always lonely

I don’t know, some rodents seem to make it work. Naked mole rats, beavers, prairie dogs… (I wouldn’t include herd animals, though; sure, they’re always surrounded by others, but there’s no sense of community, it’s always everyone for themselves, and screw whoever’s slowest… perfect example of being alone in a multitude)

Not that I recall, no.

My first one was a 65MB (or was it 85MB?) 3.5’’ parallel ATA one, and while the enclosure might have been shaped around the platter(s?) (could have been a later one, though) I don’t recall the motor being distinguishable.

Whole machine (my first PC proper) was a 286, 16MHz with turbo on, possibly 1024KB of RAM (I recall setting up autoexec.bat to ask me if I needed extended or expanded memory on boot, but could’ve been in a later machine; pretty certain the memory was on socketed DIPs on the mainboard, not SIMMs, in any case, so it can’t have been much, and 640KB was supposed to be enough, anyway), CGA, 5.25’’ and possibly 3.5’’ floppy drive, DOS… 4.something, I believe.

Good times.

Nero burning ROM.

Meh, burning CDs… ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?

(To be fair, neither did I, probably; my earliest hard drive was already IDE, I believe, and those seem to have already had autopark, but the old lore was that you parked your hard drives before moving them, or the heads would scratch the surface, so park them we did.)

If you held them by a side and shaked them, they were definitely floppy.

If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…

The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it’s smaller size and portability

And not being read-only.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

White smoke, pope, black smoke, no pope yet.

Not a pope.

It’s dead, Jim.

They’ll never be able to learn, though.

A LLM is merely a statistical model of its training material. Very well indexed but extremely lossy compression.

It will always be outdated. It can never become familiar with your codebase and coding practices. And it’ll always be extremely unreliable, because it’s just a text generator without any semblance of comprehension about what the texts it generates actually mean.

All it’ll ever be able to do is reproduce the standards as they were when its training model was captured.

If we are to compare it to a junior developer, it’d be someone who suffered a traumatic brain injury just after leaving college, which prevents them from ever learning anything new, makes them unaware that they can’t learn, and incapable of realising when they don’t know something, makes them unable to reason or comprehend what they are saying, and causes them to suffer from verbal diarrhoea and excessive sycophancy.

Now, such a tragically brain damaged individual might look like the ideal worker to the average CEO, but I definitely wouldn’t want them anywhere near my code.

Lick my balls.

My favorite use is actually just to help me name stuff.

Reverse dictionary lookup, more or less.

Now, that is something LLMs should be actually good at, unlike practically any other thing they’re being sold as being good at.

The junior developer can (hopefully) learn and improve.

KSA is dead in the water, though.

Blowing up Jeb is fun for the whole family, including Jeb.

Blowing up kittens is not fun, in any way, shape, or form, unless you’re a deranged psychopath.

No one will play such a game.

There are no paragraphs, which makes it too much effort to read.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice

… but often they come hand in hand.