garth marenghi's chart place

anyway time to reset the count on how many days it's been since i last threadposted about computer depression

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

maybe i'm simply a bitter smoker but i'm pretty sure people could be a lot meaner about ai, given the 'they want to kill everyone' stuff and i think most of you could simply get over it and enjoy your vices with a far quieter shame like the rest of us rather than acting like surly teens with a vape

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

i am fully aware of the overwhelming power of brute force but i do think it's worth stepping back and taking a look at where the fist is aimed and who it is heading for rather than tell me about how firm and muscular the hand is and how many things you'd like to see punched for low low prices

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

it's just pretty tiring to hear endless wish fulfilment scenarios "my job will be easier" or "science will get better" when every day it feels like the exact opposite is happening, what with endless crunch and layoffs, and i'm told "but it works on my machine" as if it means anything

although i do try and hold a more nuanced view like "machine translation good, extractive corpus bad, duty of care missing" i simply do not have the time or energy or good faith to talk about the finer points, especially when it feels like people are simply carving out exceptions for themselves

deciding against a ground floor apartment because i would simply die from the increase in background level anxiety

seeing posts about childhood pranks and flashing back to the time I set a welcome message on my mum's old brick of a phone, and every time she turned it on it said "LOW BATTERY" i found out later she'd charged it for a week. i then repeated the prank two weeks later and it only took her a few days

as a result of making 'you can see everything' posts, my notifications is just the same photo over and over and i also have underworld - cowgirl stuck in my head

everything everything everything everything every-

not a day goes by without some tooltip like dialog hovering over the page and somehow getting stuck and refusing to vanish still, not my favorite thing, which is when you find the exact perfect mouse position that a dialog pops in, and then pops back out over and over and over

i still think about how years ago i had two screens and set the one on the right as the primary and all the tooltips in swt broke with negative coordinates

not a day goes by without some tooltip like dialog hovering over the page and somehow getting stuck and refusing to vanish still, not my favorite thing, which is when you find the exact perfect mouse position that a dialog pops in, and then pops back out over and over and over

i think my favourite thing about the modern web and react is that we've traded a bunch of sync/state bugs, like values not getting rendered, or seeing out of sync information, for bugs like components not getting rendered, or the back button not working and yet still texboxes love to lose your work

made several good tweets so i'm checking in on my mental health to see if something's up or it's just sleep deprivation

a lot of people have encountered the overconfident stem nerd, the guy who programs and so everything else must be easy from the outside it does look like "i'm smart at code, so therefore i can do anything", but i promise you that they're like this with code too