“Our AI security reviews 20,000 configurations every hour. Your money is safer than - shit. Well, nevermind. There’s no money left. Excuse me, I need to leave the country.”

If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I’m going to steal this for an update to an internal guidance document for my dev team. Thank you.

People are too hard on Janeway. She didn’t have great options here. I’m sure if she could have, she would have sacrificed Ensign Kim - for not refilling the coffee replicator.

Definitely not unique to Stargate. I remember a cast member from Power Rangers commenting on how interesting it was that so many rock filled quaries were key strategic targets to the various forces invading earth…

The tactics in Wolfenstein: ET were brilliant.

That’s totally fair, and I’ll keep it in mind.

I hope my habit makes your life a little easier by normalizing they/them (or just avoiding gendered terms) as an un-interesting default.

I hope for a world where they/them becomes accepted as “I’m not trusted enough by this person to be told their pronouns yet, and that’s okay.”

I think asking people to identify their gender, early in a (non-intimate) relationship, is a particularly unhealthy cultural habit. I hope I’m helping push back on that, a bit.

In the meantime, I’m trying to learn speech habits that don’t force you to gender yourself, or to be noticed in not doing so. I hope to help make these kinds of situations easier for you.

You shouldn’t have to decide at a random moment whether to share your gender identity with me. I’m committed to keep trying to learn communication patterns that make it natural for you not to have to.

Yeah. Which I’m sure is what they’re officially selling. That’s fair. Long term, walking robots are likely only going to succeed thanks to learning algorithms.

I find it suspicious that this company is touting their AI enhancement while admitting their product can’t be trusted to navigate an apartment alone.

Personally, I would select homes with simple layouts, before conceding to constant monitoring, if I could. But I couldn’t do that if my mix of math and AI was outright bad, and it couldn’t handle it…

To me, this smells like over-promising and hoping new AI algorithms outpace their promises.

And having a remote operator just looks like a lot like a classic mechanical turk scam.

AI is propping up the blockchain bubble that already popped.

Both have been primarily interesting solutions looking for problems to solve without any hard work, rather than having any worthwhile investment strategy, in most cases.

There’s people doing hard work with block chain and AI to solve real problems. But there aren’t “the vast majority of venture funds” number of people doing that.

I am constantly amazed at how long it takes folks to realize their money is being pissed away.

An alternative less generous assumption is that they’re mostly just laundering crime money, and so don’t mind the high rates of loss.

Beat me to i…

This is going to be a great time to be a lawyer… until the climate kills us all, of course.

When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

“I don’t understand it (pauses to pour various inedible compounds into another vat). There’s no way to explain why Americans don’t want to eat our delicious healthy snacks anymore. (Pauses to check with legal whether using the word “healthy” will hold up in court. Legal says it won’t, but Sales says to use it anyway.)”

This is not an actual quote, but it’s wild that they don’t understand the road that got them here. It’s just way too much trouble to read and research the package labels for basic safety, anymore. If there’s four or more ingredients, I probably just won’t buy it.

I fucking love snacks, but they took the fun out of it.

While Neo Gamma uses AI to walk and balance, the robot is not fully capable of autonomous movements today. To make in-home tests possible, Børnich says 1X is “bootstrapping the process” by relying on teleoperators — humans in remote locations that can view Neo Gamma’s cameras and sensors in real time, and take control of its limbs.

So yhis is a non-functional product.

Being able to walk autonomously is normally done with a lot of difficult math, which it sounds like they don’t have the talent on staff to code.

Be sure to get your venture capital dollars in soon, because that’s all this is here for.

Also, it’s comforting to know that creepy robot face will initially be remote controlled by a rotating series of low paid total strangers. And by initially, we mean always (as in the case of Amazon checkout.)

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Heh. Good point.

I also use “they/them” until someone shares their pronouns.

Officially, I do this to avoid misgendering people.

Really, I do it because some snowflakes are too fragile to share their pronouns, and I enjoy annoying them until they do.

My preferred pronouns are actually “none of your business/fuck off”, but I settle for “they/them” for professionalism reasons. (Until I retire. Then my pronouns change officially everywhere.)

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

I’ve longed to work the fields with my hands and simple tools because the fields don’t fucking spit out meaningless gibberish when I’m just trying to get them to process a simple text field, and my hands don’t have documentation apparently written by a distracted seven year old.

And while the living off the land will certainly kill me due to my own incompetence, nature will have the decency to just eat my corpse and not gloat over my failure repeatedly in a hung CI/CD process for the rest of eternity.