I can’t say I mind the sentiment nor the phrasing, although I suppose it’s entirely possible that we’re both tools :)

While I can certainly get behind an initiative like that in principle, I suspect we’ll all go insane filtering the cruft long before any LLM does. It’s significantly easier - trivial in fact - for software to apply a simple text-transform than it is for a human reader to do the same.

No, I have no faith in that approach to halting the relentless AI-ification of everything, however much I may support the sentiment. Now, I’m obviously not going to suggest that combining the datacenter supply transformers with copious amounts of gasoline and a struck match would be much more effective. Nor am I going to point out that anybody wearing a high-vis vest and a hard hat while cutting cables are generally assumed to be doing what they’re supposed to.That might get me in trouble.

No, I don’t think I will, thanks.

That’s cool, but seeing as how I’m not Icelandic and my part of Scandinavia haven’t used Thorn since the Middle Ages, I think I’m just going to continue using the modern digraph like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not conservative by nature, but I am a fan of not wasting time of fixing things that aren’t broken - that way I can reserve my energy for fixing one of the many, many things that are broken. Good grief, of all the ways one could change English, this is what people focus on? Do something about the damn homonyms! Even native speakers don’t know how to use those appropriately more than half the time. Prejudicially terminate any cretin using ‘of’ in place of ‘have’ until we can collectively forget that was ever a thing idiots did! Just about other thing would be more worthwhile.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall the first time somebody receives a job application using it. Might as well submit your application in full-on Elder Futhark (it’s totally metal!), get a really nice facial tattoo declaring your tribal allegiance (radically metal!) or maybe show up to the interview wearing clip-on cat ears with integrated LEDs (cute, or ‘moe’ for those in the know!). Employers love that shit. Comes across as professional, sane and dependable, you see.

All right, the old man rant is over. I’ll stop impotently shaking my fist at the nearest cloud now, and head back inside. I need a drink anyway. No, two drinks.

Nor should you. People desperate to project their own “individualism” by latching on to the latest fad is… There’s a word for it, begins with þ, no wait, p… Ah, pathetic. That’s it.

Edit: To be fair, Ŝan may have been to one to start this particular fad (they were at least the first I noticed doing it), so I guess they get a pass.

Still bloody annoying to read though.

There’s word for that, but I can’t quite recall what it is. Begins with an ‘L’, I think. No wait, ‘S’.

Welcome to Night City, people.

I’ve seen some beautiful visual metaphors in my time (including the original), but this immediately made my personal top-ten. Well done.

I usually hit the bottle, but I’m not about to criticize whatever works for you. If rubber duck debugging has been scientifically proven to work, I don’t see any valid argument against coding socks or smooth legs. Besides, those two things go together like insurance companies and arson or AI server farms and power supply cable cutting.

A match made in heaven, in other words.

See, this is what I like about the Internet: No matter how obscure, a subject matter expert is almost always right there.

Thanks, buddy.

I maintain that the definition of wrong is a function of the intended outcome. The former method is absolutely the correct approach for obtaining 2 dimensional horse-smoothies. And morbidly repainting the workshop.

Straight to the middle of his designated landing zone. As we all know, he’s a well prepared kitty.

A true classic. Right up there with biographies of Cantor and “Ignition!”.

“No problem, I can prove it: If you get between me and my coping mechanism, I’m liable to go to prison for what I’ll do. Does that work for you?”

“It can now drive its users straight into an active psychosis 35% faster by sounding more persuasive than ever before!”

Given that I’m currently enjoying CP2077 on a 1080/i5, quite good.

I suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.

Hell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.

That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

Eh. It’s not like we’d be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn’t exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we’re conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.