Obese cats could be the fault of it’s owner not stimulating the cat with enough playtime, but perhaps not every case.

Obese cats are the fault of overfeeding. Full stop. Solutions like this only exist for the owners to shift responsibility off of themselves.

And you know what? If that means more cats have a better quality of life, I’m all for it. But at the end of the day the real solution is always going to be moderating your cat’s food intake.

Is that ironic? The Internet started at a DARPA project. It was a military asset from the very start.

I am Jack Sparrow’s smirking revenge

That cat is definitely overweight

Using an IDE to write code is like using a pie tin to help you make a pie.

Using generative AI is like going to the local bakery, breaking their window, and stealing the pie.

That perfectly describes what my day-to-day has become at work (not by choice).

The only way to get anywhere close to production-ready code is to do like you just described, and the process is incredibly tedious and frustrating. It also isn’t really any faster than just writing the code myself (unless I’m satisfied with committing slop) and in the end, I still don’t understand the code I’ve ‘written’ as well as if I’d done it without AI. When you write code yourself there’s a natural self-reinforcement mechanism, the same way that taking notes in class improves your understanding/retention of the information better than when just passively listening. You don’t get that when vibe coding (no matter how knowledgeable you are and how diligent you are about babysitting it), and the overall health of the app suffers a lot.

The AI tools are also worse than useless when it comes to debugging, so good fucking luck getting it to fix the bugs it inevitably introduces…

Typical C-suite. It takes them three months to come to the same conclusion that would be blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain: if you build something that no one understands, you’ll end up with something impossible to maintain.

I’m sorry… a smart toilet camera? WTF??

ETA: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1p_dUU_6uQ

Simping for magnetism

My new band name

100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches

Don’t forget the hundreds of MBs of NPM dependencies

Alternate title:

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that ruined the Internet

He’s doing his best!

At what, I have no idea…

The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme

they still said that they love Google and use all of its products — they just didn’t expect it to release a program that can make a massive error such as this, especially because of its countless engineers and the billions of dollars it has poured into AI development.

I honestly don’t understand how someone can exist on the modern Internet and hold this view of a company like Google.

How? How?

I’m sorry, but that article just isn’t very compelling. They seem to be framing the question of “is there free will” as a sort of Pascal’s Wager, which is, umm… certainly a strange choice, and one that doesn’t really justify itself in the end.

The author also makes a few false assertions and just generally seems to misunderstand what the debate over free will is even about.

I’ve never played this game and don’t know anything about it that I didn’t just read in the article… but there’s just something so rad about a game called “Let it Die” having such a graceful end-of-life plan like this.

I think the reason we can’t define consciousness beyond intuitive or vague descriptions is because it exists outside the realm of physics and science altogether. This in itself makes some people very uncomfortable, because they don’t like thinking about or believing in things they cannot measure or control, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

I’ve always had the opposite take. I think that we’ll eventually discover that consciousness is so explainable within the realm of physics that our understanding of how it works will make people very uncomfortable… because it will completely invalidate all of the things we’ve always thought made us “special”, like a notion of free will.

Fusion neutrons are able to cause fission in ordinarily non-fissile materials, such as depleted uranium (uranium-238), and these materials have been used in the jackets of thermonuclear weapons.

Fun(?) fact: something like 50% of the energy output of thermonuclear bombs comes from secondary fission events in the bomb casing triggered by the high energy neutron flux of the fusion reaction.

Statistically, there are no small integers.

Dude, you should really eat something