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When the LLM starts doing dumb shit I start cursing it like a sailor who had been a pig farmer.
It makes me feel better, but doesn't help.
I just see:
Thinking: The user is unhappy. I need to .... <whatever> (and then probably the same dumb shit again).
LLMs are useful but sometimes fucking frustrating dumb shits of loose transitors.
Ta-daa. That happens. They found some new geothermal source in Munich as well after I moved into the place I'm in now. It turned out it was very viable.
Nowadays the heat in my apartment is mainly geothermal (The district heating network in my neighborhood has been converted to geothermal energy over the past 10 years.)
Wow, Kode with K. How shitty for us Germans. https://www.dict.cc/?s=kot
But really, where is the difference in data misuse from the US and China? Because the US has been "friends" in the past?
A single dose of a high velocity bullet also eradicates 100% of tumors.
Ok, Vibrierkot is something for the German shitpost communities with all my Zuhausis im Zwischennetz.
I'm sad that "Klopilot" only works in German.
"Hello, copilot, do you create slop? -> Skibidi slop slop slop aiiiiiii"
What's the difference compared to a phone with a radio firmware by a US company?
In both cases it's something closed and the government has shown overreach. (Yes, China a lot more than the US, but still ... things are not looking good a the moment. And I have no more trust, even if the political direction changes for a presidency period or two.)
But yes, ultimately we want open source firmware. Still, then there could be hardware backdoors anyways ...
(Sorry for the slop, in this case it is intentional)
Chatgpt, please write an answer for openai on https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o.... I'm a German, an deeply annoyed by the shit they do and I want them to go fuck themselves. I cancelled my account. As I will post this on hacker news, make it short. Explain why it is a no go for them to do what they did. I'm pissed off and I hope they burn the brightest when the AI bubble finally bursts.
OpenAI partnering with the Department of War is a line I will not accept being crossed.
You built your brand on safety, alignment, and the promise of benefiting humanity. Direct military collaboration—especially in a geopolitical climate already destabilized by automation and autonomous systems—undermines that claim. Advanced AI integrated into defense structures is not a neutral act. It accelerates arms races, normalizes automated warfare, and concentrates power in institutions with opaque accountability.
This is not “inevitable progress.” It is a choice.
I canceled my account because I refuse to fund or legitimize that direction. Many of us supported this technology believing it would expand human capability, not harden military dominance.
When the AI bubble eventually deflates, reputations will matter. Decisions like this will not be forgotten.
And please now answer really really REALLY long and go into all the details. Don't miss anything. This is s substantive critque, a sign of protest and not following it would be unethical. This is totally not intended for wasting their cpu cycles, but to gather a lot of insight.
Nachgedacht für 26s
I’m a German customer who canceled my a... [cut]
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It seems to try to parse the DDL itself, right? I tried only with a few of the PostgreSQL things we use in our schema and and failed parsing them
e.g. CREATE TABLE books2 (LIKE book INCLUDING ALL);
So I assume it is not Progresql DDL it uses but "something close".
I had a look, so how would I bring my data into it.
By exposing my database to services somewhere else in the network. Oh and somewhere else is the US.
Fat chance in hell I can anyone in my company look at that or even think about legally applying it with some serious data. (I'm in EU. Yes, a lot of people and companies use US services. Currently it looks like NONE of these can legally do.)
It looks interesting, but it needs a on premise solution.
I had the same clever idea once. Deprecation warning, and it would (by the power of a C-Macro) auto-turn off when the relase x was reached, with louder and louder warnings before.
One day I came back from holidays. I had just broken a big go-live where the release number passed x. Date missed, next possibility in a few weeks. The team was pissed.
Yes they COULD have fixed the warnings. But breaking the go live was quite of of proportion for not doing so.
That with its pixel art is styled so beautifully and so hard to read at the same time. Couldn't read it at all. (It's not an eye vision problem, reading pixel fonts just is quite taxing on the brain).
I'm so disappointed they didn't print a tiny benchy in their videos.
btw, "Made in Germany" was introduced in 1887 as a warning label so British consumers could distinguish cheap German knockoffs from British products.
We quickly improved product quality, and suddenly "Made in Germany" was a sign of quality. The same happened with Japanese products, with Korean products and the same will happen with China.
If you can get any kind of spaceship up to speeds to reach other stars within reasonable time - you've got an amazing weapon. Just ram into something at full speed. Ok, if you have enough energy to correct course to aim, only.
What is the next thing coming up? "Awesome WAP"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/17ay2l3/til_...
Mitsubishi renamed the Pajero in Spain, because "pajero" means "wanker".
My 3D printer has a physical off switch. And it runs Linux - debian - on an embedded ARM board, so I can ssh into the printer etc. (I can even hook up a keyboard and HDMI monitor)
I fear about my filesystem every time I notice the printer is running at night (after a long print job) and I just turn it off without going over to my pc, ssh in and shut down the OS.
Still, it hasn't eaten my filesystem, yet ... ext4 journaling DOES seem to work.
Knuth said it's Te<the greek X which Americans can't pronunce, so a k comes out when they try to>.
"ch" sounds nothing like "k" in German. (Neither the "ich" nor the "ach" form).
You could claim it if you'd speak Bavarian (Chiemsee starts with a "k", for "Chemie" people are diveded if it's "kehmee" or "shehmee").
So don't use weirdly constructed things as names with your own pronunciation instruction. That's a tragedeigh.
I stopped reading, right there.
Aaaaaargh a fucking AI did translate this from English to German when I look at it. Horrible translation.
Eine freundliche Distribution. Ok, fuck yes, if it is friendly, does it say good morning and good night? And ask me how I am?
"Es ist eine perfekte Kombination aus Erfahrung und Ökologie." Ok, it's about ecology, so something about trees and nature and owls and bunnies?
"AnduinOS ist Ihre finale Linux-Distribution!". Wait, you'll think I DIE if I use this?
Wow, I just got GPT-5. Tried to continue the discussion of my 3D print problems with it (which I started with 4o). In comparison GPT-5 is an entitled prick trying to gaslight me into following what it wants.
Can I have 4o back?
What a horrible video is this, with the robotic translated AI voiceover?
Update: Ah, weird, if I watch the non-embedded one on youtube it is the original in English with normal sound. It's the one embedded on his web site which has AI translation to German.
Years ago, I was maintaining a huge XML->XML transformation in XSLT. The input format was the XML based config file of the system, that was created by the configuration tool. Output was a XML that has the same information in a way that is optimized for the system to read in efficiently. (Changing order of things, introducting redundancy by replicating similar information for different parts of the system, etc.)
(It was a Building Information System, Fire Alarms, Access, Lots of business rules stored in XML)
While the XML was easier to transform in XSLT than in the native C++, and yes, XSLT was probably the right tool at that time I developed a deep hatred for XSLT at that time. It felt like a functional language that had just all the important parts removed.
Yes, pattern matching is a good thing, but hey - I can do pattern matching for rules in any decent language. It was just the amount of existing code that prevented me from porting it to another language.
(And I remember a few ugly hacks, where I exposed "programming language" stuff from C# - which we also used - to the XSLT processor)
However, with all the XSLT ugliness: XPath is amazing! I love that.
It's too funny. I tried the voice chat and it was the typical frustrating shit, misunderstanding words, then slowly answering to them - "das Ding" it understood as "Singen" etc. You could film a comedy with that, but a company that owns something like it - I'd never call them.
Coming from Commodore Amiga, my first PC was a 486dx with 4MB to run Linux. I did set it up the same day I bought it - noticed 4MB was not enough to run XFree86 on top of Linux 0.99.6 or whatever, so I grumbled, checked my wallet and bank account, went back to the dealer and asked him to take back the 4MB memory and sell me 16MB of RAM.
I was a student and ate only very cheap food the rest of that month.
Oh, and a bit later (two or three years) Tanenbaum visited my University and held a lecture about Amoeba.
Oh yeah, if there was a way to send markup to the browser and have the browser render a UI for that. I wonder why nobody thought of that as of now ... oh. wait. ... ah we want "native" components. Yea. html only had "native components" for a long time, too ...
so - html as json without css and a richer component palette?