I forget what I went to the store for so I browse every aisle until I see something that makes me remember it (usually the thing itself).

Where did he expect to keep the tech devices while naked?

This feels like something that an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters would write.

There’s a typo there so I think it’s fake.

I rarely go farther from my home than I can go in a few minutes in my bycicle, so I never felt the need for a car. But once every few months I would need to go somewhere that is two hours away by bus, often with inconvenient bus timings (like either 6am or noon) - so I sometimes take an Uber instead.

When people her about me taking an Uber for such a “long” trip they call me insane, say that I’m wasting money and I should just get a car and those trips would be much cheaper. They never consider all the other costs involved in owning a car.

But then after a while people in my town started giving up on Uber and it became hard to find a driver whenever I might need one, so I finally got a driving license and bought myself a bike. People now were like “you’ll see how it changes you, you’ll use it for everything, you’ll go out a lot more often and to everywhere with it”. By the time I had a trip to make it was no longer turning on due to being stuck in a garage for so long. The counter showed less than 20 kilometers when I sold it.

But that’s the opposite order in which my generation experienced it.

There are already more F-18s in the sea than submarines in the sky.

I used to think that there was a big difference between being “let go” and being “fired”, in terms of what actually happens.

I remember one past job when the company decided on a Friday to let someone go but thought it was best to wait until Monday morning to give them the news. Then he started the day and immediately got sacked.

It’s an exaggeration. Browsers use a lot more RAM than one would expect, but there’s not that much of a difference between each one.

I’ve recently been working with some niche tool that has very little documentation on the web but is open source and has a ton of discussions on public email groups. Chatgpt is sometimes able to figure out what param I need to send for specific stuff in that tool even if there are zero Google matches for the param name, but more often than not it just hallucinates stuff or mention things that no longer exists. I’ve created the habit of always asking things like “is that right?” or “is that answer up to date?” before even reading the first response from it and it often replies with things like: “no, that param only exists in some other similar tool” or “no that API has been deprecated” and shit like that.

If it were up to me I wouldn’t even be using chatgpt at all due to all the time it wasted with random stuff it makes up, but whatever training data openAI used, it surely had more information about the niche stuff I’m working with than the web does at this point - so sometimes it can still save me time too.

I once asked chatgpt for the name of an anime that I couldn’t remember. I described the whole premise of the anime and then some details of the final episode. Chatgpt says “Stein’s gate”. I say “no, it’s not as famous as that”. It then says “Erased”, and proceeds to describe it, showing that I was actually very effective in my description of it.

I asked “why did you say Stein’s Gate if I described Erased so well?”: “you mentioned time travel and Stein’s gate is a popular anime about time travel”

“but I also mentioned a lot of other stuff that don’t match anything with Stein’s gate, like the details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

“yeah my bad I just went by popularity”

“next time, how can I phrase my questions in a way that would make you consider the whole input instead of just using some key information in it?”

“you could have mentioned details about the villain or how the time traveling works and I would have used that to rule out Stein’s gate”

“but I did”

“yeah sorry about that, next time try giving me details about the villain or how the time traveling works”

Are you telling me there’s a reason why I have to click shutdown twice for gnome to start the shutdown process? I always wondered why it had that 60s waiting time.