

“they call this “training” but i try to avoid anthropomorphising chatbots”
You can train animals, you can train a plant, you can train your hair. So it’s not really anthropomorphising.


“they call this “training” but i try to avoid anthropomorphising chatbots”
You can train animals, you can train a plant, you can train your hair. So it’s not really anthropomorphising.


oh no
He followed his friends Andrew Doyle and Martin Gourlay, formerly of GB News, over here. They were hired by US comic actor Rob Schneider’s production company and put in a word for Linehan. He moved in March and works for Schneider too. Having co-created Father Ted in the 1990s and created The IT Crowd in the 00s, Linehan is co-creating a sitcom called Tenure – “Our academics are like Father Ted academics: they’re very old and musty” – with Doyle, Gourlay and British comedian Jonathan Kogan. They’ve written eight episodes.


It is 1992 and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users


Does it have GPS so it can flash “WRONG HOUSE, FUCKWIT”


PORN site encrypts random nonce
Really unfortunate word in this context. (Not your fault of course.)


“And then after the apocalypse the techbro families died out because their children had heads too big to be born without a surgeon.”


To wash your cybertruck it’s important to use steel wool. Make sure it’s *mild *steel.


You could try to trick them into a divide by zero error, as a game.


The Nashville chud’s handle is even “rohmstuff”.


They wouldn’t be caught dead in Hemet.


He owns(?) a building in Forest City, Malaysia (or as he calls it: an island in an undisclosed location off the coast of Singapore)
Sounds like a houseboat. It’s a houseboat, isn’t it.


James Ingallinera
Wasn’t he one of those “hey techies move into my cultlike terrible coliving / working space / company town” people?


this is how one department head at Google gets more money for his compensation package out of the other bits of Google


Was reading about an 11 year old girl who just graduated with two associates’ degrees and is heading off to a 4 year college. She wants to work on AI for SpaceX or Tesla.
My first thought was: Oh god someone keep Musk away from her.


A $56 billion gift card for Elon.


It’s the same taxation system, you have to pay US taxes still, but I think you can deduct taxes paid in the new country from what you owe the US.


I’m not sure Ive still knows how to design things that actually work as opposed to beautiful objects for Dubai yacht dwellers to look at and show off.


“Don’t worry, in the future when science discovers a cure for being a turd, we’ll fish you out and bring you back to life.”
I can see it making sense, what with CPUs moving to integrated RAM, and probably CPU-integrated flash, to maximize speed. The business of RAM and flash drive upgrades will become a very large but shrinking retrocomputing niche probably served by small Chinese fabs.