. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood "āMusk himself has argued that to get level five autonomy [in self-driving cars] you need generalized autonomyā which is his term for AGI, Bishop said."https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-will-never-be-conscious/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦tfz2 ok wow I was about to have a conniption fit until I saw 2017. It's still an awful idea, but man. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood ref https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116475647859566242 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood āWeāre bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,ā Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦z0eu @nprofileā¦h0ll I didn't hate them when they helped me get my dad to stop beating my mother. Who else was I gonna call, the fucking ghostbusters? npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood protip: no you haven't, idiots, and nobody will. At least not in our lifetimes, or our children's lifetimes. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood Misanthropic: "WE HAVE CREATED SENTIENT LIFE! KNEEL BEFORE CLAUDE!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUiCNlDeJk npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦a6hr Yes, because as I have repeatedly said, Misanthropic lies constantly and does whatever it wants internally. Continue ignoring my warnings at your peril. This company is a cult, and an extremely dangerous one. Nobody is pure, but this company.. as close to evil as it gets. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦ztt0 yes, this is all the same as saying "we need either a new constitution, or two countries, or perhaps both." npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦vq3n no, I do not npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦0ss7 6-8 weeks, of course npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦245y I am intensely aware of the entire history of all this, see https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114581606691447234 npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦ynl3 I don't because PHONE NUMBERS ARE STUPID npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood and the only person I was kinda sorry I didn't do this for was @jwz who was like "I thought you had my number", and I was like.. uh.. nope. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood I love how people are like "I'm all about the security!" and store hundreds of contacts on their phone. I store the absolute minimum number of contacts of my phone as I can, because I don't ever want any apps slurping them up. Unless you share a lot of DNA with me -- and I mean, like, a lot -- I regret to inform you that you ain't ever gonna be in my phone contacts. And sometimes even then, no. Depends heavily on the relative and their opsec. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦245y yeah but if someone gets on your phone you're super fucked, right? The other physical item (the hardware 2fa key) is required. npub1g2qejtntv9jj5pysfsnn3lsgxqm522lvm543ujv4lscakusmg2dqjucq0l Jeff Atwood @nprofileā¦42mr every time I see this, I say the same thing, but nobody wants to hear the actual truth: humans were a mistake.
