Ah yes, Marlon Muckerberg.

Not usually, it’s Hanlon’s Razor.

Oh, I see. This is where they make their stand? This was too much for them? They’re all worthless bastards.

I took his comment to mean the people who accepted that tinnitus was not physical.

He’s pretty infamous for being a dick. I’m from the area he is from, and he has a pervasive reputation pretty much everywhere around here about it. He has refused to sign autographs without being paid, been rude to countless people in person who have recognized him, and is generally very condescending. He has this misplaced arrogance that is difficult to pin down but can be typical of people with a modicum of fame.

To my knowledge it’s all anecdotal, but the sheet volume of it lenda some credence to it.

Oh man, I love TB. My wife and I love reading. We are constantly ordering books, and you can find pretty much everything there.

Thriftbooks.com

I have indeed. I’ve also met a lot of regular church attendees before, and some of them are the most morally bereft people I have ever encountered.

Maybe they don’t attend church. Maybe they aren’t even religious. How does this help anyone?

“Maybe they should join a crochet club and find a wholesome woman.”

That’s how ridiculous you sound.

Absolutely. Anyone willing to treat a stranger this way is unequivocally a shitbag.

She will die alone, whether she is married or not.

I am aware of what I don’t know, and having something which hallucinates produce something I want to use seems silly. I wouldn’t be able to verify it independently because I’m not smart enough. It just seems like asking for trouble. Like I would ask the thing which gave me broken code in the first place to fix it? Smort.

I’ve so far avoided using LLMs unless I need something explicitly explained. I don’t know enough to be able to verify any code it would produce, so I don’t know what the hell these vibe coders are doing.

But I’m also a little long in the tooth to be starting this, so maybe that’s part of my problem.

As someone who’s been trying to learn Python recently, this resonates with me. I am glad I will always fuck it up.

Thanks, I hate it. This picture makes my feet tingle.

Oh come on, this is funny. Don’t downvote humor you old farts. I’m old enough to remember when we got internet. I was 14 and had to beg mom to let us use the free AOL trial.

Once that month was up, we were hooked faster than if we had visited a Chinese opium den in the 1800s.

Edit: wow I sure fucked up that first draft. I was 14, not 24.

You’re not misreading. It was an attempt at commentary on the current state of the job market, specifically at fintechs. This is not the same job market from even just a couple years ago, at least iny experience of it. I realize two different people within the same subset of the market can have markedly different experiences . But for me, I can’t even get someone to talk to me beyond a couple of recruiter contacts which went nowhere once the hiring manager got involved.

I’m not looking for a better job necessarily, just a different one. I’m in a volatile industry which is beset by a reliance on utilization percentage to justify continued employment. There is a level of constant anxiety to every aspect of the job and it’s driving me slowly insane. Or maybe not slowly.

I love everything about the way this written.

Kudos, sir.

This is the answer.

It’s not AI, it’s a super searcher. Once you ask it to start making decisions, or choices for you, is when you’ve lost the plot. I use it like that, just as a tool because it can aggregate disparate data much faster than me alone. I spend the time saved checking what it tells me, but I’ve found quite useful in limited situations with solid guardrails.

I feel for you, and I hope this works out for you in the end. I’m in the private sector, and have been actively searching and applying for a year, and I’ve spoken to two recruiters. I’m pretty well qualified for the roles I’ve been applying to, but it’s a fairly niche skill set so it’s been maybe 70-80 applications over the course of the past year.

I’ve never been happier to have been out of the government; I left a few years ago.