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Once again tried ChatGPT and Claude for a simple programming exercise that’s very mechanical and both failed badly.This time I tried some...

Once again tried ChatGPT and Claude for a simple programming exercise that’s very mechanical and both failed badly.

This time I tried some of the newer functionality — I pointed them at a correct implementation of a web API in Python and asked for a TypeScript version as a plugin to an open source home automation platform. Both hallucinated most of the web API instead of pulling it properly from the GitHub URL I gave them.

These tools are unfit for any task requiring accuracy, facts, or logic.

Costco sells roasted chickens for $5. A fresh chicken from Safeway was $20.Odd as that is, it makes more sense to me than any of the...

Costco sells roasted chickens for $5. A fresh chicken from Safeway was $20.

Odd as that is, it makes more sense to me than any of the executive’s tariff tantrums.

One of the best features of CarPlay is that it causes Maps to remember where you parked your car.Thoughtful design, not hallucinations.

One of the best features of CarPlay is that it causes Maps to remember where you parked your car.

Thoughtful design, not hallucinations.

I strongly advise against unpacking a tarball at the root of the Proxmox box that runs your firewall just in case it empties /lib like this...

I strongly advise against unpacking a tarball at the root of the Proxmox box that runs your firewall just in case it empties /lib like this one did to me.

Folks developing their own BSD jailers: why are you inventing new dataset/folder structures and new command line syntaxes instead of...

Folks developing their own BSD jailers: why are you inventing new dataset/folder structures and new command line syntaxes instead of supporting well-known popular ones like iocage’s?

Been trying to use VFIO/SR-IOV to provide QuickAssist to a guest under Proxmox. To say that this is obtuse to configure is an...

Been trying to use VFIO/SR-IOV to provide QuickAssist to a guest under Proxmox. To say that this is obtuse to configure is an understatement. Anybody done this that could answer a few questions?

Firstly: I need to persistently set sriov_numvfs but sysfsutils is trying to do so too early. There’s no systems device unit showing up in the analyze trace to depend on.

US businesses should put a line item on all invoices calling out the additional “Trump Tariff” on all affected products.This way the...

US businesses should put a line item on all invoices calling out the additional “Trump Tariff” on all affected products.

This way the voters can be very clear in understanding that they’re getting what they voted for even if they didn’t understand it.

Why doesn’t the iOS Compass app have a setting to just show qibla?Instead there’s a ridiculous number of apps for that one feature.

Why doesn’t the iOS Compass app have a setting to just show qibla?

Instead there’s a ridiculous number of apps for that one feature.

Dear trans cat girls, please arm yourselves with pink AR-15s and take back our country from these ghouls. You are the hero we need.

Dear trans cat girls, please arm yourselves with pink AR-15s and take back our country from these ghouls. You are the hero we need.

It’s 2025, so why did an account creation acknowledgement email just have my password in plaintext?(FiberMall is the guilty company. Must...

It’s 2025, so why did an account creation acknowledgement email just have my password in plaintext?

(FiberMall is the guilty company. Must be run by DOGE.)

R.I.P. Michelle Trachtenberg. 39.Imma watch EuroTrip this week.

R.I.P. Michelle Trachtenberg. 39.

Imma watch EuroTrip this week.

Mind you, I had to look online to find this Shift-F10 nonsense as there's nothing on screen that mentions it.

Mind you, I had to look online to find this Shift-F10 nonsense as there's nothing on screen that mentions it.

Drive letters are even more obtuse and very very 1981. Again, how is each connected? How am I to differentiate blank drives from each other?...

Drive letters are even more obtuse and very very 1981. Again, how is each connected? How am I to differentiate blank drives from each other? I can't go based on files already on them.

I now think less of anybody that prefers Windows and is loud about it. How can you possibly deal with this? No useful answers on Google, of...

I now think less of anybody that prefers Windows and is loud about it. How can you possibly deal with this? No useful answers on Google, of course. All the Shift-F10 "use diskpart” stuff still doesn't tell you how a drive is connected, but it lists a useless GUID for each of course.

Not a single problem with Linux/Proxmox or FreeBSD on this same hardware. The installers tell me how each drive option is connected. No problems with the SATA port multiplier either.

Windows is such absolute trash that I don't understand how anybody gets anything done with it.Case in point: I want to just run CPU-Z on...

Windows is such absolute trash that I don't understand how anybody gets anything done with it.

Case in point: I want to just run CPU-Z on this new box. I have a Win10 ISO on a Ventoy USB drive. The box has four drives in it. The installer doesn't tell you what drive is what just “0, 1, 2” and their sizes (all 2TB). It doesn't seem to see that there are two SATA drives beyond a SATA port multiplier. It fails to get past formatting and tells me to look at the setup log. What log? No log exists.

“Breakin’” and “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” came out seven months apart, both in 1984.Golan-Globus didn’t mess around.

“Breakin’” and “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” came out seven months apart, both in 1984.

Golan-Globus didn’t mess around.

Vaccines aren’t some new dangerous thing to avoid. They were doing smallpox inoculations before the US became...

Vaccines aren’t some new dangerous thing to avoid. They were doing smallpox inoculations before the US became independent.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2653186/

Stop being dipshits.

Google employees: it is entirely inexcusable to remove holidays like Holocaust Remembrance Day from the calendar. If you aren’t screaming...

Google employees: it is entirely inexcusable to remove holidays like Holocaust Remembrance Day from the calendar. If you aren’t screaming loudly at your management chain about this, you are complicit. FIX THIS.

Google is run by Nazi bootlickers. Stop using all of their products — they’re all privacy-invading anyway.

Google is run by Nazi bootlickers. Stop using all of their products — they’re all privacy-invading anyway.

And there it is, an Amazon seller messaging me that there will be some unknown (up to 35%) duties added to the item I ordered a while ago...

And there it is, an Amazon seller messaging me that there will be some unknown (up to 35%) duties added to the item I ordered a while ago and I should cancel if I don’t want to pay.