It's also not the topic we're here to discuss. Go be mad elsewhere, please.

I had a, idk, spell one afternoon where I saw this quilt we had on the wall open up at all the squares, and thousands of tiny people/elves poured out. They marched around carrying little boxes and were all around me.

I remember it so vividly more than 30 years later because it freaked me out so much. Tried telling my parents about it and they just dismissed it as a nightmare, but I swear I was awake, just out of it with fever.

Anyways, it was early 90's, and I know I was close to the dangerous temperatures of high fever. Perhaps the brain does interesting hallucinations in these situations?

Have never hallucinated or had anything like that happen since.

It's only about 5 seconds but it feels so weird on the other side. Like, sure, I'll wait for you. But it feels really rude when you do it 3 times in 5 minutes.

They're not. They're really not. They're incredibly capable and are currently executing long term plans successfully, one after another. This goes all the way back to Regan and the disenfranchisement of education. They know exactly what they're doing to erode democracy.

Calling them inept is dangerously stupid at best, and at worst is just right wing propaganda to try and lull people into a false comfort and not act.

Yeah, I know. That was my point, the irony in that statement.

Hmmmm.

A part of the universe is objectively conscious.

There's a split between the people that love to program, for the sake of it, and those that just want a well paying job.

Seems like the former group is hit the hardest re: morale. The job is just not fun anymore. It's prompting and reviewing an onslaught of mass amounts of code. No more problem solving or innovation. At least, in the ways we used to.

Seems like the latter group has less issues with this.

I'm an immigrant and most banks refused to give me an account when I moved here. Or ghosted me during the months long process. These are the banks that let me live here, and actually gave me an account and bank id. It's the only real choice I have until I get citizenship.

I've been getting by with a bankid codebrick and web browser access (although Nordea and DNB apps work fine on GrapheneOS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

I love learning to learn. I learned programming because I found a quick basic compiler / IDE on my dad's computer, along with some shipped examples, and it was actually magic to me.

I read our encyclopedias as a kid because it was just really cool. Likewise, I did physics in university not for a job (the jobs are shit), but because it gives me that feeling of expansive possibility and wonder that Carl Sagan gave me when I watched Cosmos growing up.

Most of my most passionate self learnings came about because of that feeling of magic, not because I was chasing an end goal.

But I managed to get free of all the apps, and I jumped back in by re-reading some books from my childhood (Sword of Shannara, some bad 60's/70's sci fi, etc), and really enjoyed them. It was enough to shake me out of my lull and now I have an active queue again.

My commute and mornings are so much better than scrolling instagram on the train.

It was crazy when it was running. You could visually debug a bus, if you wanted to.

Wow okay, I'm a huge open source advocate, I run hardly anything closed source. No one here was talking about that, this is your own weird segue.

> but asking you to read open-source code is psychosis

But you didn't ask that. You told me to get an agent to read it (actually, not even read it, make its own quality assessment for me).

That's a massive difference, and if you consider them to be the same thing, then yes, my statement stands.

Okay but, you know this isn't a quality metric right? These models are incredibly biased towards positive confirmation of the prompt. I could give them nearly any repo and they would sing the praises of the best parts, if I asked.

This sounds a bit like psychosis.