It shouldn’t be like that, but go into the dictionary and autocorrect whatever it tries to change it from, or make an abbreviation etc. I forced mine to stop saying “duck” instead of the fuck word.

leaders are hired for their experience and knowledge

Not because they’re Machiavellian wall-climbers?

Same. I made it about halfway through at the furthest. It kinda shows that it was an undergrad thesis project, and I think his own assessment that it seemed to be written by “a very smart fourteen-year-old” speaks to the roughness. I get it though — he’s chasing the sparks that we find developed later on. It’s funny how close this was written to Girl with Curious Hair, which is so much better.

Entirely fair! I think the posthumous assembly of the novel — leaving most storylines necessarily incomplete — made it more of a rough draft than anything. I’m just glad it got published, since I love any literature about bureaucracy. My favorite part of IJ is the footnotes/endnotes, if that says anything.

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Kind of a weird one because it’s technically incomplete, assembled by his longtime editor and his wife from materials going back to the 90s. I think it could’ve been his best work, even though I’ve always held that his nonfiction is superior.

Then stop giving us AI interviews, my good jerkwads.

In some ways yes, in other ways no. Would you rather be fast at stuff or have a sense of judgement, morals, and a wealth of experience? Maybe it has us beat at literal transcription, but it can’t make good human-oriented decisions about UX and UI.

chintzy when it comes to storage

Across the line, the cost to get a step up from 512gb to 1TB is $300, and on top of that, 1TB to 2TB is an additional $500, and you’re forever locked in. If that AI model increases in size, yikes.

Several employees within OpenAI believe their technology has rendered math dead anyway, according to people who have spoken with them.

They do believe a lot of things about their magic word machine.

Ok, now will they actually staff the registers? Because every time I’m in the store there’s only one checkout lane open, and before 10am or so, the self-checkout is closed.

"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men’s room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn’t so closely resemble Hell.”

Just enough to keep people from going into withdrawals. A little AI, as a treat.

Yum Brands, which owns KFC and Taco Bell… [is] developing AI platforms for just about everything, including a dynamic drive-thru menu that changes based on the car approaching the window.

Bet you didn’t algorithm this portly fuck in a tricked out ‘93 Del Sol wanting 55 enchritos until tonight.

Guess I’ll have to starve this one too

It’s a real shame the feds don’t hire the nerds who might’ve prevented this. The tl;dr is hiring freezes, reinstated fitness tests, and drug usage disqualifications put cops behind computers, not IT. Who saw that coming.

Inland Empire. David Lynch’s use of digital cameras is jarring, with prominent noise in shots, and the narrative is very convoluted. It feels like a low-budget film in a lot of ways. Is it good? I liked it. But I would not recommend it except to a Lynch completionist.

Is that why it’s bleeped?

Will they take a picture before or after the fuckers in the truck somehow manage to fling my cans into the drainage ditch again