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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:26PM (#50063932)
I'm happy for you. Enjoy your spaghetti.
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:15PM (#50063835)
Googling is a skill. AI is a slot machine.
The banks wouldn't write those loans for something they expect to go down in value.

I suppose you could always buy a mobile home.

Sorry, I don't understand. Can you explain again please?
ChatGPT suggests the land might have appreciated, the neighborhood may be more desirable, inflation, or development potential. We don't need programmers anymore because LLMs can do it. It must be an expert on home values too.
Your analogy might be applicable to the sale of an RV.
> Why are you then owed money? Why is that a fair expectation?

Because getting the mortgage to buy the house involves parting with a large sum of money, after which some part of the mortgage payment goes towards something called principal. If it just goes towards interest, it may as well be rent.

Not to mention that when you try to sell the thing, there's some expectation by one or more third parties of some percentage of it.

I misjudged the tone of your comment at the time I wrote that. My bad.

Personally, I'm still dealing with fallout from temporary cannabis-induced psychosis.

Keep the downvotes coming. Points matter.

Thank you for your contribution to the ongoing stigma surrounding mental illness. Never forget, you are the hero of this story.
Having experienced a temporary period like this as a result of cannabis use, it really doesn't help when people you know who didn't previously talk start sharing their concerns with each other. Filtering out the 'connections' in ordinary everyday stuff described by another poster is hard enough without having to speculate whether something you said to one person is causing someone else to act weird.
Re:I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:32PM (#49382993)
Some of us find it very hard to know what you want to do for the rest of your life at twice that age. There are a lot of trains.
Re:Beware Management Consultants on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:13PM (#49351984)
The antique illustrations on this are fantastic.
Re:The Origin of Consciousness on Monday August 17, 2026 @06:00PM (#49338277)
Anesthesia is a rather different state than sleep.
Re:Incentives Are for Losers on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:12AM (#49230379)
What comes after that?
Re:Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:28PM (#48855420)
The nerve this person is exhibiting by posting pictures on their blog without citing your mid-90's exploration of cubic fractals is truly staggering.
Re:Leave Me Behind on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:06AM (#48266397)
Maximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
Re:Leave Me Behind on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:58AM (#48266300)
> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves

Then why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?

Internet Doomsday Evangelist seems to be a role with infinite chairs.
You can store Perl in any file format.
I don't think you've seen many biology field data sets.
It's not even standard in academia.
Re:Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:45AM (#48063055)
What? Eddie and Alexei were the heroes of that story, and they got screwed.
Assuming that everyone you meet is conspiring against you seems to be a pre-requisite to these. The feasibility of that is questionable.
Back in the day, being a teenager and hanging out on freelancing forums was enough.
Re:The Only Game Worth Playing on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:05AM (#47649600)
I've also heard good things about Celeste and Silksong.
Using the word priors in the way you (and others) do.
Was trying to change 30% to 12% while needing to catch up on over a decade of features really the right call?

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