Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

(2/2) As for code, researchers have documented "disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn – the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored – is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline."
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

Needless to say, there are also lots of other issues. Generative AI remains a double-edged sword.

Cutting it close for Valentine's Day? Cut these out. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/02/02/2024-valentines/

Gimme money, VC idiots. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/2/9/2222337/-Cartoon-New-tech-trends

Sportscaster: It is finally Super Bowl Sunday!

Other Sportscaster: Oh I thought it was Superb Owl Sunday hahaha

Owl: We get one single holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.

They wouldn’t be able to ban the flipper zero in the USA because of our 2nd amendment right to bear ARM’s which everyone knows refers to the processor

Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin may not have revealed much that we didn’t already know, but it did inspire a lot of good jokes.
https://t.co/3dYc5urnh1

The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.

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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.

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I always dreamed of a #MachineTranslation app that asks for clarifications – until I built one myself. https://www.fairslator.com/

"Alexa, but with empathy." 🙄
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68165762

Meanwhile, somewhere the data centre that hosts this nonsense is guzzling up precious water and energy that could be used for much better purposes.

Why are humans so incredibly dumb..?

A close look at the law and policy of holding a Northern Ireland border poll

How the law carefully shapes what will be an essentially political decision

New detailed post by me

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-the-law-and-policy