You’re the Ter-meat-nator!

Dissenting opinion: you have powered a mech suit of bone your entire life.

I think it’s uplifting bc it shows that the mods have gone on a very long vacation.

Well, this is slightly better than the “horrible thing happens to horrible person doing horrible thing” that is usually passed off as “uplifting” here.

Dunno, decades of enshittification might happen overnight, like a singularity. A shitgularity, as it were.

But Comcast/Xfinity is truly, truly horrible. Their tech support sucks and there are some account-related things you need to talk to them for. I feel stressed just thinking about it.

Aw, she was fake? I feel… something a lot like loss.

Could still be either one!

The guy who used to hang with Mr T, or the other guy?

I can dig it, fam. It’s not really a “shower thought” as defined in the sidebar, tho, it’s more like a microfiction. Or the kind of “nugget” you’d write in a journal where you collect ideas to later build on.

Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.

So… there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world… I never really got the point of that one.

But if you’ve ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you’re not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes “sentient” because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you’d have to do some background reading.

Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends… but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that “something happens”… I dunno this one requires a bit more thought…

That’s not a true statement. It’s barely coherent. But it’s kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it… like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.

It’s a little more complicated than that obviously. If you want the details once you get out of the shower, you can start here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

best? I don’t think it would turn out how you think it would…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina#Infamous_Decade_(1930–43)

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Someone on this Mastodon instance started to follow the tycoon lemmy community

Fascinating info. I’d noticed that posts from the lemmy community [email protected] were showing up on Mastodon. For example: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/114286540525130294

But how do I follow a lemmy community from mastodon? I tried a couple things but nothing worked. Thanks for any additoinal info.

Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.

Wikipedia/mediawiki

Fails to consider the case in which the 2-year-old sister is now male.

You’re hired.